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Los Angeles was like that yesterday morning. We had overcast and no ocean breeze overnight, so the smoke from the San Bernardino fires 60 miles inland spread all the way to the beach, turning the morning sky muddy brown. It wasn't until the afternoon when the day heated up and ocean breezes started that the smoke was blown back inland and we had white overcast again.
BTDT2 - nice shot of the Egyptian Consulate (That's what we used to tell tourists it was when I lived in the city.)
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere
I used to watch a syndicated tv program at 2 in the morning called Jack Van Impe Presents. Jack and his wife Rexella would broadcast from their basement studio and read various headlines (trouble in the Middle east! Russia has a new atomic missile!) then correlate to a passage in scripture which foresaw whatever calamity (usually from the Book of Revelations). It was great entertainment after a night of pounding beers (I'm not sure if it's still on anymore, as my days of drinking til 2am are long over.)
Wildfires torching entire towns... pandemic infecting millions... upheaval in the streets... maybe Jack and Rexella were on to something with their End of Days predictions...
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I see again, the forest fires are starting. They’re starting again in California. And I said, you’ve got to clean your floors. You’ve got to clean your forests.
California has many, many years of leaves and broken trees. And they’re like, like so flammable. You touch them and it goes up. I’ve been telling them this now for three years, but they don’t want to listen.
But they have massive fires again in California. Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it, because they don’t listen to us. We say you got to get rid of the leaves, you got to get rid of the debris, you got to get rid of the fallen trees.
We're just outside of Portland, and we're being told to get ready to evacuate. We've filled our tanks (including a 5-gallon fuel jug for our portable generator), stocked up on water, toilet paper, food, cash, ammo, and beer. We just dropped off a bunch of water and energy bars at the local fire station. We're back home now, just trying to stay indoors with the windows closed unless and until they tell us to evacuate. There are reports of looting already...
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