burn bans

Last week portions of East Texas received some much needed rain after a dry and hot July and first half of August. Prior to the cool front and rain, pretty much all of East Texas was under a burn ban except for a few far northern counties.

Franklin and Wood counties are the latest East Texas counties to have enacted burn bans on them.

Well, the rain East Texas received earlier this year wasn't enough to hold off burn bans for some East Texas counties.

Our lawns, pastures and open lands are in a desperate need of rain right now. Parts of East Texas welcomed the rain yesterday, thanks to a weak cold front that passed through the area, but the little rain that fell didn't really help out the drought condition many parts of East Texas are facing.

With the exception of perhaps a few counties along the Coastal Bend, all of Texas is suffering from a drought. The lack of rain and recent windy conditions have caused the entire state to be put on wildfire alerts and over the past couple of days, over 300,000 acres of grassland in West Texas burned out of control. Inasmuch that we have seen dry conditions across East and Northeast Texas, at least