Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:20:20 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Satellite image of fire (NVC)
In-Reply-To: <471E8D72.9080905@gmail.com>
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Having fought fire in the Interior in my younger days, I'll take ash over
flames any time. :)
Will the on-shore Westerlies not re-establish themselves once the Santa Ana
drops?
On 10/23/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The famous dry Santa Ana winds which fan these wildfires and make them so
> hard to stop blow from the east. If you can get through to the satellite
> image at http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/images/071022terra.jpg
> you'll see how the plumes of smoke and ash extend hundreds of miles out
> into the Pacific. When the pressure system responsible for these winds
> moves far enough to the east, the winds will falter then the more normal
> onshore flow resumes. Which brings those clouds of smoke and ash right
> back to us. You wanna talk secondhand smoke? Dandruff on everything. SoCal
> snow.
>
> Just in case anyone wonders about our famous other season, the mudslide
> season, just add torrential downpours to hills stripped of vegetation by
> wildfire.
>
> It's a lovely system. It's how things are supposed to work around here,
> and has done so for millions of years, but it's uncomfortable to us.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 10/23/2007 3:40 PM Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
> > Let's hope the winds die down soon then, for all of your sakes. That
> kind
> > of threat just isn't any fun at all.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/23/07, Mark Drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
> >> Rocky (Mike Rocket J Squirrel) actually lives in one of the evacuation
> >> zones a couple miles from me. His neighborhood is only under an advised
> >> status thus far, nobody HAS to there leave yet. I think he has his
> Westy
> >> packed in case the order comes.
> >>
> >> Here is another link with fire info. It says 1250 homes known lost and
> >> 240,000 acres burned.
> >>
> >> http://www.signonsandiego.com/index.html
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> Jake de Villiers wrote:
> >>
> >>> Not working for me Rocky...........
> >>>
> >>> On 10/23/07, Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/images/071022terra.jpg
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> >>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> >>>> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> >>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> >>>> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> >>>> KG6RCR
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Jake
> >>> 1984 Vanagon GL
> >>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> >>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
> >>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jake
> > 1984 Vanagon GL
> > 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> > www.crescentbeachguitar.com
> > http://subyjake.googlepages.com/
> >
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
http://subyjake.googlepages.com/
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