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Old 05-09-2019, 02:30 PM
Nor Cal Mikie Nor Cal Mikie is offline
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Watched a program on PBS last night about the California fires. Wasn't much they could do about them. All you could do was GET THE HELL OUT, NOW!!
Last year we had the "Ranch Fire". Started a mile or so East of us out in the middle of nowhere. Never did figure out how it started. Started moving West and North. Burned 287K + acres.
The year before we had the Mendocino Complex Fire. Started at the North end of our Valley and burned over the hills into the next Valley going West. A few folks died and lots of homes burned. Power was off so no Cell Phones. One reason why I keep my land line. Mandatory evacuation for both fires. I would have stayed but Mom was squirming so we loaded up and got out for a few days.
With the Ranch Fire, maybe 100 Fire Trucks went past the house and they kept coming.
Got a lady friend in Paradise that got burned out along with everybody else. Lots of older folks died in that fire.
Best to live "one day at a time" and be ready to GET OUT on a minutes notice.
Youngest daughter in Minnesota called and was freaking out thinking we were Crispy Critters. Media hype sure jacked things up. Finally told her to shut up or I would hang up. I didn't get this old by being stupid. Finally got thru to her. They kept showing the fires burning from two nights before, over and over and over again. What were folks to think? Beat that to death then moved on to more useless time wasting crap. Damn near as bad as politics.
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Old 05-09-2019, 02:37 PM
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That is just the start of that type of action BCB. Now Colorado has done the same and some other states are trying to follow suit. Any way the anti-s can drive a nail into the gun owner coffin, they will work overtime at. And the stupid politicians will just jump on the train.
Not one of them stops to think that it is the criminal and whatever weapon they can and will use to violated the laws on murder and mayhem, but all they focus on is a single tool, the gun, rather than who did the act. Bill K
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Old 05-09-2019, 03:19 PM
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Thanks for the link, BCB. Everybody needs to read the posts after the article, especially the one about Saul Alinksy's 8 Principles for Socialist State. It sure sounds like the whole country is heading that way.
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Old 05-09-2019, 03:48 PM
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Thanks for the link, BCB. Everybody needs to read the posts after the article, especially the one about Saul Alinksy's 8 Principles for Socialist State. It sure sounds like the whole country is heading that way.
It is indeed a problem everywhere.

Texas is largely conservative in terms of land area but becoming more and more liberal due to it being the state where the most people are moving into from other places in the US each year. And most of the "immigrants" into Dallas, Austin, Houston, and other large metro areas are liberals from places that are already overran with goodness.... The problem is that many of the "immigrants" want to spread the goodness that they left where they settle at down here.

I hope Trump has some wall money left over so maybe we can get a wall built on the northern border of the state too. Or at least be able to set up check points to filter out the undesirables wanting to spread their unhappiness across Texas...... Just wishful thinking on my part........ it will likely never happen.

I'm fairly old so it won't affect me a great deal with what life I have left, but I do worry about my Texas born and bred grand kids....... With the current trends, there is no way that they will be able to grow up in the Texas that many of us know. I liked life when no one from up north wanted to be a Texan for fear they might develop some affection for the state that native Texans have............

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Old 05-09-2019, 06:43 PM
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Well put, BCB.

I ran into same problem about 30+ years ago. Found a town/location we liked. Ten years later when we wanted to buy a retirement place there, the town had changed so much, we said forget it. Sad but true.
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