This is simply amazing!

I just got into San Diego after a 3 hour detour to get around the fires east of here. It is now snowing ash in the parking lot, visibility is down to about 1 mile in smoke, it smells like a campfire outside and at high noon it looks like sunset. :eek: It reminds me of Mumbia (Bombay). The fires are about 40 miles away, from what I saw they are huge and have burned hundreds of homes!

I wish somebody had called me yesterday and told me about all of this and I would have just stayed home! :nod: THe Monday night football game scheduled here has been moved to Phoenix, :mad: and they are giving away free tickets to the game! :realmad: :cussing:

The fires don’t sound too clever!

How are they getting on with putting them out?

Originally posted by Bibby
[B]The fires don’t sound too clever!

How are they getting on with putting them out? [/B]

By spraying gas on them juding by the news clip I saw earlier today ! :eek:

Seen pics of poeples homes going up, not nice

Originally posted by Bibby
[B]The fires don’t sound too clever!

How are they getting on with putting them out? [/B]

Well they are moving equipment where they can but the terrain is really rough up there. They are trucking water up from about 1000ft. elevation up to 4000 ft elevation. Judging by the amount of ash and soot on my white cadillac they aren’t making much progress, Hopefully the weather may help with a shift in winds.

It is much better indoors then out! :nod:

Sounds like they have their work cut out for them.

Sounds like they’ll just have to contain it where they can and let it hopefully run it’s course and burn out.

From news reports it sounds real bad out there :frowning:

Lets hope that Arnie gets the National help he is calling for :slight_smile:

How stupid can people can be. A bunch of those lost homes are uninsured! OMFG!

That has to be the biggest act of stupidity! Those areas are known to be high fire danger areas and burned in the 70’s! Now they want the feds to bail them out. My tax dollars at work. I say tell them to pay for their own stupidity!

Satellite photos of the California wildfires

Wow, those are some big fires.

Originally posted by O’Borg
[B]Satellite photos of the California wildfires

Wow, those are some big fires. [/B]

No kidding! coughcoughcoughhackcough**cough

Been on Radio 2 today. Some claimed to be arson, one from a hunter letting a distress fire get out of control, and one from military training practices.

:frowning:

All those homes gone…it’s not good.