American Wildfires

CatHedral

CatHedral

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Don't Bogart said:
Tell me the differences between...
Guy friends
Girl friends
boy friends
women friends.
I can say I have a girl friend, (close).
A women friend, (associated).
A guy friend, (buddy).
A boy friend??, (uncomfortable from my perspective).
See what you get from a joint.
Your thoughts.
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1 and 4 (initial ordering) generally refer to nonsexual relationships.
 
ooof-da

ooof-da

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I live in the east Bay Area and now have a “go pack”. Basically photos, insurance docs, passports, clothes, and toiletries all in a bin ready to throw in the truck when we are alerted. Last 2 years have been really bad and we were evacuated 3 times. It’s a funny feeling running around wondering what to grab…so we made a bin.
 
Don't Bogart

Don't Bogart

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ooof-da said:
Last 2 years have been really bad and we were evacuated 3 times. It’s a funny feeling running around wondering what to grab…so we made a bin.
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The new norm.
A few years back I went out to visit in-laws in the San Diego area. We walked out to their back yard. She said, " We just had rain a week ago so it's really green here."
To me it looked like drought conditions.
As Joni Mitchel says, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone...."
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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ooof-da said:
I live in the east Bay Area and now have a “go pack”. Basically photos, insurance docs, passports, clothes, and toiletries all in a bin ready to throw in the truck when we are alerted. Last 2 years have been really bad and we were evacuated 3 times. It’s a funny feeling running around wondering what to grab…so we made a bin.
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That's a really weird thought. I've always thought of "home" as the place I'm SAFE from all that shit.
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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Don't Bogart said:
The new norm.
A few years back I went out to visit in-laws in the San Diego area. We walked out to their back yard. She said, " We just had rain a week ago so it's really green here."
To me it looked like drought conditions.
As Joni Mitchel says, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone...."
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Southern California is a desert. It's going to get dryer but it was never very green.

What is gone is the reservoir of water they pumped across hundreds of miles in order to have a green lawn, swimming pools and almonds.
 
hanimmal

hanimmal

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Good luck you all.

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Only months after a large forest fire erupted between Boulder and Denver, another major fire is resulting in evacuation orders.

"About 1,200 homes are being ordered to evacuate due to a fast-moving wildfire burning in an open space near the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder," 9 News reports. "The CU Boulder South Campus was also being evacuated due to the NCAR Fire, BPD said. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Eldorado Canyon State Park is now closed, and rangers are working to get visitors out of the park."

Boulder police are working to evacuate approximately 1,200 residences.

"The fire is burning on the southwest side of Boulder in an open space area near NCAR, police said. The Boulder Fire Department is on scene fighting the fire," the Denver Post reported. "At about 3:30 p.m., winds in Boulder were gusting to about 31 mph, humidity was 14% and the temperature was 73 degrees, according to the National Weather Service."


Lots of smoke coming from the foothills in Boulder. Traffic is heavy on Foothills Hwy.pic.twitter.com/j2uNBNho8w
— Rob Harris (@Rob Harris) 1648331651
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Received this alert on my phone just now. The link sends you to the @BoulderPolice Twitter account. @DenverChannelpic.twitter.com/FWcNSrZYO1
— Pattrik Perez (@Pattrik Perez) 1648330461
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hanimmal

hanimmal

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https://www.rawstory.com/oregon-arsonist-wildfire/
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A man who was allegedly responsible for setting wildfires in a remote Oregon forest was apprehended by three local residents and tied to a tree until police arrived, The Oregonian reports.

Authorities received reports of man setting fires in a forest 25 miles northwest of Grants Pass. After local residents assisted fire crews to get the blaze under control, the suspect was seen walking on a road near where the fired were set.

“It was reported that the suspect became very combative with the three residents and had to be tied to a tree to subdue him.,” Curry County Sheriff John Ward said in a statement. “An ambulance crew was asked to respond due to some injuries that the suspect apparently received from falling down."

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Trennon Smith, is being held on Tuesday in the Curry County jail on charges of arson and reckless burning. His bond has been set at $100,000.

“The quick actions on getting the fires out most certainly averted a catastrophe and saved lives,” Ward said. “If the fires had not been contained and if they got out of control, they could have blocked all the residents and visitors from having an escape route.”
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I looks like this is the domestic terrorist (from New York Daily News site).

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Funkentelechy

Funkentelechy

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There is someone lighting fires near me.
I live just outside of a town that burned down last year in the Dixie fire. The areas that got burned have a ton of standing burnt dead trees, in most places people cut them down and chip them up into giant piles. That is all that is left of our forest in many places, just piles of chips.
Some folks about a mile away from me, in an area that was burned last year, called the police because they watched a man walk over to a chip pile with a can of gas, lit it on fire, and then escaped down a dirt road. They still haven't caught him but they have a picture. The dirt road leads from there over a small ridge and exits about 1/4 of a mile from my house, so it could be someone in my neighborhood. I don't know but it's sad, everyone in my community has gone through so much that it really rattles people.
 
hanimmal

hanimmal

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Funkentelechy said:
There is someone lighting fires near me.
I live just outside of a town that burned down last year in the Dixie fire. The areas that got burned have a ton of standing burnt dead trees, in most places people cut them down and chip them up into giant piles. That is all that is left of our forest in many places, just piles of chips.
Some folks about a mile away from me, in an area that was burned last year, called the police because they watched a man walk over to a chip pile with a can of gas, lit it on fire, and then escaped down a dirt road. They still haven't caught him but they have a picture. The dirt road leads from there over a small ridge and exits about 1/4 of a mile from my house, so it could be someone in my neighborhood. I don't know but it's sad, everyone in my community has gone through so much that it really rattles people.
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That dude face should be spammed everywhere nationally. People trying to starting (and starting) these fires should get life in prison and have every agency working to find and stop them.
 
Don't Bogart

Don't Bogart

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If the southwest was dripping in water. Nobody would strike a match.
Name the stress.
Some psychopath will "fuel the fires".
 
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