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 no idea what you were describing. You could call a hardware store or locksmith and ask what they can do. Worst case is they would tell you it can’t be duplicated.
It’s hard to describe. It took me 20 minutes to get that posted because I do it so seldom.
Bill sends pictures all the time. I don’t know how.
Frank, Kathleen, and I went to the park, where we got all sweaty, and then to the bank and library. Frank can do the zip-line without help now.
Maybe the gene for the voice is passed on along with the genes for coloring, body shape, and other sought-after traits.
I just went to raid the fridge and I’m out of yogurt, and this morning I had my last packet of Instant breakfast. Two staples that I’m out of...unghhh.
My stomach is telling me it wants FOOD! I think I have some Ritz crackers. Maybe that will quell the nagging.
It’s already a stressful day and it’s not even noon...GAH!
We’ll be out of milk today. Maybe I can pick some up later.
I’m going to read some animal books to Frank and Kathleen, and then maybe we can all take naps.
I will go to Walmart and then come home and find something to do that can occupy my mind...probably file some stuff, since I now have the banker’s box.
(NOT a good morning.)
The bed has clean sheets on it, but they are getting pretty thin. I will have to have a throw handy to cover up with. I think this is the oldest of my sheet sets. I actually got the bed made without too much pain, this morning. Of course, I took a whole pain pill, instead of half, since the rains are here. :o]
Another month to go through...
Have a good trip. You should get some pretzels. The kids have eaten all of mine.
I didn’t read your post until I got home, but I will go in the morning for some pretzels. I’m sure there is something else I need...like socks. Either the washer or the dryer here ate a sock so I now only have 4-1/2 pairs.
With luck tomorrow, I will feel up to doing the laundry again. I hate this...
Trolls steal your socks. But only the left ones. What’s up with that?
Four and a half pair of socks I’ve dealt with like a man. But four and one third pairs spook the heck out of me.
;>)
If I had another half a foot, I’d be a foot taller.
thread shift:
“In the same animated fashion as “Cars”?
I can honestly see Disney going full retard and making something like that.”
It needs an evil stepmother type and a source, a boghag or Seguaro witch to make the presentation...with terminally cute jackalopes for comic relief.
Wait, how does that ... drop the 1, carry the centimeter.
Nope, I’m lost.
You need to be in the desert to understand that one. WA-A-Y-Y-Y out in the desert...with only a couple gallons of water around your neck in plastic milk jugs...
Long about the second time you sit in the shade of a sahuaro cactus, you’ll have the vision of a lifetime...all the answers to all the questions you never wanted to ask for fear of humiliation...they will flood your brain and smack your face with logic.
I mean, it’s what happened to me...
;o]
I don’t even know how much a third of a foot is, or how a sock would fit on it, if it’s for a foot...
I thought a third of a foot was a yard.
Or was that the other way around.
Now I am just full-blown-gonzo confused.
Wellden. We can work with that...we can make you better than you are...we can make you the $6 trillion-million dollar man! (Providing Obumbler stays in office with a pen and a cellphone...)
So. How was your excursion this weekend?
In other news a group of trans-gendered people protested itself because the group’s members who were originally one gender were dressing as the other gender, therefore supporting stereotypes of both genders. The group shouted itself off the stage where it was trying to give a speech about tolerance.
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