Comments on: Stuff

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:14:29 +0000

I rare eat at restaurants with busboys and those I ate at in San Diego were so high priced the busboys were from eastern Europe pretending to be French.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:55:34 +0000

Strawberry pickers and busboys.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:30:25 +0000

Malibu has had fires forever. Fires occur there because of the vegetation and topography. One wet year for the vegetation to fill back in and a fire is guaranteed.

The Witch fire is a continuation of the Cedar fire. It is in the same area and burning the vegetation that wasn’t burned in the Cedar fire. It is following the water in north county, burning around all of the little reservoirs on the creeks and rivers where vegetation can get some water, even in a drought.

The fires are going to attack where there are homes, because that is where there is vegetation to burn because of irrigation, and electric lines to spark the fires.

The National Guard is down on the border to protect the country from strawberry pickers.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:20:06 +0000

Not to make light of the situation, though I feel like there isn’t much I can say or do about it except wish everyone that needs to evacuate will be able to do so safely, and wonder how much better it would be if we didn’t have all of our resources overseas.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:17:48 +0000

Since lightning generally follows the path of least resistance, where it strikes it is likely to strike again. Just FWIW. 🙂

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:50:35 +0000

Well…Orange County has it’s own fire problems.

The back country of San Diego is also home to quite a number of farm and breeders of animals, especially of the equine variety.

And…I will slightly agree with you on the wine. Being in Santa Barbara, however, I am VERY biased on my wine! 😉

There will be LOTS of questions and finger pointing after this, but, I think we as a society are to shoulder a good deal of the blame. We want to build big houses out in the middle of nowhere and expect in the times of disaster, the fire department is always going to be there. We build in areas that have limited water and limited access. We build in areas that are known to be fire havens. We have just lost contact with what nature and the environment are all about. I watched one man being asked about his house in Malibu, which he had bought 6 years ago. He was aware of the recent history of big burns in the area but he said “I didn’t think lightning would strike twice in the same area.” I couldn’t freakin’ believe it.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:39:26 +0000

And some pretty decent wine, and various plants and flower varieties, and a lot of other things that are grown just in from the coast. The damages will be over a billion dollars easily.

I’m wondering about using the stadium, as it isn’t covered and the air quality has to suck. The city and county pols are going to get a lot of tough questions when this is over, because they didn’t have a coordinated plan in place when this struck and they are winging it. They just had to move the “special needs” people out of the fairgrounds, which is next to the racetrack, and send them north. Del Mar advised people to go to Orange County to a shelter up there.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:06:03 +0000

Fallbrook is said to be toasted.

There goes the California Avocado market.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:46:22 +0000

It has reached Fairbanks Ranch which in down in the valley north of Del Mar. No prospects for the winds dying until Thursday. This will be the worst fire in San Diego county history.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:01:39 +0000

God, this is horrible. 650 homes burned. 200 businesses. Still more to go. They are reporting that they think that 3 of the fires in Los Angeles are going to merge.