Confused eh.  It may be because of an old song :

                      " Well it's  1 for the money

                        2 for the show

                       3 to get ready

                       now ,go cat ,go

                       But don't you step on my blue suede shoes"      Carl Perkins and then Elvis (before your time my dear)

Fire.

All over the Griffith Park area.  Apparently arson.  What's in the vicinity?  The zoo, the observatory, lots of horse trails, Gene Autry Museum, and the merry-go-round.  The probable arsonist is in the hospital with burns.  He was seen coming out of the brush onto the public golf course just adjacent to the zoo.

Hopefully the firefighters will have this under control before nightfall.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

I shouldn't laugh at an arsonist's burns, but yes, depending on the severity of his burns, it could very well happen.  Right now he's an Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.  Whatever that is.  

Down at County USC Hospital, where many trauma victims go -- gunshot wounds and bad accidents -- they have a jail ward.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Another hot day projected here with smokey skies.  The fire is expected to be under control later today.  Meanwhile the culprit -- or should I say "alleged" culprit -- is a homeless man who said he fell asleep while smoking. 

Fire officials said late Tuesday that the cause remains under investigation. Police said that a man, believed to be about 20 years of age, was burned in the fire and was detained and cited on suspicion of smoking in a restricted area, which would be a misdemeanor. Officials would not say, however, if they believed that incident sparked the fire.

The man was listed in stable condition at the Grossman Burn Center at Sherman Oaks Hospital.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

more rain in our forecast. The rivers are already breaking levees here and they are expecting more flooding around the area over the next few days.

<sigh> I'm so tired of rain.

Kelly

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Check out these photos from earlier this week. Before '26-miles across the sea, Santa Catalina..." caught fire.

First is a house in nearby Los Feliz, second is the LA Zoo, third and fourth are the Observatory -- one by night and the other the day after.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

That LA fire was only 6 miles from Fred and Renee Madison's house, less as the crow flies.

(I think it's finally stopped snowing here. Hope I don't jinx it by saying so.)

An idea not without merit. Weather would be 'mild', proximity to the falls and ther TP sites in the area. Worthy of a pros and cons review.

And for Rebel " It's rainin' down in Texas' Stevie Ray Vaughn- " Flooding Down in Texas " ?

WOW! glad to see the sun for a bit, but yes, in for more rain, in for more flash floods. hope it clears up for the 4th of July. planned to go outta town toward highway 114 tonight.   it has a bit high water there, so, I have to go some other route maybe.

90-something today.  Sunny. Same expected tomorrow.  And the next day and the day after that for a week.  Probably more of the same after that. 

But then it will be sunny and hotter still.

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

"watch out for my cousin.."

The sound wind makes through the pines. The sentience of animals. What we fear and what lies beyond the darkness.

Thermometer read 107* at the peak of the day today. It was miserable...the humidity was higher than normal, and no matter what I did, I just couldn't keep cool. I ended up laying on the kitchen floor with the cats...

It's supposed to reach 110* tomorrow in some areas...where my house is in my town (back up in a small valley between several hills) we don't get a lot of normal air movement, so the heat tends to just sit here like a big blanket. The rest of the town stays a lot cooler that our area does. So while they predict a high of 105* tomorrow, I'm thinking we'll be ringing in 110*. Woo!

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."