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Thread ID: 73622 2006-10-26 15:40:00 Bad Fires Here In San Jacinto Mountains, California SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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494557 2006-10-26 22:11:00 Latest TV News link about the fires...vids and slideshows: cbs2.com SurferJoe46 (51)
494558 2006-10-26 22:20:00 The number of trapped campers in that park has been downgraded to about 400. SurferJoe46 (51)
494559 2006-10-26 22:22:00 I sincerly hope this isn't becoming too OT..I am stuck here at home with just the internet, a phone and a tv...and I can't go outside, not to mention totally screwed up my fishing day..so I am almost giving a blow-by-blow account of the fire. SurferJoe46 (51)
494560 2006-10-26 22:32:00 Hi Joe

I know some of our top rural fire fighters are over there lending their experiance, a couple from here in Nelson (NW area of the South Island). Hope they can do their bit fot you.
Arnie (6624)
494561 2006-10-26 23:13:00 Hi Joe

I know some of our top rural fire fighters are over there lending their experiance, a couple from here in Nelson (NW area of the South Island). Hope they can do their bit fot you.

Thanks....we need all the help we can get
SurferJoe46 (51)
494562 2006-10-26 23:16:00 The smoke, however, is very thick and makes it hard to breathe and my eyes are watering.I thought that was quite normal for Western USA pollution? :rolleyes: Greg (193)
494563 2006-10-26 23:26:00 I thought that was quite normal for Western USA pollution? :rolleyes:

I may be a little more susceptible to smog and smoke as I spent years in chemicals up to my armpits most of the time I wrenched for a living.

Carb cleaners, solvents, aerosol spray chemicals, paints and thinners, lacquers, lube oils and fuels, etc, etc.

It might have set me up for a very heightened sensitivity to them all including smog.

Hemet has it's nitrous oxides, not the photochemical type smog. It lays in this valley like quicksilver in a toilet bowl (dummy to you), and won't go away until the winds get going really good.

But this smoke from fires is a little overboard...even to people who aren't so weakened.

Be fair...OK?
SurferJoe46 (51)
494564 2006-10-27 00:08:00 toilet bowl (dummy to you)I think the locals, or at least the farm folks, call it a dunny. Greg (193)
494565 2006-10-27 02:28:00 AH!

I only heard the word in a Crocodile Dundee movie and I guess what with his accent, I misunderstood the spelling...sorry.
SurferJoe46 (51)
494566 2006-10-27 05:14:00 "Bog", or "thunderbox" used to be the accepted agrarian terminology when I was in the hinterland.

"Flamin' Dunnies" was a childish trick, unpopular with parents
R2x1 (4628)
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