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.
Since he lives in NV and deceased was from MA, he is going to let the thing alone. The house will be sold and he will get his share.
He doesn’t have the money to hire an out of state attorney, and the folks in MA have at least one and a real estate agent, as well as a copy of a will that was never signed.
Since I’m not a relative, and have nothing to gain, I pinged the Undeaders because my friend asked me to, knowing FR has some wonderfully talented and very smart people. So thank you very much for your input!
It will work out, I’m sure. The main thing was that he did NOT want to sign anything, period. So he won’t.
Oh, yeah, that was GREAT!
Especially since I was sick of the original song when I heard it.
Poetry!
Hahahahaha!
Of course the difference is that people expect to find Coy O’Tays out in your general direction. After all, we have seen Roadrunner cartoons..
The general pop-u-los don’t think of NY as a Coy O’Tay haunt but we have representatives of the Wile E. Coyote clan alive and well here (and even in NYC I understand) and we have their mulatto version where the Coy O’Tay falls in lust for a Phydeaux and produces a litter of Coydeaux’s. We have a pack of Coy O’Tay’s (maybe more than one) that makes a circuit of their ‘territory’ on about a two - three week cycle. When they come around they usually signal their presence with their yipping and you (and the cats) know they’re out there.
And then we have one or more lone wolves, er, well, you know what I mean. They don’t seem to run with a pack, they tend to stay out of sight, and if and when you do manage to see one it is always alone. And they aren’t particularly afraid of humans, they just don’t like to be seen. We had one walk up the East driveway from the road, pass within thirty feet of me and continue on northward past the silo. I started walking behind it keeping the same distance and when it got to the end of the area I mow (which becomes a rocky area that once was the boundary of a pond that has been compromised over the years and only has water in it after a monsoon) it stopped, turned, and started advancing at me. Since all I had was the flashlight, I chose not to see how close it would get so I stopped. It did too, then turned and disappeared into the thickets.
That one was a reddish-grayish coat. (Sort of German Shepard but with red tossed in.) The one last night was more brown-reddish so it wasn’t the same one. I suspicion that both are Coydeaux’s but the fact that they apparently aren’t afraid of humans is a bit disconcerting.
Since I can’t carry an assault weapon around (after all, the ones that survived the terrible boating accident are buried in the field east of the silo..) but I don’t like having only a flashlight for defense, I now go on the nightly kitty-retrieval mission carrying a really sharp machete. That way at least if I come upon a critter that does wish to engage, the blood at the scene of the altercation will not be all mine...
But... since these Coy-critters of whatever lineage come into the clear so rarely, it’s really frustrating when you do see one that you aren’t prepared to perforate it. Especially when one appears in a direction where there are no habitations for several miles so if a perforating round misses it will only find a tree to hit..
We do have some Coy O’Tays but there aren’t very many strong enough to out-fight the rats.
This might be what you saw, NoC:
There’s a trophy? Who knew?
Are you sure it isn’t from Target?
Re: your tag line.
We fought the idea that National Socialism was good by shooting everyone who supported the idea.
Unfortunately, that technique won’t work with the idea of progressivism(tm) in the U.S.
Both of those are good.
We’re having a thunderstorm, with genuine steady rain instead of just sprinkles.
I always liked thunderstorms, as long as the house doesn’t shake the house.
This one isn’t heavy on the pyrotechnics, but is watering the lawn, yea!
Boy, was THAT a bad edit.
I was confused, but figured it made sense to you.
I rarely make sense to me.
I need to cook something.
I think he meant to say, “as long as the house doesn’t shake the noise.”
That is within the realm of possibility.
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