Fire Again...

atomicdad · Post by **atomicdad** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:49 pm

Here are a few sunset picks I took last night:

A couple of helicopters heading back north to Pendelton

warren · Post by **warren** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:04 pm

Dinsdale wrote:
warren wrote:all I know is you're all welcome in Texas

You might wanna put your current sympathies for their plight aside for just a moment, and think a little more about what you just said.

Sin,
Oregon

What would you know about the second largest State in the Union and the amazing geography that it encompasses?

It was just a veiled joke about the Katrina's.

Oh, and the city of Houston has a larger population than Oregon yet we still have the largest National Park next to Denali in the nation.

Google the images of Big Bend or the Davis Mountains or anything other your ignorant view of something you've never seen.

I, on the other hand, think Oregon is amazingly beautiful State and would love to visit sometime.

If, as they say, ignorance is bliss, then you must be in Valhalla.

warren · Post by **warren** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:06 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:
warren wrote:all I know is you're all welcome in Texas
Didn't you learn your lesson?

Sin,
Katrina Refu(ckin)gees

Maybe you missed this part of my post, Jesus must have been busy to help you out.

all I know is you're all welcome in Texas unlike another certain massive group of refugees that simply refuse to leave until they've robbed every liquor store in town.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:11 pm

[:oops:] Classic respond to a different take after not reading the whole thread [/:oops:]

At least us Texans were on the same page, right?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:31 pm

Difference is, we pay for our hooch. With our own money too.

As long as your debit card readers work.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:43 pm

So hows Fallbrook coming along Mikey? Is the pendelton fire coming back in?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:21 pm

It depends on who you listen to.

A couple of hours ago they interviewed one of the CDF guys and he said he couldn't expect the evacuation to be lifted in the "forseeable future". Other reports say that they are working on a re-entry plan for as early as tonight or tomorrow. They have also announced a center for people who have lost their homes at the Community Center to open tomorrow morning. I've heard that they expect complete containment by Sunday.

I just heard on the news that the front of the fire is at Stone Creek Road, which is actually in De Luz and west of Temecula, which is good news for us.

A major wind shift, though, could fuck things up completely.

We're still getting smoke from the fire on Palomar Mountain.

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:57 pm

...nothing to add to the Dins pile-on..cept maybe my sig!

warren · Post by **warren** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:03 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:[:oops:] Classic respond to a different take after not reading the whole thread [/:oops:]

At least us Texans were on the same page, right?

Yeah we are amigo! Take here easy and let me know where the Texan's football club is going lose to Bolts this weekend.

DallasFanatic · Post by **DallasFanatic** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:04 pm

Here's a pic from a Water Treatment Plant we are currently designing. Thankfully that reservoir stands in the fires way.

warren · Post by **warren** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:08 pm

Mikey wrote:Difference is, we pay for our hooch. With our own money too.

As long as your debit card readers work.

The Avacado get's a rack on that one!

Hope you're holding up well lefty!

Just feed Jess the Rookie some pinto's and have him bend over and put a reversal on those Santa Anna's.

It'll be his best roll to date, other than "Old School."

Bucmonkey · Post by **Bucmonkey** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:42 pm

Helluva pic DF

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:41 am

Bucmonkey wrote:Helluva pic DF

Yes it is, but it looks as if he has scoliosis of the spine.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:56 am

Cool photo of a really really hot spot ! I was on a suppression crew at a forest fire near
Marblemount Washingon in 1959 and fire is scary shit !

Hope all you SoCals and LoCals are safe.

I understand the Applebee's in Escondido was built with special
fire proof materials.

and to head off Dinsdale---
isn't scoliosis of the spine a bit redundant ?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:31 am

warren wrote: Just feed Jess the Rookie some pinto's and have him bend over and put a reversal on those Santa Anna's.

It'll be his best roll to date, other than "Old School."

Not a bad idea, but think of the greenhouse potential that would add.

And global warming is the real cause of all this anyway, isn't it?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:32 am

DallasFanatic wrote:Here's a pic from a Water Treatment Plant we are currently designing. Thankfully that reservoir stands in the fires way.

We could use a little air treatment right now.

You guys got any good shit for that, besides OUST?

chargerfan · Post by **chargerfan** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:35 am

atomicdad wrote:Here are a few sunset picks I took last night:

Atomic you live above Swami's?

Ana Ng · Post by **Ana Ng** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:33 am

Bucmonkey wrote:Helluva pic DF

Indeed.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:26 am

All my friends down in the Fallbrook area are safe, and didn't lose their homes. My house is covered with ash. Holy shit, it'll take a week to clean this mess up, but I didn't lose anything.

Props to you, Mikey for sticking it out, and for the updates. Sorry about the beer shortage.

Have one on me:

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:42 am

Thanks for the virtual brewski, Bushy. I heard that the evacuation may be lifted tomorrow morning.

Shit, I guess I'll have to go to work. Will unload the truck and start the cleanup on Saturday I guess. Ashes cover everything. What we really need is a good hard rain.

PS this game is really sucking. Not sure I even want to watch the WS at this point.

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:29 am

...Please tell me Applebee's was spared.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:56 am

Is there any place, any way, any thing we can do about the horrific media coverage of the fire?

Seriously. the best reporter I had all week was Mikey.

I was traveling this week, and the in and out of area media coverage of the fires on TV was "get a gun and shoot the TV readers" level of awful. I was in so cal, cen cal, and the bay area. The media suck level in all of those areas was so bad that close up shots of the woks in iron chef episodes of schezuan cooking were more accurate descriptions of what was happening in So cal than the shit the local and national media spewed.

And can someone tell the networks that I don't give an AIDS infested fuck what happens to the fucking moronic rich assholes who live in Malibu?

Every 2 years those stupid shits get run by mud or flame, and people act surprised, like it NEVER happened before.

I want a "FUCK YOU, MALIBU" Channel NOW. I want to see their misery, in a comedy format, on a daily basis. I want to see their homes burn, slide, collapse, and I wanna see the media trip over themselves trying to get the tears, the nipple shot, the mansion collapsing on video, with some of them dying in the attempt. I want the aftermath interview to include questions like

" You were smart enough to make millions in TV or movies, why were you stupid enough to live in Malibu when the place gets ass raped by nature every 3 or 4 years?"

and,

"How do your children feel that their expensive toys were all destroyed? Will your inadequacies as parents make up for all that, or can we count on them to fill the news gap in the future with DUIs and drug arrests when they become teenagers?"

and

"Now that your house has been destroyed by fire, what will be your next big event? can we count on suicide, overdose, drug abuse, drunk driving, spousal abuse, or do you have an even bigger surprise in mind?

At least make it interesting. If Jessica Alba is not nip slipping or heading for a starring role in a porno flick, an emotional breakdown over her mansion burning in Malibu is ranked #3, because those tits DO NOT quit, and the sobbing will get the jiggle on big time.

~inhale

We've got firemen on the front lines who put their lives on the line for people they will never meet and on TV I have to put up with a young Asian reporter interviewer some taco sucker about how he had to spend 2 hours in traffic to get to the stadium with his wife and kids and that his 2 year old is not happy, and they were all scared because the flames were close you know, and um we were like scared and we don't know if our cousin is ok or nothin but we'll make do and hope our house is ok.

FUUUUCCKK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These mindless interviewer TV people who ask 12 year olds if "they were scared" or "how did you feel when you knew your toys were burning" or ask adult Mexicalis who speak mexglish how they felt when they were told to evacuate should be duct taped to a steel post in the middle of a fire zone with a microphone so they can ask the flames the same questions. Lets get THAT on video.

Everybody I know wanted to know what the fuck was actually happening in the fire zones where the fires were, not the boring repetitive s.a.p. stories from the standbys in front of Qualcomm.

Hell. They'd get more emotion out of Charger fans after Norv fucked up another game than they would ever get out of someone who got four days off, a newly built house at government disaster rates, and a bucket of free meals.

Fucking shit ass local TV station management, CNN and every other local national affiliate that thought personal boring stories of individuals who are displaced mean shit when millions are affected, those fuckers needs to burn like the fire they sucked ass reporting on.

Done.

Ana Ng · Post by **Ana Ng** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:56 am

Mister Bushice wrote:they can ask the flames the same questions.

They kinda sorta do this already.....once a year, in Hillcrest.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:36 pm

Bushie,

I get occasional good info from the local TV for breaking news. The best sources seem to be radio stations that have listeners calling in (usually a.m.) and some of the local papers. Here's a link to an ongoing North County Times page that has both citizens and reporters sending in updates. It has had probably the most timely info that I can find. If you look through there you can probably find my rant from last night -- when I look back at it now it's maybe a little too Smack Chat-ish

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/10 ... ogcomments

When I turn on any of the national coverage they often don't even get the information right, like Fallbrook being threatened by the Witch fire. Mostly they send the celebrity talking heads to a burned out house and do some "up close and personal" shit. Then they show a couple minutes of Ahhnold.

This site has links to some other info sources as well...

http://www.211sandiego.org/

This is the SD County emergency page...

http://sdcountyemergency.com/

We're seriously thinking of moving out to a hotel if we can find one. Not because of any fire danger but because they refuse to open the roads into town. I can't go to work and get back home if I leave. There are still a lot of people here, and there are at least two grocery stores and two gas stations open downtown...between us and the Rice Canyon fire which is at least 5 miles away. They're opening an "assistance center" today. What good is that if nobody can get back into town?

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:49 pm

Mikey wrote:If you look through there you can probably find my post from last night -- when I look back at it now it's maybe a little too Smack Chat-ish

Sorry about your misfortune.

Mike wrote on Oct 24, 2007 2:51 PM:

" Seven Oaks Ignored During Evacuation! When the fires were moving through Rancho Bernardo early Monday morning, we watched TV and checked the web frequently to see if we were to evacuate. We live in the far north end of Seven Oaks - just south of Rancho Bernardo Road. We were surrounded by thick black smoke so we couldn't see where the fire might be. Both of us are in wheelchairs, so we wanted plenty of advance notice. First they evacuated "northeast RB" - the section north of Rancho Bernardo Road. Then they evacuated most of the north part of the city. The mayor announced that the area was bounded by I-5 on the west, 56 on the south and I-15 on the east. That did not include Seven Oaks. So we stayed put. Visibility got worse and worse, big ashes falling from the sky. Then police cruisers started driving up and down our street announcing that we should evacuate immediately. We did. There has never been an official announcement that our portion of RB should evacuate. As a result, there may never be an official announcement to let us return. Does anyone know what's going on? "

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:52 pm

You need to scroll down a little farther.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:57 pm

Yeah, caught the ass comment as well as the Red Sox comments.

Just kinda made me laugh reading that above and thinking of Mikey in his wheelchair and knee high stovetop so he can cook.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:59 pm

Is Hacksaw still doing his afternoon shows? I would love to hear his fire reports.

Rancho Bernardo! Are you there! I want to hear from Chula Vista! Show me your evacuation orders!

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:37 pm

warren wrote:
Dinsdale wrote:
warren wrote:all I know is you're all welcome in Texas

You might wanna put your current sympathies for their plight aside for just a moment, and think a little more about what you just said.

Sin,
Oregon
What would you know about the second largest State in the Union and the amazing geography that it encompasses?

It was just a veiled joke about the Katrina's.

Oh, I see we're explaining "veiled jokes."

OK, I'll play.

Let's review -- you made a joke about displaced Calis being welcome in Texas. Let's put aside for a moment that I absolutely got the joke you were making...

For your edification (usually a futile effort on a Texan), my response was also a "veiled joke"... see Warren, every time there's some sort of significant natural disaster in Southern California, the population of the area in which I live undergoes an increase of at least 50,000, often more...

And you won't find a more miserable, whiney bunch of migrants anywhere.

And we've been dealing with it for decades.

So, allow me to reiterate my comments. How's about...

Hey Warren -- BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!

And to all the displaced californians... Hey, did you guys hear Warren? He says you should head east, not north. He's obviously a very, very wise man. You should listen to him.

North = BAD

East = GOOD

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:50 pm

Dinsdale wrote:

And to all the displaced californians... Hey, if this is enough to make you leave, then just leave.

East = GOOD

North = BETTER

ftfy

Trampis · Post by **Trampis** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:57 pm

Dinsdale wrote:

But I won't get started on the SCAM that is fighting wildfires in unpopulated areas (which obviously doesn't apply to the southwestern corner of california). IT'S FREAKING SCRUBGRASS AND SAGEBRUSH!!!! Guess what -- if you let it burn, it grows back the next time it rains. If you don't let it burn and try and control it -- it grows back the next time it rains. Yeah, that desert ecology is some complicated stuff.

Rack,Firefighters and the media,always looking for something to do.

warren · Post by **warren** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:32 pm

Dinsdale wrote:
warren wrote:
Dinsdale wrote:
You might wanna put your current sympathies for their plight aside for just a moment, and think a little more about what you just said.

Sin,
Oregon
What would you know about the second largest State in the Union and the amazing geography that it encompasses?

It was just a veiled joke about the Katrina's.

Oh, I see we're explaining "veiled jokes."

OK, I'll play.

Let's review -- you made a joke about displaced Calis being welcome in Texas. Let's put aside for a moment that I absolutely got the joke you were making...

For your edification (usually a futile effort on a Texan), my response was also a "veiled joke"... see Warren, every time there's some sort of significant natural disaster in Southern California, the population of the area in which I live undergoes an increase of at least 50,000, often more...

And you won't find a more miserable, whiney bunch of migrants anywhere.

And we've been dealing with it for decades.

So, allow me to reiterate my comments. How's about...

Hey Warren -- BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!

And to all the displaced californians... Hey, did you guys hear Warren? He says you should head east, not north. He's obviously a very, very wise man. You should listen to him.

North = BAD

East = GOOD

I hear ya' man, and sure they can come here, I'm never around and when I am I'm surrounded by barbed wire and 100+ acres as well as heavily armed as most Texans are ,so I've no worries.

warren · Post by **warren** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:37 pm

Mikey wrote:
Dinsdale wrote:

And to all the displaced californians... Hey, if this is enough to make you leave, then just leave.

East = GOOD

North = BETTER
ftfy

No kidding, if you could iradicate all the militant same sexers, the tree hugging irrationals, and the outrageous taxes I'd give anything to live the most beautiful State in the Nation.

Oh, and do something about Paris Hilton and JTR while your at it.

atomicdad · Post by **atomicdad** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:49 pm

One bad thing i've noticed about these reporter in the field, it seems they are getting their directions mixed up about 75% of the time. You'll see some jackass saying that the fire behind them is to the northwest, no dumbass, you are facing northwest. Can't they at least give these fools a fricking boy scout compass or something.

Chargerfan, i'm about 3/4 mile southeast of Swamii's, I was just out cruising around the other evening trying to get some cool sunset pics.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:27 pm

BSmack wrote:Is Hacksaw still doing his afternoon shows? I would love to hear his fire reports.

Rancho Bernardo! Are you there! I want to hear from Chula Vista! Show me your evacuation orders!

He was shitcanned from his afternoon gig a couple of years ago. When I left CA, he was relegated to a Saturday show and doing "the best 20 minutes in sports" as an intro to a show with two other dudes. Pretty much he went from being the franchise in San Diego to being the station bitch in LA. Nothing like being demoted to Saturday scrub time a couple of decades into your career...

DallasFanatic · Post by **DallasFanatic** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:33 pm

OCmike wrote:
BSmack wrote:Is Hacksaw still doing his afternoon shows? I would love to hear his fire reports.

Rancho Bernardo! Are you there! I want to hear from Chula Vista! Show me your evacuation orders!
He was shitcanned from his afternoon gig a couple of years ago. When I left CA, he was relegated to a Saturday show and doing "the best 20 minutes in sports" as an intro to a show with two other dudes. Pretty much he went from being the franchise in San Diego to being the station bitch in LA. Nothing like being demoted to Saturday scrub time a couple of decades into your career...

If we're talking about the same Hacksaw, I believe he is doing some spot work for the "Loose Cannons" on KLAC 570. The guy thinks he knows all but is a total dipshit every time he opens his mouth.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:31 pm

The fire danger warning sign on East Mission in Fallbrook:

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:27 am

Y2K wrote:Unfortunately the fire crews have cut off my plan for Mikey's rescue. You would be surprised how fast I can wheel a 28 ft UHAUL truck into his driveway and pack him up. I can even deliver to the east coast if requested. I still have your back Mikey....

^^^ That's no bullshit.

I'm only on pagina 4 in this thread so far...

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:13 am

Now let me explain this to you once..and I hope that's enough, cuz there's not much time...

This...land....we call "Southern California" (and I dare you to look up the origin of that curious appellation)...was never designed for...human habitation...

What...the fuck are you telling me?...

Now hold on..sure there's folks doing fine in our Imperial Valley...

God is water!...

Now don't flip out...sure, you've been really lied to....and I know you think you belong to the natural desert-like region of the south west coast...

No!...we belong!!

Uh..excuse me, I don't mean to butt in to your turmoil, but I can assure you that in this case, Huston is right, you don't belong here...

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:12 pm

AP,

How about getting your avatar properly sized. Or at just find a decent one.

And a preemptory fuck you to BFoxfire.