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    Update from Nor Cal...called back to work, we are evacuating the hospital...

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    pray for the patients and employees. We evacuated the critical patients earlier, so now we are evacuating the rest of the hospital.

     

    I'm sure you can imagine that this is no small undertaking.........I've only been home 2 hours but am being called back in. My bags are packed by my own front door, ready to go. Technically we should be gone already........but we are holding off for the cop with the bullhorn up and down the street telling folks to leave..........:)

     

    dangermom.......thank you for the offer of help, I am taking your phone # with me "just in case"

    Prayers requested.........evacuated for the 2nd time in 3 weeks, and my fridge died

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    Unbelievable...........I am at the hospital ER working right now while my family is packing up the house AGAIN

     

    We are diverting patients from the hospital and we have 12 ambulances sitting out front as we are transferring ER and ICU patients to outlying hospitals........

     

    Craziness. Prayers for my community, this is really bad..........Nor Cal fires just keep coming back with a vengence. And, it is over 100 degrees and the smoke is thick as fog and ash is falling like snow..........

     

    Yes, and my fridge died so all my stuff is defrosted and warm and how do you schedule a delivery when you don't know when you'll be able to go back home???

     

    Deep breaths, deep breaths

    Need World/American History Help.......I'm thinking Spielvogel, but am open

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    My son is going into 10th grade.

    He did no history for 9th grade (lots of extra curric activities)

    He needs American History and World History to graduate

     

    I own Human Odyssey with study guide and Western Civ both by Spielvogel.

     

    My son is not a big reader (he must have been switched at birth with my real child) and is more science oriented so I'm trying to not make this too complicated. I have TOG but realized that for this child it would be way too complicated for him. He seems to prefer and do better with texts.

     

    So, would Human Odyssey be an appropriate text for 10th grade if I'm not necessarily trying to stretch him too much???

     

    Also would both of these texts be considered "World History" on a transcript??

     

    Any and all suggestions or ideas are welcome.......

    First evacuated for fires........not the bomb squad has closed our street

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    for a pipe bomb. And no, I don't live in a big city.........I live in a "town".....we don't even have enough people to qualify as a city and just recently retained town status.......20,000 people and the nearest "city" is a half hour away.

     

    One street up (which here is about 200 feet) there was a pipe bomb in the middle of the road.

     

    I have 9 teenagers at my house for a 4th party........we were going to go to the races tonight and my husband is trying to get home but they won't let anyone through.

     

    So, I now have 9 teenagers staying indefinitely at my home on the 4th of July.........no races............no husband

     

    This is on the heels of being evacuated for 3 days because of the fires in Nor Cal

     

    Brother!!!!! This certainly qualifies as the worst summer ever.

    Living in the haze of fire Nor. CA

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    Yes I heard that many of the smaller fires will need to burn themselves out while they work on the bigger, structure-endangering fires. It really is crazy and I can't imagine living in this smoke for several more weeks. It literally smells better inside my car and house than it does in the stores. You walk in the library or the supermarket and it is overwhelming.....I'm not sure if its bad circulation or just that it gets trapped indoors.

     

    I really am hoping it ends soon.........my poor DH has asthma and it seems the longer it goes on the more problems he is having.......accumalitve effect I suppose.

    what is a good first class for community college

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    We have started out with Math and English.....

     

    Be very careful of classes that open the door for political/religious/ethical ideology being taught by a professor.

     

    If you are a Christian they can seriously undermine your teaching and confuse a young teen. Even if you aren't a Christian it could still be more than a young teen can handle early on.

     

    My friend even tried a drama class at the CC and came up with this problem.........all of my science classes I've taken over the last year are VERY evolution oriented and have had multiple political statements made by teachers (don't know why??)

     

    So be careful.........also always, always, ALWAYS..check out ratemyprofessors.com and check out the individual teachers........you'll find out about their style, how good a teacher students think they are and you can ususally find out if they use their position to push their own political agendas.........

    Living in the haze of fire Nor. CA

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    I live in Paradise (we were the ones evacuated 2 weeks ago) and its awful up here. I work in the Emergency Room at the hospital and we are getting respiratory problems all the time. We have to keep all the windows and doors closed all the time and run the air conditioning all the time.

     

    Someone mentioned all the elderly up here and yes they are having a heck of a time. A lot of folks don't have air conditioning up here and you can't run a swamp cooler in this smoky environment so they are really up a creek

     

    The bad thing.............we have more evacuations now, several fires that are 5% or less contained and more dry lightning coming this weekend

     

    It stinks!!! Literally and figuratively

     

    I just don't want to get evacuated again........but let's just say that I'm way more prepared this time than I was two weeks ago just throwing things in my car.

    TOG loose threads vent

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    I've tried over and over again to like that group.........I sign up, I unsubscribe........over and over again.

     

    I always leave for the same reasons

    .....too much cliqueyness (that is SO not a word)

    .....I find unless you are "in" you don't always get your questions answered

    .....there is very little about TOG discussed on this board

    .....the moderators are very biased and not good at moderating and determining appropriate vs inappropriate posting

     

    I would really prefer a group that was ON TOPIC ONLY!!!!

     

    I, like many others have stated, come here for chatting......on a TOG list I want to talk TOG.........period!

    Prayers please...we've been evacuated from our home for 2 days now

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    Thank you for thinking of us Liz

     

    We finally are back in our home but it sure has been a stressful week.

     

    Our home was saved but a few of our friends and co-workers lost their homes. 70 homes in all were burned.

     

    They just reopened the college today so my son is back to summer school.....much to his dismay :)

     

    Work (at the hospital ER) has been CRAZY busy with folks with respiratory problems, anxiety attacks, etc.....

     

    I am certainly going to be rethinking how I store my important papers and photos after tearing apart my house looking for stuff to throw in the car.

     

    Also with 5 cats I've determined one cat carrier is not enough.

     

    The fire is 100% contained as of late last night.......so thank you for the prayers..........very scary time......

    Prayers please...we've been evacuated from our home for 2 days now

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    So we were able to find a motel room...........thank you Lord!! It looks like we can go home soon as they are starting to open up the road up the mountain to our town. A friend of ours called and they checked on our house and so far so good.........again thank you Lord!

     

    Visited the dogs and cats at the shelter.......it is almost 100 degrees so they are all getting hosed down regularly but seem to be doing okay. They were so glad to see us though. It has to be so scary for them.

     

    My other 2 kids came home from camp yesterday so we are all together as a family now........although the logistics in a hotel room are slightly more cramped.........LOL

     

    Hope to go home soon.

    Prayers please...we've been evacuated from our home for 2 days now

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    Due to the fire in Northern California. It has been crazy. We were able to get most of our animals, although we had to leave 3 of our cats, and they are now in a shelter at Search & Rescue. We stayed at one of she shelters, but had to sleep in our car because they were full.

     

    2 of our friends have lost their homes

     

    Prayers for our whole area please!!! Paradise, California

    Best place in the US to live

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    I live in Northern California and it is cheaper than the rest of CA and we are 3 hours from the ocean or the ski scene. We are in the foothills so get less of the heat in summer than the valley and have mild winters with snow that sticks for a few days at a time but isn't ongoing. We live in Paradise, CA which is next to Chico where there is a college and shopping........but we are a small town "up the hill"

     

    I would love to live in Colorado........Anchorage, AK or Pacific Northwest.

     

    Check out Find Your Spot it is very cool........it asks you questions about things you would like in a community........from crime to homeschooling to politics to climate and it gives you a top 20 list of places and then gives you city demographics about each spot and cost of living comparisons. I LOVE this site.........

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