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.
Poor kitty. I dislike cucumbers too. And pickles.
Probably not, but we just had a discussion on how DSNY is scrambling to make sure they can clean up after it.
Apparently those parades are a big mess.
I saw what you did! :o])
Not necessary, but appreciated.
If you give a mouse a cookie...
Which takes me back to the other day when the person asked my daughter if she had a minute for gay rights.
That mouse will be hungry for a long time.
I get a little tired of Ann’s shrieking sometimes, but I think she’s still popular. When those latinos protested her book signing the line seemed long.
What’s green, angry, and very dangerous.
A stampeeding herd of pickles.
I think Ann is a great analyst, but for some reason, she flips out at election time. I’ve been rereading “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” It’s held up very well.
My library has the new book in; I just put in on reserve, but it will be some weeks before my turn.
Who leaves a cucumber lying in the middle of the floor?
I started to read one of Ann’s books several years ago and realized one sad fact: She had the same solution for every single problem she commented on. Each essay was the same as the last, though she used different words.
Then, as now, I think she is over-rated and I think she is famous because she wasn’t afraid to speak out. But there is no substance to her work. It doesn’t make one think or ponder or muse in any way because she points out everything step by step, as if she were talking to cretins.
Sorry, but I wasn’t impressed. I’m still not.
That would be my question...who does leave a cucumber on the floor...?
Speaking of floors, I need to do mine but I think it won’t be today.
I’d love to mop, but it can’t be done with all these people here.
After lunch, I’ll work on putting away things from the top of the tv cabinet. Many family members like to put their various items there and expect them to remain until ... whenever ... while complaining the house is cluttered.
I think it depends on which book. Some are more in-depth, and some are collections of syndicated columns.
The floors are bothering me, but not so much that I feel up to doing them. I’ve run out of steam.
I have several flat surfaces like the top of your TV cabinet. In fact, I’m sorely tempted to give away the table and just use wooden TV trays, as I seldom eat at the table any more. I have too many papers on it, and even though I clean it off, it still becomes a paper magnet.
Especially since Busdaddy went on his diet last year. I don’t even cook. The closest I get to cooking a meal is stuffing something in the microwave. *sigh*
I might have opened one of her syndicated column books, but at one point, I had three of the books, and in leafing through them after trying to wade through the first half of the first one I picked up, I kept seeing the same argument and the same solution.
So I took them back up to the library and left them for someone else.
One way to get people to pick up their own stuff is to take everything that isn’t where it belongs, put it in a 33 gal trash bag and put the bag out on the curb. Then tell everyone that’s where it is.
They should get the point.
To each his own.
I’d like to go to CPCC and pay Tom’s tuition, and to Walmart for milk, but I know that Kathleen will go in her diaper at the first opportunity, and I don’t want her to win!
I put a picture in the mail to you today. It should amuse you.
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