To the folks up in the Panhandle

[Bobby Burton]

The entire town of Canadian up in the Panhandle was evacuated yesterday. Other small towns like Fritch stood in the way, too.

We have a friend who checks in every morning on Coffee & Football from Canadian.

Our sincere hope is that you and your family are ok.

Please keep that part of our state in your thoughts today.

[Bobby Burton]

Aerial view last night. 

[Bobby Burton]

The fire now encompasses 800 square miles. And is 0% controlled.

A nuclear facility has been evacuated.

 

[watty7796]

Prayers for the folks in West Texas.  Been there, it's rough.

[UTexas]

I started following this on X yesterday while I was home sick. Massive fires out there right now. Last I saw one of them was 500,000 acres is 0% contained.

[UTexas]

Whoops. Tried to imbed a tweet and it backfired.

Edited February 28, 2024 by UTexas

[Blake Munroe]

28 minutes ago, UTexas said:

Whoops. Tried to imbed a tweet and it backfired.

Helpful hint that I've learned: After copying the link to said tweet, when posting here, right click in the text box and click "paste as plain text". It will embed it for you.

[Blake Munroe]

 

[UTexas]

Didn't work that time either.

Edited February 28, 2024 by UTexas

[Blake Munroe]

5 minutes ago, UTexas said:

Didn't work that time either.

It could be that the tweet author has the option selected to not be able to embed the tweet. I run into that from time to time in the "Today's Texas Tweets" thread.

[Jerry K]

Absolutely horrible!! Prayers for all families affected by this along with all those working the front lines.