Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
Horse evacuation from the previous “safe spot” is now underway. There were several hundred horses at this location and adjacent. It was north of Mt. Israel road and the Elfin Forrest area on the North side of Lake Hodges. As reported earlier a offshoot that was part of the Witch Creek Fire began advancing early […]
Word has come down that where we stashed the horse is now under evacuation. Before we leave to move him to (safety?) I wanted to post a note on it. He is being moved because of the resurgent burning at the north side of Lake Hodges, near Del Dios. This area did not burn yesterday, […]
Sorry, I have little love for a systems admin who decides to knock us off the web as we are busy dishing out fire information to people in need. Yes, we were using a lot of bandwidth, and I agree that we should pay for it. But for us to find out that they want […]
Word from the north is that the main part of Fallbrook was spared from the Rice Canyon fire. The area is still under threat, but according to a report on local news the vast majority of Fallbrook proper was not burned as some had feared. From the Fallbrook Village News ” UPDATE (8:58 am) With […]
Update 09:30 Pacific Good news from the front – around the north half of the county the winds are calm now, and the air assault is taking place in full force. Dozens of water dropping aircraft are now engaging the Witch Creek Fire and the Harris Fire. There is some uncertanty how long this pause […]
If you are looking for San Diego County fire news for Tuesday October 23, you will find it by clicking here. Update 22:00 Pacific This will be the final update of the night. Tammi and I went to go get a look at what was happening. In the dark you can better see the fire […]
April 12th, 1981. I was still in high school in Illinois. I was a young nerdy guy engrossed with all things having to do with space and man’s conquest of the heavens. I vividly recall the launch. It was the 3rd day they had tried to launch, each time there was some technical problem that […]
Monday is a big day in the economy. Citibank will announce its earnings, and $5 billion in bonds to finance the TXU buyout go on sale from Citibank and JP Morgan / Chase. From the Wall Street Journal comes word of a new “pipeline” of money to help Citibank and its affiliates: The Master-Liquidity Enhancement […]
In the Marines we had a saying, terse and to the point as is the Jarhead way: “Bohica!”, it was an acronym that stood for “Bend over, here it comes again”. I direct your attention to two graphs that I shall explain: What this chart is showing you is the pricing of something called a […]
As most of you know from my earlier posts, I have been watching the stresses build in the global currency and credit markets. While most people have little idea what they are and why they are there, suffice to say in a world that is increasingly outsourcing things to each other, the exchange of money […]