Bob Morris @ 22:07 Category: Unfiled;
From a friend in Santa Barbara
That “Tea Fire” was way too close for comfort. It came roaring down our canyon and stopped about 200 feet away. Walls of flame, exploding houses and trees, surreal stuff. Check out these pics.
While I’m glad he and the house survived, it’s sobering knowing that many of his neighbors lost everything.
Bob Morris @ 19:15 Category: Unfiled;
Theft is the most common crime of senior citizens, many of whom face declining health, low incomes and a sense of isolation.
“The elderly are turning to shoplifting as an increasing number of them lack assets and children to depend on.”
Some are deliberately committing crimes so they will be put in jail and thus receive food and shelter. Japan is now officially in a recession, so things will be getting worse, not better, for a while.
Bob Morris @ 14:22 Category: Renewable energy, Solar power;
Nano-engineering students at Rensselaer have created a solar power game-changer: more than 96% absorption of sunlight from all angles, from sunrise to sunset.
This new nano-coating for solar cells absorbs virtually all of the spectrum from the sun and can absorb them optimally regardless of where the sun is in the sky.
This could be disruptive technology, something which changes the solar industry forever.
Bob Morris @ 10:38 Category: Socialism;
Sarkozy deftly steals the clothes of the disorganized French Left
Why is the Left too often unable to put up a unified front? Sectarian squabbling over doctrinal differences is a primary reason. It poisons the waters and makes cooperation between groups impossible, something which is especially bizarre and unfortunate considering that solidarity is supposed to be a core value.
Bob Morris @ 09:43 Category: Unfiled;
I lived in L.A. for many years until 2006 and Sue grew up there. The current batch of fires are among the worst ever.
The Sayre fire has destroyed 500 homes in a mobile home park.
City Councilman Richard Alarcon, who represents the area, was at the wall, talking to constituents. He shook his head. “I never had a fire chief come up to me and apologize with tears in his eyes before. He said, ‘We stayed as long as we could. We did everything we could.’”
We have friends whose home is in the burn area of the Montecito fire. Yikes. No word from them yet. Here’s hoping… Fires like these can move so fast you can’t outrun them and sometimes can’t even outdrive them. The canyons can be covered with tinder dry vegetation growing above your head. So, you can imagine what happens when they catch fire. Eucalyptus trees, prized by homeowners for the gentle rustling sound they make and the nice smell, are extremely flammable. Firefighters call them ’standing matches.”
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