President sends in the big iron

Governor Schwarzenegger asked the president for some US Government help with the current wildfires. A few minutes ago, three of these ginormous helos flew over, rattling the windows in the house. Maybe that’s how they’re going use them to put the fire out—hover over the trees and shake all the leaves, needles, twigs and loose bark off. Then drop down and blow all the debris off to where it can be shoveled into large bright orange CalTrans plastic litter bags, thrown onto waiting trucks and carted off to be made into compost. Pretty smart plan, methinks. And a real moneymaker if you don’t mind buying compost that may have dead fish and frogs in it.