Burning Like Hell! Why?

Black Swan

Southern California is on fire. The news reports over 2,000 homes have gone up in smoke. The ash outside our OC flat is so thick you would think that a volcano blew up nearby. And last night the full moon was so orange it looked like a pumpkin. So why is this happening? Comments?

OK, I'll venture a guess. I've actually died, my playful sins have caught up with me, and this is hell?

mike65

Hell? Its far, far worse....

Mike.

Karoma

perchance, thou touchest thyself at night?



*shrug*

Dragan

Karoma wrote: »

perchance, thou touchest thyself at night?



*shrug*

That kills dinosaurs and starts fight?

Mother****er!

ScumLord

You elected Arnie, this is exactly what everyone expected to happen.

Terry

Gobal warming.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it's a diversion, the iranians are attacking!

whiskeyman

El Nino or Al Queda.
It's gotta be one or the other.... or both!

ScumLord

Do you have mash mellows?

monkey tennis

Like everything bad that happens in the US currently, it's either them durn terr'ists, or vidja games. (or possibly Marylin Manson)

Black Swan

Karoma wrote: »

perchance, thou touchest thyself at night?

That generates heat but no ash.

Ruu_Old

I left my Nintendo plugged in overnight.

Dave!

Run, run for your lives!!!

daniel3982

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

That generates heat but no ash.

unless youre smoking a fag at the same time

Black Swan

ScumLord wrote: »

You elected Arnie, this is exactly what everyone expected to happen.

Naaaaa, California voted against Bush in the last two presidential elections, so maybe this is the "Revenge of the Lizard People?"

Then again, Hollywood is so much into reality TV, maybe they got carried away with their special effects?

Ghost Train

you had better repent

time to confess all your playful sins to us

Black Swan

daniel3982 wrote: »

unless youre smoking a fag at the same time

Lost in translation? Smoking a "fag" here would mean something very different, and he wouldn't generate any ash...*





*Unless you put him on a burning pyre and smoked him that way!

Black Swan

eolhc wrote: »

you had better repent

time to confess all your playful sins to us

Then Ireland would catch fire!

Wertz

Why? It's the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah and is being razed to the ground in accordance with the wishes of our lord.

Either that or it was some idiot playing with matches...

ScumLord

No it wouldn't its freezing here.

biko

Ethnic cleansing?

ScumLord

Ethnic cleansing?

Americans aren't a race.

Ghost Train

karma?

Black Swan

ScumLord wrote: »

Americans aren't a race.

On the freeways they are! Haven't you heard of our 50 car smash-ups? Matrix II was not that far off when they said the California freeways are suicide. Ha!

Latchy

Dont suppose there is much left to loot eh ?............

Black Swan

latchyco wrote: »

Dont suppose there is much left to loot eh ?............

Oh! You could dress up like a National Guardsman and help the burned out victims "move" their possessions? Naaaaa, that wouldn't work! They are so short of troops in Iraq that the moment they saw you, you'd be shipped out for a tour of duty!

Latchy

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Oh! You could dress up like a National Guardsman and help the burned out victims "move" their possessions? Naaaaa, that wouldn't work! They are so short of troops in Iraq that the moment they saw you, you'd be shipped out for a tour of duty!

You can tell who the National Gaurdsmen are on the tv news ,there all over 40 , over weight , and over there .......

Black Swan

latchyco wrote: »

You can tell who the National Gaurdsmen are on the tv news ,there all over 40 , over weight , and over there .......

Methinks they are not real Guardsmen, but maybe Hollywood extras that Arnie drug out of the donut shops to make a showing for the press.

Latchy

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Methinks they are not real Guardsmen, but maybe Hollywood extras that Arnie drug out of the donut shops to make a showing for the press.

Yes, the American Armed forces always look better in those hollywood movies, hell even Arnie looks good in Khaki greens ....

Jesus Wept

People start fires.

Latchy

From a spark to a flame ,so much destruction .I heard it was a downed cable wire that started the fire, now it might be arsonists...sombody with a vengence perhaps ? (obiously )

Jesus Wept

Often seems to be arsonists.

blindman

A wild fire can start easily by a hot sun striking a glass bottle at the right angle, if the vegetation is dry enough. But I wouldn't rule out arson.
Anyone have links to webcams over there.

Black Swan

The big fire near us has now been determined to be the result of arson. There is a $150,000 USD reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the arsonist. Schools, colleges, other public buildings, and many businesses have announced closing today through Monday due to the high risks associated with the uncontrolled fire and smoke inhalation. The other So Cal fires have not identified their causes yet. Although our flat is about 8 miles from the fire zone, both my flatmate and I have smoker's cough (and we are fit and don't smoke).

Toto Wolfcastle

Wooden houses. That is all.

Irish Wolf

janeybabe26 wrote: »

Wooden houses. That is all.

Yeah - because when the fire is raging around a 'concrete built home' it'll know it's ass is kicked and it'll suddenly burn itself out...

The three little pigs was a fairytale janey..

That is all.

WhiteWashMan

becuase fires happen in areas that are hot and dry and have lots of wind.

fuel, weather and topography are the three things that effect a fire.

you just happen to have the right stuff in the right place, just like us here in australia.

another 3 weeks and i will be on the fire line on a regular basis.

in fact, we were offered a 6 week contract to go over and help fight those fires.

Black Swan

janeybabe26 wrote: »

Wooden houses. That is all.

Dry grasslands, parks, and forests too.

So Cal was largely grasslands, desert, and mountain forests before settlement and water was pumped in from the Colorado River hundreds of miles away. Remember the song lyrics? "It never rains in Southern California"? Well, that's partly true. And lately it's been very dry.

WhiteWashMan

janeybabe26 wrote: »

Wooden houses. That is all.

brick houses burn too.

Toto Wolfcastle

Irish Wolf wrote: »

Yeah - because when the fire is raging around a 'concrete built home' it'll know it's ass is kicked and it'll suddenly burn itself out...

The three little pigs was a fairytale janey..

That is all.

Dude, how is it that everyone else's posts have been taken as a joke and mine isn't! (Although now that you mention it would a wooden house not burn faster than a concrete one, thus causing the fire to spread faster??)

And ya, Irish WOLF, you would say that the three little pigs was a fairytale! You were the one trying to eat them! Confess!

Black Swan

WhiteWashMan wrote: »

in fact, we were offered a 6 week contract to go over and help fight those fires.

I would imagine that there would be a lot of grateful college girls there to greet you and party with after. Most think firemen as HOT!

Jesus Wept

Irish Wolf wrote: »

Yeah - because when the fire is raging around a 'concrete built home' it'll know it's ass is kicked and it'll suddenly burn itself out...

The three little pigs was a fairytale janey..

That is all.

lol!

That is all.

Yakult

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Southern California is on fire. The news reports over 2,000 homes have gone up in smoke. The ash outside our OC flat is so thick you would think that a volcano blew up nearby. And last night the full moon was so orange it looked like a pumpkin. So why is this happening? Comments?

OK, I'll venture a guess. I've actually died, my playful sins have caught up with me, and this is hell?

did you not hear? The worlds ending. firstly killing off the rich people.

Black Swan

R_H_C_P wrote: »

did you not hear? The worlds ending. firstly killing off the rich people.

Oh grand! Then I'm on the bottom of the list being a starving foreign student.

WhiteWashMan

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

I would imagine that there would be a lot of grateful college girls there to greet you and party with after. Most think firemen as HOT!

not as hot as standing on the back of a truck as you do 50kph over rugged terrain and there are spot fires starting on the other side of the fire line!

my wife would also disapprove

Gaz

Aww, i thought this was going to be an STD related thread

Terry

I saw something on sky news earlier about the victims being given massages and fed fois gras and cous cous.
I can't find anything about it on their website though.

The people of New Orleans are weeping silently.

Latchy

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Remember the song lyrics? "It never rains in Southern California"? Well, that's partly true. And lately it's been very dry.

Funny enough , i was humming that song while watching the fires rage on the news the other day ...

Black Swan

Today's LA Times news on So Cal fires (with pic links), including an increase in the reward to $250,000 USD to catch the firebug that started one of them.