Enormous mulch fire sparks rancor, confusion in small Texas town – USATODAY.com

Check this out. It’s surreal.

The pile of mulch, which has been sitting in an open field for more than a decade, is about 400 feet long, 225 feet wide and 70 feet tall in the middle. It is now a vast, smoking landscape, with flames shooting up periodically from the blackened expanse, in what looks like a scene from the latest Star Wars movie.

So a small town outlying my hometown now looks like the planet where Darth Vader got his legs cut off. That’s some damn fine journalism.