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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Slice Of Life (as we know it)
October - 2011
20 years ago was the disasterous Oakland Hills Fire...Houses stacked up the hillsides, narrow streets, and tall wild grasses and explosive Eucalyptus trees, and hot weather...all converged into one of this nations most infamous urban wildfires...25 people killed, including a firefighter and a cop...this occured the same weekend as one of the KFAT family reunions in the South (SF) Bay...we could see a huge plume of thick dark smoke rise from the East Bay...80% of the homes in the Oakland-Berkeley hills had shake roofs.
Last night KTVU-TV (Oakland, CA) had a restrospective look back on the "Second Look" program (http://www.ktvu.com/) and very few people have seen a firestorm that close up...and many lessons were learned from that incident...
Conditions like this also exist in Sausalito, Orinda, and the Russian River resort area of Sonoma County...and a firestorm like this could break out in these and other places if conditions converge...
22 years ago was the disasterous Loma Prieta Earthquake...As seen live on TV, during the 1989 World Series...we'd been waiting a long time for Oakland and San Francisco to face each other in the World Series...the only time they usually play against each other are the pre-season exhibition games known as the Bay Bridge Series...
It was a hot day and I was at work at a winery in Geyserville (northern Sonoma County), and all of a sudden the ground started violent shaking, there was the sound of a roar, like a freight train, and cloud of dust were stirred up...
Light poles were doing the hula...30,000 gallon stainless steel wine tanks were doing the shimmy...loaded semi trucks dancing up and down...and I was trying to hold on to a safety rail near a control panel as I was bouncing up and down...
Geyserville was in another world for about 15 seconds...and then it settled down...and we were totally stunned. I'm a native of the SF Bay Area and am no stranger to quakes, but this one was a doosey...the Roger Creek Fault runs from the SF Bay to northern Sonoma County, and it thought to be linked with the Hayward & Calavares faults...all 3 are considered very high risk faults...and they're though to be able to interact with the San Andreas Fault...and THIS quake was on a branch of the San Andreas Fault...
We soon found out the epicenter was SOUTH of San Jose...wow...that far away and the effects we felt were making us very concerned for those much closer...this was 125 miles away to our south-by-southeast...
3,550 ft Loma Prieta is about 11 miles dues west of Morgan Hill (on US Hey 101) in the coastal mountains...
63 people died, and the coastal resort town of Santa Cruz was hit VERY hard, wiping out much of the downtown area...the collapse of the Cypress Freeway (part of I-880) squashing cars like pancakes...buildings collapse in SF's Marina District and subsequant fire...the collapse of the upper deck of the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge...such a massive scale...
Those watching the World Series saw LIVE on tv the initial shocks...and there was confusion at first but soon the reports atarted coming in of the widespread devastation...
TV stations were on standby generator power, and could only have 2 or 3 lights turned on, on the news set...no telepromters...bulletins handed live on camera the old fashioned way: on paper...the Goodyear blimp that was covering the World Series started shooting live video pictures of some of the devastated areas...
I left work as soon as possible and headed north to my home, and then tried calling my folks in the East Bay to see IF they were OK, but the phone circuits were jammed. I called relatives in Texas to see IF they could get through..later that evening I was able to talk with my folks and they were OK...
I turned my scanner on and was getting an ear full as state, federal, and local agencies rushed to the SF Bay Area...California State DOJ was rushing to secure certain state buildings, the FBI was doing the same for their interests, Cal-OES (Office of Emergency Services) was trying to evaluate incoming info and dispatch resources...fire depeartments task force teams were formed for mutual aid, law enforcement went for mutual aid, Red Cross was doing the same...
Regular citizens were helping to man fire hoses, and famous people like Oakland A's player Dave Stewart was helping rescue people in the collapsed Cypress Freeway...and the whole nation was rivetted to their TV's, watching it live and in color, as news reports came in, with video reports when possible...
ALL tv-stations with news departments went into emergency coverage mode..and I was archiving as much as possible onto VHS video tapes...
At one point I myself went into "newsman mode" and started making notes, gathering fast changing info, fired up my computer to bang out a script, and broke the news on the KZYX-FM 6:oo PM News (they didn't get much news from the outside world, except Pacifica)...
Reflections....
Lots of things happen in October besides Holloween
20 years ago was the disasterous Oakland Hills Fire...Houses stacked up the hillsides, narrow streets, and tall wild grasses and explosive Eucalyptus trees, and hot weather...all converged into one of this nations most infamous urban wildfires...25 people killed, including a firefighter and a cop...this occured the same weekend as one of the KFAT family reunions in the South (SF) Bay...we could see a huge plume of thick dark smoke rise from the East Bay...80% of the homes in the Oakland-Berkeley hills had shake roofs.
Last night KTVU-TV (Oakland, CA) had a restrospective look back on the "Second Look" program (http://www.ktvu.com/) and very few people have seen a firestorm that close up...and many lessons were learned from that incident...
Conditions like this also exist in Sausalito, Orinda, and the Russian River resort area of Sonoma County...and a firestorm like this could break out in these and other places if conditions converge...
22 years ago was the disasterous Loma Prieta Earthquake...As seen live on TV, during the 1989 World Series...we'd been waiting a long time for Oakland and San Francisco to face each other in the World Series...the only time they usually play against each other are the pre-season exhibition games known as the Bay Bridge Series...
It was a hot day and I was at work at a winery in Geyserville (northern Sonoma County), and all of a sudden the ground started violent shaking, there was the sound of a roar, like a freight train, and cloud of dust were stirred up...
Light poles were doing the hula...30,000 gallon stainless steel wine tanks were doing the shimmy...loaded semi trucks dancing up and down...and I was trying to hold on to a safety rail near a control panel as I was bouncing up and down...
Geyserville was in another world for about 15 seconds...and then it settled down...and we were totally stunned. I'm a native of the SF Bay Area and am no stranger to quakes, but this one was a doosey...the Roger Creek Fault runs from the SF Bay to northern Sonoma County, and it thought to be linked with the Hayward & Calavares faults...all 3 are considered very high risk faults...and they're though to be able to interact with the San Andreas Fault...and THIS quake was on a branch of the San Andreas Fault...
We soon found out the epicenter was SOUTH of San Jose...wow...that far away and the effects we felt were making us very concerned for those much closer...this was 125 miles away to our south-by-southeast...
3,550 ft Loma Prieta is about 11 miles dues west of Morgan Hill (on US Hey 101) in the coastal mountains...
63 people died, and the coastal resort town of Santa Cruz was hit VERY hard, wiping out much of the downtown area...the collapse of the Cypress Freeway (part of I-880) squashing cars like pancakes...buildings collapse in SF's Marina District and subsequant fire...the collapse of the upper deck of the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge...such a massive scale...
Those watching the World Series saw LIVE on tv the initial shocks...and there was confusion at first but soon the reports atarted coming in of the widespread devastation...
TV stations were on standby generator power, and could only have 2 or 3 lights turned on, on the news set...no telepromters...bulletins handed live on camera the old fashioned way: on paper...the Goodyear blimp that was covering the World Series started shooting live video pictures of some of the devastated areas...
I left work as soon as possible and headed north to my home, and then tried calling my folks in the East Bay to see IF they were OK, but the phone circuits were jammed. I called relatives in Texas to see IF they could get through..later that evening I was able to talk with my folks and they were OK...
I turned my scanner on and was getting an ear full as state, federal, and local agencies rushed to the SF Bay Area...California State DOJ was rushing to secure certain state buildings, the FBI was doing the same for their interests, Cal-OES (Office of Emergency Services) was trying to evaluate incoming info and dispatch resources...fire depeartments task force teams were formed for mutual aid, law enforcement went for mutual aid, Red Cross was doing the same...
Regular citizens were helping to man fire hoses, and famous people like Oakland A's player Dave Stewart was helping rescue people in the collapsed Cypress Freeway...and the whole nation was rivetted to their TV's, watching it live and in color, as news reports came in, with video reports when possible...
ALL tv-stations with news departments went into emergency coverage mode..and I was archiving as much as possible onto VHS video tapes...
At one point I myself went into "newsman mode" and started making notes, gathering fast changing info, fired up my computer to bang out a script, and broke the news on the KZYX-FM 6:oo PM News (they didn't get much news from the outside world, except Pacifica)...
Saturday, October 15, 2011
It's a good day for photographs
Until I can get a photo gallery set up, I thought I'd share this photo, fresh out of the camera...
Mare's Tails (Alto Cirrus) of an approaching weather front...looking due west...thin layer of fog over the Pacific Ocean at the horizon line...
I might post a few other photo's here from time to time, until I can get a real photo gallery up and running...
Mare's Tails (Alto Cirrus) of an approaching weather front...looking due west...thin layer of fog over the Pacific Ocean at the horizon line...
I might post a few other photo's here from time to time, until I can get a real photo gallery up and running...
Uphill Downhome
I scored some used solar electric panels Saturday...
I got four 45 watt polycrystaline type mounted on a 2 rail rack...for $60
This was via the "Trading Time" radio show on KZYX-FM...
I have yet to test them due to rain, but was assured by the LOL (Little Old Lady) that they still put out 75%...
IF so, then it was a good day for me in "bargainville"...
I got four 45 watt polycrystaline type mounted on a 2 rail rack...for $60
This was via the "Trading Time" radio show on KZYX-FM...
I have yet to test them due to rain, but was assured by the LOL (Little Old Lady) that they still put out 75%...
IF so, then it was a good day for me in "bargainville"...
A few days ago this is what the sky looked like...
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Coming Soon
Things to look for:
The current HOMESTEAD Radio Show... when available, (older shows available at the KMUD-FM web site in the Archives section)
The LAST WORD audio clip with various guests...(short pieces and slices of life in general)
A select TUBBY TUNES Radio Show...(high calorie, old and new, rocking "Americana Music" for you, maybe what KFAT-Gilroy would be playing IF it was still on the air)
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(Thank You in advance) ...
Meanwhile...Boogie Onward...
Flogging the Blog
Howdy Friends...
FYI: I'm NOT on the computer every day...I sometimes let a few days lapse between computer sessions...
This is because I attempt to lead a "normal" life...you know, away from a computer...
I'm still making adjustments to this blog page (ala "flogging the blog")...
This entire webby site is somehow created by me...and it's slowly evolving...I may use a computer a lot, but I'm not a "web wizard"...I use Pagebreeze as my primary HTML editor because I can navigate around it fairly intuitivily...I'm just a beginner at this web page stuff...
The good news is that I have a bit of space on my ISP's server for a personal web page...
The bad news is that there's limited space available, which means I can't post ALL my HOMESTEAD Radio Show programs (14 so far) and certainly can't even come close to posting a small selection of TUBBY TUNES Radio Show...
I'll post what I can, when I can...but you'll need a broadband connection to really take advantage of any audio or video I'm able to post...
Meanwhile, please feel free to add a comment here, and to please sign my guestbook...
Speaking of which...I'm spending real money for a premium guestbook service with NO advertisements...I'm trying to keep my web page(s) as nice as possible to look at, without subjecting yer eyeballs to a barage of ads (which seems so common these days)...
And while I talk mostly gooder, I'm clumsy at the keyboard...any and all typo's are entirely my doing with no outside help at all...
FYI: I'm NOT on the computer every day...I sometimes let a few days lapse between computer sessions...
This is because I attempt to lead a "normal" life...you know, away from a computer...
I'm still making adjustments to this blog page (ala "flogging the blog")...
This entire webby site is somehow created by me...and it's slowly evolving...I may use a computer a lot, but I'm not a "web wizard"...I use Pagebreeze as my primary HTML editor because I can navigate around it fairly intuitivily...I'm just a beginner at this web page stuff...
The good news is that I have a bit of space on my ISP's server for a personal web page...
The bad news is that there's limited space available, which means I can't post ALL my HOMESTEAD Radio Show programs (14 so far) and certainly can't even come close to posting a small selection of TUBBY TUNES Radio Show...
I'll post what I can, when I can...but you'll need a broadband connection to really take advantage of any audio or video I'm able to post...
Meanwhile, please feel free to add a comment here, and to please sign my guestbook...
Speaking of which...I'm spending real money for a premium guestbook service with NO advertisements...I'm trying to keep my web page(s) as nice as possible to look at, without subjecting yer eyeballs to a barage of ads (which seems so common these days)...
And while I talk mostly gooder, I'm clumsy at the keyboard...any and all typo's are entirely my doing with no outside help at all...
Friday, October 7, 2011
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