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 had to read that twice before I understood what that squirrel was doing...
And then the pic of the elephant...
Wowzer...I need a drink after that... ;o]
The Box stores changed the market and RS couldn’t figure out what they wanted to be. They tried to become a hip place then they tried to become a mobile place then focused on being a phone place. My daughters actually got good Verizon phones at a much better price than Verizon was offering through The Shack. But, in the end, a lack of definition done ‘em in.
Welp, it’s Friday. Off to celebrate the in-laws’ 60th anniversary with the clan. Mostly just the blood relatives but my s-i-l will be hosting so her husband will be there. That means I will be there. My girls have decided to come so they will be the only grandkids.
WIth m-i-l being diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and my youngest being a pathological liar (she may be growing out of that but you can never tell) it could be a fun weekend or it could be a *fun* weekend. We shall see.
My condolences in advance for the loss of your sanity over this coming weekend. Please stop here Monday morning to tell us of your injuries and post pics of your bandages.
We shall be awaiting news from you with bated breaths...
</sarc
I don’t actually have an account from which to post pics but I can do the rest.
I, for one, will be with you in spirit!
I use imgur.com.
Free, easy to use. You can upload and publish to public gallery and/or set up private albums.
All you need is to do is use one of your e-mail addies and figure out a kewl user name and password.... done.
And imgur provides endless kittie/doggie pics to browse and use. They even give you the html coded omage address, so it’s cut and paste to include with FR response. Can’t get any easier than that. Same with your emails to friends and family.
Just do it!
Best wishes for your weekend!
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I use photobucket, since it’s free.
I found Photobucket to be slow and cumbersome to use. They really need to improve the software and delivery platform. As I said imgur is free as well.
Saw a sign some time ago,
If you drink
Don’t think!
Yes, but what will it take to transfer all my photos to Imgur? I have LOTS of photos of cars from different car shows and the Barrett-Jackson auction when it was in Las Vegas. I also need to copy them to my external hard drive, but don’t know how to do that, either. *sigh*
Who says you can’t have both?
As for saving to your hd fromw your web browser,
open image
right click mouse over image
chose save as
set save location to external drive and folder
OK. LMK if my m-i-l starts talking to you.
Pass. The NSA already knows more about me than I want them to. I don't need them tagging people I know.
I’m on a three year old iPad. I’ll stick to other people’s kitty pictures til I get home.
Although if you want to post a cupcake ......
I’m hungry.
The little gray looks a lot like George T Cat did when he was still a kitten.
Happy birthday little kitten
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