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Subscribe to RSSThe Texas Forest Service is warning homeowners about the dangers of drought-stricken dead trees.
Business is booming in Texas, and not just the oil and gas business. Tree trimmers are raking in the bucks after last year's drought killed an estimated 500 million trees.
"I've been so swamped, we've had to call in reinforcements" from other states, arborist Glen Jennings told NBCDFW.com.
The Texas Forest Service, which estimates 5.6 million trees died in urban areas, urged homeowners to be pro-active about removing dead trees -- before they land on neighboring property.
"Be aware that your tree could fall onto someone else’s property," service official Jim Rooni said in a statement Thursday. "he rules vary from place to place, but generally the owner of the tree is responsible. Bottom line: You could be liable."
Jennings was stunned by the amount of dead trees across the state.
"I, personally, have never been in the middle of something like this before," he said. "Small droughts, yeah, but statewide?"
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We've got whole forests dead in Colorado.
I lost a couple myself, just wait untill the ones in the pastures catch afire.
Sorry to hear AG, Not sayin you personally but maybe all the people who talked all that mad sh*t to us Texans are figuring out what Karma's a b*tch really means.
Though I actually think most of our dead trees are comin from Oak wilt or decline whichever people prefer to use. But they never really said if it's oaks or mesquite.
I hope y'all get a buttload of rain soon (just not too much too fast)
Well, here in Central Texas, everything died except for the mesquite. The Cedar, Post Oaks, Cedar elms and other trees all have died. We have 16 acres and lost probably 75% of our trees. Lots of the dead trees around here are near power lines, so we will see how that works out. If you remember, the last couple big fires in Bastrop were due to dead trees falling on active lines.
Colorado forests are dead because of the pine beetle infestation, little we could do about it. But this, this is preventable. The Forest Service tells people to be proactive about cutting them down, but did they ever say be proactive about giving them water? Even in a drought, it's a matter of allocation and priorities, and these were urban trees. So now, the people and animals are (1) going to fry without cover, and (2) the tree loss will boost the effect of global warming by a couple notches. Way to go, Texass.
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Ditto Montana.
Damn Eltex that sucks! I don't have a lot of trees on our property but we did lose the only one we had in the front yard.
What's a tree? In Arizona we circle the parking lot trying to park under the 3 trees they plant in the lots. There is a Free Tree program here in Tucson, as long as you plant it on the South side of your home, see if you have such a program... but damn they are ugly trees. I have one that came up naturally, the two inch thorns on it sink into your car tires like a hot knife going through butter. Now when I go back to my home State of Washington, it looks like an over grown Chia Pet.
We lost literally millions of ash trees in Michigan and adjoining states to the Emerald Ash Borer in the early 2000s. The deciding factor for buying a house in my neighborhood was the tree lined streets. Half of those are now gone. One thing that we learned from the experience is to always plant a variety of trees, not just one species. That way, if a pest or disease comes along and selectively kills one species, there will be others still standing. The city will give home owners a tax credit if they choose to place city-owned trees in front of their property, but we have to select from a list of approved trees, which again, is to ensure variety.
1SGFitzsWife4ID - I sympathize with you. The ash that died in my front yard was one of only two shade trees between my house and the street. It really changes the look of my property in a negative way. I replanted a sugar maple in the empty spot, but I'll be in the ground in a pine box before it's as big as the old ash.
Texas has trees?
You'd be surprised!
A lot of human beings are going to die soon also.
That's treasonous ....
AG99, Nature has a solution for that problem called "fire". As long as there are no houses around I'm for letting lightning strikes ignite all that. Or "they" can cut those dead trees down and use it for fuel or power generation maybe.
its all to late nothing can be done now let greed prevail
Well this ought to be a boom for farmers in Russia, the vast permafrost regions there have been melting for years. Soon we can start buying grain from the Russians. On the other hand, farms in our central and southern states will soon be able to grow figs and dates.
Or maybe Midwestern farmers can soon grow cactus, cotton, and peyote like out in the Arizona desert today?
Since trees produce oxygen from CO2, (live trees anyway), I wonder what will happen once all of the trees in Texas die from drought and extreme heat?
I am praying for a good soking for these trees and the ones in colorado too. come on people lets pray together
God helps those who help themselves. Meaning that human problems are for humans to solve. That's what I believe. Prayer is for times when there is absolutely nothing a person can do, but this is not one of those times. We can solve Global Warming, we can all do our part as individuals, and we can stop pretending it isn't happening.
the Bush mandate is now upon the eyes Texas. so when the climate changes again for Texas to the cycle of freezing weather there will be plenty of firewood to burn.
How about asking that lady in the mid west [St Louis area I believe] that last year in the tornado outbreak tried to *pray away the 'nado* how well that worked out for her.
You religious wing-nuts are all the same.
I sometimes say "it's Bush's fault" as a joke when something bad happens. Here we have a nutcase "Urbn Prsn" who actually is trying to say that the current drough is due to global warming, and is implying that it is Bush's fault. I assume that you believe that if Gore had been allowed to steal the election, we would have had plenty of rain this year?
No the last thing Colorado Springs needs is a good soaking around the area where the fire burned. When fire burns down a section of dry forest it leaves very little vegiatation in it's path, plus it hardens the ground from it's high tempeturs. This means floods and mud slides if you get a good rain after a big fire, what we need now is a little bit a mosture but not much untill next spring when some of the new vegetation can pop up.
That's why I said I'm hopin y'all get some rain tommy just not too much too fast.
@nolie,
You're a total mo ron.
Seven years into Bush's reign, the Reich-wingers were still blaming Clinton for everything that was wrong with the world. I see no reason why only four years into Obama's reign even the weather cannot be blamed on Bush.
"A tax is always a tax, unless it is enacted/increased by a member of the Republican/Tea Party. Then it becomes a 'fee'." ---Anonymous
We need to start making home builders put in Grey Water systems. Going the cheap route always costs you more in the end.
draindamage: Builders have been installing grey water systems in arid areas> I know Las Vegas mandates on new homes and has for the last 40 years.Some counties in California mandate greay water systems! I think you might be a touch behind times!
Agnon Mema - why don't you, nolie, and others like you just grow up and stop trying to turn everything into a political discussion? That is so childish and immature, but it apparently gives you a sense of self importance. To the rest of us it only makes you look like the fools that you are.
Agnon - what's wrong with fees? I go to the Shenandoah to camp, I pay the fee, You don't go, you don't pay.
Drain - Gray Water systems are good idea, but some municipalities absolutely ban gray water useage, citing health reasons.
mas098 - see above.
Urbn Prsn neither claimed nor implied that Global Warming--an accepted fact by everyone in the scientific community, disputed only by political hacks and a handful of high-school science teachers--was caused by George Bush. Are you having a good time inventing arguments in your own head and then refuting them?
The irony is that the two states most vulnerable to Global Warming are Texas, which is turning into a desert, and Florida, which could easily disappear under the waves, being nearly at sea level already, are both staunch red states. What should the rest of us do when these climate-change deniers flee their homelands by the millions and ask the rest of us for shelter? Turn them back into the sea and the desert they helped create? That will be very tempting indeed.
Mother Cluster Duck- congrats on being the 1st douche to inject politics. Smooth move exlax. Mom must be proud.
Are you on the same planet. People on this one could give 2 sh-ts they have proved it time and time again. They will not be happy until they have destroyed this once beautiful blue planet!
UrbnPrsn # 2.1 says
and Jim at # 3 says
I come down between your two viewpoints
People have things to do, places to go, and people to see. It takes a lot of tenacity and motivation to work individually to solve Global Warming when there are groceries to buy, kids to get to soccer and tweets to read and post. Most people's daily activities are a whole lot more doable than saving the planet.
On the other hand, I think most people do give a sh-t about saving the planet. Passing the clean air and clean water acts back during the Nixon adm was a major step forward for a population who never really faced any shortage of water or air, but had the wherewithall to see that it could be threatened. Designation of Wilderness Areas way back when there was more than enough wilderness to still save without disrupting major developement was far-sighted and demonstrated great concern.
With this deep recession, economic recovery is a more immediate concern than saving the planet. Planet saving steps are viable only when most people have more discretionary time and money on their hands.
want to stop Global warming kill off 5 billion of the CO2 breathing population.
Sounds horrible but a plague or other killer isn't far away to balance this out.
Also in the 1970s it was global cooling,, the Earth cycles and man can do little about it, but if you are so worried kill off the population or go live like the Indians of the old west off the natural resources.
I personally think all Gasoline should be replaced by Algae grown Bio-diesel but that makes too much common sense and won't happen since algae eats CO2 and cleans water.
@GreenTimer
The problem is we always have things to do, things more important than saving planet. That's how it is up until now.
Like lodging, just a little tree will not change anything, just build a little, we have more things to do and then when heavy rain comes, you can it flood the whole region and guess what? We still have more important things to do other than saving the planet.
CuongDnguyen,
It's not so much a matter of importance as a matter of personally achieveable. I can plant a tree pretty much by myself. But for me to recycle used paper, plastic and metals requires community facilities, established under the aegis of legislation.
Saving the planet requires concerted action by nations to convince enough folks that the planet is threatened, and that the costs to save it will be planet will be spread evenly throughout the globe, with no winners and losers.
Mostly, we will not do anything that we perceive will put us at a material disadvantage to someone else, which does not mean we do not care, and it does require working together.
Thanks for the discourse..
the idiots put their money before the planet it wont be long few more years of not growing food , lack of clean water wonder how hot its going to be next year the sick part is they dont care for the future generation that will not exist if this cycle keeps up, if this world was to survive another 1000 years which it wont wonder what they would dig out of the ground instead of artifacts its would be plastic etc they would say what was wrong with these people the animals are smarter
Calling people idiots says everything about you and nothing about them.
It does nothing to further your point of view among those you label as idiots.
green when they put money before life they are IDIOTS
If putting money before life means I should beg others for food, shelter and clothing, then count me as one of your so-called idiots. Frankly, I consider myself lucky that I have the ability and opportunity to earn a living for my family.
You have a strong case for calling the rest of us idiots - if you have raised children without driving an oil-powered vehicle and consuming only locally grown food. Otherwise, well, you can figure it out.
But you'd get much better results if you shared with us your energy-saving life style. I, an admitted imperfect soul bordering on idiocy, would like to consider how it works out for you, and how I might employ some of your techniques myself.
Boy, I surely hope you don't expect me to give up my Wifi internet service.
UrbnPrsn,I think you are probably right, as in the article,if the tree is dead,dying or diseased,get rid of it.That is what is called helping one self.As the song said God and the rain will bring it back someday.
Bend over and get ready to kiss your arse goodbye. Man is destrouing the earth every day. Soon nobody will be able to save it not even god himself. And i dont know why he would want to with all the evil on this planet. I am surprised he has let it go on this long.
So if your neighbor does $30,000 in yard work, rips up your tree's roots by doing so, and the tree dies because the roots were cut apart and falls on his property, you are liable. Basically he can kill your tree then sue you when it falls on his yard. Wonderful laws.
Actually the article is probably wrong. In most places if a tree falls on your property your insurance has to cover it, even if it came from somewhere else. That "service official" quoted in the article doesn't know squat about insurance and property laws. Check with your insurance agent to find out the laws in your area...
Tim874396 ,he is talking about the civil law .Yes if you have home owner insurance your covered if a deadfalls on someone else land.Here in texas if you own the property your not required to have home owner insurance.Now if the property has a loan against it, part of the loan agreement.Maybe you should check what required in a state before you you speak about someone knowing squat.
As for any damages ,you take them to court,get a civil judgement against them,file the paperwork against the property,and hope they might sell said propeerty ,or they try to buy another.Im sitting on about 10 g worth of civil leins against people,and there not even worth wipeing my but.
As the article stated, rules vary from place to place. Just because that isn't the case in your town, doesn't mean it's not the case in the next town, county, state. Of course, once you said the service official "doesn't know squat about insurance and property laws", you then covered your butt by saying "Check with your insurance agent to find out the laws in your area" because you, possibly, could be liable.
Tim is right--it's pretty universal that when your tree falls on a neighbor's property, the neighbor's policy pays. It can get tricky, however, if the homeowner doesn't have insurance (as someone already mentioned), and the owner of the tree can be shown to have been negligent in removing a hazard. I thought the Texas Forest Service official was a little off-base, as well, because in most cases if a tree does fall, the damage will be taken care of by the insurance company for the owner of the damaged property. Do note, that insurance hardly ever covers removal of fallen trees. So, if my neighbor's tree falls on my property and requires professional removal, that bill will probably be negotiated between the neighbors. And, if my neighbor didn't remove his trees and I took care of mine, I wouldn't be too happy to have to also then take care of his!
will tell you - does anyone in Texas know the difference between "your" and "you're", or "there" and they're"?
And that is important to you because....?
Wally-1853299
Proper grammar and correct spelling are often associated with intelligence, something several posters on this site seems to lack.
Climate change is taking effect...north pole has been moving north...happens once every 200,000-300,000 years...hasn't done it in twice as long.
I think you're lying.
Dude, the magnetic pole moving has no connection to global warming. Those are two completely seperate things. The magnetic pole moves all the time, and it regularly flips (making the south pole the N on your compass) which is clearly shown in the rock record.
As long as the Earth's core remains molten, the magnetic poles will continue to wander. True scientific research has made no correlation between magnetic pole wander (and even reversal) and any significant climate change.
@tired just keep that metal plate in your head away from those magnets
Shhh, the Climate Change deniers struggle to maintain 'plausible' deniability. [/sarcasm] As if the magnetic poles could be connected to Climate Change.
Actually this is a double win for the arborists. They get paid to cut the wood and can then turn around and sell it (especially mesquite) for fire wood, BBQ, or for other softer woods, chipped for ground cover. In my area they just pile it all up and burn it. I am not saying all do, actually in a lot of places it ends up in landfill.
I really wish none of it ended up in landfill or just piled and burned. What an unacceptible waste.
Here in Cen Tex, not many mesquites died. It is mostly cedar, cedar elm, and post oaks. Cedar and Cedar Elm are not good firewoods. The post oaks all carry a deadly fungus, something called Hypoxylon Canker. Burning the diseased trees is not recommended, and using diseased trees for mulch is not good either. That basically means landfill for those trees. The cedars will make good mulch if chopped, and the elms will be so-so.
500 million trees?? Come on... that number cannot be anywhere close to accurate. Half a billion tress??
Well travis, az is not Texas!
Well that was a profound and enlightening response, IWonder.
There are 273 counties and more towns than I want to count. I've been across Arizona a few times and can understand why that number of trees would seem large to you. I have more than 50 trees on my 1 acre of land, 2 of them died last year.
Apparently you have not been to the northern part of Arizona which full of rich forests and even the Sonoran Desert of the southern part is covered by Palo Verde trees. Frankly your comments are just condescending, as though you have some special knowledge. Hundreds of countries and hundreds of cities... um yea... again your point with that is worthless.
misplaced posting (see # 3.1 above)
couldn't be global warming
I see a bunch of climate change people on here, this has nothing to do with it, Texas has suffered draughts before and when rain comes climate change people will say there is still global warming, and if it turns into floods they will say see were right.
Climate Change is just another version of Marxsim most people who espose it don't even really follow there own advice. They reject data that debunks there nonsense and they don't like the idea that if there is a problem technology from the free market can is solve it better then us heading back to the stone age.
What an ignorant chimp.
Huh? What?
Climate change is to Marxism what apples are to zucchini: Completely different.
One, climate change, is science. The other, Marxism, is a failed social, economic and cultural experiment.
Don't try and understand him. He's a complete and utter mo ron in life.
I don't believe in ultraviolet light. Sunburn is a vast hoax promulgated by godless commie scientists. They don't want you to know its caused by thinking sinful thoughts. ;)
I posted this for Justme below, but missed the correct reply area, sorry. Actually there is some truth about the way WE have managed our forests that have gotten us to this point. The forests all over the Western US are in trouble. Part of the problem is climate change. Also a big part of it is forest management. We have been putting out the forest fires for the last several decades. When you do this you interupt the natural cycle which fire is a part of. That in turn has let other issues like beetle infestation occur which at this point is far more destructive. We have MILLIONS of acres of dead standing timber and that is feeding these enormous fires now. Had we actually let some of these areas burn, they would be on their way to recovery. At this point it is up in the air sorta speaking as to what we should do.
tommymustbefromtexas
tommymaybewrongmayberight - take you post to someone who knows how to read and write. Have that person explain to you why no one will take you seriously. Hint: your multiple misspellings is an indication of how ignorant you are.
At the least, tommy, does not believe everything he hears from the liberal media. I also noticed that he made no derogatory remarks to his responders. Yep, he definitely has the high ground.
Hey, you should get into a cool shaded place. Sip slowly on plenty of water.
Wheww if I knew I would have gotten this many responses I would have checked back sooner, I see a lot of people insulting me but no one really fighting back that it's not a marxist view. The global warming stuff spewed by people is marxsim, marix himself beleived that capitalsim would destory the enviornmetn and rooted for it. I also know it's full of BS because what a lot of these so called envionmentalist want isen't new technology or advancement but rather a socail change where the goverment has power to control everything in the name of the enviornment. It's just communsim in disguise of do goodery.
Just look at a lot of the leaders of these movements they want to take away technology that makes life not only easier but in some cases people woulden't survive without it. While there champing this they break everyone of there rules. Al Gore flys around on a giant jet, hollywood elites live in homes bigger then my town and use more energy then a small town. Hence it's not enviornmentalisim it's a socal activity. And yes draughts have happen before they will happen again, everytime you will have people panicking over some sort of major disaster coming. It's been that way for centurys now.
Seriously tommy? Apparently the majority of the worlds people are marxists according to you and rush's logic.
Those 500,000,000 dead trees are no longer available to soak up Co2 as part of the natural carbon cycle. Man is pumping more carbon into the atmosphere than naturally occurs, with less and less green space to absorb it. The climate change will accelerate and droughts will get worse.
This happens and for every one that dies (at least here in the hill country) we plant two more, not all of these trees died from drought we had a battle with oak wilt/decline for a few years, it's some kind of fungus that attacks the trees and kills them, it's a never ending battle.
@ Fa Tass. Dude if you gave 5k to two guys with shotguns then I have news for you. You got robbed. Call the cops.
One of the most overlooked contributors to climate change/global warming is, believe it or not, the methane produced from livestock waste, that is: cow pies. You can look that up if you don't believe me. They raise a lot of beef in Texas.
Poltergiest: What?
BTW, it's spelled "poltergeist." It's one of those wacky words where the "I before E" rule doesn't apply, probably because it's origins are German..
If you live in the hill country wait about 5 years and you will cedars tree popping up real quickly.Oak wilt did take alot in kerr, bandera,gillispie, county it started back in the 80s. But ive seen more oak taken out by people building then oak wilt.
I had two gigantic water oaks that weighed 25 tons each cut down last summer before the drought. They were alive and healthy. Next thing I know, two guys show up with shotguns at my frnt door demanding that I pay them tax money for the Obama Healthcare Bill. I wrote them each a personal check for $2500. and they left quietly.
I think you are on the wrong thread. It's either that or you are a troll, trying to hijack the discussion to your own rant. Give it a break.
So you had 50,000 pounds of wood cut down,and your upset.Lady that was cheap.But You skould have called the cops if they showed up with guns,chance are that 2500,would have cost them 10 years in jail.
Why did you kill 2 large, healthy trees? What kind of stupid is that?
As for Pres. Obama: Get over it!!! And get over to Fox where you belong, with the rest of the nations delusionaries.
Fa Tjerk
What an ass!
It's not just the heat killing trees. The Monsanto (tweeked Agent Orange) herbicides is decimating the trees. Here in Oklahoma they use crop dusting planes to spray the @!$%# and everything in our yard starts curling up and dying. They are also using pesticides that also kill the honeybees along with other insects. You put the two together along with global warming and drought and you have total environmental destruction. We will eventually experience what I call "The Easter Island Effect." What happened on Easter Island is that the tribes competed in building monoliths to their so called gods. They cut down the palm & coconut trees to build platforms that allowed them to roll the stones to the designated spots. In time the trees could not keep up with the deforestation. In addition, rodents brought to the island ate the Palm seeds preventing new trees from sprouting. In their final days their civilization collapsed and they began to starve. In the end they had to live in caves and resort to cannibalism. That is what will happen to us. We will have to live in caves to escape the heat and yes we will start eating each other. If you don't want your children to inherit this world of death and cannibalism then you better fight for it. We had all better stop voting in politicians that sell out to the corporations. You better stop buying Monsantos @!$%# and stop using it. You better plant a new tree each year to help the planet and ourselves.
Please, please find the documentary "FOOD INC.", and watch it. You will see that it is not so easy to stop using the Mega products of modern factory farming.
This video shows a guy that had threshing equipment to harvest seeds for the next years crop. He was one of only four left in the State. He said that when he was young "there was one in every county."
He received "visits" from the 'goons' from the big Genetically Modified seed producers. He finally had to rat out the names of everyone he produced seed for. Tears were running down his face when he talked about that. He went to jail, and his customers got fines, or jail time.
If your field is getting even a "whiff" from the genetically modified fields around yours, and you try to harvest your own seed, YOU TOO are guilty! (No wonder the honey bees are disappearing- they are co-conspirators, just like the poor seed thresher!)
Isn't it great that the environmentalist saved the trees to be burned in massive fires instead of cutting them down and replanting. Do bad they couldn't have been used for the greater good. What a waste of the most abundant RENEWABLE RESOURCE on this planet.
...another ignorant chimp. Get lost, as you're far too stupid to participate in a discussion like this.
Justme, I made a reply above, but posted it incorrectly. Cutting down all the trees isn't a resposible answer, but in some ways you have a point. Forestry mismanagement is part of the problem. Cutting the oldest and largest trees is also part of the mismanagement. Not letting fire do it's job of natural selection is part of the problem. Private owners are finding that thinning and cutting the weakest and troubled trees is the best answer to a vibrant forest. Something forestry persons here in the northwest are looking at.
The European forests are managed by marking individual trees that need to be removed. Twin trees that are crowding out the light from each other are thinned to one strong healthy tree specimen. Old trees that are splint and rotting because of lighting strikes are cut.
This is a more labor intensive approach than the US practice of Clear Cutting; but guess what, the profits of the work go to individual workers, NOT to Corporations.
The dust bowl all over again, coming to a state near you!
What, we should be making chop sticks and selling them to the Chinese, Japanese and other Asian cultures? And why aren't we making furniture from the wood?
because they are elm trees.
i.e. giant weeds.
Mr. Smith was right, humans are like a virus, they consume all the resources, multiply, and move on giving nothing back.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/05/12579687-drought-hits-56-percent-of-continental-us-significant-toll-on-crops?lite,
Dear Mr. President Barack H. Obama:
They say that 56% of the "bread basket" is drought stricken, but in other parts of the Grand Ol' USA we need emergency team work in growing "Victory Gardens" for the war and the drought. It's not too late to grow a garden and we can save America, from thee onslaught of the drought. I can imagine what the commodities market is doing now, capitalizing on the corn crop and going long like the "grubs" did with oil. Corn flakes are going to cost $10.00 bucks a box. We need to save Thanksgiving and grow gardens this weekend, where the Country is not drought stricken. We need to "fast" again and harvest the ocean of foodstuffs like fish. This is an ASAP emergency of United We Stand team work to save America. "Suffer ye not the little ones" Jesus Christ. Amen.
Sir: there is another play on this besides Victory Gardens. While people go long grains, with the "forest mismanagement" others can go short lumber. The forest industry will also create jobs in lumberjacking and planting new trees, and lumber and paper products. This will also decrease the profits in new home building (maybe, unless they build "mill towns" like we discussed, that are cost efficient like after WWII). It will also keep the Banking sector at bay on new mortgages. If we don't harvest the lumber, there are more chances of fires, and job-wise, make thee economy look real bad. Create jobs in lumber, for exports as well, verse the breadbasket.
These are all great ideas Mr. Pedjoe. We certainly do need to harvest that lumber. When you think of how long it takes to grow a tree and then to cut it down and just throw it into landfills just seems so disrespectful of the earth.
Mary Jane -
I don't disagree with your posts, but raise the following for your consideration: I live in NC. Cedars and, especially, maples are weeds - have to whack them all the time. Fortuneately, I can usually burn the wood as I have a fireplace. There aren't all that many fireplaces in NC homes, and, I would suspect fewer in Texas. So, cost of "using" the wood from the trees might/might not be viable financially
wtf this isn't 1943
Just make sure that Perry does not use ONE RED CENT of Federal money to do the work.. I can hardly wait till the south drys up (Phoenix will be zip without cheap subsidized water).... servers them right!
You are right Linda. All that wood could be used for furniture instead of that cheap re manufactured stuff that splits as soon as you use a nail or screw on it. I don't know about the chop sticks but real wood furniture is hard to come by any more.
Sad story. Business has been booming in Texas since Bush started the war not just because of dead trees.
Yay! We're raping, pillaging, and profiting from destroying God's "Garden of Eden". Just like Jesus wants...!
Rick Perry needs to get some more praying for rain on with another of his three days 'Proclamation for Days of Prayer for Rain in Texas'...
How's all that "faithey and prayey" stuff working out for you Texas...?
Texas is on its way to becoming a Mad Max desert oil wasteland.
These anti-education idiot Southerners don't get nor want to get that the climate is changing and changing at an alarming rate at that.
These morons that don't want to be educated in the factual Science don't understand that trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis and release oxygen as a by product of photosynthesis. That this is and will be leading to a deadly cycle of more CO2 and a hotter planet. Their heads will never be able to put together that we pollute the planet with CO2, which makes the planet hotter, causing extreme droughts, causing trees to die, causing even faster CO2 build up.
This is for freaking real and this is scary. We are well on our way to global disaster.
Random. calm down. Yes things do look kind of rough right now, but we need to do what we can as individuals and then hold our elected representatives feet to the fire in order to make changes that makes sense.
So why don't you put a bullet in your half-brain and stop emitting CO2 idiot?!!!!
I know Random...it's just going to be AWFUL I tell ya. Random is a hater of the first order.
at least we can be happy that Texas and Texans should feel the effects of these end times and die off before the rest of us ..I for one thing will be happy to know that Texans have paved their path to heaven as their land and crops and cattle burn.... but you know even in this severe drought and oppressive heat they can still pump oil...wait I have got an idea maybe they can use their oil for drinking and feeding the crops and feeding their cattle ....why shoot...... problem solved ...so glad I could help the great state of Texas(tongue in cheek)