I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?

Not if you live in Texas over the past couple of months, where it’s dry as a bone and wild fires are raging all over the place. But ironically, last year’s rain made this year’s fires worse.

Drenching rains from hurricane Alex last July caused a huge plant bloom, which was largely killed off by this year’s uncommonly cold winter across the southern US and northern Mexico.

Added to the driest March in state history, those factors set up a massive tinderbox that has exploded with devastating effect, as firefighters and smoke jumpers from 25 states have had to turn back hundreds of aggressive blazes. Nearly 100 homes have burned to the ground, and the fast-moving fires have killed both wild and domesticated animals, including wild boars and horses.

650 fires across 400 square miles of west Texas land.