SO CAL Weather Alert - SFV Area, May 8th
05-08-07, 04:36 PM
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SO CAL Weather Alert - SFV Area, May 8th
Guys, in case you've not read in the Griffith Park Night Ride Thread, there is a fire burning in Griffith Park headed for the 5 freeway. If you take that freeway or the 134, you might want to turn on the news or traffic channels in case they close one or both.
05-08-07, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by merider1
Guys, in case you've not read in the Griffith Park Night Ride Thread, there is a fire burning in Griffith Park headed for the 5 freeway. If you take that freeway or the 134, you might want to turn on the news or traffic channels in case they close one or both.
I think I am going to head down the backside at La Tuna to get home tonite...
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KFWB is going ahead with the Dodger game. WTF?! They're supposed to be a "news" station and this definitely qualifies as important news.
05-08-07, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Happytime
KFWB is going ahead with the Dodger game. WTF?! They're supposed to be a "news" station and this definitely qualifies as important news.
I know..I turned them on...what bunch of yokels....they better hope the smoke doesnt blow that way...right now its heading towards pasadena..
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gonna inhale a ton of smoke on my ride home tonight methinks...
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05-08-07, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by merider1
Guys, in case you've not read in the Griffith Park Night Ride Thread, there is a fire burning in Griffith Park headed for the 5 freeway. If you take that freeway or the 134, you might want to turn on the news or traffic channels in case they close one or both.
Again????
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Originally Posted by Scootcore
gonna inhale a ton of smoke on my ride home tonight methinks...
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hope so!!! cant be any worse than what i usually inhale riding through the valley!!!
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Originally Posted by Scootcore
hope so!!! cant be any worse than what i usually inhale riding through the valley!!!
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Originally Posted by Happytime
KFWB is going ahead with the Dodger game. WTF?! They're supposed to be a "news" station and this definitely qualifies as important news.
05-08-07, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Grumpy Pig
I don't think the Dodgers qualify as news unless they're playing the Padres.
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When I was driving up to Solvang from Monterey Park for the Solvang Double, they had a fire almost in the same identical area. And that was little over a month ago.
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Originally Posted by Happytime
KFWB is going ahead with the Dodger game. WTF?! They're supposed to be a "news" station and this definitely qualifies as important news.
And yeah, i saw the smoke pouring out of the hills while i was walking to my car to head home from work...
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When I left work last night around 4p, I heard on the news that there was a fire in Griffith Park but they assumed it would shortly be under control. Last night, at the last end of my hill training class, around 7:30p, coming down the North side of Newport Coast Drive, I could see the large flume of black smoke towering over the hillside in the Griffith Park area. Got home and saw on the news the fire is now out of control.
Yet another fire started by a cigarette...
well 'nuf said about that. You LA riders stay safe and out of the smoke. Hope none of you are affected by the fire. This is such an "urban" fire, so many homes and other structures, including the Zoo nearby. Too sad.
Yet another fire started by a cigarette...
well 'nuf said about that. You LA riders stay safe and out of the smoke. Hope none of you are affected by the fire. This is such an "urban" fire, so many homes and other structures, including the Zoo nearby. Too sad.
05-09-07, 11:21 AM
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Yet another fire started by a cigarette... well 'nuf said about that. You LA riders stay safe and out of the smoke. Hope none of you are affected by the fire. This is such an "urban" fire, so many homes and other structures, including the Zoo nearby. Too sad.
well 'nuf said about that. You LA riders stay safe and out of the smoke. Hope none of you are affected by the fire. This is such an "urban" fire, so many homes and other structures, including the Zoo nearby. Too sad.
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Originally Posted by Scootcore
hope so!!! cant be any worse than what i usually inhale riding through the valley!!!
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Just a thought... I wonder if there will be more of a crackdown on fireworks this summer. My parents live in the tinder-dry hills above Whittier. Although fireworks are illegal in that area, it still doesn't stop idiot people from going to another city to purchase them. Every time I visit them I stare at those wooded hills and imagine them on fire...
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Originally Posted by 1955
I know it sucks, but smoke for a fire is WAY worse (at least for me). I had an infection in my lungs for about 2 MONTHS a few of years back from one 15 mile ride in the smoke. Not anymore, if there's smoke, I won't ride in it.
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The mayor is on the radio right now. Totals are now at 817 acres and under control, 50% contained. Full containment in 24 hours possible if wind doesn't shift.
Griffith Park will remained closed on Thursday...
Zoo and condor sanctuary are safe...
Griffith Park will remained closed on Thursday...
Zoo and condor sanctuary are safe...
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Originally Posted by roadfix
Years ago, State Farm dropped my homeowners' policy because we were in a "fire danger" area....wtf?
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