It's small and 30 percent contained, but it's only April and there's already fires. This was right along the freeway, crawling up the hillside, copters dropping water right next to all the traffic stopped on the freeway.
Funny story, just moved from NJ, where you need a permit to light a match, to PA, where you only need a slightly non-drunk "respectable adult" to burn down a forest, and I swear I smell a brush fire every single nigh since Spring started.
When I first moved out here, Spring was Garbage Burning Season where I swear to Christ everything went on the open burn brush pile – kitchen waste , plastic, bags, paper, aerosol cans, everything. It smelled horrible.
Now, you've got to notify the FD and local constabulary, only burn "yard waste" and open burning of garbage is Expressly Forbidden.
So of course I'm driving over the bridge to Pirate Island and there's this huge plume of noxious black smoke billowing out of the boatyard and straight across the road. Obviously something was terribly wrong and out of control, so I go flying down the drive with the phone out, all ready to dial up the Fire Department.
Aaaand… I see a couple of guys sitting on a stack of traps, drinking beers and burning a 16' fiberglass skiff full of plastic garbage bags. On purpose.
I just left, because What Happens on Pirate Island Stays On Pirate Island.
I was down in LA today and heard about this on the radio driving home. Costa Mesa is in Orange County, which is very Ronald Reagan conservative (ignoring the huge patches of poor immigrant neighborhoods, that is.) So of course Trump is speaking there. I have no idea what's up with the anti-Trump protesters. People in O.C. can't usually be bothered to get riled up enough about social justice and anti-1% issues to take to the streets. The poor people in O.C. are probably too exhausted from working multiple jobs to attend a protest, and the white liberals there would probably mostly be worried they'd mess up their hair.
That said, our fearless Editrix fought the good fight in O.C. for many years…
You know, when I was protesting against Scooter and the Rethugs in Wisconsin, when some asshole (and there was always, always at least one fucker) who tried to stir things up by shouting obscenities at the police (who were just standing there, doing their damn job) we used to shut them up by shouting "PEACEFUL PROTEST" at the top of our lungs. No lie, one day I had to shout that so many times, I actually lost my voice for a day.
To be clear, it wasn't always the same guy. Some called themselves "anarchists," or, as a friend of mine once said, "Those guys aren't anarchists. They just don't want to take showers." Fight the man! With stinkiness!
It's small and 30 percent contained, but it's only April and there's already fires. This was right along the freeway, crawling up the hillside, copters dropping water right next to all the traffic stopped on the freeway.
Funny story, just moved from NJ, where you need a permit to light a match, to PA, where you only need a slightly non-drunk "respectable adult" to burn down a forest, and I swear I smell a brush fire every single nigh since Spring started.
Freedom!
It is insane and tastes like burning.
When I first moved out here, Spring was Garbage Burning Season where I swear to Christ everything went on the open burn brush pile – kitchen waste , plastic, bags, paper, aerosol cans, everything. It smelled horrible.
Now, you've got to notify the FD and local constabulary, only burn "yard waste" and open burning of garbage is Expressly Forbidden.
So of course I'm driving over the bridge to Pirate Island and there's this huge plume of noxious black smoke billowing out of the boatyard and straight across the road. Obviously something was terribly wrong and out of control, so I go flying down the drive with the phone out, all ready to dial up the Fire Department.
Aaaand… I see a couple of guys sitting on a stack of traps, drinking beers and burning a 16' fiberglass skiff full of plastic garbage bags. On purpose.
I just left, because What Happens on Pirate Island Stays On Pirate Island.
I remember when fire season did not start until the fall. Fuck this drought with a chainsaw of rainstorms.
CR, Cally, who's doing this? Anti -Trump gearing up for battles in the streets? http://ktla.com/2016/04/28/donald-trump-holding-r…
I was down in LA today and heard about this on the radio driving home. Costa Mesa is in Orange County, which is very Ronald Reagan conservative (ignoring the huge patches of poor immigrant neighborhoods, that is.) So of course Trump is speaking there. I have no idea what's up with the anti-Trump protesters. People in O.C. can't usually be bothered to get riled up enough about social justice and anti-1% issues to take to the streets. The poor people in O.C. are probably too exhausted from working multiple jobs to attend a protest, and the white liberals there would probably mostly be worried they'd mess up their hair.
That said, our fearless Editrix fought the good fight in O.C. for many years…
Seems it's the youth. Angry, possibly see Trump as even more of a monster that we do.
Caribou Barbie will want to ship those youths to Gitmo.
You know, when I was protesting against Scooter and the Rethugs in Wisconsin, when some asshole (and there was always, always at least one fucker) who tried to stir things up by shouting obscenities at the police (who were just standing there, doing their damn job) we used to shut them up by shouting "PEACEFUL PROTEST" at the top of our lungs. No lie, one day I had to shout that so many times, I actually lost my voice for a day.
To be clear, it wasn't always the same guy. Some called themselves "anarchists," or, as a friend of mine once said, "Those guys aren't anarchists. They just don't want to take showers." Fight the man! With stinkiness!
"Assholes" works for me.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4691/
Fer a 50 acre fire……..pffffttttttttt.
But so it starts…
Really. You have no idea…
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And runs all the way to I-5…