Floyd the barber credited Calvin Coolidge for saying 'everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it' and I'm not sure if that's correct or not, but it's a pretty good saying.
There are a lot of debates across this planet that say we can do something about the weather and the climate over the threat of global warming. We haven't bought into the whole conspiracy theory yet, because scientist have data that shows this planet has gone through many climate changes over the past billion or so years and most of those changes happened when we had no emissions from fossil fuels being burned in automobiles.
But what we do know is that it's dry, very dry across our area at this point in time. With the drought, comes an increased chance of wildfires breaking loose and not only engulfing forest lands, but homes as well.
As we were going to press Wednesday afternoon, the Alabama Forestry Commission had only issued a 'fire danger advisory' for all 67 counties. We did see that the city of Atmore took it a step higher and initiated a burn ban.
If we don't get some rain soon, Gov. Kay Ivey will issue a burn ban.
It shouldn't take a burn ban for people to know that now is not the time to be burning limbs and leaves.
We've seen over the years where hundreds and hundreds of acres of land in our area were torched after a simple debris pile burn behind somebody's house got out of hand.
Wildfires can happened in a split second and once they get out of hand, it's hard to contain them.
We join Flomaton Fire Chief Steve Stanton and other firefighters in telling you to please not burn under these current conditions.
We're not hoping for a hurricane but a nice tropical depression off the gulf coast would be a welcomed sight.
