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September 2, 2005
Fires
CNN is showing several fires. One in Bywater, near where the canal meets the river. They're fighting the fire from the river with fireboats. (God, it reminds me of the '89 quake in San Francisco, when there was no water pressure and they had to fight the Marina fire from boats in the bay.)
The other, the CNN guys are clueless about the geography, but it looks to me like a large intense fire across the street from the Notre Dame Seminary on Carrollton between Claiborne and Earhart. I recognize the seminary, we use to drive past it every morning on the school bus on the way to Franklin.
Flood, famine, now fire.
Bring on the locusts.
I hope somebody is thinking "let's prepare the fire equipment now, just in case", and isn't going to wait until half the city is ablaze before they start looking for resources. What can they use in flooded neighborhoods? Maybe forest fire planes that can pick up loads of water from the lake and drop it on burning city blocks?
Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink, or spray on a fire.
(Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm supposed to be taking a break, but when CNN gets things wrong I feel compelled to put better data out there.)
Posted by ray at September 2, 2005 4:45 PM | Permalink
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I'm just waiting for the case of someone saying something about punishment for sins about all this. I'm loading my .45 as I wait for it...
Posted by: Karl Elvis at September 2, 2005 5:33 PM
Someone already has, Karl. I read the most ignorant statement from some zealot religious group yesterday. I just don't get people. Really.
Oh and I think snakes took the place of the locust, apparently as if those people wading through the contaminated water didnt have enough to worry about, there were fecking snakes all over the place.
Posted by: Gwensarah at September 2, 2005 7:12 PM
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