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Date:         Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:20:20 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Satellite image of fire (NVC)
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
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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