Texas is burning
As the Great Texas Drought continues unabated, many Texans are facing another horror arising from the drought. Wildfires are raging right across the state and more than 1,000 homes have been lost. More importantly, at least two young lives, a mother and her baby, have been lost. The worst of the fires have been in the Hill Country around Austin, but here where I live in Southeast Texas, we are being touched by the flames as well . Montgomery County (where I live) and adjoining Grimes and Waller Counties have been hit by big fires in the last couple of days. The fires were made worse by the strong winds that we received as a result of Tropical Storm Lee. All we got was the wind - no rain. Although climate scientists continually warn that we should not ascribe any single weather event to the phenomenon of global warming, it is very difficult not to conclude that our more than year-long drought is not at least exacerbated, if not entirely caused, by the hea...