Haunted property and merchandise mean big money. Seems there's a resurgence of the Spiritualism movement from a century ago. I've seen many properties for sale with the haunted "stories" to accompany, and many times people buy off without vetting facts. Anything reputable, should have names, dates, and now with newspaper archives available on the Internet, easy to check. I'm wondering when we'll get the first court case of that.
Exhumations were very popular in California gold rush communities. Colma in the San Francisco Bay area is a good example of such. Auburn is another, the original cemetery behind the pioneer church was relocated. It's thought Watt's Earp's grave in Colma, if there are any remains left, are missing or not his. Low paid labor that plainly didn't place care in the work to be done correctly...if at all. There's much rumor of moved gravestones but the remains still exist under San Francisco neighborhoods. Then again, said labor were lucky if an intact casket could be loaded on a wagon. As the article mentions there might not be much left at all...or much worse...coffin liquor.
I've lived for over 50 years in an ecosystem primed to burn. It's not been an issue until recently, and the blame goes squarely to PG&E. With the power shutoffs, PG&E has admitted the lines and infrastructure are faulty. Now, they're telling is it will take 10 years to fix this issue. In the meantime investors were paid out 2.5 billion dollars, and the CEO Bill Johnson made $8.1 million. How the State of California can claim to care about its citizens and allow this farce to continue is nothing short of greed and hypocrisy. There is hope, San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo has proposed leaving PG&E and turning operations over to a "customer owned" utility. No more profits, no more investor and CEO payoffs, this would concentrate on repairing the failed infrastructure, wiring, and put emphasis back on safety where it should have been all along. BTW -- we're hearing preliminary reports that the Kincade Fire was caused by PG&E lines...again. This time they shut down the business and residential low voltage lines, but left the high power transmission lines running. Time for the California Public Utilities Commission to step up...are you part of the problem or the solution? So far, it seems you're part of the problem -- greed.
It wasn't until more recently the stigma of privacy-while-pooping existed, with the advent of modern toilets and sewage systems. Before indoor plumbing, outhouses were a fact of life, and being an edifice over a pit, had to be detached for obvious reasons from the living areas. My great grandparents owned a remote mountain property, and before there was a septic system, was a functioning outhouse. Still standing and not utilized, the first feature is a smooth two hole top board. What I remember most from childhood is walking the forty-ought yards out to it in freezing morning air, and often one of the two spots would be occupied. It would be a time to strike up a conversation or share the newspaper. The smell...horrific. Still as outhouses go, it was plenty roomy, in an L shape, entry door, entry area to remove and hang coats, then the station itself. The station looked out into the entry area, where the was wood grating for light and air. That the inside was dark, it worked well that no one could see in, but occupants could see out. There's been talk of demolishing the structure, yet I'm against it. It illustrates a different time, fulfilling an essential need.
Interesting article, surprising to many not initiated with addicts and their behavior. It's worth reading, as there's much misunderstanding on addiction and how to overcome it. It's significant in that many approaches used clinically simply do not work.
I'll never forget the day Los Angeles KROQ morning radio hosts Kevin and Bean and their show beat news person, Ralph Garman pose as Jerry Lewis to try a phone call to then President Chirac. Much to their surprise...they got through! Needless to say, it caused an international incident, and a lawsuit from Jerry Lewis. Still, it was The...Best...Radio...Ever.
The Yale Climate Connections article cited by this story is wrong, and has no understanding of California weather. I find it humorous that someone from Connecticut bills his or herself as a California weather expert and is not intended as a slam at all for those in Connecticut or Yale alumni. What I do hope for is a teachable moment. Disclaimer: Is climate change real? You bet. Humans are putting record amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as never before. I'm not here to debate that, please put those poison pens down. Will it be catastrophic? Personally, I don't believe so. Never underestimate the resilience of the planet and its population. Will it cause changes? Yes, but not everything is related to it, as is the purpose of this writing. --Higher temperatures dry out vegetation and soil, creating more wildfire fuel.--Partially true. California has a Mediterranean climate. This means a rainy season, followed by hot, dry summers. The problem has existed before higher temperatures, as seen in historical accounts from indigenous peoples in the area. --Climate change is shortening the California rainy season, thus extending the fire season.--False. Two of the past three years saw record snow and rainfall for California. The area experiences years of drought followed by years of heavy rain, particularly when sub-tropical moisture travels towards the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the shift in elevation causes significant rainfall. That's the crux of the issue, record rainfall brings record growth of scrub, brush, grass, and trees. It dries out and if left alone, burns quite well in the right conditions (see Santa Ana wind). During drought years wildfires are less of an issue...no water, no fuel. --Climate change is also shifting the Santa Ana winds that fan particularly dangerous wildfires in Southern California.--False. Santa Ana winds always come from the North to North East. Caused by high pressure bubbles, they pick up the dry air of the Nevada desert and bring it over California. Depending on the conditions, they can be bitter cold or very warm. The Pasadena New Years Rose Parade usually gets the benefits of a warm Santa Ana condition, resulting in the beautiful images seen on television. They can happen any time of the year, any season. BTW, there's dangerous wildfires in the northern region of the state too, just less populous an area. --The warming atmosphere is slowing the jet stream, leading to more California heat waves and high-pressure ridges in the Pacific. Those ridges deflect from the state some storms that would otherwise bring much-needed moisture to slow the spread of fires.--False. The jet stream moves throughout the year. When a high pressure bubble is over the state, the stream is pushed north. When the bubble moves on, the jet stream lowers, and if severe enough, brings with it cold air from the Gulf of Alaska. Air traffic can directly be affected by the jet stream as it's powerful enough to slow down commercial aircraft from Los Angeles traveling to Sacramento. In the other direction, flights are often ten minutes early by it. Are wildfires new to California? Hardly. There's been some terrible ones. One issue exacerbating it is a growing population and buildings in the state. Another, is the state ban on control burning, enacted because of some of the worst the smog in the nation, increased by the growing population. Yet another issue is the varying county policy for clearing brush and trees on one's property: some policies are incredibly lax. It's nice to own acreage, but as the owner there is a responsibility to manage and protect it.
The horrors go to eleven. Oh, I see. And most horror goes up to ten? Exactly. Does that mean it's scarier? Is it any scarier? Well, it's one scarier, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be scared at ten. Where can you go from there? Where? I don't know. Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?Put it up to eleven. Eleven. Exactly. One scarier. Why don't you just make ten scarier and make ten be the top number and make that a little scarier? This go to eleven.
I've seen many properties for sale with the haunted "stories" to accompany, and many times people buy off without vetting facts. Anything reputable, should have names, dates, and now with newspaper archives available on the Internet, easy to check.
I'm wondering when we'll get the first court case of that.
Colma in the San Francisco Bay area is a good example of such. Auburn is another, the original cemetery behind the pioneer church was relocated.
It's thought Watt's Earp's grave in Colma, if there are any remains left, are missing or not his. Low paid labor that plainly didn't place care in the work to be done correctly...if at all. There's much rumor of moved gravestones but the remains still exist under San Francisco neighborhoods.
Then again, said labor were lucky if an intact casket could be loaded on a wagon. As the article mentions there might not be much left at all...or much worse...coffin liquor.
In the meantime investors were paid out 2.5 billion dollars, and the CEO Bill Johnson made $8.1 million. How the State of California can claim to care about its citizens and allow this farce to continue is nothing short of greed and hypocrisy.
There is hope, San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo has proposed leaving PG&E and turning operations over to a "customer owned" utility. No more profits, no more investor and CEO payoffs, this would concentrate on repairing the failed infrastructure, wiring, and put emphasis back on safety where it should have been all along.
BTW -- we're hearing preliminary reports that the Kincade Fire was caused by PG&E lines...again. This time they shut down the business and residential low voltage lines, but left the high power transmission lines running.
Time for the California Public Utilities Commission to step up...are you part of the problem or the solution? So far, it seems you're part of the problem -- greed.
Disclaimer: Is climate change real? You bet. Humans are putting record amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as never before. I'm not here to debate that, please put those poison pens down. Will it be catastrophic? Personally, I don't believe so. Never underestimate the resilience of the planet and its population. Will it cause changes? Yes, but not everything is related to it, as is the purpose of this writing.
--Higher temperatures dry out vegetation and soil, creating more wildfire fuel.--Partially true. California has a Mediterranean climate. This means a rainy season, followed by hot, dry summers. The problem has existed before higher temperatures, as seen in historical accounts from indigenous peoples in the area.
--Climate change is shortening the California rainy season, thus extending the fire season.--False. Two of the past three years saw record snow and rainfall for California. The area experiences years of drought followed by years of heavy rain, particularly when sub-tropical moisture travels towards the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the shift in elevation causes significant rainfall. That's the crux of the issue, record rainfall brings record growth of scrub, brush, grass, and trees. It dries out and if left alone, burns quite well in the right conditions (see Santa Ana wind). During drought years wildfires are less of an issue...no water, no fuel.
--Climate change is also shifting the Santa Ana winds that fan particularly dangerous wildfires in Southern California.--False. Santa Ana winds always come from the North to North East. Caused by high pressure bubbles, they pick up the dry air of the Nevada desert and bring it over California. Depending on the conditions, they can be bitter cold or very warm. The Pasadena New Years Rose Parade usually gets the benefits of a warm Santa Ana condition, resulting in the beautiful images seen on television. They can happen any time of the year, any season. BTW, there's dangerous wildfires in the northern region of the state too, just less populous an area.
--The warming atmosphere is slowing the jet stream, leading to more California heat waves and high-pressure ridges in the Pacific. Those ridges deflect from the state some storms that would otherwise bring much-needed moisture to slow the spread of fires.--False. The jet stream moves throughout the year. When a high pressure bubble is over the state, the stream is pushed north. When the bubble moves on, the jet stream lowers, and if severe enough, brings with it cold air from the Gulf of Alaska. Air traffic can directly be affected by the jet stream as it's powerful enough to slow down commercial aircraft from Los Angeles traveling to Sacramento. In the other direction, flights are often ten minutes early by it.
Are wildfires new to California? Hardly. There's been some terrible ones. One issue exacerbating it is a growing population and buildings in the state. Another, is the state ban on control burning, enacted because of some of the worst the smog in the nation, increased by the growing population. Yet another issue is the varying county policy for clearing brush and trees on one's property: some policies are incredibly lax. It's nice to own acreage, but as the owner there is a responsibility to manage and protect it.
Now, it gets you on the UN floor. What a whacked out world.
Oh, I see.
And most horror goes up to ten?
Exactly.
Does that mean it's scarier? Is it any scarier?
Well, it's one scarier, isn't it?
It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be scared at ten. Where can you go from there? Where?
I don't know.
Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?Put it up to eleven.
Eleven. Exactly. One scarier.
Why don't you just make ten scarier and make ten be the top number and make that a little scarier?
This go to eleven.