30 homes burn in San Diego County

[W5BRM]

http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/30-homes-burn-in-San-Diego-County-5476345.php

Hope our Island residents are OK there. Was thinkin about Pat MHZ when I posted this but I think we have a few others down that way as well. Stay safe guys!

[NQ6U]

I'm in no danger here unless things get seriously out of control. Pat is more vulnerable up there in Crest but, so far, all the fires have been north of us.

[W5BRM]

Ok Thanks. Wasnt sure it was you that lived down that way but thanks. Keep safe!

[KG4CGC]

That last batch of holy water they used on those fire when they were still small didn't help. What's in that stuff anyway?

[W5BRM]

That last batch of holy water they used on those fire when they were still small didn't help. What's in that stuff anyway?


Funny how Vodka looks like water....

[KG4CGC]

Funny how Vodka looks like water....

*checks vodka bottles behind bar*

[NA4BH]

Check the moonshine bottles too, how do you think the fires got started.

[kb2vxa]

Aliens..........

[W2NAP]

Aliens..........

not saying it was, but it was.

[NQ6U]

Hot monkey sex with nuns in the undergrowth, but keep it to yourselves.

—Da Pope

(Seriously, that thirty homes number is way high. More like eight.)

[NQ6U]

Cool video of a DC-10 fire tanker making a drop here (http://www.nbcsandiego.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Super-Tanker-Flyby-in-San-Marcos/259327821). Sorry, it won't embed.

[K7SGJ]

Cool video of a DC-10 fire tanker making a drop here (http://www.nbcsandiego.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Super-Tanker-Flyby-in-San-Marcos/259327821). Sorry, it won't embed.

Son-of-a-bitch. I thought it just looked low because of the telephoto lens. That thing was right on the deck. That is one hell of a pilot to make such a tight bank like that for a short final, with an unstable load, and make a drop like that. He should be flying B-52s.

If I recall correctly, that is the only DC-10 the Forest Service has for that type of duty. I know they have some C-130s, P3s, and a few others that have been modified for slurry service. Maybe after the troops come home, and we don't get into some other 3rd world clusterfuck, the military can modify and transfer a few KC-10s to where they will do some good, fighting forest fires.

[NQ6U]

Yeah, that initial turn and approach looks so...wrong.

Takes equal amounts of skill and testicular fortitude to fly something so big that low and that slow. I heard they've mounted a 2" hitch ball on the bottom of the pilot's seat as a supplemental restraint system.

[NA4BH]

Nice flying. Taught him everything he knows.