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Pachamama

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5. Im glad the oxygen around them on the surface of the lake wasnt sucked up by the fire in a vacuum

Reply to Fumesucker (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 06:34 AM

Jan 2013

Not sure how much of the surrounding shoreline was engulfed, but it would have been possible for the fire to be sucking the oxygen to feed itself, leaving the women and children gadping for air....

Gawd, this is just an awful preview of what we can expect in the future....more and more....everywhere....

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