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.
Y’know? Seeing that particular photo, I suddenly got the chills. It’s really beautiful! Thanks, Moosie!
That looks like the cat that ate the canary and a couple of other things that were rather large and ungainly.
Opossums.
To all the dads out there, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!!!!
That could work.
I have the chills again this morning, and that’s not good. The relapse is still trying to overtake me, and for some reason, this time, I’m fighting it, which is making it worse.
My clothes are all laid out for church, but at this rate, I may not go. I may just go spend the day in bed. Church doesn’t start until 1100 this year, so I have plenty of time to make an assessment of how I’m functioning.
LOL!
One would think that a place as venerated through the centuries would entice people to reflect on the people who constructed it, and have reverence for the place, instead of getting tanked up and making idiots of themselves...
One would think...
I would be so awe-stricken that I think I would just wander around and touch the stones...
Bill needs to leave for church by 8:30. I’d better go try to get him out of bed again.
I’m glad things were less disorderly.
I kept waiting for it to begin to get light outside, and it finally is — under cloud cover. No wonder. I could have slept in, but my brain was going backwards, and that stinks.
So I got up to try and keep from thinking, but there nothing on TV to distract me until 0500. So I’ve been sitting here in the silence, listening to the fan inside and the birds outside, and wishing I could just turn my brain off.
I had to get up because Jake wanted out.
There are one or two minor complications to that plan, but it is still possible...for a fee.
When a govenment depatment gets control of something....you know...rules and regulations must be created.
A special guided trip has to be booked in advance to gain direct access, otherwise it is "stand at twenty paces".
Bill has left for church on time, with the cake I made for the homeless shelter. Hopefully he’ll remember to take it to the kitchen instead of leaving it in the car. If he forgets, he’ll have to go back!
Trust the government to step in and make a mess of things.
I’m reading a book (third in a series) about a Seal Team during the Obama years, and how government control has ruined the country; a few small pockets of people have settled in Alaska to get away from the government control, and it’s not working well.
I’ve just started this third volume, so I have no clue how it will end. The country (and soon, the world) is being run by the New United Nations. Pretty scary concept. What makes it even scarier is that the author draws on actual recent events. *shudder*
Good for Bill, getting out the door when he needs to! I, too, hope he remembers the cake!!
My Dad had a friend from the Navy who wrote parallel-history novels rather like that.
The thing about this is that if it weren’t 25 years in the future, you could believe it was history, plain and simple.
The books start in Benghazi, with an assassination plot on the ambassador, that the four men decide not to carry out, but someone else does. In the ensuing years (next book) the men are eliminated, one by one, until only one is left, and he was imprisoned for three years. When he gets out, he goes to Alaska.
I read long past the yawn stage because it’s so good, and I don’t want to go to sleep! LOL!
One of my kids is coming over for a visit today; the one that isn't coming I'm writing out of my Will :-)
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