On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 8:32:30 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote:
On 08/17/2016 07:45 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 3:02:08 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev
wrote:
On 08/17/2016 10:42 AM, Richard Henry wrote:
The entire community of Wrightwood, which is more or less the
base of Mountain High ski area, is being evacuated by a large
wildfire "0% contained". I found out about it when my wife
called asking for advice on an alternate route because I-15 and
138 were both closed in the Cajon Pass area.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4962/
I wish they'd provide better maps. The main map shows an older
fire, with the Bluecut fire just being a dot.
I went to Vegas with my daughter the Tour Goddess over the
weekend, coming back Sunday. Miserable traffic, the AC on the bus
almost crapped out and it was 114F at some point in the journey.
An LA TV station that a McDonalds near the intersection of the 2
highways burned. I could post something nasty about every cloud
having a silver lining, but I must state that they have always
had a clean restroom.
LV is interesting and spectacular, but not worth the gas to get
there. Skywalk and what you have to do to get there is likewise a
ripoff, but the Grand Canyon is always nice, as is Hoover Dam. I
swear they chewed away a LOT of the wall below the dam to build
some sort of multi-level structure on the Nevada side. I'm pretty
sure that wall of the canyon was solid rock 40 years ago :-(
My wife was in LV for a few days in business, and the party she was
working with provided her and her friends a suite at the Trump Tower.
My wife reciprocated by making everyone a Filipino meal one night. I
was stuck here in our new place on the golf course, where I was using
a meat thermometer to measure the outside temperature.
That was nice of her. I made coffee and ordered room service...
A better map --
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/CABDF...45.133-CDT.pdf
(which may take a while to load)
I looked at that before with Foxit -- labels were too small to read and
I had no idea what I was seeing. Downloading and blowing it up with
acroread worked better. The proximity to 15 might seem to indicate
that the arsonist escaped easily.
I'd really like to see the guy they caught up in N California dropped
into the middle of a fire. This one, maybe. Justice delayed is
justice denied.
--
Cheers, Bev
"It's too bad stupidity isn't painful." - A. S. LaVey
My daughter's roommate since she entered college in 2011 is from Middletown, near Clear Lake north of the bay area. They had a big fire there last year (burned for a week, wiped out half of Middletown and some of the Geysers thermal power stations) that was traced back to faulty wiring on a hot tub.. The unintentional but nonetheless responsible arsonists bought a used hot tub and hooked up an extension cord to try it out, splicing the wires with undersized and/or poorly-connected wire nuts. The tub was set up with a timer to keep the water warm, so one day when everyone was away the timer turned the heater on and the wire nuts overheated, igniting the dry grass in which the wire was lying. The wind carried the fire away into dense brush, and the only damage to the originating property was a burned garden shed and the tools in it.