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--Fires in California: "That's a strange cloud..." Not making it up, this is exactly what we thought when the Oakland Hills fire of 1991 started. Our confusion
by hodgesrm 5y ago
--Fires in California: "That's a strange cloud..."
Not making it up, this is exactly what we thought when the Oakland Hills fire of 1991 started. Our confusion was short-lived, I'm sad to say.
- CalChris 5y agoSame thing for me. I was having brunch in Pacifica and when I headed back to San Francisco, I saw this weird cloud where it shouldn't be. It was an otherwise clear day and it was blowing backwards, towards the ocean, due to whatever the Northern California equivalent of a Santa Ana wind is.
- QuercusMax 5y agoI think they're the Diablo winds in the Bay area?
- phkahler 5y agoToday at work: "What's that smell?" after a quick look around "There's a bit of smoke coming off that transformer." Bigger problem averted.
- ISL 5y agoThere is very little substitute for spending lots of time in your lab, so that you notice the tiny shifts in mechanical sounds that indicate a change in the health of an instrument.