There are 3 separate wildfires going on right around us. First was the rural town of
Bastrop, which we have been watching with tragic interest but were not worried about for ourselves because it is 30 miles southeast of the city and was reported to be moving in the opposite direction.
But then later today
Steiner Ranch caught fire, in a seemingly unrelated incident (other than the fact that we've all been suffering through the same drought conditions,) and that subdivision is within the city itself, on the west side, and considerably closer to us.
And now there's another fire in
Leander, which is genuinely close to us. I have multiple friends who live within 2 miles of the most recently-reported borders of that fire, and if the Leander fire gets as big as the Bastrop fire, my house will be very much in range. They are unable to fight any of these on the ground due to the high winds and everything being dry as a bone, so the water helicopters are the only thing we have going right now. At the rate this crap is spreading, it's conceivable that we might get an evacuation order in the middle of the night tonight.