@The Aspie Corner
kind of technique, they mostly fry stuff. Even the poached-ish egg on a mcmuffin is done on a griddle. OK, sorry abut that, good news, for the workers, thanks.

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@eyo

Are you in Guerneville or close to it? I'm sure that area is due for a burn too. This is what our money and military should be going towards. Fighting the huge fires and clearing forests of dead wood. California forests have been decimated by the pine beetle and is a fire hazard in waiting. Of course they're going to get totally out of control with all the dead trees, high temperatures, low humidity and drought.

Anyone know if it's better to let them burn and try to contain them or try putting them out? Or do they try to put them out? Or is there a difference? And are there enough people fighting them? I'd think that less than 4,000 people fighting huge fires is definitely not enough.

Is anyone knowledgeable about this to answer my questions? Utah is also on fire and our air quality is horrible.

Thanks NCTim, take it easy on arrival back to home base, slow and easy why not. Chill.

As California Burns
Carr fire sweeps into Redding; 1 dead, homes destroyed

REDDING —The Carr fire in Shasta County erupted Thursday night into a conflagration that swept over the Sacramento River and into Redding’s city limits, killing one person and sending residents fleeing for their lives as flames spread into neighborhoods of rolling hills in the western part of the city.
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Cal Fire said a private bulldozer operator had been killed during the blaze, but gave no other details late Thursday. The fatality was the second this month reported as firefighters attacked blazes the length of California.

RIP private operator #2.

Another tweeted that evacuations were causing Redding to look “like a zombie outbreak right now.”

"That's the system" /rimshot

Social media reports said that the area of Keswick Dam and Quartz Hill northwest of the city was fully engulfed in flames, with multiple homes and structures burning and many people trapped and unable to drive out of the area due to congestion.

The order was so immediate that traffic is completely stopped on some roads that lead out of the city. Traffic is completely stopped at North Market Street in both directions “at least up to Lake Blvd,” said Redding Record Searchlight reporter Jenny Espino in a tweet.

Animal evacuation centers were being set up. Owners of large animal are encouraged to go to Redding Rodeo Grounds; owners with small animals can go to Haven Humane.

How depressing. Disaster strikes and nobody comes, there aren't enough resources, I don't why. Billions "invested" in a Rainy Day fund instead. fuck that shit

--- et tu BFH
The other day I saw the biggest effing helicopter I've ever seen, it flew right over my head as it thundered down the flightway that follows HWY 101. It was going south, and I heard it coming at least 30 seconds before it appeared, had time to go out on the deck and wait until it came over. 72 foot wingspan, whoa. I found it immediately on the wiki:

An Erickson S-64 making a water drop

General characteristics
Crew: 3 (pilot, co-pilot), plus one engineer or rear-facing observer
Capacity: up to 5 total persons
Payload: 20,000 lb (9,072 kg)
Length: 70 ft 3 in (21.41 m (fuselage))
Rotor diameter: 72 ft 0 in (21.95 m)
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YUGE. Too bad California has no publicly owned fleet of modern air tankers, how unfortunate to go up in flames while billions sit around in the budget waiting for a rainy day. How stupid.

funky

@detroitmechworks again-that Boy ain't right. . .
I love him, not saying he's wrong, but he ain't right.

Hope you get a good respite when you get home. Last night had Judo and pushed myself harder than I usually do, and it felt SOOOO good to hit the hay after a shower and a bowl.

New Logos. Titular piece of the Play. And this one almost felt like Necromancy how easy it was to write.

And some fun music to set the day.

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@orlbucfan thanks, now the LA Tronc (rhymes with plonk) Times has an article up.
Redding fire nearly doubles in size; 2 dead, including a firefighter, as countless homes are destroyed

A destructive wildfire nearly doubled in size overnight, killing at least two people — including a city firefighter — and burning numerous homes in Redding as residents ran for their lives and firefighters found it impossible to battle the wall of flames.

The Carr fire killed at least one person and destroyed an untold number of homes in Shasta County in Northern California, hopscotching into subdivisions Thursday night and Friday morning. Officials said hundreds of homes were threatened as winds pushed the fire into the community.

It was a chaotic scene across Redding, a city of 90,000 people, as towering flames whipped along the horizon and evacuation orders expanded by the hour in the middle of the night.

sounds familiar

“This fire is extremely dangerous and moving with no regard for what’s in its path,” said incident Cmdr. Bret Gouvea with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The blaze had grown to 44,450 acres and was 3% contained Friday morning, Cal Fire said.

good luck

Take it easy and stay cool and safe on the ride home. Eyo: how bad is the Redding fire? Lordy, it's up near the OR border. Is there any part of CA that hasn't been impacted by climate change? Glad to hear the good news from NM, RA. Our WA State run was a good one. Hubby flew out with a cold so we skipped Canada. We got him some meds, and then a minor part on my lower jawbone fractured. Funsies. It's fixed now. Trip still was worthy. Seattle is in a class by itself with its natural beauty. Cascades had snow on them--way cool!! I hope the folks in Seattle will lower the boom on the greedballs and keep development way under control unlike the statewide disaster that is Floridumb! Rec'd!!