Date:         Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:10:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Satellite image of fire (NVC)
Comments: To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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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/
>