That San Bruno fire was horrific

[malaise]

but the dislocation for families is even worse. 37 homes gone and many more are seriously damaged. We don't really fuss about our possessions but I'm not sure we could handle anything that devastating at this stage of our lives.

[RandomThoughts]

1. thats not horrific.

Horrific what would that be? perhaps Yellowstone magma bubble.

although the ash fall out would take out the entire Midwest.


But shrug, why would it matter. How is it different then the smears done to any person.

[Renew Deal]

2. Random Thoughts

It's in the name. :rofl:

[Gin]

4. does anyone else feel confused by the responses to this post?

that fire was devastating..and horrific...

[kentuck]

6. Yes..

:shrug:

[aquart]

7. Yes. It was.

My sister had to evacuate in the San Diego Witch fire and she had days to protect her property and pack. Even so, it was traumatic. These families had no chance at all. No chance to pack or choose or save anything but their lives.

Never let someone denigrate your reactions by implying you care for unworthy objects, beings, or events. Or that crying for a few is silly when you should wait to cry for many.

The Ballad of Father Gilligan

The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day
For half his flock were in their beds
Or under green sods lay.

Once, while he nodded in a chair
At the moth-hour of eve
Another poor man sent for him,
And he began to grieve.

'I have no rest, nor joy, nor peace,
For people die and die;
And after cried he, 'God forgive!
My body spake not I!'

He knelt, and leaning on the chair
He prayed and fell asleep;
And the moth-hour went from the fields,
And stars began to peep.

They slowly into millions grew,
And leaves shook in the wind
And God covered the world with shade
And whispered to mankind.

Upon the time of sparrow chirp
When the moths came once more,
The old priest Peter Gilligan
Stood upright on the floor.

'Mavrone, mavrone! The man has died
While I slept in the chair.'
He roused his horse out of its sleep
And rode with little care.

He rode now as he never rode,
By rocky lane and fen;
The sick man's wife opened the door,
'Father! you come again!'

'And is the poor man dead?' he cried
'He died an hour ago.'
The old priest Peter Gilligan
In grief swayed to and fro.

'When you were gone, he turned and died,
As merry as a bird.'
The old priest Peter Gilligan
He knelt him at that word.

'He Who hath made the night of stars
For souls who tire and bleed,
Sent one of his great angels down,
To help me in my need.

'He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.'

-- William Butler Yeats

[malaise]

9. Yes

because it was horrific for those who are suffering.

[CreekDog]

20. the fire is more horrific than returning to your burned house

the fire killed people.

both things are bad but what kills is worse.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Depends how you see it.

If you want to play that game.

R an D Ommmmmmm!

Same thing as R2D2 actually. So not sure what you are saying.

I actually like Robe our tea. Robert.
And East Would Eastwood
Or Birth Wood if you like.


And if you want to start breaking up words into smaller meanings, you would be surprised.

How many things you would see, and you would go insane, takes disipline to avoid that trap, of thinking names have meaning, that is the label trap.

Look at the entire life, not some label.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

11. I know two familie who lost their houses --

in the inferno and an another person who suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns. For them this was horrific.

[donheld]

17. It wasn't your home so it's not horrific?

[CreekDog]

19. it was horrific

anything that burns 45 houses quickly is horrific by any measure.

[CreekDog]

21. i can forgive you for being wrong

but not for being callous.

[Cleita]

3. I'm so sorry for everyone who was victimized by this

fire and the loss of lives. I'm curious why PG & E is running around sponsoring festivals with money they probably should have been using to keep their infrastructure safe. For instance:

http://www.agharvestfestival.com/entertainment.htm (Scroll down to bottom of page for sponsors.)

I hope that their nuclear power plant in my neighborhood is better maintained than those gas lines in San Bruno. But I suppose the reason for their sponsorship is to ingratiate themselves in this community we, the residents, really want them gone, especially after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.

[EFerrari]

16. PG&E is BP with meter readers. They always have been. n/t

[LWolf]

8. The loss of life is even worse than the displacement.

:cry:

[malaise]

10. Indeed although I think knowing they

had no way out must have been frightening. Imagine the fiance of the young lady who died - he tried to rescue her and now has devastating burns.
Still it is their loved ones who now feel the pain. The dead are dead - it is the living who are weeping and having to start over.

[LWolf]

13. Yes. nt

[Hekate]

12. It's all-of-a-piece, isn't it? It was as sudden as an earthquake, and no one at the epicenter...

... stood a chance. When there's a quake, oftentimes you can salvage some little thing from the rubble -- with a great fire, there's not much at all. I think whole families were trapped, an awful thing. And the survivors -- the "displaced".

All sad.

Hekate

[Kievan Rus]

14. Our infrastructure is falling apart...

but hey, as long as the people at the top 1% don't have to pay more taxes, it's all good, right?

:sarcasm:

[applegrove]

15. As long as people got out with their lives that is all that matters. vibes to those that didn't make

it.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. My sympathies go out to all the victims, living and dead,

of this catastrophe.