Lightning Storm

Saturday night we went over to Luis and Gisella's for dinner and while we were there the wind got up like crazy and there was a lightning storm all around us. It was pretty neat to watch. When we were leaving Cody looked over towards the high fence and there was A LOT of smoke. He started yelling for Luis and they took off. He called me when they reached the fire and told me to call the fire department because it was pretty big. Since we have a RR address they had no clue where we were and asked for my 911 address, well of course I had no clue. I just said, if Rodney is working tonight he will know exactly where we are. The guy laughed and said ok! Rodney was here within 15 minutes! While we were waiting on the fire people it started raining which was a good thing! Two trucks from Woodward came and about 30 minutes later 2 trucks from Selmon come and another 20 minutes 2 trucks from Buffalo came. As soon as the two trucks from Buffalo came they turned around and left. After they got the fire under control I asked Rodney why Buffalo came and he said since we were in Harper County and not Woodward that we were in their district. Well glad we have a buddy at Woodward, our whole ranch would have burnt' down waiting on Buffalo! Even though it is kind of scary having your ranch on fire, it sure is good for the ground! Come to find out there were 9 fires around us, all from lightning! The fire department had a busy night that night. Our neighbors had a fire on the other side of them and they had a plane with a water bag scoop down and steal their water! I stole her pictures! They are pretty cool!

That is a pretty big plane to scoop down in a canyon to get water.