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otisdog

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  1. Always have... The LASPCA on Jefferson is a good outfit, all donated funds are kept in house. My SIL used to be head of PR there.
  2. The big Skykorsky chopper holds 3,000 gallons of water. Following this fire I learned about 69 Bravo, a LAFD helispot. This is at the top of Topanga canyon off of Saddlepeak. It has four water tanks that are supplied by a well that the choppers fill up at while airborn, either by dipping their buckets or sucking with hoses. Has bluetooth actuated sprinklers to keep the dust down while the choppers hover. Also two separate fueling pads. They also have 24 hour cameras, so you can watch the birds come and go, watch the fire, or on more simple days, just enjoy the beautiful views from the top of the Santa Monica mountains. 69bravo.com
  3. 23 helicopters on the Palisade fire this morning.
  4. Not intellectually deficient, nor misinformed. This was not a PIO, it was the actual fire chief of the city of Los Angeles. The same fire chief who wrote a letter to the mayor a couple of months ago expressing how the budget cuts to the fire department would impact the ability of the fire department to respond to wildfires. Said fire chief was on the local news yesterday, and when the anchor asked if the cuts affected their response, the chief hesitantly applied in the affirmative.
  5. Moved out of Sierra Madre 4 years ago to the great PNW. This is pretty crazy...Altadena (sbbruin's home town) is destroyed. Watched the middle school burn to the ground on TV while the building was surrounded by fire trucks....couldn't see a soul fighting the fire. There were no fire trucks to be seen in Sierra Madre as the fire roared in the foothills above town....the numbers of lost homes there was small, given the situation. Seems like the 'first responders' are more interested in holding press conferences and spewing excuses than anything else. Fire Chief said " hydrants aren't designed for wild fires, just single building fires". Insurance companies have only begun dropping policies in California. Initially it was just the rurals, but now they can go after the metro areas. Pacific Palisades was one on the wealthier communities in socal, now it's dust. A whole lot for of Malibu and Topanga has burned that hasn't bee mentioned by the media. Mandeville and Brentwood are next.
  6. Roasted Hatch chiles, vine ripened tomatoes,, white onion and cilantro, all diced. Super simple, super good.
  7. I thought E.H. Taylor just sold their own products...can you enlighten me?
  8. Yeah, they'll do that. I've had at least two bust out when I've stopped to piss - already opened the O/U and laid it down, so just watched them fly away holding my DIH.
  9. Anytime that I needed to talk to my pool guy, that's where I would find him.
  10. Chili John's sucks, and is closed 6 months of the year...used to live 4 blocks away when I was newly wed.
  11. What's really mind bottling to me is who they vote for.....
  12. Nope. The price for the double 1/4 was the same as aggie08 above.
  13. I was 62 miles from the Spokane airport....Ritzville, which is by no means a wealthy burg.
  14. No shit....I went to a Mcdonald's in eastern Washington to buy my dog a 1/4 pound patty to reward him for his great day in the field and was flppred by the prices...filet of fish was more than $10, and a crispy chicken sandwich was more than $13. His patty was $4.75.
  15. Oh, yes.... Friends of my parents up and left Southern California and bought a huge corn farm there. 3 of the most depressing 'vacations' that we ever took. Still, no raisins.
  16. Not the white BBQs that I go to. Jalapeños, yes. Raisins, no.
  17. The MDF, due to the water is dimensionally larger...you need to replace the piece.
  18. Bunch of fucking youngsters in here....I'm still pissed about 'the red zone'. Same amount of syllables as 'the twenty', and last time i looked, the 'red zone' grass was the same color as the rest of the field.
  19. Well, kinda.... As my wife and I drove home yesterday from the palouse back to our island on the coast, she asked me why the wheat farmers showed such strong support for trump. After trying to come up with contrasting examples to non-trumpers, I had to settle for 'lack of education'. On another note, our new pup was exceptional on his first pheasant hunting trip. Waaaay beyond my expectations. He was worth the drive to Wisconsin.
  20. There's a 5 acre lot on the water (Puget Sound) for 495k about a nile down the road from me.
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