Moon-Crane wrote:CatNamedRudy wrote:The sad thing about Arnold is that he could be talking about the most tragic event in the history of the world and I would be unable to take him seriously because ALL I hear when he speaks is The Terminator!
It is quite a terrible situation. Has the cause been identified? It's not that uncommon either, is it? - although the scale of this one is on the larger side.
There are something like 19 fires burning at this point. All I heard last night that one of them initially began as a car fire.
It's compounded by the high Santa Ana winds and as much as I was complaining about things last night, I did learn something rather interesting. The Santa Ana winds blow in such a way that they produce "Fire Tornados" which are exactly what they sound like! It's quite bizarre to witness them and they are far more destructive and dangerous than some of the other blazes because they move at higher rate.
They arrested a guy today attempting to start yet another brush fire. They aren't releasing much information on him and they haven't said if they feel he was responsible for starting any of the others already burning.
California has burned before but I don't think quite on this scale. These fires are ranging from north of L.A. (Malibu) all the way to the Mexican border south of San Diego.
Serioulsy, I will never quite understand why anyone would live in California. Particuarly, Southern California. They have earth quakes, mud slides, floods, fires and celebrities! SCARY STUFF!