And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The first time I saw one of those drops I was standing by the ridge line behind our house in Sebastopol Calif, it was 1972 or so. I was wearing boots, blue jeans & a tee shirt, carrying a shovel. All the guys around me are turning up their collars on their firefighter jackets, getting set under their helmets and laughing a little because they know the bomber is coming & I'm in a tee shirt. It opened up and down came all the colored stuff, and it all landed on the other side of the ridge. Not a drop on me & it stopped the fire! I still remember looking up and watching that stuff falling.
The Water Tanks in those Big Jets are Pressurized with Bleed Air from the Engines, and when the Valve is Opened, they get Thousands of Pounds of Thrust from it; that lets them get Crazy-low in the Canyons and Rocket Out, where a Gravity-Tank Bird would Crash.
They do a great job when it's on the line.
ReplyDeleteCould be worse. The state bird of Oklahoma is the house trailer.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I saw one of those drops I was standing by the ridge line behind our house in Sebastopol Calif, it was 1972 or so. I was wearing boots, blue jeans & a tee shirt, carrying a shovel. All the guys around me are turning up their collars on their firefighter jackets, getting set under their helmets and laughing a little because they know the bomber is coming & I'm in a tee shirt.
ReplyDeleteIt opened up and down came all the colored stuff, and it all landed on the other side of the ridge.
Not a drop on me & it stopped the fire! I still remember looking up and watching that stuff falling.
Dealing with the Sierra Club legacy.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many spotted owls were killed in the fire and how many simply flew away from it?
DeleteMy buddy in Idaho Falls makes the retardant.
ReplyDeleteThey are at 500 tons a day, and just keeping up with demand.
The Water Tanks in those Big Jets are Pressurized with Bleed Air from the Engines, and when the Valve is Opened, they get Thousands of Pounds of Thrust from it; that lets them get Crazy-low in the Canyons and Rocket Out, where a Gravity-Tank Bird would Crash.
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