NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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Re: the fires are so bad, it is even altering the spelling.
said by inteller  :CaliFIRnia......Freudian slip? hopefully this will encourage them to seek out better methods of deploying fiber....like maybe burying it a few feet deep. That part of California is nowhere near as flat as Oklahoma. They can sell two sides of the same acre in some places, down there.
I have trained, for the California Army National Guard, in similar terrain around Los Padres National Forest (Camp Robers and Fort Hunter-Liggett). And I worked the Roggé, and Ackerson Complex fires, near Yosemite, in 1996 (National Guard, again; drove a 2 1/2 ton truck in support of the fire fighters). You are talking steep slopes and narrow canyons.
One of the more impressive drives, in California, is the Nacimiento-Ferguson Road. My first trip on that road was from Bradley, California, west through Lockwood, and over teh Santa Lucia mountains down to S.R. 1, near Limekiln State Park. The decent from the divide down the mountain to the highway is breathtaking; considering that the mountains aren't nearly as high as the Sierra Nevada, or Colorado Rockies.
»sjs.jsei.ucla.edu/~sjs/Nacimiento/index.html
»gocalifornia.about.com/cs/hearst···enda.htm
But a fire of this magnitude dwarfs those that I worked. And my first night on the line was one of anxiety.
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Norman
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