
Drought and Wild Fires The Maintenance Guru read this week that the largest disaster declaration ever issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture took effect on July 13th. The map above was published at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome and represents the counties affected. Drought conditions lead to fires. Most of our subscribers have been affected in one way or another from the fires that have spread across the country over the past 60 days. We have no subscribers who have reported personal loss for the fires however, many of our subscribers have reported smelling and seeing smoke daily. The Maintenance Guru visited his parents in
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