Adam McKay on The Gargantuan Climate Lie- Sep 6 video w transcript at DIYH on a Heating Planet Blog- The lie is we still have time.

"The science isn't that complicated, right? It's greenhouse gases. They let in heat. They trap it. You have data, clear data, indicating an impending mega disaster. We have now run out of time. That window that we had from James Hansen's address in the 80s has closed. Next 6 to 18 months are going to require a total repudiation of all of the institutions that have lied us into this. The lie is we still have time." Below w transcribed clips- VIDEO: The Gargantuan Climate Lie with Adam McKay Sep 6, 2026

Climate Chat channel from USA since 2013  

Host is Dan Miller @danmiller999.bsky.social

Guest is screenwriter, producer, and director Adam McKay who in 2023 founded Yellow Dot Studios, a non-profit production company that makes content that raises awareness and mobilizes action on the climate emergency

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AM- So I'm working on a second piece that I'm tentatively calling The Last Window. We squandered the wonderful window that we had after Hansen's Congressional testimony in 1988

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DM- By the way they're not talking about climate at all during the campaign now like no one in the Democratic party as far as I can tell except maybe just mentioned it as a word and in some longer set of important issues. What do you make of that? Is that basically what you're saying, right? 

AM So I've spoken to the people because, you know, I'm in Hollywood, we have some money, so they call us. And I've spoken to the people that you would think in the Senate and the House would have some knowledge of what's going on with the rapidly, you know, fatalistically warming climate. 

They have no clue and no care. 

The only one I've ever spoken to who seemed to get it is Rashida Talib. She is the one that I have spoken to who got it, you know, and for a lot of your viewers and listeners, the science isn't that complicated, right? It's greenhouse gases. They let in heat. They trap it. You look at the numbers. You look at the Earth energy imbalance. How much heat are we taking in, letting out, and that's kind of it; you can get into like murkier rates of change, you know, flickering, phasing, but for the most part, it's pretty simple science. 

And I'm not going to name names because then those people will never talk to me again. But you would be shocked by the people that have like I've talked to and I've said, "Hey, you've got a real problem. You're talking about food supply chains. You're talking about reservoirs like water and they have no idea because they're living in a culture in Washington DC that's all about poll numbers, donors, money. 

And so, you know, when we look to the future, what's coming in the next 6 to 18 months, which is going to be serious stuff., I think in our minds we have to kind of discount the American the United States federal government and we have to discount mainstream media. I think they become very dangerous. 

If you're listening to the New York Times daily podcast, if you're watching CNN, you're going to really be living in an alternative financial market-based reality which can really put you in serious jeopardy. 

DM- Right. By the way, so the lie is we still have time; actually as you point out in the article, it comes in many different forms like one you mentioned was you know net zero by 2050 and these kind of things. Can you walk us through some of these forms that we see this like? Because it's not all people just saying, "Hey, we have time," but they-

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AM- Yeah, it's the center of the lie is that climate warming, rapid climate man-caused warming, is a political issue. It's something to Yeah. do something about because it's for our great grand-kids. It's something our corporate partners are working with us on. There are so many different versions of the lie. 

But they all circle the central idea that we have more time, that experts are working on it. They're not. And the result is that we have now run out of time. That window that we had from James Hansen's address in the 80s has closed.

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We have now run out of time. That window that we had from James Hansen's address in the 80s has closed.

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I mean, it is over and we're now in a very dangerous, tumultuous stage. So, you know, the lie takes many forms. I remember when Biden announced that he was stepping down and then there was this lame duck period that he had and I was like, why wouldn't you declare a climate emergency at that point? 

Keep in mind, it's nothing to declare an emergency. If you look at the list of issues that the federal government has declared emergency or war on, it's crazy. I mean things like pink eye and like [laughter] you know dogs in hot cars are on there. By the way dogs that should be an emergency scene. 

So, I remember when Biden withdrew and I was pulling my hair out because mainstream news media, no one was mentioning that he should declare a climate emergency. He's unplugged from the donor millions of dollars. He no longer has to worry about elections. And I would say the same thing about Barack Obama. 

And both of those examples point to how deep the corruption and rot is that that system. It's creating candidates and elected officials who have no part of themselves that cares about the public good. 

You know, there was a study out of Princeton, I think it was 2012, that showed statistically there is no correlation between the will of the people and policy outcome in Washington DC. But when you look at the interest of big money in the same study, it's one to one. 

So there's no country like the United States except maybe the UK where we're hit with the level of feelgood marketing advertising propaganda. And it's extremely upsetting to see this disaster rolling towards my family, friends, communities, former home towns. And whenever I bring it up, they act like, "Oh, Adam's just worried about the climate. That's kind of his thing. That's his thing." 

DM- Yeah, I get that all the time. You're, you know, it's like being, as they say, it's like flatulence at a cocktail party, you know, like they people don't really want to hang around you when you're talking about it.

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Leon Simons- I wanted to ask you to talk a bit about the letter you wrote to to all governors, mayors, first responders, and anyone entrusted with public safety, disaster preparedness and relief about the ongoing super El Nino which is still about to have impact on the global climate and I sign it as well. Can you talk about it a bit? 

AM- Yeah. So, you guys know, and I'm sure most of the people watching this know that it's rare that you have data, clear data, indicating an impending mega disaster, and no one talks about it. 

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You have data, clear data, indicating an impending mega disaster and no one talks about it. 

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Actually, I said it's rare and that's not true because more and more in the United States that's become the pattern. Whether it's legalizing opioids with a prescription, completely legalizing sports gambling, you know, for-profit healthcare. I mean, the list of mega fatal disasters that America normalizes to keep the financial markets up. It is it it really is too long to list. 

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So the goal of the letter that we wrote that we got people like yourselves to sign- a mixture of scientists, activists, climate journalists, notable citizens like Mark Ruffalo and Jane Fonda- the goal of that letter was to specifically appeal to governors, mayors, and first responders. 

We felt like the federal government in the United States is too collapsed. It's just they're all in crazy land. There's zero chance that the federal government is going to respond to what the disaster that we're heading into. 

But we felt like if mayors of major cities and governors were appealed to, we knew the majority would ignore it because they're only concerned about poll numbers and donor checks. But we figured even if a couple of them saw it and took it in, that could save thousands of lives. And sure enough, we heard from I think it's three governors, maybe four. One of them, a Republican, by the way. And no, we did not hear from Governor Newsom or a bunch of Democratic governors. We did not hear from Karen Bass and a bunch of corrupt Democratic mayors. But the or from the president. What's that? 

LS- Or from the president. 

AM- We didn't even send it to the president. [laughter] That would be like us giving the letter to like a squirrel. Like [laughter] so we didn't even bother. 

By the way, we also sent the letter to I think a dozen or two dozen mayors of big international cities. 

And so yeah, the idea was even if we don't hear from them, even if they just read it, given the scale of the impending disaster, if just a couple do a little bit more than what they normally would have done, it could save a lot of lives.

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Sign Yellow Dot Studios' El Niño Warming Letter: https://yellowdotstudios.com/elninowa...

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DM- into this moment that in the article about the 2C and the 3C and the two and the four billion. So we're talking really pretty bad here; any thoughts on how to counter this lie. You didn't really, you didn't really get into that in the article. 

AM- So, I am working on a second piece that I'm tentatively calling the last window. And we squandered the wonderful window that we had. I, you know, loosely and unofficially I would mark Hansen's address to Congress in 1988. 

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AM- Yep as the beginning of that window. And even though we've known the science about climate warming for a long time and that window had a lot of heady wonderful theories, pledges, conferences, but as we sit here with a three-year average of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming and I think like Today we're at 1.85 even though that's daily. It's not a larger average; and then the El Nino looks insane, which more and more seems like the El Nino,, in a kind of physics sense, like an explosion seems to be a way that the ocean is burping out heat and giving us bumps. And that's not just me saying that. 

There are scientists theorizing they're becoming more frequent, more powerful.

So I think we're going to have one last tight window and I don't know if that window for action is 3 months, six, seven, but it's going to require a total repudiation of all of the institutions that have lied us into this moment.  

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all of the institutions that have lied us into this moment. 

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DM- You would never vote for an elected official who was saying like, "Look, we have a lot of excess arsenic. We want to start putting it in school lunches." You wouldn't vote for that person. I think you really put your finger on one of the biggest lies in history of this planet.

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Hawaii 1st tornado watch ever Sep 7-8- Sources cited and linked here at DIY Hospice on a Heating Planet blog- VIDEO & stills by Nature Damage UK

Hurricane Lowell brought "Dangerous surf, widespread flooding, prolonged power outages, and the first tornado watch ever- winds up in the forward right-hand quadrant that's favorable for rotation and tornadoes. Tornado warnings were issued during the storm, although no confirmed tornado touchdowns had been a tornado watch at 4:13 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time Monday for parts of Kauai and adjacent coastal waters." Quote starts at 4.15 here:

Video from Nature Damage channel on YouTube from UK since Nov 3, 2022

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Hurricane Lowell has had a “devastating” impact on Hawaii after sweeping past the state’s islands, leaving at least one person dead, damaging homes and knocking out power to tens of thousands, according to Gov. Josh Green. A homeless man on Oahu died after a tree fell on the tent he was living in, the governor said. Hurricane Lowell battered the westernmost islands of Hawaii overnight into Tuesday with hurricane-force wind gusts and monstrous surf. Wind gusts over 80 mph knocked out power for around 90% of homes and businesses in Kauai County, which also includes the island of Kauai, according to PowerOutage.com. The county’s provider said on Tuesday morning there is “no estimated time of restoration” and outages could be long-lasting. In Kapa’a, Kauai, dozens of guests at the ISO Hotel were evacuated to shelters Monday, according to CNN affiliate KITV. Coastal flooding closed roadways in South Maui and areas in Maui Nui Monday morning, according to a Facebook post from the County of Maui. On Monday, high surf inundated a handful of ground floor units in a western Oahu condominium. All flights at Lihue Airport, Kauai’s primary airport, were canceled Monday afternoon, Hawaii’s Department of Transportation said. The airport will reopen when it's safe to do so, the department said. All state and county offices, Kauai Community College and public schools are closed in Kauai County and on Oahu Tuesday as cleanup and damage assessments continue, Green announced Monday.

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While Hawai‘i’s Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau were bracing for Hurricane Lowell’s sideswipe Monday night, aside from the dangerous wind and rain and surf that you normally associated with hurricanes, they had a new challenge added on: Possible tornadoes.

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Hurricane Lowell leaves major impacts in Hawaii and triggers first ever tornado watch 

https://www.koco.com/article/hurricane-lowell-hawaii-tornado-watch/73651218 

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It's starting! Earth passed 1.5c effects- Waves overtake Long Beach Calif coast- Sci-fi sort of- Eternal journalist dispatch to space overlords at DIY Hospice on a Heating Planet blog

Yesterday while surfing on YouTube looking for climate reports, a few seconds into this video the nudges became excited like allergen molecules in sunlight, saying look at this look at this look at this.

I looked and realized 

This is it. 

This is the beginning. 

It's starting! Waves crash into homes along L.A. coast, effects of passing 1.5 C already are already being felt. Humans will soon be forced to relocate- Eternal journalist dispatch

Sci-fi sort of

It seems like one climate effect affects another and that affects another and the Heat and Devastation increase exponentially. 

In this video, I watch humans watch the ocean attack Long Beach beachfront and wonder how much farther is that water going to go before somebody does something drastic to stop this, or are they just going to let it happen. 

SMH over how befuddling these humans are. 

From here until God knows how this ends, we will be watching footage like this of nature taking back her territory, witnessing the effects of going past 1.5 C already, how devastating the climate crisis already is, and it just makes you wonder how bad is it going to get. 

VIDEO ABOVE Massive Waves Flood Long Beach Peninsula ONSCENE TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6osndzgQt0 

AND AT BOTTOM Massive waves, coastal flooding hit Long Beach Fox 11 LA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdoAFg1HvRs 

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So the summary of this dispatch from planet Earth to the overlords is that the climate crisis is happening faster and humans are having to pack up and move fast as one disaster after another hits different areas. I don't know how long it's going to take them to figure out what's going on, they may never.

peace out, sunshine,

Cassandra traveling through time and space, I look forward to seeing you all in person soon, as I'm approaching 80 years in this human body so I ain't going to be here too much longer.

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My job is to watch and report to my overlords out in the universe. somewhere. Hopefully when I leave this body I'll meet them in person, how ever it's done once you're not in a body anymore.

I'm so grateful. that I am so crippled that I can't do anything but sit here and blog. As usual, the nudges who run the eternal journalist operation from somewhere out in space have arranged everything. 

The apartment I landed in is a lot like a BOQ suite, I just realized. I need to be more grateful to the nudges who kept me here in Tahoe.

Way back in 2015 I was living in the Mojave Desert looking for newfangled spacecraft that I'd heard innovative engineers were building there, I learned that the planet had passed the tipping point for climate, the global tipping point. 

Back then I hadn't realized there were nudges running everything in my life.

I decided to move to South Lake Tahoe as a place to ride out the climate crisis for the cool air and freshwater with access to modern conveniences as even though it's a small town. it's a resort. For some reason up here at 6,000 ft the nudges are much more apparent, they can't even try to hide from me up here.

Massive waves, coastal flooding hit Long Beach

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Flames and smoke over the forest, firefighting aircraft, and helicopters-  wildfire in southern Turkey in Adana Province spreads across 70 hectares; firefighters battle flames in Karaisalı. Aircraft and ground vehicles contain the forest fire near Çorlu Mahallesi. WATCH Adana Wildfire in Turkey: 70 Hectares Hit as Firefighters Battle Flames- Asianet News English Sep 7, 2026The Turkey wildfire was brought under control, with cooling operations continuing in the affected area. The blaze began outside forested land before spreading into woodland. Nearby settlements were protected and no evacuation was ordered, according to local officials. 

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Alps glaciers melting fast, glaciologist describes disappearing European mountain ice in this transcribed clip plus a screen shot at Heating Planet blog- 2026 record ice loss year

"James Bond drives by and there's this huge cascade of ice behind him. Well, that's no longer there. Glacier recession is one of the most visual aspects of climate change. We're on track possibly for a record ice loss year in the European Alps. And just to put that in perspective, they're talking about 6% of all the ice that's left in glaciers in the Alps being lost just this summer alone." WATCH & READ clip from The Nepal Disaster: How Climate Change is Reshaping the World Sep 4, 2026 video

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There's a really consistent story of ice shrinkage across all of the Himalaya in much the same way as we see ice shrinking in the Andes and in the European Alps and in other glaciarized mountain ranges across the world. 

And you must have seen this over the course of just your career, right? Have you noticed it almost in real time? 

Yeah, so we have been doing repeat surveys on some particular glaciers. for example, some of the glaciers in Austria and you can go and see you can walk up to the glacier terminus and when you repeat that visit year on year, every year you have to walk an extra hundred meters because the glacier has shrunk it's really really telling you're like well I had lunch here right on the snout of the glacier last year and now the glacier is all the way over there and you're seeing this happen year on year. 

The thing that we're seeing in the European Alps is the glaciers are melting so quickly that the terminuses are becoming very chaotic, very riddled with holes, collapsing all over the place, melting from below as well as on top. We did some seismic surveys on one of these glaciers and it's like Swiss cheese. 

It's the ice is so rotted and degraded. It's certainly something that we see very visually and the glacier recession is probably one of the most visual aspects of climate change. 

Yeah. Another glacier that's particularly in a glacier that I've visited many times is Mer Glass in Shaman. I visited it for the first time with my parents when I was 3 years old. Mer de Glas. That's the sea of ice, right? That's the famous sea of ice. Yeah. Yes. 

Yeah and it has a tourist grotto where you can go in and it's like got colored lights and it's very pretty. But as you go when you go there, as you walk down from the restaurant where the glacier used to be, as you walk down, there are years signposts with years on about when the ice was out that year. And you kind of you say, "Okay, well, I was here at this in 1986 when I was three. And the glacier is, you know, it's miles below me now." 

And then we visited it several times over the last few years, and each time you have to go down an extra staircase because the glacier has shrunk. 

 Well, didn't didn't your parents say don't be a glaciologist? There's no there's no life in this, right? 

They're going to run out. It is a concern, but fortunately, there's lots of ice in Antarctica, so I hope we should be I I'll be all right in my career. [laughter]

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Alps glaciers melting so quickly that the terminuses are becoming very chaotic, very riddled with holes, collapsing

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Alec, you're just back from the Swiss Alps, seeing glaciers there with glaciologists. What What was the mood like? What did they have to say? 

Yeah, it's not a happy mood as you mentioned, we're on track possibly for a record ice loss year in the European Alps. And just to put that in perspective, they're talking about 6% of all the ice that's left in glaciers in the Alps being lost just this summer alone. So, I mean, it's just a massive amount and I went to the Ran Glacier with some scientists from ETH Zurich, and that glacier has lost 30 million tons of ice just this summer alone, which is enough to fill 12,000 Olympic swimming pools. 

So, I mean, just the amount of melt this summer is staggering. And you can really see it, you know, just as we approached this glacier. We went by the Belvadier Hotel which was built as a place where people could sit and drink a cocktail and look over the glacier in this valley. Well, the glaciers retreated 2 km. It's no longer visible from that hotel. 

It actually makes an appearance in the James Bond film Goldfinger. James Bond drives by and there's this huge cascade of ice behind him. Well, that's no longer there. It's retreated all the way into the valley and the hotel has been abandoned because there's no reason for it to exist anymore. We got a little bit closer- you Bethan mentioned the ice grotto at meloss. 

There's a similar ice grotto at the ran glacier- they have taken to covering up the ice grotto in geotexiles. These reflective white plasticky coverings to reflect more sunlight and try to save the ice. So that those geotexiles over that ice cave that now there's a giant lake of meltwater between that and the glacier. The ice cave has been left behind by the glacier which has continued to retreat back. 

And the ice cave is, you know, there's about a meter of ice left on the ceiling of it. Pretty soon it's just going to be an ice hole. And then we made it to the glacier itself. We put on our krampons, started climbing up the glacier. 

The first thing we saw was this gigantic hole in the middle of the glacier and the scientists were saying, "Yeah, that this hole has collapsed just this year where it's, you know, there's all these crevases around in this giant hole and at the bottom of it is just a channel kind of a river of meltwater and that's melt water that's coming down through the glacier through these Mulans and then coming under the glacier and just just pouring out of it. 

Then we go up a little bit further and the scientists were checking the melt stakes, which are these just big kind of aluminum pipes, tubes that they drill into the glacier to measure, you know, how far down the the ice is melting. The the melt stakes were sticking out at weird angles because they're falling out of the glacier because the glacier has melted so fast this year that the scientists, you know, despite having decades of experience drilling these melt stakes, they didn't drill them in deep enough. They said, "Yeah, we were this caught us by surprise, the extreme melt this summer. You know, we didn't expect this much melt. We didn't drill in the melt stakes deep enough." So it's just, you know, really shocking when you see it with your own eyes. And then meanwhile, we were hearing these thumps from deep within the glacier, probably creasses opening within the ice. As the ice melts, it gets more unstable. it fractures more which tends to which can lead to these glacier collapses. 

I mean we're talking about the one in the Himalayas but one happened last year in the Alps where an entire village was destroyed by a glacier collapse which was similarly kind of a many factors played a role. Permafrost thaw led to a rock avalanche rockfall which then led to the fracturing of the glacier which led to the ice avalanche which led to flooding which destroyed the town. But tragically, one person died in that incident, but not 1,200. 

And that really goes to show the importance of early warning systems because the difference was in the in the Swiss Alps, they got an early warning and they evacuated the village before the collapse happened, which unfortunately didn't happen in the Himalayas. And anyway, the last thing I'll say is that yeah, I mean, just as as we're standing on the glacier throughout the day, you know- 

in the morning there wasn't that much water on top of the glacier, but by the afternoon there were just dozens and dozens of these streams of water pouring down the glacier. All this melt water coming off it as the day heated up and all and all sorts of rockfalls coming down the valley sides. you know, every couple of minutes there'd be a couple cracks like gunfire and and you turn and these rocks will be falling down this the sides of the valley as the as the permafrost and more likely with that it's probably ice remnants or these little bits of ice that have been you know cut off from the glacier and as those melt they they drop rocks on the sides of the glacier. So it was super dynamic, super scary and and just shocking to see it up Close. 

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James Bond drives by and there's this huge cascade of ice behind him. Well, that's no longer there. they have taken to covering up the ice grotto in geotextiles. These reflective white plasticky coverings to reflect more sunlight and try to save the ice.

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Texas: Fire & flood at same time last week- Severe Weather USA channel 3.5 min clip from Sep 4, w/ transcript, at Heating Planet blog

One of the most significant wildfire stories of the entire 2026 season is in Texas. The state is fighting two climate disasters at the same time, and they are completely opposite in nature. While the Ross fire burns west of Fort Worth, the remnants of tropical storm Edward are producing major flooding east of Dallas simultaneously. Texas Emergency Management was coordinating a wildfire response in the west and flood rescues in the east on the same day- Video: U.S. Wildfire Crisis: 52,939 Fires, 8.2 Million Acres Burned & New Threats Sep 4, 2026

Severe Weather USA channel Sep 4, 2026 

Clip transcript 

begins at 9.00

Now, let's head to Texas where we have one of the most significant wildfire stories of the entire 2026 season. The Ross fire in Palopinto and Jack counties has burned 90,400 acres, making it the second largest wildfire in North Texas recorded history. According to the National Weather Service Fort Worth office, Dallas Fort Worth had gone 46 consecutive days without measurable rainfall before this fire started. That is among the top 10 longest dry streaks in DFW recorded history, going back to 1,899 and August 2026 recorded only a trace of rainfall at the airport. 

The fire started August 24th. Within the first 24 hours, 15,000 acres. By August 25th, 50,000 acres. By August 26th, over 80,000 in two days. That is how dry the fuel was out there. As of yesterday, 157 structures destroyed, 140 damaged, 453 saved by firefighters. 

Worth Ranch, a Boy Scout camp operated by Longhorn Council of Scouting America in Palo Pinto, sustained significant structural damage, though no one was on site at the time. Schools in Jboro, Parin, Bryson, and Grayford all had delayed openings or cancelled classes during the fire's most active days. Investigators have determined this fire was human-caused, originating from equipment or vehicle use near a roadside. Two firefighters sustained minor injuries. Containment sits at 38% as of this morning. The fire is not done. 

Now, here is where the Texas story gets genuinely unusual. The state is fighting two disasters at the same time, and they are completely opposite in nature. While the Ross fire burns west of Fort Worth, the remnants of tropical storm Edward are producing major flooding east of Dallas simultaneously. Edward made landfall Tuesday Sep 1 with 60 mph winds and has dropped near 2 feet of rain in some areas northeast of Houston per NWS reports. In Harden County alone, emergency personnel conducted 12 water rescues from flooded roadways. 

Texas Emergency Management was simultaneously coordinating a wildfire response in the west and flood rescues in the east on the same day. 

Here is the problem for the fire. Edward's heaviest rain is east of Dallas. The Ross fire is west of Fort Worth. The moisture is largely missing the fire zone. 

Some increased humidity and cloud cover will help slow things a little this week, but the real rain is falling in the wrong place. And the forecast is not encouraging. Dry conditions and temperatures returning to the upper 90s are expected to rebuild by Labor Day weekend. 

And the short-term NWS outlook shows dry conditions and temperatures returning to the mid to upper 90s by Labor Day weekend as high pressure rebuilds. If you live in the Dallas Fort Worth area, Palopinto County, or Jack County, active fire weather conditions are expected to return this weekend. 

Oklahoma has five active large fires right now with elevated fire weather across the southern plains today. Temperatures near 100°. Breezy conditions across Oklahoma and Kansas. Fuels remain dry across much of that region. Humidity is recovering somewhat compared to recent days, but still within the range where wind driven fire spread is a concern. That is better than the past several days, but still within the range where wind driven fire spread is possible per the Storm Prediction Center

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 10.30 Now, here is where the Texas story gets genuinely unusual. The state is fighting two disasters at the same time, and they are completely opposite in nature. While the Ross fire burns west of Fort Worth, the remnants of tropical storm Edward are producing major flooding east of Dallas simultaneously. https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2026/09/texas-fire-flood-same-time-preview-of.html

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