Yesterday, I heard a noise that I had not heard in a long time.
It was a lawnmower hard at work. Astounding. It is for us in South Texas as we have been so drought plagued this year we have not had to mow our lawns in weeks. While that may be a good thing, the looks of the lawns is not. Most are dying and have become sparse. So when it rained last week it was a very welcome sight for all of us.
Then the sound of lawnmowers began again. We hope that sound continues a lot in the future because we NEED the RAIN so badly.
Wilson and all the surrounding counties are being plagued by the lack of rain in the number of fires that are occurring. The roads are dotted with burned patches. With every burned patch you see there is a story. Someone was careless and started a fire. Then the fire department had to respond to put it out.
Around here a lot of the fire departments are volunteer based. They are underfunded and do the best that they can with what they have. The San Antonio news channel interviewed the Lytle Fire Dept and the chief was explaining that they had so many fires and had lost 5 tires fighting the fires in the last week or so. Those tires cost the fire department something like $250 each so that was over $1250 for just that small amount of needed equipment.
So when you see the rain, be grateful. It actually can help your pocket book in more ways than one. Not to mention your safety as evidenced by the fire disaster in Bastrop which resulted in the loss of more than 1400 homes and acres of burned land.
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