[Ron61]

Fred,

Those are some good sized hail stones. I bet they don't help a car any either.

I am attaching a picture of the MARs Bomber dumping it's load over here by the dam. Also here are some of the statistics on it. They left out that it has to fly at 100 MPH+ when scooping water out of the lake. When if flies over the house everything shakes like in a small earthquake.

The giant Martin Mars water bomber drops a mixture of gel and water that it scooped out of Lake Shasta onto the Motion Fire Tuesday evening. It carries a load of 60,000 pounds (7,200 gallons) of water that is mixed with a gel or foam to make it more effective. Its wingspan is 200 feet. Its four Wright Cyclone engines have 2,500 horsepower each. On Monday afternoon, it made five trips in five and a half hours.

Mike,

I was just reading thew latest update on the fire in the Santa Ynez area and also that they have now ordered evacuation of Big Sur. Nothing is sounding really good right now.