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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.
What? The baby and the snake are both cute. And there’s no more cuddly a pet than a python.
Yeah, you can't shoot 'em.
Long ago I drove through Reno fairly regularly. As it was about the halfway point of my route, I’d park at one of the big casinos, and get nickles for everything in my pockets of smaller denomination than a $5 bill. Usually that’d be about $3 or $4 in nickles. Then I’d sit and relax at the nickle slots enjoying the spinning wheels and flashing lights until I’d put all my nickles through the machine.
Now, the trick was to keep all my winnings in a separate container, and resist the urge to put that back into the machine, too. Owing to the programmed winning rate of the slot machines, I’d usually walk out with nearly as much as I’d had walking in; sometimes more. I won $20 once, which is a pretty spectacular deal when the machine spits it all out atcha one nickle at a time.
I’m sure I could increase my chances at the slots a small percent by actually playing them.
If it was broken, she probably wouldn’t even tell me. I think she has the idea that I might get upset about this sort of thing.
I try not to think about it. I was attached to Piper.
I got another coming together right now.
Sorta wish we could trade places; I LOVE stormy weather, and the more lightning the better. For my part, as much an inconvenience as it is for you, there are millions of Californians who’d VERY much like to see Lake Mead full, again.
You might think that’d just be the Angelinos, but it’s Californians all over the State who understand the implications of the drought. L.A. metro is Blue-heavy, and has big friends in Sacramento. ANYTHING L.A. may need to do to get the water they need is going to go through Sacramento, and turn into a Dem-driven bond initiative so as to make the WHOLE State pay through the nose to slake L.A.’s thirst.
First, they sucked the Owens Valley dry all the way upstream to Mono Lake. They stuck their Democrat-backed drinking straw all the way out to the Colorado River. And they bamboozled the entire State into paying for the construction of the inaptly-named “California Aqueduct” the sole function of which is to give water to L.A.
That’s how the L.A. “tail” wags the California “dog,” and that is why nothing is going to change with California’s water “problem” unless the rest of California gets their back up, turns of the spigot, and tells L.A. to SOD OFF and use THEIR OWN money to pay for a regional solution to their water problem; to fund and build their OWN desalination plants.
Never happen, of course; that’d be the route to sanity.
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I’ll just leave a message, thanks.
Speaker-to-Animals does not wish to again participate in the dunking booth ritual.
Sure looks like a mighty fine Kzin specimen.
Gerald was out all night, again, and this time he comes home with an excuse....
Honey! I was abducted, honest!
http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/07/short-story-honey-i-was-abducted-honest.html
I just got home, about ten minutes ago. Been at cardiologist. Since 3:10.
My veins are all crapped out, the poor nurses and technicians couldn’t get a vein despite going in both arms in four tries. Doc came in and tried the foot.
That wasn’t working. They were about to send me to hospital to get a pic line and come back tomorrow, and I’m drinking enough water to float Noah’s ark. We tried again. An hour and a half later. Bingo. Then the leads weren’t working. Then after that problem gets solved and I’m starting that part of the test I get sick, dizzy. Not because I’m a blonde.
I’m a mess. That test takes a bit longer because they think I’m going to faint. Ad when it’s all done, they got me in the waiting room for half hour or so to calm down, eat some crackers.
Last test. All done, nurse checks the pictures. Not all took. Have to so it again.
Nuts.,
Anyway I’m home.,I got goop from the leads all over me. Shower and bed. I’m mentally whipped. Back tomorrow for more fun, and to introduce myself to our newbie. I just want to cry. :(
PS thanks for the squee
Ungh.
Hope things get better.
Close One Eye
You think that you are out there?
That world you think you see?
Well, let me teach you something new,
Do this one thing for me …
Close one eye …
And as you look about you now,
You’ll see collages pressing in,
And stacking up somehow.
The world of three dimensions,
You think surrounds your view,
Is only magic thinking,
Which circles around you.
You’re not the center of it,
Whatever the middle may be,
The worlds that orbit ‘round your sun,
Don’t seem so close to me.
And all the things I care about,
The memories I keep,
Are merely trash-piles to your view,
With walls unseemly steep.
Close one eye …
And half the world is gone,
Which threatens all the other things,
Your world depends upon.
The sun will rise again once more?
Have you been keeping count?
There comes a time for each of us,
It is the full amount.
God watches as you play your game,
Let Him know what you think.
Look up to where you know He waits,
And offer up a wink.
Close one eye …
NicknamedBob . . . . . June 21, 2014
Oh G-d, what a day. Hope tomorrow is better. Kitty hugs from my crew.
Thank you!
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