Yes, Da Bird is just great. I'm glad to Eclipse and Fluffy like it so much. Chula and Paul go absolutely nuts over it, leaping and twisting like a pair of contortionists.
I turned on the TV, wanted to know what the weather was going to be like but I never got there. There was a huge fire next to the freeway and it had jumped the freeway, cars were on fire, traffic backed up, it was just horrible. As I was watching a big rig that was next to a car carrier which was already on fire also succumbed to the flames. My son drives a big rig and I could not read the name on the side of the truck and he drives the Western states. So I called him to make sure he was nowhere near there. He wasn't, he was in Oregon, just waking up from a nap in the back of the cab, so he turned on his lap top to see this fire and if anyone he knew was in it. They weren't. 20 vehicles were destroyed but nobody died and there were only a few small injuries. This happened way out there in the dry brush and grass with wind up to 15 mph on the highway from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, so within 2 hours the burnt are went from 500 acres to 3500 acres. At this time, almost 6 hours after it started, the fire is still burning and has destroyed several buildings, the highway is closed so a lot of people will be stranded, although Highway Patrol has escorted people going the wrong way on the freeway to the next exit so that they can find an alternate route around this mess. I don't know what's happening with those whose cars were burnt up, I saw some people dragging wheeled suitcases on the freeway. How awful.Has anyone else noticed how much this thread has slowed down since we hit 1500? We must be all babbled out....and cat hung up on sleep...and real life!
I ordered some cat food from chewy.com. When it arrived the "best by" date was over a month old so I sent them an email regarding it. I did not want a refund as the food was in sealed plastic trays, and certainly good quite a while after the "best by" date, I just wanted them to know about it, that they need to rotate their stock more often. When I checked my credit card statement they had taken the charge off but they never contacted me in any other way. Pretty strange but nice of them.
I saw that on-line and on Twitter. It's the first time I've followed something like that through twitter where you can on-going updates from several people all at the scene. It's really a great way to get news, I think I might use Twitter more often. But the horror of what was going on! Just terrible. Very scary for everyone there though I heard there were no injuries.
I turned on the TV, wanted to know what the weather was going to be like but I never got there. There was a huge fire next to the freeway and it had jumped the freeway, cars were on fire, traffic backed up, it was just horrible. As I was watching a big rig that was next to a car carrier which was already on fire also succumbed to the flames. My son drives a big rig and I could not read the name on the side of the truck and he drives the Western states. So I called him to make sure he was nowhere near there. He wasn't, he was in Oregon, just waking up from a nap in the back of the cab, so he turned on his lap top to see this fire and if anyone he knew was in it. They weren't. 20 vehicles were destroyed but nobody died and there were only a few small injuries. This happened way out there in the dry brush and grass with wind up to 15 mph on the highway from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, so within 2 hours the burnt are went from 500 acres to 3500 acres. At this time, almost 6 hours after it started, the fire is still burning and has destroyed several buildings, the highway is closed so a lot of people will be stranded, although Highway Patrol has escorted people going the wrong way on the freeway to the next exit so that they can find an alternate route around this mess. I don't know what's happening with those whose cars were burnt up, I saw some people dragging wheeled suitcases on the freeway. How awful.This is about 100 miles due East from where I live as the crow flies but quite bit farther by road.
They always try but in this case it will take a while with the wind blowing the way it does. I know it was on all 3 networks and CNN for hours. One of the local stations is still reporting on the fire with new reports in 40 minutes.
This is very unusual for SoCal also and particularly for the fire to have swept across the freeway so fast that it caught cars just going down the road. Usually one has a warning about a fire crossing the road which will then be closed to traffic, but not this time.The burnt big rig belonged to a company called "KLLM" as written on the side of the truck's trailer, 20 vehicles were destroyed, 10 more damaged and there is now a mandatory evacuation in place. The road is closed to through traffic, only those cars/trucks already in the area can go and only on one lane, otherwise tow trucks are very busy getting all the burnt vehicles out of there.
It's fun for the first couple of hours, when they just want to snuggle up to each other on the sofa. Then they start to get bored and charge around the house in a big furry herd.
