Fires in SoCal

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 by kona0197 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

If we have any members in SoCal I hope you are OK. I heard we might be sending Oregon National Guard troops to help put out the fires.
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Bebi Bulma
Reply #1 Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:34 PM
There's ash falling around everywhere. I'm right below the Lake Arrowhead fire (foothills area). This whole place went up in smoke in the Old/Grand Prix fire in 2003 (we weren't living here at the time though).
Skinhit
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:42 PM
Been watching it all day...Crazy world. Prayers are with you!
cplair
Reply #3 Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:57 PM
      

I'm from Watts in South Central Los Angeles home of the 1965, '68 and '92 riots, somethings always burning!

  

Cp

Jafo
Reply #4 Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:59 PM

It's SoCal's season......ours doesn't start for a few months yet.

One of the 'fun' things Victoria [Oz] has in common with California - the two worst places on the planet for bushfires....

boss0190
Reply #5 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:56 AM
My son is at college at UC San Diego...so far so good...but this stuff still scares me...I'd rather have him home at this point...
cplair
Reply #6 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:03 AM
My son is at college at UC San Diego...so far so good...but this stuff still scares me...I'd rather have him home at this point...


Hey Boss, I feel you on that one. The NFL's San Diego Chargers has to move their practice to Arizona!

How's that for a commute?

  
Bebi Bulma
Reply #7 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:48 AM
Ok...this seriously sucks. I can't even connect to Stardock IRC now, the connection attempt keeps timing out. And on top of that...I have to use the "Go Advanced" to post a reply because the textbox isn't there (FF and IE)! WWW Link Site is loading really slow too...other sites seem to be fine though. Why WC of all them to go crappy with.

The damn fires are screwing with my net...waaa!!
boss0190
Reply #8 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:53 AM
Hey Boss, I feel you on that one. The NFL's San Diego Chargers has to move their practice to Arizona!

How's that for a commute?


I'm in Northern California...grew up next to Oakland....so I don't care what the Chargers have to go through....Too bad my Raider's have sucked since I was a kid....
Bebi Bulma
Reply #9 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:18 AM
Oi.....net fixed now, how odd. Was gonna be real mad if it didn't straighten itself out.
cplair
Reply #10 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:32 AM
'm in Northern California...grew up next to Oakland....so I don't care what the Chargers have to go through....Too bad my Raider's have sucked since I was a kid....


I'm replying to you from my job with Kaiser in Livermore, I live in Stockton, 6 years removed from L.A.

I'm a diehard Rams / Raiders fan from the 60's when guys use to play for the love of the game. However I do my skydiving out of San Diego at Brownsfield airport not too far from where your son goes to school.

Tiny planet!

  
cplair
Reply #11 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:36 AM
The damn fires are screwing with my net...waaa!!


Somebody needs a hug!

  
SKoriginals
Reply #12 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:45 AM
the rock station in Sac. today was having a call-in theme "Name some songs that an insensitive DJ would play right now in Southern Cali" things like "Light My Fire", "Fire Woman", "Ring of Fire", "Burn", "Slow Burn", "Burn for you" ect ect
WOM
Reply #13 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:52 AM
I was born and raised in southern Calif.  Been through the fires, earth quakes and the brown burning sky that covers LA.  
Lantec
Reply #14 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:18 PM
Somebody needs a hug!


nekkid hug???

Seems like they go through this a lot. Probably why I didn't see much for trees when I was stationed in San Diego. Everybody stay safe.

Reminds me of a story.......from the fires we had in 1998. A few days before they evacuated Flagler County I was fishing at New Smyrna (less than 20 miles from home) with a friend on a Friday evening and the radio started listing all the road closures. By the time the list was done we realized in order to get home we'd have to drive to Jacksonville then across to Lake City then south to Wildwood then west to Deland to get home. Something like 400 miles.   

I ended runnning a road block and drove thru some crispy areas but made it home.
Philly0381
Reply #15 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:30 PM
Please, everyone be safe, don't be foolish. If you need to evacuate do it.   
cplair
Reply #16 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:25 PM
the rock station in Sac. today was having a call-in theme "Name some songs that an insensitive DJ would play right now in Southern Cali" things like "Light My Fire", "Fire Woman", "Ring of Fire", "Burn", "Slow Burn", "Burn for you" ect ect


"I'm On Fire" by Van Halen and Bruce Springsteen, "City's Burning" By Heart, "Fire" By The Ohio Players and Jimi Hendrix, "House Burning Down" By Jimi Hendrix, "Fire and Ice" By Pat Benatar, "Burning Love" By Elvis, "Fireball" By Deep Purple!

Yeah, the list would never end!

Insensitive? Maybe. But it is what it is!

I'm just glad we all aren't rocking to Graham Central Station's "Earthquake" too!

  
ArileenDesign
Reply #17 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:40 PM
that's sad i hope everybody is ok and my thoughts for the victims
HG_Eliminator
Reply #18 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:48 PM
about 4 miles north of the Temecula fire can see the flames from my back yard now.coming over the hill... skys are starting to blacken...no evac orders yet..
ArileenDesign
Reply #19 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:17 PM
take care HG
seldomseen
Reply #20 Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:55 AM
Born & raised in WLA. Lived up in Running Springs for a while. In Topanga we had average of 65 arson-fires a month. "Oh, look! See how pretty the red fire-retardant looks in the glow!" "Boy, check out all the fried rattlesnakes on the road!" "But, officer, we really do live up in there..."

Already had one snow here...   

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