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Serk
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« on: October 19, 2012, 08:59:37 AM »
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/19863733/state

It's LOOKING like it was electrical and accidental... For everyone's sake, I really hope it was accidental. We might have had a lot of soft yankees move here in the last 50 years, but this is still Texas, and we don't take too kindly to people burning down our landmarks...

Grew up looking up to Big Tex... Yeah, I'm kinda bummed right now...
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« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2012, 09:05:17 AM »
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 We might have had a lot of soft yankees move here in the last 50 years,

Well, we flew in on Friday and flew out on Saturday.  I'm bummed all the way up here in Minnesota.   Grin  T.P.
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« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2012, 09:10:57 AM »
Quote from: T.P. on October 19, 2012, 09:05:17 AM
Well, we flew in on Friday and flew out on Saturday.

Well, ya'll are the GOOD kind of yankees! It's the ones that move here to get away from the way things are up north then try to change things here to be the same as they were back home that I don't care for... Wink

And sorry, I threadjacked my own thread in the first post. I think that's a first!

Luckily, they're already saying Big Tex will be rebuilt...
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Daniel Meyer
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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2012, 09:46:56 AM »
Nobody reported injured, which is a good thing.

Some video:
FIRE! Big TEX Burns to the ground!powered by Aeva
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2012, 12:27:44 PM »
I just saw this on my phone.  And looked it up when I walked in the door.  Can't believe he burned. 

An icon of Texas gone...

Will miss him.

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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2012, 12:32:13 PM »
What was left looked like a giant terminator.
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2012, 04:25:10 PM »
Quote from: Serk on October 19, 2012, 08:59:37 AM
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/19863733/state

It's LOOKING like it was electrical and accidental... For everyone's sake, I really hope it was accidental. We might have had a lot of soft yankees move here in the last 50 years, but this is still Texas, and we don't take too kindly to people burning down our landmarks...

Grew up looking up to Big Tex... Yeah, I'm kinda bummed right now...


So the first words out of the software guys mouth is, "It's LOOKING like it was electrical!" Serk, help a brother out here..... start with accidental......
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