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...have still been half-asleep but I distinctly remember him saying ‘San Diego is burning to the ground,’” recollects Poage, a native of Tierrasanta, a suburb in inland San Diego County...
...Cedar Fire in San Diego has already claimed the life of a firefighter and winds from the Pacific have blown the fire inland toward dry piles of timber...
...rooms decorated with old circus posters and other curiosities. Its next-door neighbor, the Inn on the Blue Horizon (787-741-3318), has one-room cottages with country-style wooden furniture, just steps from the sea. And the celebrated, open-air architecture of the Hix Island House hixislandhouse.com) farther inland, lets you feel as if you're camping but with all the privacy and amenities of a luxury rental, including appliance-filled kitchens, with rosemary and oregano bushes lining the path to the pool. The Hix House's altitude brings a steady ocean breeze through the rooms...
...spin. Winchester, a geologist by training, initiates us gently into the pleasures of plate tectonics, and he leavens his lectures with big-budget action scenes: when the big day comes, ravenous tidal waves chase the locals up cliffs and strand a hapless Dutch gunship a mile and a half inland, its crew of 28 dead on arrival...
...note, the overall rate at which the ice streams are transporting ice--at the relatively brisk clip of hundreds of feet a year--does not seem to have increased in recent decades. On the other hand, the streams have been extremely erratic--accelerating, decelerating, sometimes even stopping. And miles inland, the streams have shown surprising sensitivity to ocean tides, raising the specter that modest rises in sea level could accelerate their flow...