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.
*snorkle chortle*
Poor baby. I’ve done the same thing too.
Leftover pizza yummy.
Good morning TC, and Jake and Shannon..
Good morning. A white cat eating pizza is probably not a good idea. Jake and Shannon are planning to sleep today. I will go to Weight Watchers.
Good luck at Weight Watchers!
I wonder if Jake and Shannon dream of pizza. My guess is no. It doesn’t wiggle, or move.
Now you’ve done it. Now I want pizza. Not FAIR!!!
The humidity was so bad yesterday I had to take my clothes off and dry them out. *sheesh*
I need to go wash clothes but I sure don’t want to.
The children will have pizza tonight.
I expect Jake and Shannon dream about birds.
I don’t dream about pizza, and I don’t dream about birds.
I dream about cats dreaming about birds dreaming about pizza.
Even my dreams have convoluted plots.
You forgot the furlong, the rod, the chain, and, of course, the nautical mile.
Then there’s area in acres.
And, finally, there’s God telling Noah, “Get some wood, build it 300 cubits by 50 cubits, by 30 cubits.”
Noah: “Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. What’s a cubit?”
God; “Let’s see. A cubit. I used to know what a cubit was. Well, nevermind that...”
The cubit is the length of a man’s arm from the inner bend of the elbow to the tip of his middle finger. It is synonymous with the “ell,” a Germanic unit of length. Both the cubit and the ell were superseded by the yard, a full-arm length which was eventually standardized when standardization became important to people.
Is not the same as
I don’t know why all these people are suggesting all these hard ways to figure out how to unlock your clutch lock. Just go into the hood and offer some hood rat $20 to make a copy of your key.
Easy-peasy.
Do you wake up with a headache?
Jake shredded a roll of toilet paper last night.
I will wait a week before I step on the bottom one. The other one needs counter weights. I’m fresh out of those.
There is another more expensive solution...buy a new clutch lock. It will have three keys.
Jake must be frustrated to shred an entire roll. Poor kitteh.
He wanted to go outside at bedtime, but I didn’t feel like getting up in middle of the night to let him back in. Even with the windows closed, I wake up when he’s griping at the kitchen door at 2:00 a.m.
78 degrees, 57%, NNW @ 7
Our high is only going to be 97, but I sure hope the humidity is lower than yesterday. That was AWFUL!
Our forecast is “only” 99.
Buenos mananas.
I got a boo-boo running (fortunately I didn’t break anything. I guess running IS safer than roller-blading.) Anyway, it’s so humid here that after I got out of my cold shower while I was trying to bandage my knee I got all wet again with sweat.
THAT’s a tough race to win.
Now I’m at work and wondering why I’m so tired when I seemed to sleep so well.
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