Central Texas fire

This started a few miles from my mom's house. They've since evacuated, but said that there were flare ups on their property when they left.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=8343591


This is the neighborhood some very close friends of ours live in. They're getting married this Saturday. They had very little warning about the fire since it was moving so quickly. Five kids between them, and her mother and aunt had just drove in from Virginia yesterday morning after going through the earthquake and hurricane there in the last couple weeks. They had time to get the all the people and the dogs into the car and out. Her fiance went in and grabbed her wedding dress before he left with his truck. From what he could see this morning their house was the only one on the street still standing before it flared up again and he had to clear out.

Took a ride through the neighborhood with my friends I mentioned in the previous post. Thankfully their house survived with more smoke damage than anything else. Due to an amazing effort by the firefighters their's was the only street in the neighborhood that didn't completely loose a single home. I wish I could have been there to get shots of the DC-10 fire planes as they flew over the area. 93,000lbs of fire retardent at a time. You can see the pinkish-red stripes where it fell on their street. One of the neighbors has a pink driveway now. He told me that it could stay like that forever as far as he cared; his family still had a home.

The wedding did go on as planned. Sorta. The original photographer had to evacuate her home the day before the wedding. Needless to say I shot it for them pro bono. It had been a bad enough week for them already.

Here's a couple shots from around their neighborhood.

Like this?

Reminds me a lot of the tornado's that hit here a couple months ago.

One house destroyed, and a trailer next door untouched.