Map of Florida wildfires

[FourScore]

[tblue]

1. Holy Cow!!! nt

[imaginary girl]

2. Wow. Do you have a link for the site? Looks interesting ...

[FourScore]

10. LINK...Sorry, I should have posted it in the OP

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-firemap-050907,0,3601189.photo?coll=sfla-news-florida

[Liberty Belle]

3. I can't help but wonder... are all those voting machines safe?

[FloridaJudy]

4. Oh crap!

Guess who lives in the middle of the reddest area of the map......:yoiks:

[necso]

5. Some MODIS data (warning, large jpeg),

from http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us :

[SoCalDem]

6. Say good bye to some pretty nifty wildlife

they were barely holding on before, and now what was left of their habitat, is going up in flames:cry:

count on the developers to see this as an opportunity.."cleared land..rady to build on.."

[JCMach1]

7. Fires are part of the natural cycle in Florida... they actually help

some wildlife and species.

[Mojorabbit]

8. The smoke in the air

is horrible. We need a good soaking rain badly.

[vickitulsa]

9. Speaking as someone who lost her home to a fire,

years ago -- and it was a solo house fire, not something like this -- still, I always feel for anyone going through such a devastating event.

I noticed on the map it shows the "smoke sensitive buffers" in pink, and they are not all located just around the fires. I don't know exactly what that means, but it stands to reason that the smoke drifting from the fires must be really tough on a huge number of people ... especially older folks and those with breathing difficulties on good days.

This isn't the first time I've looked at a map of Florida during such a season and said, "Yikes! Florida's on fire!" Don't think I've ever heard of it being worse, though.

Tough times for our Florida citizens; we should all be thinking of them. And isn't it almost as bad in Georgia, too?

:(