That burning ring of fire.

[Dinner]

Well, it's morning and I haven't been burned out yet.

There is alot of burned areas near my house with white smoke coming off of it but no open flame or black smoke. The nearest open flame is 4-5 miles away. Last night the fire crews came and lit back fires to create fire breaks so I didn't sleep much.

Dashi: This area isn't a national forest so it wouldn't have been effected by Bush's tree clearing plan. Scripps used to be a ranch owned by the Scripps-Davis family who sold about 90% of it in the 1970's and the land got subdivided into large estate lots which people built homes upon. The Scripps family bilieved that by planting shade trees the grasses wouldn't dry out as fast and there cattle would be able to graze for more of the year so they planteds thousands of Eucalyptus trees (which grow well in this climate) in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. When the area was developed most of the forest areas got saved as open spaces and are used by horse back riders, mountain bikers, and hikers.

[Dinner]

LoA: Do you live in Torrey Pines? You must have just moved to San Diego because you didn't come to the SD poly meet a few months back.

[SlowwHand]

Eucalyptus trees are cool looking.
There was one outside the transcient quarters at Travis, that I told my family about over the phone when I first got there.

[Arrian]

Oerdin,

Glad to hear you're safe and your house isn't a pile of ash.

Some good advice in the early going: homeowner's insurance policy + pictures was a great one.

-Arrian

[Q Classic]

ok, so my mind is in the gutter right now.

first thing i thought? somebody had too many spicy dishes, and was now paying for it on the bidet.

[Lonestar]

Holy sh*t!!!!!

A Navy Housing area got burned to the ground, we got a bunch of families on board at the moment...

[Dinner]

Bidet? What's that?

Everyone: I went on a walk about to survey the burned out area. I used my mountain bike because the cops have most of the roads blocked but I can bipass the road blocks if I use the dirt trails. USIU (the small private University near my house) actually only had a few dorm buildings burn down. The The Marine Corp Air Base at Miramar suffered a lot of fire damage and a few of the aircraft hangers were actually destroyed; all of the undeveloped open space has been burned as was Camp Kerney (the large Army Reserve base off of I15). Much of easter and north Scripps is still on fire but the fire is moving away from my house.

Currently the fire is 50% contained but the Santa Anna winds are picking up again so things could take a turn for the worse rapidly.

[Q Classic]

bidet: like a toilet, but it shoots water to clean you off.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dissident
what started all these fires?

BTW more information has become available as to what started the three big fires in San Diego county (I still don't know what started the other fires in California). One was an arson, one was started by campers who didn't put out their camp fire correctly, and the fire by my house (They're calling it "the Cider fire") was accidentally started by some poor white trash hunter. Previously, they thought it was the Cedar fire was the work of an arsonist but it turns out some guy was illegally deer hunting, got drunk (Why do idiots with guns always get drunk?), got lost, and then thought he'd fire a signal flair. Why on Earth someone who's drunk and illegally hunting would want to fire a signal flair I have no idea but this moron did.

Any way, this idiot fired his signal flair right into a tree which then caught on fire. This guy then wondered around until he found his truck then simply drove home without calling the fire department; luckily someone saw his truck fleeing from the burning area and they wrote down his car's plate number. The idiot cunfessed to everything when the cops showed up and now wants to tell everyone who's homes he burned down that he's sorry.

This A-hole needs jail time for his reclessness!

[SlowwHand]

Precedent has been set. He'll see jail time.

[chequita guevara]

This is why an intelligence test should be required to own a gun. Dumbass out hunting drunk. Damn jackasses.

[chequita guevara]

Well, Theben's okay. They're still in Arizona and supposedly he'll be going home on Wednesday.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Oerdin
This A-hole needs jail time for his reclessness!

Just take his own gun, take him out to the desert and put one round up his ass. Let mother nature handle the rest.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

LoA: Do you live in Torrey Pines? You must have just moved to San Diego because you didn't come to the SD poly meet a few months back.

I think I live in La Jolla. Or maybe its Torrey Pines. There's a street around here called Genessee and Torrey Pines North. I'm on the UCSD campus. I'm a freshman and I moved in on Sept. 20th or so. I am new to this area.

[Chemical Ollie]

Good to hear you made it. Now, let's hope the fire won't come back.