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California wildfires.

Post by special_Kare » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:50 am

I post this message to Captain Obvious who is right in the middle of all those wildfires happening in California. CO i hope you, your family and friends made it out unharmed. Best wishes to you if your house did burn down. :P just remember to save 3 things, the acura, the computer, and the cat.! :P Post here CO so we know you are ok. I was watching the news and all the news crews were in your town :P
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Post by dede » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:09 am

omg not the captain :shock:
day or not I'll be there:)

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Post by Rickshaw » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:23 am

Get the hell out of there, CO!

I hope you got out OK.
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Post by Captain_Obvious » Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:36 am

Haha yeah I'm fine. We did evacuate, but only for a day. It was crazy... the city was like a ghost town and there was smoke and ash everywhere. Hordes of fire trucks though... When I went to the gas station on Tuesday, there were 10 fire trucks filling up, one other regular car, and me.

Monday night, a house about a block from mine went up in flames which is crazy because they were further away from the main (Witch Creek) fire than we were. Apparently the wind carried an ember about a mile to their wood roof, and it caught. As we were evacuating, we had to drive past the house, which was completely engulfed in flames by then. We're lucky though because there's a pretty big/dry field across the street from us that could've caught fire way more easily than that roof.

We have some close family friends who's neighbor's (both across the street and next door) houses burned down that same night. The fire went through our friends' backyard and all the way up to their house, but never caught onto it. They were really really lucky.

Then on Thursday, George Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger were in my city at the park where I used to play soccer games. Bush's helicopter landed on the football field at the high school where I go and play football every thanksgiving. They shut down that entire side of the city to make that happen, so I couldn't go see them. :(

On a more tragic note, we also have some friends of friends who unfortunately were found burned to death in their home. They most likely didn't hear the fire coming until in was on their house. :(
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Post by Captain_Obvious » Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:45 am

special_Kare wrote: just remember to save 3 things, the acura, the computer, and the cat.!
Oh and when we evacuated, I was in my acura, had the cat on the front seat in a box, and had my laptop and desktop's hard drive in the back. :roflmao:
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Post by Megor » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:10 pm

Wow they should really not allow people to have wood roofs!
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Post by Captain_Obvious » Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:02 pm

Megor wrote:Wow they should really not allow people to have wood roofs!
They don't allow people to build new wood roofs anymore, but there's still some older houses that haven't replaced them yet. :P
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Post by Megor » Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:25 am

Captain_Obvious wrote:
Megor wrote:Wow they should really not allow people to have wood roofs!
They don't allow people to build new wood roofs anymore, but there's still some older houses that haven't replaced them yet. :P
Well the fire will cleanse them out :)
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Post by Gabriel » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:34 am

......good that you are okay .......didnt rly think bout ppl that lived there.......bit weird.. 8)
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Post by Turbo_asswhup » Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:58 am

what the f*ck happened?!? :shock:

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Re: California wildfires.

Post by special_Kare » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:48 am

Captain_Obvious wrote:
special_Kare wrote: just remember to save 3 things, the acura, the computer, and the cat.!
Oh and when we evacuated, I was in my acura, had the cat on the front seat in a box, and had my laptop and desktop's hard drive in the back. :roflmao:
ahahhahahha :roflmao: :roflmao:
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Post by special_Kare » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:49 am

Turbo_asswhup wrote:what the f*ck happened?!? :shock:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/scie ... a_wildfire
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Post by Gabriel » Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:45 am

did they get the guy who started it alrdy? :evil:
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Post by dede » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:09 am

hope they did/do
day or not I'll be there:)

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