From an AP story about the Australian fires at http://wvgazette.com/News/200902090356 via zebulon_y:
Oh, and we have chaparral, dude. With the SAME TREES.
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From an AP story about the Australian fires at http://wvgazette.com/News/200902090356 via zebulon_y:
Oh, and we have chaparral, dude. With the SAME TREES.
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Clearly, flammable aromatic oils are enormously powerful and can literally wake the dead.
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Haha, win. And for some reason I had no idea Google had this huge USENET archive available.
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Yeah, you know, you never have huge wildfires in Southern California, either. I can hardly remember that happening ever.
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Or, you know, millions of acres of dead oil-soaked chaparral that they call “a bomb in landscape form.”
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leave early or stay and defend
have you heard of this? seems like australia advises residents to be fire-prepared and trained to defend their homes, or to leave early. last-minute panic means your car melts to the canyon road:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wildfires3-2008aug03%2C0%2C1422284.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-firefighting13-2009jan13,0,2201880.story
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That meteorologist needs to be FIRED.
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when i was living down there in lovely san bernardino county, nothing refreshed me more than those brisk, cooling zephyrs FROM HELL
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Perhaps they’re trying to say that 80 – 100 degrees is cool compared to their winds…
But either way: LOLWUT
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