Hurricane Jimena Now Cat 4 and Could Increase Los Angeles Winds

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Left: Maximum sustained winds of 145 mph headed for landfall near Magdalena Bay on Mexico's
Baja peninsula early Wednesday. Hurricane could increase winds in Los Angeles, California,
where over 50 homes have been destroyed and 12,500 more houses are threatened by multiple fires,
some burning in canyons for the first time in a century. See Hurricane Jimena Forecast Tracks: NOAA National Hurricane Center. Right: The 5-day-old fires have covered more than 85,000 acres
in the Los Angeles, California, region as of Monday, September 1, 2009. Nearly 3,000 firemen
and 12 helicopters are fighting the fires now advancing on three fronts twenty miles wide.
Thousands are evacuating. Satellite image courtesy NASA


It's burning everywhere. When it gets into canyons
that haven't burned in numerous years, it takes off. If you have
any insight into the good Lord upstairs, put in a request.”
- U.S. Forest Service spokesman

I get so upset knowing that we have unbelievable technology for incredible things....... and yet we can't figure out how to put out fires??
Yeah, right!

It's probably because they cut the water off to save the endangered minnows!