Got up this morning, smelling smoke. Went outside to find an alarming haze of it all around the rancho. Then I found this at KVUE’s site:
“The smoke smell in the air over North Austin has many people alarmed. There are no new fires in the area. That’s just the wind is blowing the smoke from the other Central Texas fires in our direction.”
The Bastrop forest fire east of the city is only about a third contained. Six hundred Seven hundred eighty-five homes out there have been destroyed so far.
Little pieces of soot are now falling in the back forty. No embers yet.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 