first is was just one city, now its several counties with evacuations reaching into the 100,000's
this suck i was just planning to do a tour of malibu, hollywood, etc
i hope its still there by summe

10/23/2007 1:02:33 AM

r

10/23/2007 1:03:01 AM

apocalyptic imo.

10/23/2007 1:03:07 AM

i dont think its on that scale but it may be headed there,

10/23/2007 1:03:50 AM

honestly, this really pisses me off...i mean yeah i feel bad for the homes being destroyed...but i pretty much only watch news, and this shit just doesnt do it for me

10/23/2007 1:04:06 AM

either way it's the beginning of the end, AMIRITE?!

note: i do not believe in any sort of religion, i just think we've worn this place the hell out

10/23/2007 1:04:56 AM

Next it'll break off the coast and fall into the ocean.

The good news:
The fire is out.

10/23/2007 1:04:56 AM

ya my friends in san diego have been evacuated.
hopefully they will have homes when they get back.
I wonder what would have happened if I was there, it would have been crazy

10/23/2007 1:05:26 AM

^^ahah i was just about to post something along those lines

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 1:05 AM. Reason : d]

10/23/2007 1:05:32 AM

^huh, fire is out? link?

10/23/2007 1:05:55 AM

California seems to be excessively prone to natural disasters

and yet its very desirable for its natural environment

same with florida

kinda of ironic

10/23/2007 1:06:05 AM

people always want what they can't have.

10/23/2007 1:07:55 AM

cary, NC ftw

only 1 natural disaster in ever, that was hurricane fran in '94

10/23/2007 1:08:50 AM

^^^^I was referring to the hypothetical situation of California falling into the ocean.

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 1:09 AM. Reason : .]

10/23/2007 1:09:14 AM

^^ that may be... but we also don't have water.

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 1:09 AM. Reason : although cary may have some, but they can't have too much.]

10/23/2007 1:09:24 AM

Quote :

"cary, NC ftw only 1 natural disaster in ever, that was hurricane fran in '94 "

There was the apex-splosion a while back, and cary's right next to it. Not natural, but still not a good thing.

10/23/2007 1:10:42 AM

Is it a wildfire? You people sure are being vague.

10/23/2007 1:12:27 AM

i think we have it pretty good here, better than NY, LA, TX, FL...
we have most of the goodies and hardly any of the threats of annihilation

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 1:13 AM. Reason : ^ no, its domesticated]

10/23/2007 1:13:01 AM

i mean, except that it's hot as all hell and the entire planet is fucked.

but personally, i'm worried about m2c.

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 1:17 AM. Reason : typo]

10/23/2007 1:15:51 AM

all these posts and no mention of me? very disappointing. and I'll tell you what really sucks bout this fire...constant 'BREAKING NEWS' on every fucking channel with the exception of prime time. No court shows, no nothin during the day except 'BREAKING NEWS' that's by no means breaking

10/23/2007 1:17:10 AM

i was hoping you'd show up, i need to know what famous people had their homes burned

10/23/2007 1:17:59 AM

it would've worked better if i could ghost edit

10/23/2007 1:18:16 AM

^bethaleigh it's wildfire's mostly but one the authorities know for sure was arson. They're all over the place here. Currently the 'Breaking News' is showing a fire near Magic Mountain. I'm actually ok with Magic Mountain burning down cause when I was a kid it was fun, but it's since turned into a cess pool of whitetrash and gang members

^^none yet I don't believe with the exception of that castle

^

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 1:20 AM. Reason : ]

10/23/2007 1:20:04 AM

i was looking at the map or LA county and wa suprised to see that compton is a mere 15 miles from hollywood, that doesnt sound too glamorous

10/23/2007 1:21:41 AM

10/23/2007 1:24:48 AM

the wonderful thing about L.A. is that with very few exceptions, at all times, you're within 1-5 miles away from a form of a sketchy neighborhood. I mean sure, Compton is a bit more than just 'sketchy' but in all my life I have never knowingly gone to Compton

10/23/2007 1:24:48 AM

that doesn't sound wonderful at all.

10/23/2007 1:27:08 AM

twas being facetious. I'm surprised more tourists aren't killed here actually...

10/23/2007 1:33:43 AM

^ahhaa, for real it looks like a zoo, theres like 20 cities within a 20 mile radius,

10/23/2007 1:38:09 AM

These are pictures my friend in San Diego took from his house today:

10/23/2007 1:43:05 AM

well that's something else about L.A....it's like no other place in the country in the way it's set up so to speak. Most of the 'cities' are for the sake of ease when describing to someone where abouts in L.A. you are. None of the cities have even a town hall or anything like that. Nor do they have their own police or fire department or it's own school system. Beverly Hills is an exception (they have their own police/fire dep) but there's also Beverly Hills 'post' which is basically people who technically live in L.A. but have a Beverly Hills zip code. Because BH is so small and has kind of odd borders, the only way you know you're in it is because the street signs are white. Now Burbank is another exception but it's much wider and populated than BH.

So when people say they're from L.A. unless they're from Burbank or Beverly Hills, then they'd have their police/fire/school be under the LAPD/FD/USD else they're not really from L.A. So on your map, places like 'Montclair' and 'Monrovia' for example...aren't L.A., they just figure it sounds cooler to say they're from L.A. then from some place no one's ever heard of or wants to go.

10/23/2007 1:51:58 AM

pretty insane here in san diego -- i think this is worse than 4yrs ago, probably at least another day and a half of santa anas so it'll be awhile before things get under control -- news just said over 200,000 acres burned in san diego county alone

they've evacuated all the way to the pacific just north of here in del mar -- marye anne closed ucsd today and tomorrow 'cause the air is so smoky and full of ash

10/23/2007 2:03:23 AM

noobed

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 2:05 AM. Reason : asdf]

10/23/2007 2:05:28 AM

?

10/23/2007 9:59:12 AM

at least this won't happen again for a while... nothing left to burn.

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 10:01 AM. Reason : .]

10/23/2007 10:01:00 AM

Quote :

" only 1 natural disaster in ever, that was hurricane fran in '94"

'96 IIRC

10/23/2007 10:01:04 AM

Quote :

"they bought their tickets houses, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash burn."

10/23/2007 10:02:22 AM

Quote :

"Is it a wildfire? You people sure are being vague."

Yeah it's a wildfire possibly started by a falling power pole. Some have suspected incendiary ("arson" only applies to structures, in NC at least).

It's being fueled by relative humidities <10% and winds 40-60mph.
In NC we call it bad fire weather with RH <25% and winds at 20mph...

I feel sorry when someone loses a house, but damn, there's a thing called defensible space and a concept of using fire resistant building materials in fire prone areas. The firemen can't put out the fire in the back of your house if they can't get to it because there's only 2 feet between your house and your neighbor's.

The university there has a sprinkler system for the sole purpose of maintaining goo defensible space and their buiilding materials are fire resistant..

If I lived there I'd have a sprinkler system, no bushes, brick or concrete walls, and a tin roof.

10/23/2007 10:40:26 AM

The one in Malibu started by falling powerlines cause of the santa ana's.....one of the fires I believe near Arrowhead was arson. It started at 3 different points and they're looking for the morons who set it.


On another note...getting fire insurance in Malibu is next to impossible. When I was talking to my mom she said they didn't have fire insurance and couldn't get it for this reason exactly.

10/23/2007 12:01:46 PM

Paradise, lost and found
Paradise, take a look around
I was out in california where I hear they have it all
They got riots, fires, mud slides
They've got sushi in the mall
Water bars, brontosaurs, chinese modern lust
Shake and bake life with the quake
The secrets in the crust

10/23/2007 12:04:25 PM

^you guys DON'T have sushi at the mall?

10/23/2007 12:06:15 PM

Quote :

"i was looking at the map or LA county and wa suprised to see that compton is a mere 15 miles from hollywood, that doesnt sound too glamorous"

Inglewood to Westwood in like 7 minutes... LA is a cesspool... couldn't pay me to live there.

Well, OK, maybe you could pay me to live there, but I wouldn't like it...

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 12:07 PM. Reason : <3 bay area and it's changing weather]

10/23/2007 12:06:38 PM

that song is kinda old now

10/23/2007 12:07:38 PM

I see your hair is burning
Hills are filled with fire

10/23/2007 12:10:14 PM

I lived in San Diego for the last round of fires. By looking at the maps, the fires are further from the heart of the city than they were last time around (roberta you can correct me if I'm wrong).

When the fires started last time, we were in the middle of a 7-day anti-terrorism certification cycle with my security unit. I woke up at 4am to take over the watch from one of my chiefs and headed up to the brigde of the ship we were stationed on for the pier security section of the exercise. I stepped out onto the bridge wing to survey our setup and felt ash falling from the sky. I thought it was kind of funny that it felt like it was snowing...then I smelled the light smoke in the air. I figured something caught fire overnight nearby and dismissed it.

As the sun started to come up, I noticed the plume of smoke coming off of Otay Mesa. Within the next three hours, we had shut down to go back to our headquarters as they were evacuating some of the military housing in Northern San Diego near Mirimar Air Base. By noon the sky was so thick with smoke you could stare directly at the sun and only see a faint yellow ball. some of the wildest shit I've ever seen.

I lived in Pacific Beach, so we weren't threatened. But when I moved a year later, we still were finding ash in the corners of the deck at my apartment. No rain = no natural clean-up.

10/23/2007 12:12:44 PM

i live in metro san diego so i'm not too worried about the fire making it to my place, but it still sucks. a lot of my coworkers live up in north county. a lot of them have been evacuated and i heard on the news this morning over 1000 houses have been lost.

10/23/2007 12:43:11 PM

Quote :

"the wonderful thing about L.A. is that with very few exceptions, at all times, you're within 1-5 miles away from a form of a sketchy neighborhood. I mean sure, Compton is a bit more than just 'sketchy' but in all my life I have never knowingly gone to Compton"

hey babe, remember when i came out and visited with you? yeah, i know you do but i was trying to get my boss to drive through Compton and he wouldnt

10/23/2007 1:17:59 PM

Compton is where all the rich white people live right?

10/23/2007 1:21:16 PM

yeah, i dont know why he wouldnt take me
i mean, an indian and a honkey rolling through Compton sounds fun to me

10/23/2007 1:23:34 PM

I heard Compton isn't bad during the day though for real. I haven't been to Cali yet though. I'll be there soon though!

10/23/2007 1:25:52 PM