Central Texas Facing Severe Wildfire Season

The United States Drought Monitor now says Central Texas is suffering from moderate to extreme drought conditions. The Governor’s Division of Emergency Management says the lack of rain coupled with high winds is setting the stage for a severe wildfire season, especially for Central Texas farm lands. “All the pasture land right now is just bone dry and the grass is extremely dry, I mean it wouldn’t take, as they say, a flick of a cigarette and it would just take off,” says farmer Richard Cortese....