06-30-2014, 06:36 AM
ezdays Wrote:Even the desert can get scorched. Lots of brush, cacti and trees around to burn and it does happen.That's for sure. I lived on what was then the edge of El Paso in 1969 on Galveston street. There was nothing across the street but desert. Back then Foothill Drive and the Patriot Apartments weren't even an idea. It was nothing but desert out to the highway (now Patriot Freeway) and beyond. Sometimes fires would start for various reasons and could spread quickly. Windblown tumbleweeds would allow it to spread farther than one would think possible.
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Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam