THE WHOLE DAMN PLACE IS ON FIRE!

or; goodbye, Utah. We loved you well.

from JoeUser Forums
For five days now, in and around Milford, Utah, there has been one hell of a fire.

As of this morning, 329,100 acres have been consumed by this stupid thing. It's just eating everything in its path - brush, grass, animals, the whole kit n' kaboodle. It's eaten more area than my entire county.

It's huge, it's voracious, and they can't seem to stop it. They've been fighting it around the clock, all the time, and they've barely gotten it 30 percent contained.

According to the state of Utah, it was started by lightning striking the tinder-dry countryside, erupting in flames that have claimed over thirty buildings, millions of dollars in property damage, dozens of head of cattle, and three lives. Top that off with the other sixteen fires burning in the state (many started by f***tards with fireworks), and it's just ugly.

Man, this thing sucks. Biggest wildfire in the nation right now, and they can't seem to contain it.

Pray for rain, people. Pray for rain.



:( :( :'(

Sources:
Utah Fire Info
Deseret News
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yikes! I pray they have rain at some point!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
must be part of that leftie pinko conspiracy about global warming, lol


but seriously, i hope you and yours remain safe and the professionals get it contained sooner rather than later.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
must be part of that leftie pinko conspiracy about global warming, lol


No kidding, tell that to the dead cow.

Thanks for your well wishes.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
stay safe SC, I will do my rain dance, hopefully it will work.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
get the hell out of there!


Thankfully, it's far away from us - about 250 miles. But still - when you think of a fire that has consumed 400 square miles, it's nasty.

You can't see the sky for all the nasty smoke in the air. I can't see anything. It's disgusting.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wish I could send some that is hiding out in TX....you need it!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

If it comes close to you, call me and I'll come and rescue you.  You're always welcome to come hang with me and ma familia for a few days.

I'll do a rain dance in the backyard tonight.  The neighbors already think I'm a weirdo; that'll just reinforce their opinion. (Actually, I'm kinda happy they think I'm weird.  That way their redneck trailer-park white-trash asses stay far, far away from me.  The rest of the street, I like.  My neighbors....not so much.  Murphy's Law, huh?!)

 

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
It sounds horrible. I hope you have rain soon. I can't believe people would go and do fireworks when there was a drought. I'm sure they had a ban. We did last year when we were in a drought. They fined $1000 for breaking the ban. I'm sure they had fun oohing and ahhing over their stupidness. It makes me want to be a cop just so I could give idiots like that huge fines for being so stupid. They should have to go clean up the dead animals.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
It sounds horrible. I hope you have rain soon. I can't believe people would go and do fireworks when there was a drought. I'm sure they had a ban. We did last year when we were in a drought. They fined $1000 for breaking the ban. I'm sure they had fun oohing and ahhing over their stupidness. It makes me want to be a cop just so I could give idiots like that huge fines for being so stupid. They should have to go clean up the dead animals.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm sure they had a ban.


Only in certain areas. Too many people were up in arms over the idea of banning all personal fireworks, so the sissy governor caved and said that "from here to here you can't do it". Stupid people.

If it comes close to you, call me and I'll come and rescue you. You're always welcome to come hang with me and ma familia for a few days.


Now there's a tempting invite, even if it doesn't head my way . . .
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
I feel for you, SC. We were in exactly the same boat last March. Hope they get this all taken care of.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Rain may be on the way today - crossing all limbs . . .
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
No kidding, tell that to the dead cow.


What a waste of hamburger.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Next time I get a burnt burger, I'm going to complain.

"Hey, I didn't order no Utah cow."