Posted on 06/09/2015 5:58:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The cause of an early morning fire north of San Diego was an electrocuted bird falling from an active power line
A bird carrying a snake in its talons struck power lines north of San Diego, sparking a hillside fire just west of The Merge.
San Diego Police arrived to the location on Dunhill Street near the intersection of Interstates 5 and 805 just before 6 a.m.
Flames were burning very close to businesses including the General Atomics building, officials said.
Officers called in San Diego Fire-Rescue crews who contained the fire within an hour.
Fire officials initially told NBC 7 a bird with a snake in its mouth was electrocuted on a power line and fell to the ground, sparking the fire. A photo released by officials later shows the snake in the hawk's grasp.
"A hawk that hit the high voltage power line, caught fire, and fell to the ground," SD Fire-Rescue spokesperson Lee Swanson said in a written release.
There were no structures damaged and no evacuations ordered.
This area of San Diego is home to many companies in the region's biochemical industry.
Maybe in the next frame the mice have been snacked.
That’s what they all think, from the moment they are born, til the moment the last of their nine lives are gone.
I wonder if this is the same orange sweetie Catherine posted yesterday.
Maybe that’s why he’s grumpy, he’s in deep think pondering what side dishes to serve with those critters.
Maybe he’s thinking out his plan for getting all four of them.
Probably a different orange tabby. They are the basic cat type to which all breeds revert in a few generations.
Hate waking up with head mice. huh...there’s lotions for head lice...nope...don’t see any head mice lotions...maybe a barn cat might help.
Ungh...
Fireworks started at one point in the area at 2030 and went all over the neighborhood until 2330. I was SO tired. Then my phone rang at 0430...it was a wrong number. *sigh*
Welp. I solved the problem of the file frame. It came to me in the middle of the night, that I could use the bars that were in the drawer and just use one end of the frame to hold the other end of the “short” bar. Presto! Functional file drawer!
Congratulations on your brilliance! Now you can file! Thin and smart, a killer combination ...
Sometimes, all it takes is sleeping on a problem, in order to find a solution ... unless the problem is a bad mattress.
Innovation, that's the ticket! It's what our species excels in, besides body odor.
We’re fairly odorless, compared to many mammals. Since we’re sight-hunters rather than scent-hunters, using scent to communicate with one another wouldn’t make much sense.
Cats made headlines today on the BBC web page.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33380669
Interesting.
It's not.
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded...
I knew if I just let it alone, I would have the answer. My brain works like that, sometimes. Now, if my files over-run the two drawers, I can make a third (drawer) by assembling another frame set and setting it on top of the file cabinet. (Though I have no clue what I will do with the file sorter that’s on there, now.)
I went to Walmart to find some knee-highs and some panty hose, and when I got back, I realized I didn’t feel like going to church today. :o[
I feel like going to church, but it’s not time yet. I don’t feel like taking Frank and Kathleen, but there’s no choice.
92 degrees and 22%, with no breeze. The security lights are out along this row of buildings, and no one has bothered to tell maintenance about it. I will do that in the morning, since I don’t really want to talk to the answering service.
I may have to go lie down. I’m not feeling all that great at the moment.
78 and 76%, with occasional rain. We have some runny noses and general mopiness going on - probably allergies.
July 5th.... story #5 in the 31 stories in 31 days challenge...
I set this one, a little vignette, in a story universe I haven’t finished writing yet, lol. So it might find itself added to the longer story at some point.
http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/07/short-story-beasts.html
lol
Giggle, giggle.
Just because we're unaware of our odor, doesn't mean it isn't there. Consider the preparations made by deer hunters to avoid having their body odors, both natural and artificial, make the task more difficult.
We are sight-hunters, but deer are scent-carnivore avoiders. If they can smell us, they avoid us.
Also, humans react to pheromones as well. We may not consciously be aware of it, but our behavior gives us away.
Odors and scents are tricky things. They are more complicated than one might imagine. Consider this, for example: Dogs are exquisitely sensitive to even the faintest of odors, yet they willingly subject their digestive and necessarily olfactory systems directly to the source of exceedingly strong odors. Paradogsical, is it not?
Dogs are weird.
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