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Through and obviously we weren't getting any rain but we did get lightning. and there were two that started fires. >> electricity came on that smoke. it came the direction that we were at. instantly there was lightning. a lot of people seen it come out. minutes later there is a column of smoke. that's what started all of this. >> get our truck out of there. >> it was kind of eerie to see all of that smoke and hear it's coming this way with no rain and lightning out of it.

>> i take some of that corn salad down there. >> you said you were up this morning at 4 :00 worrying about things. >> well, i -- i guess, until we get that good soaking rain, we're all going to think the same thing. maybe instead of being dry one year, maybe we'll be dry two years. >> it just means everything to us as far as, you know, whether we're going to be in business next year. >> we wouldn't have many cows left this time next year. >> so, does this make you want to be a rancher? >> sometimes we kid around and say maybe we should just sell out and try did doing something else. we joke ar...

Whip flames of a wild fire in northwest nebraska. the fire between shadron and rushville grew to more than 93 square miles, an area bigger than the state capital of lincoln. >> we will go as far as we can while there is still light. it's a lot of country to cover. that fire wasn't very nice to anybody. >> i see a couple of brown patches where it just kind of jumped. that is scarey. if you had a great rain in the spring would anything grow here? >> no. that's scorch. that ground is sterile down there. it's done. >> wow. look at this. you look like you're on another planet. it looks like mars. >...

My major concern is jobs. i have never had a lay off. >> move up closer to the bridge. >> that's extremely scary. i absolutely dread if this river shuts down and i have to tell some folks that i have got to lay them off. >> oh my god, the whole side of the hill is going. >> droughts don't just mean lack of rain. they also mean fire. last year saw one of the worst wild fire seasons on record with more than 9 million acres burning across the country. it's something kenny experienced firsthand when a wild fire raged through his property scorching thousands of acres. >> winds and dry heat helped

Rain -- >> and lightning. >> -- and lightning out of it, yeah. >> like something out of a horror movie. >> yeah. this is something that hasn't happened, that i've seen, in my lifetime. >> how much ground did it cover in total? >> they've said about 100,000 acres. >> how many acres did you end up losing in the fire? >> about 6,000 achers. >> how much of that is your total, of the total end you would use? >> about half. >> right. >> we had a lot of grass left in here. it looked like we was going to get by for a while yet. >> when you see this land, you know, looking like this, it seems to me lik...