Posted on 08/31/2009 6:46:31 AM PDT by kellynla
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Firefighters tried Monday to hold back a massive wildfire from consuming thousands of Los Angeles-area homes and a crucial communications center as they mourned two firefighters killed when their vehicle rolled down a mountain.
About 12,000 homes, as well as communications and astronomy centers atop Mount Wilson, were threatened by fire. At least 6,600 homes were under mandatory evacuation orders Sunday night and over 2,500 firefighters were battling the flames. On the blaze's northwestern front, two firefighters were killed Sunday on Mount Gleason near the city of Acton.
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I can’t open the darn video. Is Yucaipa in danger? My grandson lives there.
And I thank God for you.
Kelly, is the fire near Yucaipa?
First, I am not your “honey”.
“We are blessed here with no fires, no hurricanes, tornadoes, just SNOW”
New York Disaster History
Major Disaster Declarations
Year Date Disaster Types Active Disaster Number
2009 03/04 Severe Winter Storm 1827
2007 08/31 Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornado 1724
2007 07/02 Severe Storms and Flooding 1710
2007 04/24 Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding 1692
2006 12/12 Severe Storms and Flooding 1670
2006 10/24 Severe Storms and Flooding 1665
2006 07/01 Severe Storms and Flooding 1650
2005 04/19 Severe Storms and Flooding 1589
2004 10/01 Tropical Depression Ivan 1565
2004 10/01 Severe Storms and Flooding 1564
2004 08/03 Severe Storms and Flooding 1534
2003 08/29 Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding 1486
2003 05/12 Ice Storm 1467
2002 05/16 Earthquake 1415
2002 03/01 Snowstorm 1404
2001 09/11 Terrorist Attack 1391
2000 07/21 Severe Storms 1335
1999 09/19 Hurricane Floyd 1296
1998 09/11 Severe Storms 1244
1998 07/07 Severe Storms and Flooding 1233
1998 06/16 New York Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes 1222
1998 01/10 Severe Winter Storms 1196
1996 12/09 Severe Storms/Flooding 1148
1996 11/19 Severe Storms/Flooding 1146
1996 01/24 Severe Storms/Flooding 1095
1996 01/12 Blizzard 1083
1993 04/02 World Trade Center Explosion 984
1992 12/21 Coastal Storm, High Tides, Heavy Rain, Flooding 974
1991 09/16 Hurricane Bob 918
1991 03/21 Severe Storm, Winter Storm 898
1987 11/10 SEVERE WINTER STORM 801
1987 05/15 FLOODING 792
1985 10/18 HURRICANE GLORIA 750
1985 03/22 Snow Melt, Ice Jams 734
1985 03/20 FLOODING 733
1984 09/25 SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING 725
1984 04/17 COASTAL STORMS, FLOODING 702
1977 02/05 Snowstorms 527
1976 09/03 HURRICANE BELLE 520
1976 07/21 SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING 515
1976 06/29 FLASH FLOODING 512
1976 03/19 Ice Storm,Severe Storms, Flooding 494
1975 10/02 Severe Storms, Heavy Rain, Landslides, Flooding 487
1974 07/23 SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING 447
1973 07/20 SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING 401
1973 03/21 High Winds, Wave Action, Flooding 367
1972 06/23 Tropical Storm Agnes 338
1971 09/13 SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING 311
1970 07/22 Heavy Rains, Flooding 290
1969 08/26 Heavy Rains, Flooding 275
1967 10/30 SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING 233
1965 08/18 Water Shortage 204
1963 08/23 Heavy Rains, Flooding 158
1962 03/16 Severe Storm, High Tides, Flooding 129
1956 03/29 FLOOD 52
1955 08/22 HURRICANE, FLOODS 45
1954 10/07 HURRICANES 26
http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters_state.fema?id=36
Fire in Yucaipa threatens 2,000 scenic home
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I don’t know if this is their area or not. Thanks.
I told you we had snow. I’ll take that over fires any day of the week. I was just kidding with you, Kelly. Too bad you’re so sensitive today. I can understand you are upset, but I am not your enemy.
Yes occasionally we have rain and floods as well, but they don’t do the damage your fires do. It’s usually minimal. Once in a great while it’s worse than others, but where I live, we rarely have flooding and no terrorists, so far.
Snowplows that big belong only in the Rocky Mountains...I left in the spring...as soon as School was over.
The LA Basin is like one of your East Coast States....
The Media just lumps it all together....
Good morning guys. Just to add an update from the north county side, we’re hearing that Acton is flaring up again, and I see big thick plumes coming off the mountains around the Littlerock, Mt. Emma, Juniper Hills areas. It looks to be a significant front at this time. The smoke is bad. The wind is confused out here. It varies between standstill and gusts of 15 mph, from the north or southwest or west or whatever it happens to be at the time. The brown sepia note has begun in earnest.. it flared up about half an hour ago.
The Antelope Valley has been asked to curtail/conserve electricity. I do know there’s a major substation over off Angeles Forest near the 14 junction (where it opens out into the desert), but I have heard little about it as relates to the fire.
There’s a new fire in Kern county near Lake Isabella. It’s called the Wofford Complex b/c of the several starts, as far as I can tell.
Sorry about the know-it-alls on the thread. The problem seems to get worse and worse as time goes on. My advice is to ignore, and let them try to gain the rhythm of the conversation on a day like this. With no responses to the caustic stuff they’ll either join in a constructive way or give up trying. (she said...hopefully)
If any of you are reading this and also habit the hurricane threads, if there’s one started about Hurricane Jimena (Pacific!) please ping me. Believe it or not, it’s set to hit Baja and might actually sent monsoonal moisture up to the L.A. basin in a few days. It would be miracle-like to have moisture thrown on this conflagration!
Actually, you have all of those, in addition to snow.
Tell ya what, this winter, that is fast approaching, I'll look in my freezer to get a sense of what NY is like, so I can relate...But just for a minute.
Thanks for the update.
It’s only gonna get worse this PM with the Santa Ana’s picking up.
Stay safe.
Kelly
And Burbankkarl seems to have dropped off...
Mary, we do have an occasional tornado, once a decade or two.
Yet, our snow totally intimidates the rest of the country, even though it can be shoveled out of the way, and melts away all by itself in the spring.
“And Burbankkarl seems to have dropped off...”
Not good...well, if they lose Mt. Wilson, we may lose a lot of communication...I “think” cell phone towers as well as radio & TV are up there!
They’re not really tornados but a microblast or two (I don’t know if that’s what it’s really called but it does damage in a small area). We have had some rainy seasons where some serious flooding takes place in again a small area. Where I live, the small lake on the edge of town floods once in a great while into the land next to it which is near campus. We’ve had some nor-easter’s that we’ve had to plow through to get home from dialysis, but we’ve always made it.
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