As a result of the recent storm, the Bastrop County Commissioners Court unanimously voted to rescind the county-wide burn ban during Monday’s regular meeting. The burn ban was enacted on August 6 this year, approved at the following commissioners court meeting, and extended throughout September and most of October. County Judge Paul Pape recommended the burn ban be lifted; as a result of storms on Thursday night, he said some parts of the county received up to four and a half inches of rain, with the entire county seeing at least two inches. According to data from the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail ...