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 was out with the crew at the Mail Vigil, so I’m sorry I didn’t respond sooner. Even though I wore a mask in the wind, I need to have a breathing treatment.
Thanks for the postage. I’ll get the books sent off on Monday for sure.
Well, if it came into contact with socks, they might end up having “Substituitary Locomotion” and wandering off.
The Laundry.
“I arrived back to my place to after the party.
Mounds of the usual laundry greeted me, and my antediluvian headache.
Socks, shirts, briefs, pants, a jacket that I never wear, and a sequined thong.
I stopped to consider the thong.
The alien object sitting there, glittering a taunt at me.
“You don’t wear these, so why am I here?!” it jabbered.
“I have no idea, but in with the rest of the clothes you go.” I said, as I hideously mixed lights with darks, gentle knits with permanent press.
My work of evil complete, I sat on my davenport and listened to the pained screech of the laundry convulse in its death throes.”
LOL - no kidding. My roommate used to fill the washer so full that all the things didn’t even get wet.
With the third load in, I’m upping the estimate to seven, and then what the boys and I are currently wearing adds another.
I think I was at that party.
A surprise awaited me when I got back from the mail check. (I didn’t stay for the delivery because the wind and humidity were so bad.) My SS has been deposited into my account. This is twice in two months that it showed up on the 1st instead of the 3rd.
It’s possible, now that the change-over to debit cards is mostly done, this will be the norm, since the printed checks are no longer used.
So anyway, all my bills have been paid, and all I have to do is get gas and groceries. The first thing I did, of course, was order the stuff from iherb. The same amount as last month. I’m glad I don’t have to worry about postage...that would have to wait.
Our payday is every other Friday, but I don’t believe in it until I see the bank balance on Saturday!
Forgive me venting here.
I was helping my daughter install some shelves and I had to make a run to the hardware store (which is walking here in Manhattan). Well, there were two people from Planned Parenthood on 3rd Ave right in front of Whole Foods and they were waving people down to talk to them. They waved at me and I just said, “I REALLY don’t want to talk with you.” and kept going.
I thought later that I should have made up a sign that said, “No baby parts available at this location” and snuck it against the side of the Whole Foods while they weren’t looking. Then I could have videoed their reaction when they foound it and put it on YouTube.
That would have been clever ... except you were in a hurry to get your shelving parts.
That’s the problem with “activism” for many people: we have lives.
Don’t ever ask for forgiveness for venting on the UT. We are all friends here, and we understand the need for venting, she says, who vented vehemently not too very long ago!
Make one of those signs and carry it with you when you have errands...how fun would that be??? LOL!
Still cool and blustery with flash flood warnings for most of southern Nevada. 85, WSW @3, 42%. Folks in Walmart were REALLY complaining about the humidity the last two days. When I went out to sit with the Mail Watchers, the wind was about 20 MPH.
Venting is okay, as long as you don't take too much atmosphere with you.
Out in the asteroid belt, the rules are different.
Like your trip to purchase some hardware items; out here you can't just run over to Ceres.
I think the laundry is multiplying. The 6th load is in the washer, but the baskets don’t seem any less full.
Pre-emptive strikes
There is no rule in law to say that a person must wait to be struck first before they may defend themselves, (see R v Deana, 2 Cr App R 75).
Retreating
Failure to retreat when attacked and when it is possible and safe to do so, is not conclusive evidence that a person was not acting in self defence. It is simply a factor to be taken into account rather than as giving rise to a duty to retreat when deciding whether the degree of force was reasonable in the circumstances (section 76(6) Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008). It is not necessary that the defendant demonstrates by walking away that he does not want to engage in physical violence: (R v Bird 81 Cr App R 110).
An offence of Common Assault is committed when a person either assaults another person or commits a battery.
An assault is committed when a person intentionally or recklessly causes another to apprehend the immediate infliction of unlawful force.
A battery is committed when a person intentionally and recklessly applies unlawful force to another.
Section 76(3) confirms the question whether the degree of force used by the defendant was reasonable in the circumstances is to be decided by reference to the circumstances as the defendant believed them to be.
Thinking about going off the Reservation, Moosie?
Quite the opposite.
Somebody else left their reservation.
Just collecting ordnance.
Well, if you need a hideout later, I can fix you up.
I’ve got places around here I haven’t even looked in for years.
So I had a day...
Once I decided to venture into the great outdoors, I sauntered to the end of the drive and peered into the receptacle approved by the postmaster general for the receipt of deliveries from the US Postal Service. Other than the marginal benefit of walking to the end of the drive and back that act was a waste of time. The only gifts delivered by our postofficeperson were two identical envelopes both addressed to ‘Current resident’ at this address. Since we kicked Current and the entire Resident family out years ago (they were really groady trolls) and they left us no forwarding address (guess they were ticked) I dropped their mail into the recycle bin on the way back.
Next I opened the bigflap with zippers that serves as the door device on the grayshedthing that shelters the Little Red Riding Beast (and The Olde Deere, two walk-behind mowers - one of which actually runs - and the small utility yard trailer that periodically is attached to the rear of the Little Red Riding Beast) and started the LRRB and rode it to the back yard.
Last evening in the fading rays of the glowing gas-orb I dropped the mower deck from the LRRB so that I could replace the blades with a sharpened set and in the process do some maintenance on the LRRB and attachments. Today with the glowing gas-orb high in the sky and with two pages of the Illustrated Parts Manual in hand, I looked over the LRRB for the cause of, and the method of approach to repair a ‘loose and sloppy’ left side frame. I discovered that the rear engine compartment bulkhead (no, they don’t call it that in the Illustrated Parts Manual, they call it Item #37 - Dash Assembly) that holds the starter switch, the steering rod bearing, the ‘mow in reverse’ button, the throttle/choke control, and the ‘transmission speed selector’ lever was fractured near the point where it was secured to the frame with (2) Item #36 Screw, 5/16-18 x 0.500. (The right side of this ‘Dash Assembly is secured in a similar fashion.) To remove the Dash Assembly to repair/weld/whatever I will need to remove the Item #40 - Fender. Which is secured to the frame with two 1/4-20 screws and two 1/4-20 carriage bolts (with washers and nylock nuts). It also happens that the seat bracket and attachments also must be removed since those brackets accompanying attachment bolts just happen to thru-bolt into the frame thru the fender and tend to prevent the fender from coming off unless they are removed.
Now armed with the knowledge of how to take the thing apart, I rode the LRRB across the street for a consultation with my neighbor (the one that speaks English as opposed to the black and white ones that speak ‘Moo’..) to see if he thought the fractured piece of metal was either weldable or fixable in some other fashion. The entire Dash Assembly is a sheet metal stamping and the fracture occurred near the bottom where it is bolted to the frame at a point where the metal is formed outward and then back in to gain the 1/4 inch necessary to straddle the frame - which makes a weaker area close to the fastening point which would receive stress from hauling the steering wheel back and forth. The fracture pretty much follows the bend in the stamping. After he checked out the fracture he felt he could weld it as long as we could get the other stuff out of the way. I opined that the project seemed to be something for fall after mowing season unless the other side breaks (same bends there) which will accelerate the time frame.
After thanking Neighbor who speaks English I rode the LRRB back across the road and busied myself with the cleaning of the mower deck and installing the set of sharpened blades. In the course of scraping grasscrud out of the underside of the mower deck I discovered a hole in the deck that became visible once the grasscrud was removed. The hole in the deck was due to the metal of the deck fracturing around the spot where one of the brackets that the support and lifty things connect to is welded to the deck. The brackets themselves are fairly substantial, but welding it to the much thinner metal of the mower deck creates a weak spot that cannot withstand the repeated stresses of lifting and dropping the deck. The deck fractured and the part of the deck welded to the bracket has separated by about 1/4 inch from the deck. (Last year the bracket on the other side of the deck did the same thing..)
So... after completing the scraping of grasscrud, I installed the sharpened set of blades and torqued them down to however many ft-lbs it is when leaning my weight on the end of an 18” breakerbar, and then rode my butt back across the street for another consultation with my Neighbor Who Speaks English. I carried with me the set of blades that I had removed from the deck which not only were dull from meeting too many rocklike things, but one of them was bent. While utilizing Neighbor Who Speaks English’s vise to straighten out the bent blade (and periodically comparing it with the unbent blade as a template) we discussed welding the bracket on the deck (when he welded the other bracket last year he welded on some backing metal to reinforce the area and he will probably need to do the same for this one.) Since this is fracturing and since it is a high stress area, I don’t think I should postpone addressing it to the end of mowing season. And since we are slated for thunderous storms on Monday, I am to haul the deck across the street to his garage after Church later today.
And right now as I finalize printing music for later I am being helped by a black and white fur blob who decided just tonight that he is a lapcat.
I have no idea why.
I’m not sure he does either...
Oasis: Part Two
http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/08/oasis-part-two-followingmorning-jake.html
ArGee, I dunno if I actually did a good job at defining their age range. I think “cusp of adulthood” is close. lol.
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