OT: Neither snow nor rain ...

?The carrier in question was honoring a request by a few customer s who were being let back in the fire zone to retrieve personal items. A few customers asked the carrier to leave their mail if the mailbox was still

standing because they could not get to the annex to retrieve it."

It helps to include relevant information about WHY something is happening .

John

Well! I just thought it was nice to here from Win. Mikek

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Ah, fair enough. There is a lot of snipping here and I was concerned that the poster (who I don't know) may have been trying to be poke fun at the situation.

I apologize if I caused any offense!

John

It's been on-and-off surreal here, depending of which way the wind is blowing. Sometimes clear and fresh with blue skies (and Blue Angels) sometimes smokey and smelly with an orange sun.

We canceled tomorrow's planned trip to Tahoe; I80 runs just south of the growing fires around Fairfield.

Welcome to the world of anthropogenic global warming. We've had bush-fires in Australia for as long as I remember - I once drove through a smoke cloud on the way to a surf beach, back when I was a graduate student, and had to drive a long diversion on the way home, because the people who had driven into the smoke about half an hour later hadn't come out the other side.

Global warming means that they are now worse than they used to be - they st art earlier and some of them burn more bush than they used to.

Be as skeptical as you like, but figure on cancelling more trips than you u sed to.

Yes, right, I provided the link that I assumed interested folks would read. What fascinated me was the image of the postman still doing his job, amid complete utter destruction. The contrast of the clean white mail vehicle to the ash and char.

Things are still pretty bad here, 20 or so fires raging. We get alternate clear days (or hours) and smokey ones. This was about 9AM today

(the spikey thing is the under-construction SalesForce tower, aka "The Incinerator")

and now, two hours later, it's all clear. We made breakfast for a lady who was two miles downwind from the WTC disaster, and this freaks her out some.

Whats surreal is when the ash falls out of the sky on you. Had that happen a few years ago when the local perserve had a brush fire. We were a few miles away too. chunks of burnt leaves were littering the parking lot.

Cheers

I had a lot of fine white ash on my car yesterday morning. In the great Oakland fire of 1991, we had black cinders falling out of the sky from across the bay.

What _WILL_ stop them is the use of Certified Mail that gets refused by the recipient..on its way back to sender,it will enter an infinite loop and (so far) never get found. Have three documented shituations.