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.
You just need a better climate!
I don’t have too much trouble 10 months of the year, but during the monsoons, the difficulty in breathing makes up for it. Between the wind and the humidity, it’s pretty rugged.
Besides...relocating is like: where can I go and how will I afford the move itself, much less afford a place to move into?
Awww....squee!
Moving would obviously be a problem ... but the Imperial Weatherman should do something about the weather!
The Empire is busy getting ready for December.
I just have to deal with it because I have no choice. Until this last year, I seldom had breathing problems. This year, not only did my allergies suddenly get worse, but the breathing difficulties became very problematic.
There is no place else that I could go and function at the same level I am now. I can’t live in snow country because my balance is off, and I fall a lot; the Midwest is too humid; East Coast is all of the above; AZ would subject me to Valley Fever again, and I don’t need that. New Mexico may be a good place, but again, the weather is probably too damp, since it gets rain from hurricanes in both oceans.
So here I am, trying to make a silk purse.
OK, that is funny
That's about as funny as a politician telling the truth.
I’m going to have a breathing treatment, then I’m going to read. I’ll see all y’all in the morning!
Hope it goes well!
Technically, I've only been assigned to deal with the weather on Earth and Mars. As a side job, I'm arranging for the "weather" in the Flying Castle habitats to normalize according to a twenty-four hour heating and cooling cycle. This allows a natural circulation similar to the super-rotation on Venus, but with a lot less power!
For Earth and Mars, the equations and procedures have been worked out, but funding has been stuck in limbo for an unconscionable amount of time. While we have resources, and the advantage of position, I do not intend to donate our materials, labor, time and ingenuity for a promise of payment sometime down the road.
If Earth wants their weather dealt with, they will just have to summon the gumption and pay the piper. I still have my eye on Manitoba, you know.
(Mars, by the way, will be set up as a type of lend-lease for their Terraforming. Without an existing population, it's difficult to assess fees for services.)
You would think the State of Nevada would be willing to contribute for better weather.
The only effective thing I’ve been able to formulate is a large area of mirrors in space.
Properly developed, they would allow us to use heating and cooling to control atmospheric currents, de-emphasizing storm patterns and moderating the extremes.
Eventually, based on our knowledge of the sun and its future sequence of energy developments, we are going to need to protect Earth from a growing sun. Initially, this could be done with mirrors, and would provide us with a habitable planet far into what would otherwise be a runaway heating.
At the present time, Mars has the opposite problem. While we might need to try to finesse the heat transport on Earth, what is needed for Mars is a doubling of its solar heat budget. The technique I favor is rather extravagant of resources, but elegant in its function; I would put a doubly-reflecting mirror in the Mars/Sun LaGrange Point One, to increase the sun’s apparent size to a viewer on Mars.
Mars has approximately a twenty-four hour day, and with sufficient sunlight and additional atmosphere, Earth plants could be coaxed to survive there. That’s pretty much all we could do to make the planet more comfortable for settlers.
Presumably, they would have to get used to wearing breathing gear when outside, but most activities would be in controlled environments, and at least they could grow their own food, and produce their own oxygen.
I should have thought of this a long time ago.
I spilled coffee in the computer and now it’s running 3 times as fast.
I’m concerned about a crash, though.
You’re going to pay for it in boot-up time.
http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/07/short-story-blackout.html
Blackout!
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I also submitted another story to some site. That one was called “Note From An Average Devil”
I’m home, actually at moms. Can’t sleep from pain and uncomfortable ness.
Everything went fine. I’m able to breathe much better.
Visiting nurse later in the day I can’t get dressed and some other lady issues ill just leave off here because the men don’t care about such things and you don’t discuss in mixed company.
Ready for my kitties! Best pain reliever. For now I’m catching up on Pluto. Yay Pluto!
Glad to see you’re home. (Hey, ‘Mom’s’ is ‘home’..) Sorry to hear you’re having pain. Hopefully that is a passing thing.
And it’s ok to leave the lady issues out of it.
Unfortunately, I more often than not get stuck with a list of stuff that has several items from Beautiful Daughter on it. Now why Daughters think Fathers know how to shop for these certain items I’ll never understand because I would never send Beautiful Daughter to Harbor Freight with a note that said “electric cutoff tool” and expect her to retrieve the correct item from a store where she is surrounded by all kinds of ‘guy’ things that she has no idea how to use...
But I have developed an expanded definition list for words like overnight, super, liner, wings - definitions which I never had to deal with with Son #1 and Son #2...
(and I let her know that if I present her with the wrong product, she will have to use it. Or take it back. Because I won’t... ;-)
Hope you mend quickly!
Oh my, I’d never ask my dad for that kind of stuff. If I did he just would give me the money.
Dad only had daughters.
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