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How would you like to wake up to this warning:
...EXTREMELY CRITICAL WILDFIRE DANGER EXPECTED OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY LIKELY CONTINUING INTO SUNDAY...
UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES...VERY LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS LATER THIS MORNING. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL PERSIST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AND SHIFT TO THE WEST ON SUNDAY. WITH NO RAIN AND TINDER DRY RANGELAND...THESE CONDITIONS WILL BE CONDUCIVE TO RAPIDLY SPREADING AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WILDFIRES.
DROUGHT INDICES ARE AT RECORD OR NEAR RECORD LEVELS...AND MORE THAN 75 PERCENT OF TEXAS COUNTIES HAVE ISSUED BURN BANS. TO STOP DISASTROUS WILDFIRES...THE TEXAS FOREST SERVICE AND THE GOVERNORS DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REMIND YOU OF THE FOLLOWING...
IT HAS BEEN WINDY AND UNSEASONABLY WARM AND DRY. HELP PREVENT DEADLY WILDFIRES. DO NOT BURN TRASH OUTDOORS. DO NOT THROW BURNING CIGARETTES ON THE GROUND. REMEMBER TOO THAT ACCIDENTAL FIRES CAN START FROM MACHINERY AND MOTOR VEHICLES.
IF A WILDFIRE ESCAPES AN INITIAL ATTACK...RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY FOR A SAFE ZONE. MAYORS AND OR COUNTY JUDGES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DEMAND MANDATORY EVACUATIONS WITHIN TEXAS.
Everyone in central texas be careful today!
Please no more rain for a month! :|
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