I get called a name for actually caring? Offering a donation to the family?



Sydney Wallace and Cody Crockett were their names.

It's wild that so much loss is humorous to them and they choose to troll about it. Different strokes I guess.

They are just sorry a$$ people, plain and simple.

Prayers for all effected, I have friends and relatives in Pampa and Amarillo.

Also kinda odd they both show up posting at the same time...

With the big front that passed through and shift in the winds, that should help slow the spread and give them a chance to catch up.

Wildfires are a beast of their own once they get to a certain point.

Just got off the phone with the contractor who is building a barn for me, he said he was up all night fighting fires around Borger. I called my dozer guy who is reworking all of my roads and ponds, his family owns several thousand acres around Wellington, he said they been fighting fires non stop for almost two days, he said it is terrible, he estimates 600 - 700 K acres, he told me he had no words, just horrible.

That sucks. I hope they get it under control soon.

k.o.bassattack lives in fritch.

texted early this am and no response yet.

Hope he is OK and safe.

Dang, let us know if you hear anything. Give him my number too, I can round up a crew if he needs whatever.

Not really. Yesterday was a particularly bad combo, very dry/low humidity, dry winter forage, warm temps and lots of wind. It was a tinder box. Once going these fires at this size can create their own winds and crazy effects but they typically run into a weather/environmental barrier somewhere down the line and are either defeated or in the old days are extinguished or burn themselves out. Growing up we fought several grass fires around here including on our own ranch but nothing as large as these. I can’t imagine how fast that fire must have been moving yesterday.

This might take a record for the most pathetic thread ever in the OT.

Thanks to all for thoughts and prayers. We are good but watched several friends lose it all and nobody was stupid enough to say that it was a gohod thing. Our home was in the direct path of the fire and the wind switched that was blowing 60mph from the sw to 45mph from the due north.

Hope the folks stay safe up there.