Hmm.. looks like rain.. Wait, holy fuck!

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-04-03 12:28am

So I leave school today, and look southward. Wall of clouds. Yawn. Looks like it's gonna rain. Listen to the local NPR station a bit, hear something about a brush fire in north-west Miami-Dade County, just south of me. So I look again at the storm cloudes. I follow them west and there it is: A huge ass plume of smoke rising from the ground. 1000 acres burning.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-04-03 01:31am

Hmm....welcome to California v2.0.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-04-03 01:40am

Has Florida been in a drought recently? There seem to have been a lot of wildfires the past couple years.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2004-04-03 01:44am

Mayabird wrote:Has Florida been in a drought recently? There seem to have been a lot of wildfires the past couple years.

We're Florida. It's ALWAYS hot and dry down here

Actually, It seems we are right now... last major drought was '98, when there were mucho wildfires, some rather close to where I live. THis time, I didn't even know about it until Koji told me. But I've been living under a rock for the past week, so... yeah.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-04-03 04:03am

This thing is pretty damn exciting, to be honest. I've never been anywhere near something this big, so it's a new experience. It's very cool. I'm heading downtown tomorrow to get up into a tall building and watch the smoke.

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2004-04-03 09:23am

A friend of mine's house lost it's back fence due to a bushfire in 1993, and again in 2002. I remember waking up one day and seeing the entire city central buisness district covered in thick brown smoke, the sun an eery red/orange colour.

and being at School back in 199 something and walking out of a biology lesson and the entire sky was black. catching the bus home we actually saw some of the red stuff (fire) close enough to scare the shit out of us. I never heard a schoolbus so quiet as that day.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-04-05 12:00am

TROOOOOOOGDOOOOOOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you don't get burninated. At least now you can stop worrying about when your state will be engulfed in hellish flames.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-04-05 12:09am

Its cold and there is snow here.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-04-05 01:39pm

Having lived in western Nevada for five years, I got to deal with almost every natural disaster known to man (other than floods, which I get to deal with every year now that I live in WI). I can remember I had my own brushfire one year. It got within ten miles of our neighborhood, and in the end, we got nearly an inch and a half of ash. In an area where snow is a luxury, we had quite a bit of fun with this psuedo-snow that made you choke.

In the end though, nothing beats watching a full-blown dust-devil (almost as big as a normal twister) cut through some dry shrubland, from the vantage point of a four hundred foot high plataeu.

-Damien

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-04-05 02:15pm

Montcalm wrote:Its cold and there is snow here.

It's boiling and sunny here.