UCLA cancelling last game before coming to Ann Arbor

Probably couldn’t handle Dotcom either

Wild fires make for shitty TV, unlike hurricanes, which make for BAD ASS TV!!! 

I don't believe UCLA is under any sort of direct threat here itself, but that area is just north of them. The viral picture of cars driving down "into the flames" as they approach the Getty includes the road sign that says 3 miles to Wilshire, which is the UCLA exit. 

The whole area is paralyzed, and it's one of the busiest spots in the region (I've driven the Sepulveda pass dozens of times on different days and at different times of day and night and it is NEVER not jammed). This is the right move for UCLA even if the fire isn't a danger to them.

And it *is* a danger to a whole lot of people. 

I'm in Valley Village which is NE of the Skirball fire. Woke up to the whole area smelling like a campfire. skies are seriously hazey. traffic is super fun too. took an hour to get down to Orange County this afternoon and two hours to get back.

This guy?? This WD bullying is just childish. Creating a name to mock him is ridiculous. Yes, before anyone asks, this is WD.

Even I find this obtuse. 

This guy is Whatta Douche.

Original.....NOT.  Go troll elsewhere.

Ive found WD at times a tad bit annoyng or immature I also commend him on his thorough coverage  of all things Michigan something nobody else on here does ..I think that mocking him like you did is just unfair..

I wasn't sure whether you are a troll or just a jerk, so I decided on both gifs....

Go through all that time to create an account in effort to disparage a poster? Put your energy to good use

Boo this man.gif

You must be a really happy person with a very fulfilling life

Why do you have to bring a guy's personal life into it?

Go to your room and don't come out until you are ready to apologize. And no video games or internet tonight.

It's not inspired. 

Good idea. Go back to jerking off to hentai.

are an asshole. And not funny. And not original. Just lame.

Unlike all the negative assholes above I just want to provide some positive reinforcement and let you know that I appreciate your work and would like you to post more often. I didn't even know WD had a girlfriend and to be honest I didnt even think he liked girls, learn something new every day!.

I suggest you pay for your material next time. This is rather pathetic.

It was jarring for me, growing up in Michigan, to greet coworkers at the hospital I worked at in the Valley and hear them casually explain that they had evacuated their house because one shift in the wind and the fire would consume their neighborhood.

These weren't rich & famous types, either. Working nurses. 

There's a great book a friend of my dad's wrote about Michigan's environmental past, called Ruin and Recovery. I got an autographed copy for Christmas one year. Seriously. From Amazon's book review:

Michigan has faced two turning points in its conservation history. One came at the end of the nineteenth century when its logging era ended, only to be followed by raging forest fires that left millions of acres of land denuded.

LA is looking at a couple hundred thousand acres of denuded land from this set of fires. Denuded land happens. If people live near a hillside and fail to clear the brush near their house, that's on them. BTW, it's 36 and partly cloudy in Michigan today. Meanwhile, it's hot as hell in SoCal and the sun is hidden by voluminous clouds of billowing smoke.

P.S. I want people to believe you and move out of LA or not move here in the first place. Fewer people in LA is a good thing for me. Just tell everybody to turn their TVs off during the Rose Bowl when Michigan is covered in snow and Pasadena is sunny and 70 degrees.

https://www.amazon.com/Ruin-Recovery-Michigans-Conservation-Leader/dp/04...

...tornadoes kill something like three times as many people every year as wildfires... 

cars are moving above 10 MPH on the 405?

Definitely hope things get better out there.  Wildfires are scary as can be.  I've only seen the flames from one ever (Heyman Fire in 2002 in Colorado) - incredibly intense.

That's unreal. They were posting satellite imagery of the affected areas this afternoon and that was equally unreal, as was the picture of ash falling out of the sky in Ventura County because there was so much of it.

...coke palaces designed by a Pritzker Prize winner.

the grounds are amazing.  I really hope the fire doesn't destroy the Getty.

Getty is Amazing. No way they don’t defend it with everything. Collection is irreplaceable.

For a moment there, I thought that was Oxford, Mississippi.

It’s finally happening!

Total Disrespekt!