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    Image of JohnS1111 JohnS1111
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    so what? is this more than the regular smog?
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    Image of spannu spannu
    09/02/09

    @JohnS1111: Seems like less to me. The air was definitely more breathable this week.
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    Image of itchytooth itchytooth
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    Since everybody's posting pictures, here's one I took Sunday from Runyon Canyon trail. You can see fire on the hill beyond the Hollywood sign.
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    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    It has been smelling awful ever since last weekend and I live in the in the northwest corner of the valley. Pretty shitty all around with the ash on my car and the gloomy red sun poking through the smoke.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space

    Cough, wheeeeeze........ (sky to the north of us about 11am yesterday) Yes, that is the actual color.
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    Image of tcolberg tcolberg
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    @: So that's what our 220 sq. mi. fire looks like from space, from down here I had merely thought it looked like a nuclear bomb went off.
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    09/02/09

    @tcolberg: So that's what a quintuple post looks like.
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    Image of Mad as a Hatter Mad as a Hatter
    09/02/09

    @psychiccheese: weird i got a double post the other day for no reason. i doubt he meant to do that
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    Image of tcolberg tcolberg
    09/02/09

    @Mad as a Hatter: Yeah, sorry about that. Looks like the greasemonkey script for gawker comments finally outlived its usefulness. I hit submit, didn't get a preview of the post, nor did the submit button change color. So I thought it was my browser lagging and hit it again. Refreshed the page, didn't see my post, hit the button again, and ... now we're here.
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    infmom promoted this comment tcolberg was starred tcolberg was unstarred
    Image of infmom infmom
    09/02/09

    @tcolberg: Yeah, that Greasemonkey script was fine while it lasted. I shut it off last week.
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    Image of Mad as a Hatter Mad as a Hatter
    09/03/09

    @tcolberg: lol, I believe that is exactly what happened to me, but only twice.
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    Image of ShikhaTriarius ShikhaTriarius
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    I live in Altadena a few blocks from the fire's edge. What's amazing to me is that the smoke plumes are so large that they are actually creating their own thunderheads. You can see them in the sat photo, those two white spots above the smoke. Those are clouds, not smoke, created by the rising heat of the fire. What's absolutely crazy is that these thunderheads are starting to generate dry lightning. It's like the fire has grown so large that it is now self-aware, and trying to spawn offspring asexually. No matter, the impending hurricane will come and put it all out. Natural Disaster Battle! (next reality show?)
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    09/02/09

    @ShikhaTriarius: A friend of mine thought it was just a desert storm?! She isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, I mean she is in LA... ;)
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    Image of infmom infmom
    09/02/09

    @ShikhaTriarius: I saw that white cloud from Burbank. There's even a name for it, if I remember right it's "pyrocumulus." I'm sure I heard thunder late yesterday afternoon.
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    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    09/02/09

    @ShikhaTriarius: turns out volcanoes and large fires form pyrocumulus clouds which can create lightning. i
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    09/02/09

    @ShikhaTriarius: Really cool. I was wondering why so white and clean at the top. Keep safe from flames my friend. We're OK down in southbay, just all that crap spread out over this whole place yesterday and today.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space

    Here. Fixed it.
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    Image of PaddyDugan PaddyDugan
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    I can move the smoke on the photo with my mouse using click and drag. Would one of you Angelinos look outside and see if that worked?
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    Image of infmom infmom
    09/02/09

    @PaddyDugan: Can you drag it over Ahhhnold's place? He needs it more than we do.
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    Image of mnerd mnerd
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    The thing is too that it wasn't until Monday that things got really bad.
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    Image of mnerd mnerd
    09/02/09

    @mnerd: Here you can see them getting worse yourself.
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    Image of etwarrior etwarrior
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    I can't imagine what it must be like for people actually in California dealing with those fires. I'm in Colorado and it's wreaking havoc on my allergies.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/02/09

    @etwarrior: For some reason, the smoke isn't too bad this time around. It seems to be blowing of some other direction.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/02/09

    @ripfire: Obviously you don't live in Lancaster or Barstow. Thankfully, neither do I!
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    Image of infmom infmom
    09/02/09

    @etwarrior: My lungs hurt and I've been using eye gel like there's no tomorrow. The neighborhood smells like a wet campfire and there's ashes all over everything. And we're not that close to the fires. On the LA Times map [www.latimes.com] we are about where the 5 and 134 freeways cross.

    cough, wheeeeeze...........
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    Image of clak clak
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    God, I am so happy I moved away from that hell hole. Northern California FTW!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/02/09

    @clak: You guys took care of the 49er fire already?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    Uh-oh. I think I left the iron plugged in when I left. Damn. My bad?
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    Image of NotEvenDirtyAnymore NotEvenDirtyAnymore
    09/02/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_WonAForeignLott...!:
    Not worth trying to be funny, with that joke.
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    GitEmSteveDave_WonAForeignLottery! promoted this comment NotEvenDirtyAnymore was starred NotEvenDirtyAnymore was unstarred
    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    09/02/09

    In reply to LA Smoldering from Space
    For a sec there I thought this was a still frame from the next Transformers movie
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    OCEntertainment promoted this comment Edited by BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 at 09/02/09 11:47 AM BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 was starred BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/02/09

    @BergenCountyJC: Little known fact, Michael Bay actually started the LA fires in order to generate realistic-looking smoke elements for the special effects in Transformers 2.

    He also thinks it's remarkably cool that a fire he started is still going on this long. If it persists, he's going to apply to Guinness for the record of "Most Obnoxious Arsonist".
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/02/09

    @OCEntertainment: AWESOME FIRE!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/02/09

    @BergenCountyJC: Little known fact: Every few hundred frames features footage from the inside of Michael Bay's toilet between scenes, which is sort of a subliminal message to his fans.
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    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    09/02/09

    @OCEntertainment: MICHAEL BAYSPLOSIONS!!
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