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belltolls
08/28/09

In reply to Fire!
Dispatch from the front...I woke this morning to the strong smell of smoke in the house (I am staying at a friend's house while they are away about 4 miles from the Station Fire.) The lack of wind is the saving grace regarding this fire since it is moving very, very slowly. Unfortunately the smoke is extrmely thick and ash is dropping from my hair on the keyboard as I type this. The dog had his walk truncated this morning since the powder was accumulating on his coat forcing him to stop every few paces to dust himself off. It will be about 105-110 today. No houses have been lost and the evacutions are not mandatory for most of La Canada. The drone of heliocopters and tanker planes is nearly constant. This is why God created air conditioning. Big trip planned today to the In n Out burger.
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miss_msry
11/18/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
Ok, now will people quit ragging on me for living in a hurricane zone? There are more fires and earthquakes in CA.in a one year period than hurricanes in Texas in my whole lifetime (and I'm an old).
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HiredGoons
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
This all Donald Trump's fault.
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procrastinator, esq.
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
All the areas that voted Yes on 8 are currently being devastated by fires. I wonder whose side God is on?
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Cankles
11/17/08

@procrastinator, esq.: Oh great call!!!! Unfortunately you fail to realize that the San Francisco area is full of gays and the most highly prone to earthquakes. Who's side is God on now?

I hate how people keep making that comment.
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forwardmotion
11/17/08

@TheDairyQueen: Me too. Let's leave the concept of god out of this
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Claire Buoyant
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
Saw this on BBC News yesterday. What a tool.

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ambitious
11/17/08

@Claire Buoyant: Well how would you propose one get away from a wild fire at the speak of walk while Twittering "OMG, so much ash!"? I mean, come on.
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propertius
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
And to think that when I was a kid in San Diego people used to drive to fires with folding chairs and coolers and watch the action. Happened in our area. I don't think they do that any more.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/17/08

@propertius: The last time I've seen anyone do that was maybe 15 years ago before it really started being a problem to houses. Now we pack up our our stuff because we KNOW we could be next.
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PandoraSpocks
11/17/08

@Shamoononon has hebetudinous dog ★★★★★: And because they built too many houses in dry terrain, thousands of them.
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ambitious
11/17/08

@propertius: How did I miss this in my Point Loman youth?
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propertius
11/17/08

@ambitious: You would have had to drive east out of San Diego proper on Interstate 8 towards El Cajon. That tends to be where the fire action starts - where the houses are not far from the chaparral.
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ambitious
11/17/08

@propertius: Oh, I know where the fires blaze. Trust. My parents have been evacuated twice in the last 18 months. But I never heard about any watching with lawn chairs. San Diego. So queer.
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dado
11/18/08

@ambitious: Ahh Point Loma. What was the name of the dancing girl spot on Rosecrans just off the freeway?
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Multiphasic
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
A couple summers ago, I was living in Santa Barbara; the Zaca fires were on, the air was red at noon, the ash clouds were sporadically like jellyfish, and it seemed like the world was angry.

So I got in my car and moved to Brooklyn. Which was immediately hit by a fucking tornado.

Long story short, I think I might be the Antichrist.
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Richard Lawson
11/17/08

@Multiphasic: Ha!
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Multiphasic
11/17/08

@Multiphasic: Sporadically drifting. Way to get artsy, dumbshit.
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Understater
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
Maliboo-urns.
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Private Hangnail
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
I'd like to be morally superior enough to blame such things on the wrath of God and whatnot, but then I look at such natural disasters as the mildew growing in my bathtub grout and realize if he or she were meting out punishment for turpitude, I'm not sinning nearly enough.
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mfnher
11/17/08

@Private Hangnail: I just had to have a wasps' nest and a bee hive removed from my roof. I'm not sure what that means, but I had wasps flying in through the vents for an entire month before I finally did something about it.
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Squirrelwars
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
I just read an idiot's comment on Yahoo! News that said this was God's punishment because gay people have been protesting the Mormons. I wanted to reply that I think this is obviously God punishing CA for passing proposition 8, but I didn't want to be attacked by the bloodthirsty commenters there who call themselves "Christians."
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Squirrelwars
11/17/08

@Squirrelwars: Forgot to add, I don't believe that this is any sort of punishment, but it is fun to tussle with some of the rabid Yahoo commenters.
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Colonel Mustard
11/17/08

@Squirrelwars: You have to question the mental fortitude of an individual who would suggest that God burned down a swath of mobile homes in Sylmar to punish the rowdy gays in West Hollywood for tying up traffic in Westwood, but these are also the same individuals who use their Byzantine logic skillz to explain that they are the ones being unfairly victimized by the mean old gays who won't just accept discrimination and move on.

Yes that was all one sentence. WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OF IT???
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laurascr
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
ain't karma a bitch
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ambitious
11/17/08

@cellardoor: I think he/she means that the fire is all "How did you vote on 8" and if you get the right answer? Saved. But if you don't, if you don't, the fire is all "Got you" and there goes your house. And or your face.

So, if your house is burning up right now, you're getting what you deserve, Mr. and Mrs. Bad Vote. I think that's the gist.
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Meg
11/17/08

@ambitious: I think so, too, but it's a little disconcerting -- to me, anyway -- to use an argument that is so often used in reverse.

Besides, karma may be a bitch, but it's clear to me that she's fucking lazy, as I see obvious examples of shoddy work and missed opportunities, each and every day.
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Meg
11/17/08

@Meg: Apparently, you have a lot in common.
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ambitious
11/17/08

@Meg: It's more than disconcerting. It's dumb and unfunny.
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Meg
11/17/08

@ambitious: Yes, agreed on both. The entire argument -- no matter who is making it -- is upsetting. As is imagining losing your home and every piece of evidence of your life there.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
What those mobile home park owners won't do to get rid of their little rent control holdouts.
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TedSez
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
I live near the beach in Santa Monica -- not really close to where any of the fires are -- but the air has been full of ash and smoke for the past few days. It's hard to imagine what all the people who have lost their homes are going through.
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Colonel Mustard
11/17/08

@TedSez: I'm leaving little footprints in the soot gathered in my office building's courtyard every time I walk outside. It was discomfiting enough before my coworker pointed out that we're probably walking over the remains of someone's home. It's sobering.
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lobstr
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
I heard on the radio this morning Christopher Lloyd's house got destroyed.

1.21 Gigawatts!

But, really, it's quite sad.
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DavidWatts
11/17/08

In reply to The Raging California Wildfires
Bonfire of the Inanities
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