Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Wed Dec 06, 2017 12:12 pm
Fires in December! That's out of line.
One of the fires started yesterday and is at 11,000 acres. My sister lives about three miles from that fire, where there have been people evacuated. Her husband has been disabled for about ten years because of a stroke. He is bedridden and completely disabled. He cannot even be moved by wheelchair anymore. If they are evacuated, it will be a nightmare for them. She is eighty years old.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Wed Dec 06, 2017 12:37 pm
Does seem a bit odd. Maybe Jerry Brown is the Devil. Have you thought about getting an ex-weightlifter -slash- action hero who could bloviate a bit?
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:22 pm
We tried that. You should have heard how funny he sounded trying to say "bloviate."
The fire in LA is shitty. There have been around 150,000 people evacuated.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:33 pm
You'll be getting plenty of moisture soon.
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:33 am
The fire that was threatening my sister is now just under 16,000 acres and ninety percent contained. Good news there.
But there's a much larger fire that's been burning for about a week, and is only fifteen percent contained. It has burned 173,000 acres (270 sq. miles). It's about 120 miles south of us and is moving north. There's little chance of it reaching us, but it is very close to Santa Barbara. Our little valley here has smoke from the fire.
They had to evacuate hundreds of rare turtles because of the fire, including a 400 pound Galapagos tortoise. They have spent the last few days in the basement of the city hall here in town.
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:34 am
NoCoPilot wrote:
You'll be getting plenty of moisture soon.
You should let the weather forecasters know. There is no rain predicted for at least the next two weeks. We have had a total of three tenths of an inch since July. High temperature for today is expected to be eighty-one degrees.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:45 am
Meanwhile, snow in Mobile. This is some fucked up weather.
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:52 am
Smoke increase in about fifteen minutes since last picture.
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:18 am
NoCoPilot wrote:
Meanwhile, snow in Mobile. This is some fucked up weather.
You got that right! Our average rainfall in December is just under four inches. So far, this month there has been none, and none projected through the twenty-second. Our temperatures this month have been around ten to fifteen degrees warmer in the day, and ten to fifteen degrees colder at night. Fucking weird.
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:49 pm
The sun is trying to peek through the smoke. Air quality readings are not good.
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Two hundred thousand acres burned. Now the fifth largest wildfire in California history.
This thing may just crawl up the coast and bite us on the ass.
Corvallis keeps looking better.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Sun Dec 10, 2017 5:17 pm
The worst part is this weird weather doesn’t seem to an anomaly anymore.
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:00 am
By last night, the fire had grown to 230,000 acres. It grew 50,000 acres in one day.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:30 am
Student at U.Cal Santa Barbara on the news this a.m. said he was watching the fire grow in real time using satellites.
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:35 am
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:40 am
A family bought a new house in Santa Rosa and rented out their ventura House, Two months ago, their house in Santa Rosa burned down. A couple of days ago, their house in Ventura burned down. The must have pissed off the fire gods.
Not as bad as the Japanese guy who was in Hiroshima on business when the bomb fell. He survived and went back home - to Nagasaki. Just in time for another bomb to fall. He survived again. Lucky bastard.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:44 am
Them're some bigass flames, to be seen from space.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:48 am
Largest fire in California's history, has burned an area larger than NYC
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:00 am
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:25 pm
The column I found interesting was this one:
October 2003
August 2012
August 2013
July 2007
December 2017
September 1932
October 2007
June 2008
July 1977
September 1970
June 2008
September 2006
August 2009
July 2015
July 2002
August 1987
August 1999
August 2014
July 2016
August 1990
June = 2 July = 5 August = 7 September = 3 October = 2 November = 0 December = 1
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:43 pm
Yeah. Fourteen of the twenty were in this century, with five of them in the last five years. This is the only big one in fucking December!
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:31 pm
NoCoPilot wrote:
Largest fire in California's history, has burned an area larger than NYC
Larger than NYC and Boston combined.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:44 pm
Jeff Bridges, Oprah Winfrey & Rob Lowe are in danger of losing their homes. Now we are talking impact!
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:32 pm
There are a lot of celebrities who live in Montecito. And a lot of non-celebrities: I lived there for a short period. It's a beautiful damned place.
Cal Fire is saying that the fire has only grown five hundred acres so far today. This morning, they were showing ten percent contained, but have raised that back up to fifteen percent.
They certainly are making an effort:
Total Fire Personnel: 6,397 Total Fire Engines: 856 Total Fire Crews: 113 Total Helicopters: 27 Total Dozers: 67 Total Water Tenders: 48
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Subject: Re: Hot Hot Hot Mon Dec 11, 2017 4:24 pm
A little trivia:
For 75 years, Santa Barbara held the record for the highest temperature ever measured on Earth. 133 degrees on June 17, 1859.