you clear your lot because you are destroying habitat for endangered species. And so the pendulum of inconsistant and arbitrary rules continues to swing back and forth against developement as the Key Deer eat from the hands that feed them....why can't we clear our lot? It would be better to burn the habitat?

Ok, so I’ll be the first to say it. Anne Morkill from the Refuge Manager for the National Key Deer Refuge has to go. Not tomorrow, not next week, not at the end of the fiscal year, NOW!! She is completely over her head and needs to transfer somewhere else. From the complete mishandling of the feral cat situation, the out of controlled prescribed burn that threatened both residents AND sensitive wildlife, and not to mention a completely biased stance on the electricity issue on No Name, Ms. Morkill is a complete and total failure at her position. What a travesty. Go back to wherever you came from Anne, you’re a failed experiment in the Keys.

Long time ago, a small simple trash burn pit got out of control when the wind changed direction suddenly and greatly increased speed on one of the outer islands. Burnt up several acres of sea oats and almost took out a couple of structures before the beach stopped it. Needless to say we never worked so hard and so feverishly shoving sand as fast as we could for hours on end, wound up with entire bodies full of pulled muscles that took weeks to heal as a result. Luckily the Feds didn't find out and the buildings were spared, some heavy rains came a few weeks later to help regrow the sea oats, but we came close to buying a pump sprayer and a lot of green paint. We wish to pass on some advice, dig a deep hole if possible with high sidewalls, or use a metal drum, have something to cover it with in a hurry less less the weather changes fast because it does.

Jeez, these Keysters can't even start a fire properly.

... and the authorities blame it on a drop in humidity from 52% to mid-30s, they're... well, blowing smoke. 52% is pretty low humidity for here this time of year. And it's how wet the ground and vegetation is, i.e. how recently it's rained, and how much, that makes the difference... not the relative humidity. Somebody blew it bad.

They should have called in my friend The Burning Man. He has experience with large wild fires. Mucho fuego mucho fuego! Crazy Leo and the fleet can attest to that.