It looks like our burn ban is over, at least the statewide ban. Louisiana is a wet state and the drought conditions over the past several months motivated the state to impose a state-wide burn ban. The recent rains put an end to that ban. I'm heartened that as soon as the rains came, the state promptly lifted the ban.
I'm a fan of burn bans, first encountering them when I was spending time in Texas. The counties over there would impose local burn bans, and that seemed to me to make a lot of sense. There are times when outdoor burning is dangerous to neighboring property and at those times a ban makes sense. Like most liberty-loving Americans, I don't want the government to tell me what I can and cannot do, but I also don't want my idiot neighbors burning my property accidentally.
I do think that burn bans are best handled by local officials, simply because rain is a local event. This is a case that local government can handle much more effectively than larger government. But, in the meantime, our statewide burn ban is over. More rain expected, along with cooler temperatures.
They must have changed it... I remember growing up down there and it was all local restrictions...
ReplyDeletei wonder what your neighbors think about you calling them idiots ???
ReplyDeleteAnonymous asks:"i wonder what your neighbors think about you calling them idiots ???"
ReplyDeleteThey know they're idiots. It's not news to them. I doubt they read this blog. If they can read.