Texas Litterers (San Antonio, Austin, Anton: home, neighborhood, yard)

[EmergencyOps]

With the lack of rainfall plaguing much of the State (and subsequent burn bans and fireworks bans), grass fires will be more and more prevalent. A common cause is discarded cigarettes along the roadways.

Those lit cigarettes rank at the top of my pet peeves of litterers. Don't Mess With Texas has a program called 'Report a Litterer' (formerly the Gotcha! program), and I am interested to know how many people have utilized the service (that sends offenders a letter and a litter bag).

[TexasHorseLady]

I didn't know about that! Thanks for the information - I'll be using that in future.

[westhou]

I've never heard of that program. I'm shocked my mailbox isn't full of those litter bags.

[desertsun41]

Lack of rainfall? Have you been outside lately? Maybe the total rainfall is not high but I dont think we had a dry day in 2 weeks. I had to check your post date to make sure this was a current thread.

Anyway..... those who litter be damned. And for smokers who feel butts is not litter but everthing else is.............leave it at that.

[Dopo]

Thanks for the info, I'll make sure to use that page
Don't Mess with Texas : Report A Litterer (http://www.dontmesswithtexas.org/reportlitterer/index.php - broken link)

I'm tired of seeing SOBs flickering cigarettes out of their cars and almost hitting my car.

[catman]

I'll use that program too. I'm sick of all the crud that people throw out of their cars.

[love roses]

Thank you for posting that. I was driving behind a couple of teenagers down a street in my neighborhood and they threw one of those big plastic drink cups out the window into someone's yard....I would have loved to report that! Or at least have had the time to jump out of my car, grab the cup, follow them home and throw it back in their yard

[EmergencyOps]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

Lack of rainfall? Have you been outside lately? Maybe the total rainfall is not high but I dont think we had a dry day in 2 weeks. I had to check your post date to make sure this was a current thread.

Anyway..... those who litter be damned. And for smokers who feel butts is not litter but everthing else is.............leave it at that.

East Texas and southeast Texas are looking good, but the I-35 corridor (and points stretching a hundred+ miles east and west) are in drought conditions. In the Austin and San Antonio vacinity, they are in the "D4-exceptional drought" intensity category (on a D0 to D4 scale, D4 being the worst). You can see the current drought conditions on the State Drought Monitor (http://drought.unl.edu/DM/DM_state.htm?TX,S - broken link) page.

[TexasHorseLady]

We've been in a serious drought situation here in Central Texas - our creek, that still had water when we bought it in 1996 at the end of a 4 year drought, is dry, dry, dry. Fireworks look to be out of the question this year.

[catman]

It was stated on last night's TV weather that the D4 drought area in Central & South Texas is the worst drought in the whole country.

EmergencyOps: Thanks for the link. As a R.A.C.E.S. member, I'll be storm spotting next spring with the ham radio.