Texas Fires Destroy 1,000 Homes, Drought and Possibly Arson To Blame
Austin, TX – Tragedy has befallen Texas as an extended heat wave with no precipitation may have proven to create a perfect environment for an arsonist to start a fire that has claimed now over 1,000 homes and 100,000 acres. Officials state the at least 60 wildfires have ravages rain-starved Texas and the most tragic of them all is still fueled, reaping devestation outside the city of Austin.
Concerned and dutiful, Governor Rick Perry cut short his presidential campaign trip to South Carolina on Monday to return to join firefighters in directly combatting the massive fires that are destroying Texas. Perry first stopped and joined with firefighters near Bastrop, near Austin, where a fast moving inferno completely destroyed over 600 homes.
In a press conference, Perry stated that since December, over 3.5 million acres of Texas have been consumed by fire. Such a massive area is nearly the size of Connecticut. This newest span of blazes have wiped out another 100,000 acres.
”The magnitude of these losses are pretty stunning,” a visibly concerned Perry stated.
=> Media: Who Is To Blame for the Texas Fires
Unlike the great hurricanes last week precipated by offensive gay marriage legislation in New York, these fires in Texas are the result of natural drought cycles and now investigators believe an arsonist exploiting the dry weather conditions.
Flash fires are a natural part of any ecosystem, especially in the chapparral regions of Southern California. Unfortunately, with urban development infringing upon natural regions of flora that have dependent fire cycles, the frequency and severeity of drought-based fires are increasing in the US. The incidence of exploitive arson in these situations is also on the rise.
Who are these arsonists? Officials in Leander are giving suspicion that we may be dealing with homegrown terrorists. Homegrown terrorism is a very real threat to you and your family. At any moment, a homegrown terrorist can steal into your home and ravage the innocence of all around you. A homegrown terrorist can be your neighbor or even your child and you will not know it until you feel the life fading from your body due to an unexpected terror attack. Such chilling thoughts frighten millions of Americans.
Some of the arsonists in Leander may have been as young as 15 and potentially responsible for the destruction of at least 60 homes.
Texas newsite The Statesman has organized a list of organizations where you can donate to help bring relief to the victims of this horrible tragedy:
American Red Cross of Central Texas
2218 Pershing Drive, Austin 78723
512-929-1250
www.centex.redcross.org
Austin Disaster Relief Network
P.O. Box 3817, Cedar Park 78630
512-331-2200
www.austindisasterrelief network.org
Capital Area Food Bank
Accepting nonperishable food donations (canned meats, granola bars, peanut butter, bottled water) at 8201 S. Congress Ave., Austin, 78745
512-282-2111
www.austinfoodbank.org
Catholic Charities of Central Texas
Accepting monetary donations as well as items such as blankets, pillows, toiletries and medical supplies from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1817 E. Sixth St., Austin, and 7-10 a.m. and 4-7 p.m. at 6225 U.S. 290 East.
www.ccctx.org
Central Texas Fire Relief Emergency Fund
The American-Statesman is partnering with Austin Telco Federal Credit Union to support the Austin Community Foundation’s Central Texas Fire Relief Emergency Fund. Donations will be given to various community organizations. Donations are tax deductible.
www.austincommunity foundation.org
Donate by mail: 4315 Guadalupe Suite 300, Austin, TX 78751, or in person at Austin Telco branches
H-E-B
Collecting donations for American Red Cross at its stores’ checkout stands.
United Way Capital Area (UWCA)
Call 2-1-1 for information about evacuations, shelter locations, school and road closures and resources for evacuees. Collecting donations.
www.unitedwaycapital area.org.
For information about corporate and in-kind donations, go to www.unitedway capitalarea.org/give/in_kind_donation_program.php or call 512-382-8611.
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Author: Reverend Clyde H. Higgins
You're all sinners in the hands of an angry God, a spider dangling over the burning flames of hell and only protected by one silk thread. God has scissors ready and hates those who spin webs of sin.
1:06 am
I think God’s pissed at Texas.
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9:59 am
Why do you liberals use these times of tragedy to spread hate. This is because the land is dry from drought and we’re now seeing arson as well. You people make me sick.
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10:44 am
I stopped reading at “You liberals”.
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11:23 am
That’s why Democrats should not be voted into office.
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1:36 pm
Hey, you want to make the claim that Hurricane Irene struck the Eastern states because of gay marriage, who’s to say it doesn’t work the other way? Who’s the hateful bastard now?
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4:44 pm
You’re just being hateful and ignorant. You don’t even know the Bible so you have no grounds for claiming anything but science, which is right this time around. The dry conditions caused all the fires. Arson is exacerbating the condition.
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4:46 pm
The dry conditions caused the fires yet the warm ocean didn’t cause Hurricane Irene?
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7:33 pm
You’re an atheist.
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7:37 pm
What does that have anything to do with the topic at hand Adam? God’s mad at Texas, yet you’re writing it off as a natural disaster.
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7:45 pm
You two do not believe in God or his power of judgement, so you have no say in matters of faith. This Texas burning is just nature to you, just like you claimed the ocean caused the Irene Hurricanes by happenstance and natural weather cycles.
What the Reverend is saying and pretty much everyone but you two knotheads agree, this Texas fire was created by dry land and in some cases arson.
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9:24 pm
“You two do not believe in God or his power of judgement, so you have no say in matters of faith.”
So that automatically means our opinions are wrong? You get to decide what was an act of God or not? That’s not how life works buddy, you can’t take certain things and hail it around as proof of God and then deny that God has something to do when it comes to things you don’t like.
“This Texas burning is just nature to you, just like you claimed the ocean caused the Irene Hurricanes by happenstance and natural weather cycles.”
Yeah, but considering how YOU want to say that Hurricane Irene was an act of God punishing the states that it swept through, you also have to declare that God attacked Texas by making it hot enough for fires of that size to go off.
“What the Reverend is saying and pretty much everyone but you two knotheads agree, this Texas fire was created by dry land and in some cases arson.”
Hurricane Irene was caused by warm waters and the temperatures colliding (basically) and causing a giant storm. If you say that Irene was an act of God but then deny that the heat in Texas was also an act of God by claiming ‘science’, then we can say that Texas was hit by an act of God.
It’s basically a sign of ‘stop picking out what you think is or is not an act of God, either all disasters are filed under ‘Act of God’, or none of them are’.
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2:11 am
That’s not how it works, heathen. The Bible has the same thing. Some areas were smited by God, others taken out by the natural cycles and happenstance. It works both ways. Irene was due to the gay marriage legislation, just like Sodom and Gomorrah were wiped out for similar habits. Texas is simply burning and having a season of drought. It was not uncommon in Biblical times and it is not uncommon now.
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12:25 am
Why you so call Christians do it all the time.
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4:34 pm
If god hates Homosexuals, then Texas must be the US capital of homosexual gang bangs.
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1:26 am
All of these “Global Warming” lies are leading to even more humanism and pisssing God off. It is not surprising that the Lord might burn down that liberal Austin just to make a point. We need to move away from liberal lies like evolution and Global Warming so that God will start smiling on us once again, and then we can get back to drilling for oil and spreading American freedom through our military.
Faith in God is the only thing will stop those fires.
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7:29 am
well in a way global warming is real but earth just goes in cycles if it gets warm for a while it will go back down in a while(i mean overall temperature for each season) you hear about the ..i think it was a school that did a study and then threw out their findings because they said global warming didn’t exist.
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7:32 am
the results of the study said global warming wasn’t real. Wow i need to not think so far ahead
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10:52 pm
Venus, be careful. Climate cycles lead to belief in plate tectonics which leads to a belief that the Flood didn’t shape the mountains and that the Earth is older than 6000 years old. It is better just to fight the myth that the weather is changing at all.
After all, it gets cold every winter. What warming?
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11:01 am
So…this is natural causes but every other disaster on earth is caused by “god”? Why is this any different?
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4:44 pm
Read the article, toots.
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4:48 pm
Don’t call me toots, pervert.
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9:32 pm
Lmao, i love you Claire!
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5:42 pm
wow … wait … simply wow why is not GOD pissed at conservative fundamentalist asshole Likes adam ?? Just saying ?
maybe all thes ehouse are christian who Know ?
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12:28 am
Sucks for Texas god’s going to need a new state of his own now maybe new york?
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8:26 pm
This site is just full of bullshit. you guys need to look at the world from another’s perspective. You don’t know everything god hates and loves. The bible was written by MAN. he couldve been a drunk homogay. YOU DONT KNOW BECAUSE YOU WERENT THERE. you guys need to get a clue on life and live it. You guys dont know truth. what if god doesnt hate gays? he made them, they are his children. It would be unrighteous to hate his own creation. Thats not god. You guys just make the world full of chaos and fights.
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