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.
PS: I just sent an email saying I will take my own BP before my next appointment.
It probably won't help for us to point out that this undoubtedly well-trained medical person is dangerously delusional about the universal efficacy of drugs in general, despite the presumable assumption that she did pay attention during the discussion, long ago perhaps, that not everyone has the same kind of reaction to certain drugs in particular, such as opiates.
We will deign to forgive her apparent lapse, but we will of course, continue to monitor her recommendations in the future.
I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV or on the Internet.
I am a poet.
I have been trying to tell medical personal for years that I have “White Coat” syndrome and they keep trying to give me meds. The WORST is when they put the automatic cuff on...that is painful in the least and frightening at best because it will cycle three times before it quits.
And of course, each time, the BP goes higher and higher. I have told them not to use it on me, and one gal did, anyway. As soon as her back was turned, I tore it off my arm, but not before I had a hairline bruise that was over 4” long.
And it does no good at all to remind them that high BP is a symptom and not a disease. The money is in the meds. They don’t want to find a REASON for the high BP...it’s easier to throw meds at it.
Oh, yes...opiates. Opiates will intensify my pain and make my eyelids heavy, but keep me awake. The smartest doctor I have encountered in the last 10 years prescribed morphine...but I can’t take the full dose and I can’t take it at night. In its mostly pure form, it works for me. Mix it with anything else and it turns me into a zombie. And my question is always: How in the world can people get hooked on this stuff?
My question is always, "Are these the kids who were afraid to get inoculations?"
Yah, see? I was never afraid of injections until I was in the car accident. I came to in the OR and the plastic surgeon was just injecting my cheek with a pain killer so he could sew up my face.
I went out again, and from that day to this, I do NOT like needles. I can’t watch.
If we hadn’t just moved to Flaming Hawk, we could have had Rain of Lampreys:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3296670/posts
Lamprey’s are ugly!
And your Saturday was how good?...
I want pizza, but I don’t dare for at least another week. I need to lose another 10 pounds...
I ain’t even gonna LOOK! LOL!
Off to bed.
*unintelligible aphasia*
Which means, “I don’t know what the word is, and I can’t pronounce it either”.
That was the sound of ultimate despair.
I’m tone-deaf to that.
I couldn’t sing it either.
I'm sure you could find multiple examples of unintelligible whatever on EweToob...
Which goes to show that they can't sing it either...
Harkens back to a group called the Kingsmen and the discussion of what the 'real' lyrics were.
Compared to some sources, Jabberwocky actually makes a whole lot of sense.
Yes.
Especially since, no matter what Carroll envisioned them to be, you know you have met some slithy toves more than once in your lifetime..
... and some beamish boys as well.
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