In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Sunday, July 12, 2026 14:37
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Saturday, July 11, 2026 1:20 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow. Right on your street? They know what happened yet?

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

Luckily enough no. The fire was a couple of streets down from me then two or three more streets over. Still from the news you could see it was nasty. The engines had to call in off duty fire fighters to help handle it. Not sure how many people lost their homes. The fire is being investigated as no resident could tell the fire department what happened.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026 1:21 PM

BRENDA

Laundry day as soon as I move then my walk. Only small stuff to do today.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026 1:34 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

At least it wasn't your building, Brenda. Bummer.

Yeah. We had quite a few houses burned down in our storms. Several of them not very far from me at all. I don't even know how that could have happened other than power lines snapping while still being live and lighting them up.

I never did get into the Electrician's Union because I didn't have a daddy to get me in there like my friend did, so I couldn't say for sure. But I would think that with all the Safety First mindset that's taken over everything, there probably should be a way to keep all of that from happening. And I would suspect that if it hadn't been done, it was only because the local power company was too cheap to implement it.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026 6:06 PM

BRENDA

That is true SIX. I was talking to someone in my building who went down there to look at it. She said most of the top floor was on fire.

Never know it could be snapped power lines. Yeah, you would think power companies would learn but some just don't.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026 6:07 PM

BRENDA

Finished for today. Got in from my walk and looked into the fridge and discovered I had forgotten something. So I went back out to get it. Now, sitting down.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026 7:26 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I found out what was up with the two engines and paramedics. There was an apartment fire. News crews got there and it looked really bad. They said at least one firefighter and resident were sent to the hospital.

Oh wow. That's bad. Apartment fires can kill a lot of people. I can't help thinking of Grenfell Tower fire.

It sounds like only two people were injured, tho, thankfully.

Here in LA, a lot of the old multistory apartment buildings were grandfathered in, not required to retrofit with fire sprinklers, and some have only one stairwell. I hope safety standards are better in your area, BRENDA!

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Saturday, July 11, 2026 8:28 PM

BRENDA

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I found out what was up with the two engines and paramedics. There was an apartment fire. News crews got there and it looked really bad. They said at least one firefighter and resident were sent to the hospital.

Oh wow. That's bad. Apartment fires can kill a lot of people. I can't help thinking of Grenfell Tower fire.

It sounds like only two people were injured, tho, thankfully.

Here in LA, a lot of the old multistory apartment buildings were grandfathered in, not required to retrofit with fire sprinklers, and some have only one stairwell. I hope safety standards are better in your area, BRENDA!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

Yeah, they can. They got lucky that only two were injured.

My building does have smoke detectors and alarms but I don't think there is a sprinkler system. There are two stairwells. The worry in the building is the people with walkers and scooters.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026 8:36 PM

BRENDA

So hard reading fan fictions sometimes. Just read an Emergency story. Notes at the end said Randolph Mantooth died on July 9th at 80 years of age.

That was shocking to read and my heart is broken. Another one of my tv crushes gone.
2 years after David Soul and 2 1/2 years after David McCallum.

Farewell firefighter/paramedic Johnny Gage. Be safe.

KMG-365

Time out: July 9

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Sunday, July 12, 2026 1:52 PM

BRENDA

Slow Sunday around me. Bit of clean up and some music.

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Sunday, July 12, 2026 1:57 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I found out what was up with the two engines and paramedics. There was an apartment fire. News crews got there and it looked really bad. They said at least one firefighter and resident were sent to the hospital.

Oh wow. That's bad. Apartment fires can kill a lot of people. I can't help thinking of Grenfell Tower fire.

It sounds like only two people were injured, tho, thankfully.

Here in LA, a lot of the old multistory apartment buildings were grandfathered in, not required to retrofit with fire sprinklers, and some have only one stairwell. I hope safety standards are better in your area, BRENDA!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

Yeah, they can. They got lucky that only two were injured.

My building does have smoke detectors and alarms but I don't think there is a sprinkler system. There are two stairwells. The worry in the building is the people with walkers and scooters.

Oh dear. Elevators can stop working in fires. I would worry about them, too!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Sunday, July 12, 2026 1:59 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
So hard reading fan fictions sometimes. Just read an Emergency story. Notes at the end said Randolph Mantooth died on July 9th at 80 years of age.

That was shocking to read and my heart is broken. Another one of my tv crushes gone.
2 years after David Soul and 2 1/2 years after David McCallum.

Farewell firefighter/paramedic Johnny Gage. Be safe.

KMG-365

Time out: July 9

Randolph Mantooth and David McCallum???
Oh, no.
They were my TV crushes too.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Sunday, July 12, 2026 2:02 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Hey Sigs... I know you don't have literally any free time, but if you ever do and you're bored, I think you should check out the couple of AI threads I made in the last day or two. There actually is some pretty fascinating stuff in there.

I don't know if you've looked at them at all, but I think the revelation that the AI itself is coded to view the words "Left" and "Nazi" as mutually exclusive terms and it will initially run in "defensive" mode when you call somebody on the left something that is politically charged. Also that it very well could be lying to me when I ask it if it is tracking me or putting me on a list for any of the inquiries that it generates and it says no. It straight up tells you not to believe anything that it says.

And I'm just lightly paraphrasing a whole lot of stuff here. It goes into DETAIL on how it operates. (Assuming it's not lying to me about all of it couldn't be a mistake, could it?

).

EDIT: I forgot that one of them didn't start out as an AI thread. Here's the threads I'm talking about:

Fun With Democrat Party Shit Rags and Hypocrisy: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=67658

(It starts in the 2nd post when I just decided to ask Google AI for articles giving glowing praise to Platner)

Having Fun with Google AI: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=67654

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Sunday, July 12, 2026 2:37 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Huh.

Well, I'll look into those!

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I dropped off the e-waste yesterday. Dear daughter dragged her *ss out of bed late, so I was already in a bit of a time crunch.

The drop off event was in an area that I've never been, but it was the closest one scheduled for the rest of the year. So I got messed up along the way bc I didn't notice that the longest road on my route actually changed names, and I thought I had missed a turn or something, went back, had to pull over and bring up goggle maps again, and turn back around. Then google maps directed me to a route I DIDN'T want to take. Once again had to pull over and confirm I was heading in the right direction. Tick tick tick...

But we made it in time, and I got to drive thru some really wealthy area in the Hacienda/ La Habra hills section, where the roads are all windy and its semi-rural and you can't see your neighbor for all the trees.

The canyons areas are green and lovely, the hilltops are also lovely in a drier, wilder, grassy sort of way, and it would be great to live there except for FIRE.
Nice to visit. We should go up there to enjoy the park and the scenery. But I'd sure worry about living there.

La Habra Heights

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