California is a hellhole this time of year.

I can't imagine losing my home to fire.

Godspeed and Good luck to everyone involved.

Has CC checked in?

She is in the San Fernando Valley area which is affected by the smoke and traffic blockades.

Pendleton was hit yesterday with fires and evacuated over 1000 from the base.

October sucks for fires--but today the winds are down--at least in San Diego.

This just how it is here at this time of year. Parts of the 210 Foothill freeway is closed in both directions with a host of school closings, especially elementary. No matter where you live in the LA basin, the smell of burning wood is really pervasive and your eyes start burning the more you stay outside. I ran through an entire bottle of Murine eye drops yesterday.

I came out this morning to climb into the limo and it was completely covered with particulate matter from the fires. You can't just wipe the stuff off without grinding it into the paint and if you just take a hose to it, you only make mud.

unrelated , but funny.

I saw a comedian last night that said this, 'I was backstage and someone said, your eyes are really red, are you stoned? I said, no, it's my allergies. Oh, really, what are you allergic to? Pot.

Where the hell is the National Guard? I heard that Bush was seen setting fires alongside the San Bernardino freeway...and CXheney was pouring gas on them....

*Cheney*

(I'm gonna have to start proofreading this stuff....)

It wasn't Bush and Cheney. They hire illegals to do it for them.

"California is a hellhole this time of year."

LA is a hellhole all year long. It's a bowl built to hold the smog in and it's a desert designed to burn, when it rains it floods, its built on some major fault lines so they get devastating earthquakes, and gangs, drugs, and murders plague the inner city. But those natural desasters pale compared to having to live with Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, and Barbara Nose Job.

FWTHOM- My thoughts exactly. The rest of the country is thanking nature for ridding the world of Los Angeles, one acre at a time.

"But those natural desasters pale compared to having to live with Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, and Barbara Nose Job"

YEAH!

Why would you have to live with them? Are you homeless?

Yeah, all that sunshine and low humidity sucks. Unlivable I tell ya.

The nice weather is great for everyone who is stuck outside after losing their house to mudslides, wildfires, earthquakes, etc. I suppose the sunshine is a good thing to have during a rolling blackout.

I was up in the hills above LA looking out at the city and asked my friend who lived there, "What's that brown haze and why are my eyes burning?" He said that it was the smog and if you live there long enough, you get used to it. I didn't say anything, but I promised myself that I would never visit the shit hole called LA again. That wes one promise I kept.

You've never been to L.A.

What's the common denominator?

Darest you say such things?

Good on ya!

Yeah, all that sunshine and low humidity sucks. Unlivable I tell ya.

I have been to LA a number of times and one thing it was not was SUNNY. Alway a haze (they call it fog) I call it pollution.

Look, if your from there I can understand the fondness, but get real. LA IS a shithole and there ain't no denying that.

Hate New York City
It's cold and it's damp
And all the people dressed like monkeys
Let's leave Chicago to the Eskimos
That town's a little bit too rugged
For you and me you bad girl

Rollin' down the Imperial Highway
With a big nasty redhead at my side
Santa Ana winds blowin' hot from the north
And we as born to ride

Roll down the window put down the top
Crank up the Beach Boys baby
Don't let the music stop
We're gonna ride it till we just can't ride it no more

>From the South Bay to the Valley
>From the West Side to the East Side
Everybody's very happy
'Cause the sun is shining all the time
Looks like another perfect day

I love L.A. (We love it)
I love L.A. (We love it)

Look at that mountain
Look at those trees
Look at that bum over there, man
He's down on his knees
Look at these women
There ain't nothin' like 'em nowhere

Cool, it's like a giant version of the Forrestal, with fewer smoldering corpses.

~John Sidney McVeigh~

Finally some good news

If you had my job, you'd wanna fuck L.A.

Wasn't LA the place where they planted plastic trees beside the freeways because the real ones died from an overdose of pollution? Then the plastic trees wilted too. Nothing can stand up to that crap and it also probably why the people from LA always seem really weird, and I'm not just talking about the strange Hollywood types.

Then why do most of the really oddball stories come out of Florida or Texas?

LA is the place where celebrities like O.J. Michael Jackson, and Robert Blake can never be guilty of anything.

I have Korean friends who lived, worked, and owned businesses in South Central LA who were attacked and burned out by Blacks during the 1992 LA riots. The police did not protect the Koreans because Blacks have more political clout. Another reason to hate LA and THOSE FUCKING PEOPLE.

Blacks have trouble with Whites, Blacks have trouble with Mexicans, Blacks have trouble with Italians, Blacks have trouble with Jews, Blacks have trouble with Koteans. What's the common denominator?

#17 | Posted by fwthom at 2008-10-14 03:40 PM

Are you saying that there's something inherently wrong with Black people that makes it impossible for Blacks to get along with members of another race?

Maybe it just makes us better at b'ball. I better go eat some fried chicken and wattamellon on my front porch. If you wanna get skooled by my stoopid-mad roundball skillz, come over to my crib, Holmes. After da game, I be muggin' yo wallet just like I mugged you on da court.

"What's the common denominator?

#17 | Posted by fwthom"

You're a liar and a moron?

"And to those on here who would be happy to see my state of California burn down -- a big, fat, fiery "Fuck You" "

Amen, Chris. And remember, LA sucks, none of you dispshits want to live here. It's horrible. Earthquake and fires every other day. Don't even think about moving here. You will probably die real soon. Thanks.

CalifChris, have the fires affected you?

And Chris, is the 210 still closed?

SF and Northern California are not too bad. Despite the weirdos in SF, it's not a bad place to visit.

That has to be the smallest post ever from FWTHOM

Yeah, it's pretty much Mad Max out here. Stay away!

"SF and Northern California are not too bad. Despite the weirdos in SF, it's not a bad place to visit."

No, it's a horrible place to visit. You'll probably get killed in an earthquake. Stay away!

"Yeah, it's pretty much Mad Max out here. Stay away!"

Posted by dibblda

No problem.
Stay away from here, OK?

LA is the place where celebrities like O.J.

YEAH!

That's why he moved to Florida, close to Limbouhg!

WISGOD

CalifChris, have the fires affected you?

I'm fine for now and thanks for asking. Crappy air quality and some people are without power but I'm not one of them so I'm happy for that. But my house is right at the bottom of one area of those foothills. These foothills rim the entire San Fernando Valley (SFV)and the fires will travel all along the foothills from one area to another so you just have to keep aware of where they are as a new fire can pop up quickly.

Below is a picture of the SFV I linked for you to give you an idea. You can see all the houses in the SFV and then you'll see them entirely surrounded by what we call the "foothills" which totally surround the homes on the Valley floor. It's in those surrounding foothills that the fires keep flaring up and the firemen try to keep it from crawling down the foothills into the residential area.

Nulli

And Chris, is the 210 still closed?

Don't really know. Road closures and openings keep on changing. They closed parts of it and then reopened it. Last I heard I think the 210 did reopen. One homeless guy and his dog were killed right off the 210 the day the fire started. He had a wooden homeless shelter built for himself near an overpass on the 210 and the fire ran right over him and his dog killing them. Sad.

As an Asiafile you can imagine what a treat it was for me to spend an afternoon touring SF Chinatown with a young good looking Chinese woman I met selling hot dogs at the golf course. The food, smells, sights and sounds were wonderful. The girl had never had an American friend before and her natural curiosity was titillating. I walked around with a boner all day long. If I disappear and stop posting, you know where to find me, but don't tell my wife.

CC, glad your safe. Stay that way!

"Yeah, it's pretty much Mad Max out here. Stay away!"

Posted by dibblda

No problem.
Stay away from here, OK?

i179.photobucket.com

No problem, where is that? Downtown Houston TX? :-)

"where is that?'

My front yard.

Oh wait, the picture of the Carrera with the hay is the front yard, the cows lounging under the trees (too damn much mesquite, George?) is the back yard.

" Downtown Houston TX? "

Houston: Los Angeles with the climate of Calcutta.
-Molly Ivins

Lots of open highway to speed? Assuming there aren't too many patrol cars around.....

And the humidity was something like 15% yesterday, so you could see why areas like that are so quick to go up in flames. That area is probably 15 miles from one of the big fires from last year.