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Post by Jessiealan on Oct 8, 2014 5:08:43 GMT -5
Lots of rain. Hoping for a return of the sunshine today.
Glad to say I am doing better and should go home later.
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Post by iamjumbo on Oct 8, 2014 11:14:41 GMT -5
yep. that is a great story. i can almost relate. when i was 21 and 22, i played fire with cdf, now cal fire. things were a lot different then. i was at the station three hours before i went on a major call, and we were out there for four days. there wasn't any training. you got your training on the fire line. it was a job that i really loved. it was perfect for me, since, you always get to win, or, if you don't, it don't matter any more. that first fire, it took them three days to set up fire camp, because the first truck got burned. they finally called us into fire camp, but, just as we were pulling in, they called, and sent us down to cabazon peak. there were four trucks there, and we laid 1200 feet of hose from each truck up the mountain. it was a backfire, that had backfired, and come down the other side. all of a sudden, we got a firestorm, which is a tornado of fire. everybody was hauling ass down the hillside. i scraped the ass out of my pants getting down. we got the hoses unhooked from the trucks, and got out of there, just about three minutes before the entire place was on fire. in two summers, that was the scariest time that i had. i was on a couple of the malibu fires, and it was just exciting. once, we had six trucks at a dozen houses. we're just standing there, waiting for the fire to get to us. there was a thirty foot high wall of flame coming down the hill, because of the wind. you can't believe the adrenaline that's pumping while you're standing there watching it cime. all in all though, like i said, it was the one job that i ever had that i truly loved. i played volunteer fire a couple of times later in my life, but seldom had a fire. ninety percent of our calls were medical aids, and car wrecks.
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Post by iamjumbo on Oct 8, 2014 11:16:29 GMT -5
it's staying hot there. i was wondering, could you see the smoke from the king fire? some days it's very hazy and can barely see the Sutter Buttes so that has to be from some fire somewhere. it's probably the king fire, although, a new one started yesterday in yosemite. that's the one where the tanker pilot got killed
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Post by mouse on Oct 8, 2014 12:15:28 GMT -5
wet cold and miserable...managed to get down stairs today...sitting is still a problems..will be happy when i can use my own computer
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Post by beth on Oct 8, 2014 13:01:27 GMT -5
Every little bit helps. Glad you're feeling better, mouse. You, too, Jessie.
Jim, that's an amazing story. I can see how you'd be in your element with something like that. Most people would not.
Next time you come in, will you please go into sports and tell me what you think about UK's football season .Only one loss so far and it was a squeaker in OT. Thinking, after 60 years, the Bear Bryant curse may be broken with this new coach.
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Post by beth on Oct 8, 2014 13:24:47 GMT -5
Here's an interesting true story.
I went in to work today and had to wait around a bit to see a person I was scheduled to interview this week. My work place has a business section where I usually work but it also has a large area where the teachers work with kids to teach them text communication on computers. Most of these kids have at least one disability, but often, it's hard to tell what that might be and I don't get nosy because I don't work with them.
Anyway, I sat down at a computer and brought up Gates of Babylon just quickly because I had a few minutes to kill. The theme I'm using right now is called Halloween and consists of 3 carved pumpklins with little witch hats.
A little boy (thinking about 7) came over and stood behind me looking at the screen. I said, "are you looking forward to Halloween?"
He said, "I like those pumpkins. That's a jolly, fat mama, a grouchy dad that yells and there in front is their little boy".
It had never occurred to me to look at the pumpkins that way but saw what he meant, immediately. I said, "Does the dad ever smile?"
He said, "oh sure, he's just having a bad day."
Sometimes it's amazing how well kids understand, eh?
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Post by iamjumbo on Oct 8, 2014 15:17:19 GMT -5
Every little bit helps. Glad you're feeling better, mouse. You, too, Jessie. Jim, that's an amazing story. I can see how you'd be in your element with something like that. Most people would not. Next time you come in, will you please go into sports and tell me what you think about UK's football season .Only one loss so far and it was a squeaker in OT. Thinking, after 60 years, the Bear Bryant curse may be broken with this new coach. the only part i didn't like about wildland fires was that i knew that it was hurting animals, and their homes and food. otherwise, it was the most exciting thing in the world. things were a lot different then though. on one fire, we had seven miles of fireline burning across the mountain, but we slept under the truck to keep warm. they can't do that anymore. now, they also go through a couple of months of training before they get put on a fire. back then, we learned as we went. when the alarm went off in the station, and they called 680, the adrenaline starts going. standing in front of a wall of fire, it goes even more. it's always kind of a letdown when you come back home. actually, the volunteer fire was exciting at times. one time, a chap was hauling a cigarette machine in the back of a toyota pickup, not tied down.and went around a bend too fast. the machine slid and turned the truck over. he got paritally ejected and the window came down across his face. i was under the truck, lying in a big pool of blood, trying to pry the guy's jaws open so i could get a suction tube in his throat. we worked on the lad for an hour, but, the coroner said he was dead when we first got there. we had a chap that didn't want to make a mess, so he put on a hard hat and wrapped himself up in a blanket, then stuck a 12 gauge under his chin. he did make a mess anyway. i really wish i was still able to do it i'll check out your uk. best as i can tell just reading, they probably have the best team they've had in a decade.
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Post by beth on Oct 8, 2014 16:13:22 GMT -5
A decade or more! They should be better next year because recruitment is doing well, too.
The new coach is, apparently, just what they needed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 22:30:15 GMT -5
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Post by beth on Oct 8, 2014 23:54:06 GMT -5
... and I love your sig line, Sug.
It's late and tomorrow's a work day.
G'nite all and have a great Thursday! Anybody who can manage a great Thursday should have no problem at all with the other 6 days of the week.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 0:41:27 GMT -5
sat outside to watch the moon rise over the Sutter Buttes and damned if something didn't bit my left hand by my index finger and now it is still itching and all swollen up......I am keeping an eye on it and if it gets worse, will drive over to Colusa to the ER and have it checked out.
I've never had anything like this before except about 38 years ago on my foot
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Post by mouse on Oct 9, 2014 3:00:57 GMT -5
another wet one..gloomy and grey son one keeps a few chickens...anyway one of them was poorly so he took it to the vets wrapped in a pale pink towel.so he is sitting in the waiting room surrounded by dogs and cat of various sizes..and him with the chuck who clucked away for dear life which in turn upset the cats and dogs.who then became noisey restive and nervous...the situa6tion was becoming farcical so much so the others were insistent that chicken and son were gien priority to be next in line i would have loved to have seen and got a photograph of my actionman son carting round a chicken in a pink towel
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Post by iamjumbo on Oct 9, 2014 4:37:30 GMT -5
... and I love your sig line, Sug. It's late and tomorrow's a work day. G'nite all and have a great Thursday! Anybody who can manage a great Thursday should have no problem at all with the other 6 days of the week. back in my glory days, i always looked forward to thursday. since friday was payday, that meant that any money i had left thursday night could go to the bar
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Post by iamjumbo on Oct 9, 2014 4:39:40 GMT -5
A decade or more! They should be better next year because recruitment is doing well, too. The new coach is, apparently, just what they needed. like i said in the uk thread, the only bumps in their road should be mississippi state, and maybe lsu, although miss state wiped lsu
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Post by annaj26 on Oct 9, 2014 12:22:27 GMT -5
Still waiting for somebody to tell me Ohio State has a chance.
I think KY will get a bowl game.
Gray day.
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