Wow! Sattelite Photos Of CA Fires!

[Beetwasher]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/031027/161/5ouwa.html&e=1

[mcar]

1. Awe-inspiring

Amazing, frightening.

[TLM]

7. It is freaky... I live right smack in the middle of the fires.

This is why living on the canyons is a bad idea.


It is like constant dusk... the sky is dark brown/orange and the sun is almost totaly blocked out.

THis is what the sun looked like yesterday at noon... looks darker today.

[BurtWorm]

2. Sickening!

White light to SoCal DUers. (Keep it away from dry wood!)

[sam sarrha]

3. Those fires are set by an arsonist !!!!

:grr:

[TLM]

6. Nope... looks like the one up north was arrson...

but the ones down south were from one hunter who got lost a set a signal fire.


The fires spread fast through the canyons on the santa ana winds which gust up to 50mph, and pick up little bits of burning brush and move it a considerable distance... starting new fires.

[EX-CONservative]

15. Copy cat?

The first one was an accident, but some idiots likely decided to ape it and exacerbated the problem.

How many were wearing Ahhhhhhhhh-nold tee-shirts? :shrug:

[7th_Sephiroth]

18. bush started the fires

to get support for his forrest thinni g initiatives

[section321]

4. I had to wash the ash off my car yesterday morning before I could drive...

and I don't live anywhere near the fires. The nearest fire is an hour and a half drive...

[TLM]

9. it is like the whole city has been stuffed in the back of spicoli's van.

[Cat Atomic]

11. LMAO

^^ good one.

It's nice and clear here in Long Beach today. Hmm.

[Noordam]

5. THAT MY BIRD .....

I worked on Terra for 18 months up until it's launch in 1999.

http://terra.nasa.gov

[gbwarming]

8. Higher res pictures at the NASA site

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=11799

I lived through several fire seasons in Coloma. '93 or 94 was one of the worst - driving home from from work in Folsom looking at the mushroom clouds in the foothills wondering if this time it had gotten us. That year was arson too.

[whyzayker]

10. Anybody remember this?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-11-alqaeda-fire_x.htm

FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot
PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States.
Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn't see a need to act further on it.

[wheresthemind]

12. huh!

wow interesting!

[EX-CONservative]

16. Thanks!

I love the terra site...

Thanks for the swaet and tears and helping me enjoy our planet :that much: more.

:cheers:

[Clete]

13. The smoke is rising over the hill behind my house.

And I am 200 miles from the fires. I hope there aren't any new ones starting in my county of San Luis Obispo.

[EX-CONservative]

14. Holy Crap!

Is this a sign of TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World As we Know It)??? :scared:

[dudeness]

17. my sympathies

to those that have lost loved ones and possessions..as a 17 year firefighter I went through a similar experience on jan 18 2003..4 lives and 500 homes lost ..these are catastrophic events..