What might be making you a tad apprehensive, but might not, as it's too soon to tell - Page 27

orthodoc · 08-14-2013, 04:53 PM

Thanks, Clod.

limey · 08-14-2013, 05:24 PM

Sending you positive vibes, Ortho!

Sent by thought transference

glatt · 08-23-2013, 10:59 AM

Next summer, we're supposed to have a big glatt family reunion near Yosemite for my parent's 50th anniversary. The place we are staying was 2 miles from the flames of that big forest fire as of yesterday afternoon. And the wind is blowing the fire that direction.

It's the John Muir House at Evergreen lodge, the bed at the end of the green arrow in the picture below. I understand the fire is 2% contained.
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glatt · 08-23-2013, 09:28 PM

Looks like the flames are lapping at the door of our lodge.

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orthodoc · 08-23-2013, 10:38 PM

Maybe a different venue for next year?

Clodfobble · 08-23-2013, 10:50 PM

They'll have almost a year to get the insurance payout and rebuild. Bigger and better, I say.

BigV · 08-23-2013, 11:12 PM

with a wider no burn barrier

Griff · 08-24-2013, 09:19 AM

We went to Yellowstone a couple years after the burn and again 20 years later. It made for an interesting trip, so if you have a place to sleep it'll be cool.

glatt · 08-25-2013, 10:12 PM

According to their Facebook page, the manager was able to get back to the lodge today, and found that the fire fighters had saved all the buildings at the lodge. So next summer, we'll be staying in a nice lodge in the middle of an ash tray. It should be interesting.

Hope the wildfire slows down soon. I don't want all of Yosemite to be gone.

I saw in one article that they didn't have any federal aircraft fighting the fire initially because of the sequestration. It wasn't until it was huge and out of control that the Feds found funds somewhere to fight it. But now it's too late. It gonna just keep burning.

Gravdigr · 08-26-2013, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orthodoc

Gyne-Oncologist

I could have lived my entire life not knowing that was a thing.

monster · 08-26-2013, 02:27 PM

Retrospectively......I was shitting bricks leading up to Hebe's driving test. But she passed, so all is well

glatt · 08-26-2013, 04:15 PM

Way to go, Hebe!

Now she can drive herself to everything.

Griff · 08-26-2013, 04:56 PM

Lil Griff is driving everywhere now. Its nice but Dads worry.

orthodoc · 08-26-2013, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I could have lived my entire life not knowing that was a thing.

I could have, too. Priests/priestesses of the jade palace and all that, they should only have to deal with beauty, right?

Reality sucks, and these things do exist, and one will be turning me inside out on Wednesday to see if bad things are happening. Hopefully they won't be, and I'll walk away without a few more parts but with more hope for the future. It's a trade I'm willing to make. Crossing my fingers that the universe is willing to make that trade as well.

busterb · 08-31-2013, 10:39 AM

Ultrasound of liver, the 16th.

08-14-2013, 04:53 PM	#391
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Thanks, Clod. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

08-14-2013, 05:24 PM	#392
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Sending you positive vibes, Ortho! Sent by thought transference __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

08-23-2013, 10:38 PM	#395
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Maybe a different venue for next year? __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

08-23-2013, 10:50 PM	#396
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	They'll have almost a year to get the insurance payout and rebuild. Bigger and better, I say. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

08-23-2013, 11:12 PM	#397
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	with a wider no burn barrier __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

08-23-2013, 10:59 AM	#393
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Next summer, we're supposed to have a big glatt family reunion near Yosemite for my parent's 50th anniversary. The place we are staying was 2 miles from the flames of that big forest fire as of yesterday afternoon. And the wind is blowing the fire that direction. It's the John Muir House at Evergreen lodge, the bed at the end of the green arrow in the picture below. I understand the fire is 2% contained.

08-23-2013, 09:28 PM	#394
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Looks like the flames are lapping at the door of our lodge.

08-24-2013, 09:19 AM	#398
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	We went to Yellowstone a couple years after the burn and again 20 years later. It made for an interesting trip, so if you have a place to sleep it'll be cool. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-25-2013, 10:12 PM	#399
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	According to their Facebook page, the manager was able to get back to the lodge today, and found that the fire fighters had saved all the buildings at the lodge. So next summer, we'll be staying in a nice lodge in the middle of an ash tray. It should be interesting. Hope the wildfire slows down soon. I don't want all of Yosemite to be gone. I saw in one article that they didn't have any federal aircraft fighting the fire initially because of the sequestration. It wasn't until it was huge and out of control that the Feds found funds somewhere to fight it. But now it's too late. It gonna just keep burning.

08-26-2013, 02:27 PM	#401
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Retrospectively......I was shitting bricks leading up to Hebe's driving test. But she passed, so all is well __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-26-2013, 04:15 PM	#402
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Way to go, Hebe! Now she can drive herself to everything.

08-26-2013, 04:56 PM	#403
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Lil Griff is driving everywhere now. Its nice but Dads worry. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-31-2013, 10:39 AM	#405
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Ultrasound of liver, the 16th. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

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