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.
I’m still working on a hidden object game about Tokyo, and every single puzzle has a GLK somewhere in the picture. Not necessarily to find, but just There. I smile with each one I see! What a bonus!
Time to serve up a supper to whoever’s at home. It’s getting harder to keep track of them.
I’m home. What am I going to have?
I couldn’t figure out why I was so hungry until I looked at my calorie intake for the day so far...354...
I think I better eat something with at least another 300.
We’re having rice-and-bean casserole. They always complain that they don’t like it, but then most of them eat a ton of it, drenched in ketchup.
You need a clock like Molly Weasely's. It has a hand for each family member, pointing out when they are traveling, at school, at home, and so forth.
Of course, there's also a position for the hands to point to "Mortal Peril". That's probably just for Anoreth and Vlad.
It would be helpful.
I’d like a version with more detail, though: it should specify “In bed,” or “In the bathroom,” to help find the teens, and “At the playground,” “At the corner,” or “At X’s house” to help find Frank.
Smart Ones (Weight Watchers) has a Sante Fe Rice and Bean dinner that is really quite good, but it is far too much for me to eat these days. I have to save half of it, and then I lose interest. Of course, I don’t dare re-freeze it, so I just don’t but it any more.
I had a Banquet Chicken Fried Chicken but only ate the meat and gravy and a taste of corn. I keep forgetting it spits all over the microwave, so I have to keep wiping it down. It took care of the 300 calories I wanted, so I ate 665 today. I will eat another 50 later on.
I’ll have wine later on ;-).
JK Rowling was so clever when she thought of things to enhance her stories. One of my favorites is Diagon Alley.
:o]
I didn’t buy any wine. I wanted to see what these latest High Blood Pressure Makers would do, and didn’t want to skew the day.
And the pothole relocation crews and the hired giant gophers who create the potholes to begin with.
Good idea.
People who develop “apps” will be springing up to accommodate your needs.
Keep in mind however, that each of the “hands” will have to be equipped with a cell-phone of some nature.
I still use a Captain Kirk-style flip-phone. It’s a convenient size for my pocket, and keeps a good charge. I use it as a phone.
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I’m ready to upgrade, of course. I’ll take the next version as a baseball cap, thank you. The flip-down visor will display visual information in as much detail as I require, and the voice channels are already “in position”.
For the apps function, though, I sometimes remove my hat when I am in my own house. Maybe I could use a Bluetooth link.
Another thought is that your house itself could spy on you, or keep watch over you, if you prefer that way of looking at it. You’d need fewer channels, but more cameras and microphones.
The special clock, rather than be a mechanical magical clock with charms, could run on a computer display, or your smart phone.
Similar apps already exist, for young adults interested in keeping track of each other.
My flip-phone stopped receiving telephone calls. That was bad. Now I have a snertphone.
I’m off to watch the blanket show.
Y’all be good, now.
I’m always good. I hope the blanket show is riveting!
...in NYC you need to be a member of the IUR (International Union of Riveters) to rivet anything.
Even blankets..
I planted two more tomato plants that someone gave me, noted that something seems to have chewed the top off of one of my Jalapeno plants, observed that gray and white son of The Smudge and the late Sooty had been hunting in the jumble and had a rodent of some flavor in his jaws, and was almost finished deadheading a rose in the Little Plot by the milkhouse when big drops of liquified glowbull warmthing began to impact my cranial portion.
Resisting the urge to hum a song from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid I made haste for the dryness of the interior portions of the house.
Fortunately, gray and white son of The Smudge and the late Sooty chose to seek shelter for his grayness and his rodent repast in the dryspace underneath the Audi instead of following me...
I'm suspecting Speedy Gonzales.
I'm leaning more toward a rabbitoid type critter...
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