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.
People drink beer in Germany because the water is so bad, they have to filter it. The fermentation process takes care of a lot of minerals and other gunk. It’s common to see kids drink beer, but they also have “maltzbier” for the younger set: Dark and foamy, and served in a mini-stein, but non-alcoholic. My son still has his “bierstein!”
So I’m headed down the hill to get a couple of cans...I will need them when I am done hanging the clothes. :o]
(Any excuse will do! I can even celebrate the opening of a TV dinner!)
LOL!!
Have a safe trip!
I went up the hill, instead, just because I could.
The clothes are all hanging up, drying; between the fan, the A/C and the exhaust fan in the bathroom, the clothes (most of them, anyway) should be dry by this evening.
While I was washing, I saw Crazy Frank, shooting pool. (It’s how he wakes up!) He told me he went to wash one night at 2100 and was tired of the new machines with their half load of water, trying to clean a full load of clothes. Crazy Frank is often Clever Frank: he filled the tubs by pouring in buckets of water, and that not only gave him the water he needed, but it also stopped the timer for the fill part, and just used it for the wash. He said his clothes were really clean!
This ol’ dog can certainly learn new tricks! Now, I need to go have a breathing treatment.
The catz are trying to get me to go to bed with them, but first I’ll go to Walmart with ... whoever gets in the van before I drive away.
Smart move by Crazy Frank! You can’t do that with a front-loading washer.
They only have one front loader and I won’t use it. There are three top loaders, and now that I know Crazy Frank’s secret, my clothes will be almost as clean as when I was washing them at Busdaddy’s!!
Although, at his place, if I didn’t feel well, I didn’t have to wash them the day I got there. Here, I have to wash when I run out of undies, no matter how I feel.
While I was in the laundry room, I FINALLY copied all my password and email info from my beat-up little notebook to a new one. I should have done it when I got this computer, but I was so frustrated by needing to get it in the first place. Ungh.
yeah....whoever did that is darn clever.
I need to go to church this evening to help the Other Guy set up his sound equipment for an event tomorrow. A bit of a nuisance, but it will keep me from getting into the Pink Drink!
That looks like snow on the ground out there.
And its coming down, too... *shudder* “Snow” is a four-letter word.
I spent 50 minutes outside with the neighbors, but as usual, I was the first to come in. I had to take my pills. *gah*
When the pill alarm went off the first time, I was in the laundry room, and the pills were here, waiting for me...and I couldn’t remember to take them until I asked Charlie what time it was. (I REALLY miss my watch, but keep forgetting to take it to the jeweler’s and get an estimate for the crystal replacement.)
And I took advantage of the fact that I still had momentum and washed up the few dishes that there were. Took seven minutes!!! I like paper stuff better because I can throw it out when it’s dirty; that way, I don’t have to stand and wash when my right ankle begins to hurt. (For some reason, morphine won’t stop that pain; only Ibuprofen will.) And it was hurting today. Bad weather on the way, for sure.
Some of the clothes are already dry! YAY!!! I can hardly wait until they all are, so I can take a shower!
Congrats on the laundry success! I had a shower after the gym. Kathleen finally fell asleep. I’m thinking of vacuuming, but not thinking very hard. There’s so much Stuff on the floors!
I love the way my clothes smell when they are clean; I also like when they have been line dried because they don’t shrink. (I HATE tight clothes!)
Today, I wanted to get another page of the Will done, but I may not make it. The third page is just for the witnesses and signatures, so basically, I’m half done with it. It just takes a lot of brain power.
And then, I need to start work on the Living Trust, and THAT will take some time! I need to do it, though, as I’m not getting any younger!
If I would stay off the Interwebs and concentrate on the stuff that lies around unfinished, I could really make some progress. Genealogy, three personal histories, scanning photos, compiling photos, histories, genealogies and documents under all the names that are waiting for something only I can do...at this rate, I’m going to live forever!
:o])
I resemble that remark!
What I should try to do is make a schedule of some kind and try to stick with it. My problem comes when I wake up not even able to log on without mistakes. From there, the day goes downhill, and it’s so unpredictable that even if I were to make the schedule for every other day, it would be almost miraculous if I could manage it once a week. *sigh*
I guess I could try to make a template of a weekly schedule, though I would have to make sure I leave a day or two in between the tasks that require more from me than others.
That’s probably going to be interesting to formulate. Maybe a blank calendar page. And where will I get one of those...?
You can print blank calendar pages in letter-size off the internet. The big desk-size ones I get at Walmart cost about $5 for an 18-month spread.
Give him a copy of "Bell Song".
That should slow him down.
Heh. One of our parishioners sang that at a concert earlier this year. NOT the sort of thing Latino charismatics are going to get into.
I just need a blank month. I would put everything in pencil except for the days and dates.
At this time of day, I don’t even know where to start looking for something to print.
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