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[Evan in CA]

😮 Just been watching updates on your fires! Saw drone footage flying over houses after houses burnt to the ground in suburban areas, blocks of houses wiped out! We get bad fires here but iv never seen anything like this here in my life.
How on earth did suburbs, not little bush towns living amongst forest and bush like here that get burnt, but such residential large town areas go up like that!?
Hope people here and their families and friends are ok!

Hi chilli, it’s crazy to see neighborhoods that are miles away from the mountains catch on fire like that I’ve never seen anything like that before. I know one coworker lost his house he grew up in. It’s sad.

 

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[releventchair]

Good morning everyone

Evan!!!

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Good morning everyone

there he is

 

[Surf_Pirate]

As the locals here say: “It’s as cold as the night Crissie Wright came ashore”

Schooner Crissie Wright ~ 11 January 1886

Beaufort, NC Post Office Mural Portraying Crissie Wright by Simka Simkhovitch (1939) Found at Havelock News It is said that Crissie ...

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[newnan man]

I worked with a guy who used to say:
"It's colder than a well diggers ass in Alaska."

 

[Oregon Viking]

spinning rod and reel or fly rod?

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

 

[pepperj]

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

I still remember my father hooking up with a big one.
Worked that fish until it burnt the bearings out of the reel assembly.

We went home, changed reels, went back to the river. His first cast he hooked it again, this time it through or around a deadhead tree, and snapped the line.