The months-long drought combined with a downed power line due to today’s strong wind started a forest fire in Bastrop County just east of Austin. Ten homes have been destroyed so far, with another two hundred threatened. No rain at all in the forecast, but the wind is expected to subside by tomorrow night.
UPDATE: At least twenty-three homes and nine businesses taken by the fire through the Bastrop pines so far. More wind forecast tomorrow. SUNDAY: Wind is light and the fire seems to be mostly under control.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Oh gosh – I hope you get some rain soon.
None in the forecast for this week. At least the wind has died down. Thanks to that, the fire seems to be mostly under control.
And we have all this useless snow and wind today, too.
There is a steep church roof right in front of my window, and the snow on it has reached a tip point – it started to slowly slide down, in a mini-avalanche…
Cousin of mine in Maryland said they got twelve inches. Dry here, of course, but the wind is light.