Lance Foxx's Journal

Official Lance Foxx Reference Sheet

2008-05-04T16:09:20Z

Please consider this my official reference sheet.

This artwork was done by Holly Hindle as a paid commission. I never could get off my "skinneh fox tush" to do a proper reference sheet for myself, but if there's anyone I trust to do one for me, that would be Holly! Her work has always been phenomenal! Not only is she one of the best friends I've ever met over the internet, I've met her in person and I believe she knows me best to be able to do this.

I believe she succeeded and exceeded all my expectations for this. Thank you, Holly. I love it so much! ^^

4.2 Earthquake - Borrego Springs

2008-05-01T13:57:41Z

At about 8:48pm last night, I could hear a distant but very loud boom, two of them, then silence...

Being this close to the largest marine base on the west coast, you can sometimes hear live fire exercises. What surprised me, though, was that it started at 8:48pm. I've been in the military. Usually you start operations at the top of the hour, not at some random time within the hour. And the booms started so late. I didn't remember hearing any at all during the day.

I listened closely... and moments later, I heard a couple of more booms.

Well, I figured, it must be Camp Pendleton. Usually when they fire the big guns, you hear shots fired in twos or threes, or at least that's the way stuff echoed.

I shrugged it off and keep playing video games.

Little did I know, what I just heard may have been an earthquake. Nothing shook at my house, but around the same time, a 4.2 earthquake hit the East County area, out in the desert. The quake was felt within San Diego's city limits, however it wasn't reported to have done any damage.

New LJ Community: "San Diego Wildfires"

2008-04-29T02:48:53Z

I have started a new community for local wildfires in San Diego county. If you live in San Diego, have friends and family in the area, and/or would just like to know what's going on with the latest wildfires out here, please subscribe to this community. sd_wildfires

Also, I added a ton of friends just now, so if you've been trying to respond to my posts, check again, you may have been added now. Sorry it took so long. ^^;

Guild Wars

2008-04-21T05:20:51Z

I didn't want to do it, but I went out and bought Guild Wars today. Everyone else in the house has bought it and started playing this past week. I know Burr really loves playing these online games with me, so I decided to join in.

This is still a major deal for me because I'm still not much of a gamer. If you guys remember, WoW took two years of my life and slowed my artwork down to a crawl. I'm going to try to make sure this game doesn't do the same to me.

So why not continue WoW? Well, again, everyone in the house is playing Guild Wars now. Not Wow, and my reasons for playing WoW in the first place are now gone. I played to play with my friends. They've all moved on; to other games, to other servers, or to other things altogether and just quit. That's what I did when I reached Level 60. The expansion wasn't enough to lure me back. I imagined all I had waiting for me was more grinding, more boring game play where characters were only as good as their gear, and more people trying to get me to do more instances, which I sucked and was too slow at.

Okay, so why get lured into Guild Wars, besides everyone else is doing it? ...it's free. There's no subscription with this. The online game play is free.

I'm installing the game right now. I have no idea what my character's name will be, what server I'll be on, or what kind of characters I'm going to make. I'll make another post and give you guys an update later.

I've got a house of four furs playing here if anyone's interested. Let me know if this is your current game. Who else plays GW?

Smoking Plane & Drunk Driver Arrested

2008-04-19T09:30:29Z

It's been brought to my attention that I don't post here enough. I'm surprised just how many of you are actually reading my journals and I appreciate that you guys do find them interesting. Thank you for the e-mails and comments!

So, let me try to update this more regularly...

I have two interesting stories for you. One for Thursday in which a plane had engine trouble directly overhead and another for just a few hours ago where I managed to get a drunk driver arrested.

On Thursday, I was doing outside security rounds at work when I heard a building alarm go off. It wasn't one of ours. It sounded like it was coming from one of our neighbors. I called the police, non-emergency, and let them know. The dispatcher said she'd send a unit out to the area to check on the alarm. I decided to stand where I was, behind our complex, so I could watch the police pull into the nearby business I thought the alarm was coming from.

While I was standing there, I also watched air traffic come in and land at the local airport. I watched this one plane come in to land and abort his landing just after appearing over the start of the runway. He veered to one side and pulled in his landing gear. As he flew overhead, I could see that it was a twin turbo prop plane, white, with blue wingtips, and he passed so closed over me that I could look into the compartments the landing gear was going back into.

Just as the doors closed and the plane started to fly away, a thin trail of brown smoke appeared behind the left engine. Before I even realized what I was seeing was smoke, the engine popped! The plane shook. It tugged to the left, shook right, and went back and forth a bit as the pilot seemed to have to regain control, but... after the pop, the smoke seemed to go away. The plane never dipped or banked. It just went side to side for a moment and it was over. The plane continued flying away and gradually gained altitude again.

That was just... really interesting to see that close up. I'm glad he didn't crash. You guys know I've seen just about everything else... >.>

The alarm ended up being nothing. Police checked the building and met with someone who was there working late.

The other story I have for you is an interesting scenario I came across on the way home from work tonight. I was cruising up this hill, past a construction site, and I found this car pulled off the side of the road, at an intersection, still partially on the road. The lights were out on the vehicle and there was a tire on the road behind it. Realizing I might be coming across a new accident scene, I slowed down and carefully passed the car. The entire left side was resting on the roadway. The front left tire was gone and was probably the tire laying behind him. The left rear tired was completely shredded. Otherwise, I saw no other damage to the body of the car.

I decided to turn around and help the guy out. To me, it looked like he somehow blew both tires and was just down on his luck. I parked my truck a safe distance away and walked over. I asked if he needed help. He sat on the curb and said he called a tow truck. I told him I was concerned other cars coming up the hill might still hit his car because it was still sticking out in the roadway. I didn't mention, yet, that I had already called the local PD to assist for that very reason. I started waving a light I had at cars coming up the hill and directed them around the accident. When there was a break, I pulled the tire off the roadway.

At one point, I told him I was concerned for his safety because it's a full moon, Friday night, there's a lot of drunk drivers out there. One of them could come up the hill and clip his car. Case in point, while we waited, a pick up truck came up the hill at a pretty good speed. It was making a lot of noise because it appeared to be dragging something. I hoped that it was debris from the accident, but as it passed, you could see a construction cone stuck under the trucks front end... and he just kept on driving, not a care in the world, over the horizon, just dragging that cone away.

"You see! That's the drivers I'm worried about." I told the guy, still sitting on the curb. "That was probably a drunk driver right there.

He didn't really respond.

Poor guy, I thought, too worried about his car. All he really said to me was how he couldn't believe both tires blew out, never had anything like that happen before. All he wanted to do was just go home.

Finally, the vehicle I was waiting for arrived.

"Here we go!" I said.

"AAA?"

"No, I... called the police to help us out."

He basically just put his head in his hands.

The office got out and I was thankful he parked behind the car so no one would hit it. His flashing lights would finally be enough to get people coming up the hill to move over a lane. The officer got out and was real friendly. Simple, 'what's going on?' as he walked over.

Silence. I looked over to the guy. Obviously, this was his moment to clear his throat and speak up. Instead, silence. The officer looked to me. I was actually surprised the man had nothing to say. I simply pointed. "Um, it's his car..."

The officer walked over to the man and talked to him as he took a step back. He repeated the same story to the officer, who listened, and looked the car over. When he was done, he asked the question I'm sure many of you are thinking by now...

"How much have you had to drink tonight," the officer asked, point blank.

"Couple of beers..." the driver admitted.

...I took a few more steps back down the sidewalk as the full extent of the situation was finally made clear to me. >.>

I never allowed myself to stand close enough to the man to be able to tell. To mean, he seemed to be some poor sap who had a run of bad luck. I tried to help him out and... now he's being arrested. I felt bad at first, but only for a few moments. I reminded myself, this is a DRUNK DRIVER. Why should I be sympathetic? It's guys like him that get innocent people killed.

I went from feeling sorry for the guy to being pissed real fast.

But, more than being pissed at him, I was more pissed at myself for not realizing what should have been obvious to me and what was real obvious to the cop. Friday night, car cuts a tire, but that somehow sheers the whole wheel off the car and pops the other?! That was more than just a flat tire. The construction was at the bottom of the hill, however he forced his car all the way to the top. Was he just getting it to a safe spot or was his reaction so slow he didn't even realize he wrecked his car until the tire came off? And, yeah, the officer, who did talk face to face with the man, could tell "with the first thing he said," that he was drunk, must have been able to smell it on his breath. And then the guy just admits to it.

Unbelievable.

Well, I certainly learned from this. I tried being a good Samaritan, but I put myself in a bad position by just trying to help the guy out. If I knew he was drunk, I would have handled things differently. I would have pulled over a distance away, stayed in my truck, called it in, and waited there, in my truck, at a distance, until the police arrived.

As much as I love the show COPS and still watch it from time to time, tonight once again proved why I could never be a cop. It wasn't instinct for me to be suspicious of the situation. I tend to see people too innocently and I was totally blind to the situation I was dealing with. I think even if I was watching this happen on TV at home, I probably would have thought "Drunk Driver," but there, in real life, I never even considered it until the officer asked him. I'm still kicking myself for that...

New UFO Sighting!

2008-03-14T13:29:12Z

Yes, it's happened again. I've seen yet more strange lights in the sky. These were pretty interesting to me because they appeared to be one solid craft. It blacked out the stars as it went by and gave me the impression that it was a chevron shaped object.

I was outside locking up a trailer at work when I looked up, almost directly overhead, towards the moon, and saw these lights. They were not flashing. They slowly passed overhead in a straight line going from the north to the south. I had a good 15 to 20 seconds to get a good look at them until they flew off over the horizon. Here is a drawing I did of what I saw last night. Imagine these red lights moving off to the left in such a tight fashion that it really does seem like one aircraft. I believe that's what it was.

I did more than just report it to the Nationa UFO Reporting Center this time. I also had it documented by the local PD and contacted the media on this one, just for their own records. I don't expect my lone sighting to make the news.

Now all I have to do is wait for the Men in Black to knock on my door! :D

And yet again...

2008-02-12T05:22:52Z

5.0 followed by a 4.0 aftershock soon there after. We're getting tons of minor quakes out here! Still only felt that first one, though.

Another 5.1 Earthquake!

2008-02-11T21:45:12Z

The first earthquake was downgraded from a 5.4 to a 5.1 by the USGS. Now, around 10:29am this morning, there has been a second 5.1 magnitude quake.

This second 5.1 happened just a little further south than the first. I was at home, just a little further north this time. I was asleep. This second quake did not wake me up.

Update: 5.4 Earthquake

2008-02-09T19:08:41Z

I wanted to give an update to the 5.4 earthquake that happened late last night around 11:13pm.

As it turns out, this earthquake did do some pretty notable damage. Locally, near the epicenter in Mexico, 400k people are without power, local factories owned by companies like Sony have been closed until the buildings can be inspected, some cellphone service has been lost in the area, and a few bridges have even shown cracks.

There is no damage being reported on the US side of the border. Again, all that I felt in Carlsbad, California, (south of Oceanside on the map, where I live) was simply the building making noise as it creaked and popped under the stress. We didn't feel any of the shaking. We were right on the outer edge of this one.

I have posted an updated map showing a better view of who all felt this quake and where it was felt. The reason there's a divide in the felt reports is that the area down the middle is a mountain ridge. Not many people live there, most of it is a national forest, and so there's no felt reports there. Oh, and the data that's collected by the USGS is a US only agency, that's why there's no felt reports for south of the border either, but it's obvious it shook pretty good close to where that star is... um, obviously. >.>;

Okay, so why still talk about it? There's been a great number of aftershocks. To this hour, I count over 36 smaller aftershocks, at least 6 of which were big enough to be felt as another quake by people locally.

If the stress tranfers over to the nearest weak point in the fault system, 3 new earthquakes in Seeley, California, could be showing where the next earthquake could be. Everyone in SoCal is under a seismic advisory and the USGS says there's a 5 to 10% chance that within the next 72 hours, we could see an earthquake of the same size or larger.

In the meantime, don't worry, I'm being mindful of this and going on about my weekend without staying glued to the computer too much. I'm going to the store for food, getting a haircut, having a friend over later this evening, and watching the first race at Daytona this weekend, the Budweiser Shootout!

If last night's "Stewart vs. Busch" on track 'arguement', in addition to two major crashes during practice, are any indication... tonight should be a pretty wild race. o.o

Side note, my view on the "Stewart vs. Busch" incident? Fire Kurt Busch for using his racecar to vent his frustration with and put Tony Stewart back on probation with a fine, if what all the other drivers were saying is true and that he drove his car too agressively for just a practice run. I have no patience or respect for these two idiots. They're both dangerous and could get someone killed with their on track antics...

5.4 Earthquake

2008-02-09T09:05:44Z

I felt it! I didn't know it at the time, but I felt that 5.4 earthquake...

Burr and I were at work. We were sitting at the front desk in the main lobby. The front entrance of the building has a large, two story, glass facade that's known to creak and pop at night, but at 11:13pm tonight, it creaked and popped A LOT more than it usually does. It caught my attention and I even asked Burr about it.

"Did someone just come in the back?"

There's a back door, down a center hallway, on the other side the of the building that also has a fancy, two story, all glass entrance. The two doors are linked, in that we can see directly down the hallway to it. Thus, if someone comes in that door, it's known to have an effect on the pressure within the building, and it sometimes causes the windows in the front to pop and creak.

We checked, no one came in or left. We even checked electronically.

Just... randomly, it seemed, the front of the building (which faces the direction of the earthquake) just popped and creaked for no reason. It was too late in the night for temperature to have THAT much of an effect. It could have simply been the building settling, but it was like the building let loose all it's pops and creaks in one go.

It was weird, mainly because there was no shaking, not that we could feel anyways...

Then again, looking at how far the earthquake was from us, it would seem we were right on the edge of being able to feel it. I have no doubt, though, whether or not we did. It happened at the same exact moment. I checked the clock, wondering what time it was and if anyone was else was showing up to work really late.

I'd say we HEARD this quake rather than felt it, but it was definitely the quake in my opinion.

29

2008-02-06T16:55:36Z

I want to thank everyone for wishing me well and for the Happy Birthdays I received yesterday. February 5th was my 29th birthday. I spent it sleeping, since I took the day off from work.

I have fully recovered from my alcohol... near poisoning, whatever you want to call it. I didn't miss work scheduled on Monday and I'm back to being 100%.

I'm in a really good mood too! This video made me laugh harder than I have in a long time...

Drunk Beyond Reason...

2008-02-03T19:18:55Z

Last night was the most drunk I've ever allowed myself to become. Even now I'm the most buzzed I've ever been and this is after a 3 hour long shower to sober up! I've definitely found my limit...

My roommate tells me that the drinks I had were the same as as twelve shots of vodka. Plus one drink that counts as was two and a half. So that's, what... 14 and 1/2 shots of vodka?!

Okay, I'm surprised I'm not in a coma right now...

Everyone. NEVER DO THAT! Jesus Christ...

It does not feel good... to say the least. Trust me. Believe me. You'll spend hours kneeling before before the "Porcelain God." The best feeling in the world was followed by the worst feeling in the world....

Never do what I did... ever!

I'm going to spend all of Sunday sleeping, in a hangover, to remind myself never to do that again. Forget the Superbowl... *drinks water* I need to recover from this and this journal is to remind myself later that drinking that much was NOT worth it. I'll probably be embarrassed that I posted this later, but I don't care. I need to teach myself a lesson and never drink that much again.

I could be proud that I managed to drink that much and... not killed myself, but that was really really stupid...

I really don't know how I'm still conscious...

I found my buzz. If you choose to drink, find your buzz and stick to it. Do not exceed it and test your own limits. It's not worth it. You'll only regret it. A buzz should be good enough. Finding what makes you drunk is not worth bragging about. Man, I was stupid tonight...

Heath Ledger (1979-2008)

2008-01-23T03:30:43Z

On August 1, 2006, I made a LiveJournal post announcing Heath Ledger had landed the role of the Joker in the new Batman movie. I was excited. Just two days ago, I saw the first trailer.

Just a few minutes ago... I had just learned the talented 28 year old actor from Australia had died.

The cause of death is still being investigated, but at first glance, it would appear that it was an accidental overdose of sleeping medication. He had been complaining that he was not sleeping too well.

I'm just... I'm shocked. I really liked this guy. I remember his other movies. Those of you that don't know him from Brokeback Mountain probably remember him from the "We Will Rock You" movie, "A Knight's Tale." He was so young. He was as old as I am now, born in the same year. He also accepted roles the way I'd love to work in Hollywood, by only accepting what he wanted to do, not what granted him the biggest paycheck. He didn't sell out. He crafted his career carefully and I respected him a lot for that.

This is really tragic to me. This was more than just another celebraty death. I could really relate to this guy on a professional level... unbelivable.

I Am Legend

2008-01-21T09:27:25Z

Yep, I saw this tonight and I had to make this joke.

FAIL

2008-01-08T06:33:02Z

UFO Sighting on New Year's Eve

2008-01-02T03:36:07Z

For the past few years, I have read about the reports of red lights being seen over the city of San Diego during both the 4th of July and New Year’s Eve. I believed that due to a vast number of reports over the years, coming from all over town, that this must be a legitimate sighting. I believed that something really was being spotted by people in the skies over San Diego.

The reports usually involved at least two red lights appearing high above the city at night. They appear to hover or drift slowly, lasting a few minutes, and then the red lights either flicker or fade out. It sounded like flares to me. The behavior seemed to mimic what they do.

However, I wanted to hold my opinion until I saw it with my own eyes. Last night, I finally did.

I brought a friend with me to Cowles Mountain, located near San Carlos and the Mission Trails Regional Park area. The summit has an elevation of 1591 feet. I figured this was the perfect location to see anything that might appear above San Diego’s skies because I could see so many communities in and around the San Diego area, while still high above the city, close to everything. The majority of sightings seemed to occur around the Le Mesa area which we would also be very close to. There would be no missing it should the red lights appear in the same skies. We just hoped the weather would be clear, which luckily for us, it was.

We arrived by the mountain side at 10:15pm. After grabbing our gear and locking up the truck, my friend and I started walking towards the entrance to the trail. We didn’t get too far before I stopped and stared at a light directly above us. We hadn’t even left the neighborhood street yet and there it was! Sure enough, I was staring at a single red light just hanging in the sky. My friend turned, wondering why I stopped and followed my gaze. He saw it too. We couldn’t believe it. It wasn’t even midnight yet. We hadn’t even started our climb yet.

We watched it, expecting to see it turn or flash some other lights that might identify it as a normal aircraft. The red light was clear and crisp in the sky. It didn’t glow or appear fiery. It looked electronic to me. It was sharp. We watched it very slowly move to our right. Had this been a normal aircraft, only seeing a red light, it should have been going the opposite direction. The light should have been going left as on a normal aircraft. The left side light navigation light is red and the right side light is green. Seeing nothing but a red light, It should have flown to our left. The red light was instead drifting right. That was the other thing. It was drifting. It was traveling way too slow for a normal aircraft as well. It moved so slow in the sky that a normal plane would have stalled. It seemed to hesitate and bob in the sky as well. It flew a certain direction, but it wasn’t a perfectly straight line. I thought it might be a trick of my eyes at first, so as I watched it, I compared it’s movement to the stars behind it and a palm tree that rose up into the sky near it. It really did appear to be inconsistent in it’s forward movement.

Even watching it, I was thinking, “Balloon. That’s gotta be something attached to a balloon.”

We watched it move to our right, directly overhead, towards the mountain. This was flying in a NW direction. More specifically, I would have to say the object was directly over Navajo RD and just past Boulder Lane Ave flying towards the northwest. Quickly, I swung the backpack off my back and set on the trunk of a parked car. I fumbled for the video camera I had packed. I wasn’t ready. I was expecting to climb the mountain, have time to settle in, and break the camera out when I was ready nearing midnight. I didn’t expect that I would see it so soon! I fumbled in the dark for the zipper, but I didn’t want to take my eyes off it either, so I wasn’t able to get my camera right away.

While I did this, the light dimmed. My friend commented that, “It’s going up.” It appeared to be the case, but I wasn’t sure if it was going upwards or if the light had a direction to it and now was turning away from us, so that it appeared to dim. Watching a fainter light now, it did appear to raise up higher into the sky for me too. Before I could hit record and zoom in, it faded away completely. The light was gone.

The two of us stood there and kept our eyes on the same general spot in the sky. We couldn’t see anything there any more. There was nothing was moving. There was no light, no silhouette of an aircraft with it’s lights off. Nothing. There was only the stars of a clear night sky with nothing to be seen in the air at all.

We began out trek up Cowles Mountain. As we walked up the long fire road, we occasionally looked back up into the sky, hoping to see something like that again, and we discussed what we had seen.

I was certain that the light was actually lower than it seemed. The very first thing I tried to gauge was how close the object may have been to us. A lot of people say that the lights are really high up in the sky. I actually got the impression that the light we saw was a lot lower to the ground than it may have seemed. I thought the object was only as high as the mountain itself, of maybe a little bit higher but not by much. So, I would say it was under 3000 feet. Saying that, that would also mean the object was really small. I thought the object could not have been any larger than the size of a tire. I also thought that I could see a vague shape behind it, like it was attached to something. However, it didn’t expand beyond the light much so it was very hard to see. I thought I saw a dark enough shadow behind it to be something attached to it and I’ll be honest, it did look triangular shaped. The red light was on one point, towards the back of the direction it was moving. I will not report this as a triangular sighting, however, as the light is the only thing I'm sure about.

My friend disagreed on a few points. He didn't see anything behind the light. To him, the light also appeared to be much higher. He did think that it was high up in the sky, above 3000 feet. He thought it was high enough for other planes to possibly see and be up near. I asked him about the size and he thought it had to be something closer to the size of a car, maybe 6 feet wide. We pretty much agreed on everything else, though, including movement and speed.

I told my friend that I was sure it was a prank, still. The light didn’t do anything “out of this world.” I thought there was still possible explanations for it. I told my friend that, in my opinion, someone somehow attached a red light to a balloon and released it into the air. The wind that night was blowing in the same general direction the light was going.

However, there are some things I wonder, like how the light went out. We watched the sky for a while. If the light was simply on a string, it should have turned to face us again. It never reappeared. I also find it hard to believe that it would simply go out after being released into the sky.

It wasn’t a flare because we were close enough to it, we should have been able to see smoke, a flickering of light, or some fiery effect. It wasn’t a glow stick because it didn’t “glow.” There was nothing vague about the light. It was sharp and clear, like a bright bulb, unwavering in it’s brightness. It only dimmed before fading out. We watched flares later that night. I pointed out to my friend how flares were different. We were given plenty of examples as people near and far fired flared into the sky for new years. The flares were much brighter. The red light would be suddenly real bright in the sky, burn with a fiery effect, even have a hot pink fluorescent glow to it as it drifts back down towards the ground. This object was definitely not a flare. We ruled that out.

We’re pretty sure it’s a prank, we just couldn’t explain how it simply vanished right over us.

To add more weirdness to the night, the very next time I checked my watch to check the time, the light inside it died. That could have been a coincidence. It is an older digital watch, but some people like to know about electronic things failing during UFO sights. That actually did happen, so I’m reporting it, but I think it’s just an odd coincidence there too.

Nothing else was seen by us for the rest of the night, to our disappointment. We did get to see fireworks all over the city. It was cool spending New Year’s up there. It’s an amazing view, but no other unexplained lights appeared anywhere over the city that we could see. I was hoping that if it was a prank, that what we had seen was a test, perhaps planned before they would release more lights into the sky right at midnight, but that never happened. It was just that weird red light at 10:15pm over San Carlos.

Dream: What it feels like to melt...

2007-12-02T15:14:48Z

First, I'd like to thank everyone who expressed concern for us during the wildfires back in October. We are perfectly alright right now. The fires are out. We're currently dealing with floods and mudslides now, out in the burn areas, due to our first winter rains, but for us personally, we are doing fine. There's nothing threatening our house. We are in a safe area and life has started to get back to normal.

I also wanted to briefly mention that I went on a bit of a shopping spree. I co-signed on a new vehicle with burrwolf. I ordered a BowFlex machine, got a new leather jacket, picked up Guitar Hero and all it's games, turned around and bought a real guitar, and I just recently bought a PlayStation 3. Don't ask me why I did this, especially just before Christmas, but I don't buy myself much all year and finally had the urge to go out and get stuff I've been wanting.

All that aside, I'd actually prefer to talk about this melting dream! I didn't even set out to have one, but this has been the best and most lucid melting dream I've ever had. I was even in my anthro fox form for it!

At some point in my dream, I became lucid. I was aware that I was dreaming and could do anything I wanted. Luckily, my mind went to liquid shifting almost immediately.

Satisfied with my choice, I got done on my stomach and held my upper body up on my hands. I looked down at my black handpaws and tried to start the process of melting down.

The sensation didn't start right away. I did feel how solid and normal my body felt. For a moment, I wondered if I'd be able to do it, but within a matter of moments, I could feel my hands start to feel warm and squishy. Between the fingers, I could see the black liquid start to appear from my hands themselves. My hands started to feel real loose. My arms started to sink lower to the ground as my fingers disappeared and vanished into the growing pool of black goo that looked a little like oil. The orange from my upper arms started to drain down and mix into the color.

Meanwhile, my footpaws and waist started to do the same thing. It was an odd sensation. It's like I was sinking into the ground, starting to submerge beneath it like quicksand, only there was no quicksand, or course. The ground was solid. I looked down at it and could see myself pool and spread out over it. My liquid body widened and pooled around me, growing out the more I melted.

I was comfortable with it. To be honest, it felt great! It really was like I RPed it. Just as I imagined, it felt great because it really was like all the stress, all the aches and pains, literally melted away. It was such a great feeling of release. Just letting go, so utterly and completely, felt so good, I didn't want to stop until my whole body was a puddle.

I started to have trouble, though. I seemed to do okay with my features and my extremities, like my hands and feet, but the main part of my body, my upper arms, thighs, and torso, wasn't melting as easily. I guess I could imagine the lightest and outer most portions of my body melting, but closer to the center of my body, the bulk of it, I had trouble imagining that melt easily. The melting process started to slow to a stop.

So, I pushed myself. I wasn't sure how I was going to do it for a moment, but the answer came rather intuitively. I thought about what was making it work so far and focused on that.

I realized that, as I was melting one of the things I was doing was feeling the effect gravity had on my body. It was something I subconsciously noticed, but now I brought it to the fore front of my mind. Taking that into consideration, I thought about how gravity naturally had a pull on my body and wanted to pull it to the ground. I simply let it. I gave myself to it. I gave the rest of my body to it and wanted the rest of my form to go.

Focusing on that worked. I could feel the pull and the sinking sensation started up again. I could feel my entire body dripping. I started to loose sensation of certain features. I couldn't feel the shape of hands, feet, my waist, my arms were going away, my legs were already pretty much gone. At this moment, all that really remained was my upper body and my rear. The lower part of my back even completely melted to the ground, so it sorta made it look like my upper and lower body were no longer connected. Odd thing was, I could still feel my entire body. A solid form may not have connected my vanishing features, but a liquid body did, and I could still feel everything. It's just that everything that had a definite shape was loosing up and becoming liquid instead.

That continued to help with one of the fears I had with melting originally. I imagined that if I melted, it would be like losing myself. I feared losing all feeling and just feeling my body go completely away. I never considered how my body wasn't going anywhere. I was simply going from solid to liquid and that I would continue to have a body, albeit fluid. I wasn't losing myself, if anything, I was freeing my body of all tension and stress. It felt so good...

So, without fear of "losing" the rest of myself to it, I let gravity do it's thing and pull me under. I nosed my vulpine muzzle to the orange goo down below me and allowed myself to fall in. I closed my eyes and let my head, neck, shoulders, and upper body collapse into the growing mound of liquid body. I felt my wagging tail be the last to go. I wagged and swirled it until the last wet flop into the puddle and soon I was done.

I must have kept my ears to the last moment too because I lost sight, but I could still hear for a bit longer. The sound was like being under water. Everything sounded muted and I did hear a gurgling sound, like swimming about under water. My body felt flat, but it still felt lively and animated. I couldn't sense head for tail, but I can still feel myself as a liquid form, and my whole body felt like it was floating.

I allowed myself to lose myself to the new feelings I was having and thoroughly enjoyed the peace that it brought. Fully relaxed, free flowing, no doubt surging about the floor a bit as I rolled and washed my form from side to side... I wanted to explore moving about in this form next, but this is where I eventually woke up. I was enjoying it too much to want to attempt anything new. I just relaxed into it and basked in the bliss of being melted. It wasn't too much longer before I had to get up and I made sure to remember this for posting later.

Some of you have asked me what being a liquid shapeshifter is like. I RP and draw this. I shouldn't know what it's like, since it's not physically possible in real life, but my dreams might be close! I hope this gives you guess some insight into what it's like, for me personally, at least. It could be different for others, but this is how I imagine it. In addition to what you read above, warm, soothing, relaxing, and very comfortable, if you can get over the odd sensation of losing definition and shape to a form that's more fluid and non-solid. I think it's a fascinating experience and something anyone should try if they're interested in feeling what it's like. Your dreams are the best testing grounds for any experience you'd like to have that reality won't seem to let you have. >; ]

San Diego: Firestorm 2007 - Day 3 & 4

2007-10-24T18:45:33Z

Day 3 - The drive into work was interesting. Everything outside at home was still cast in a bizarre brown/yellow haze. The ash was thick and soot still covered everything. Orange Bunny said he swept and washed his car, but by the time I got back up for work, ash and soot had completely covered everything again. When I left, it looked like the entire city was under the same smoke I saw at home, but when I cleared a couple of hills, I was surprised to see the sky gradually clear. It would seem the smoke on this day was worst in my area. I would later find out that a combination of almost 5 to 7 fires just north of my area.

At work, I tried to get back into the swing of things, but it was hard. I didn't stop watching the news. I tried to see if I could see anything interesting from any of my security cameras. After things seemed to be calm locally, there at work, I went about the normal business day, as best as I could anyways.

I was actually relaxed by the end of the night. I planned to wash my truck in an automatic wash, just to rinse the soot off because it can damage you're paint... but, then I heard something on the radio. I heard about a mandatory evacuation that came within just a few blocks from home. I later saw a graphic that placed the mandatory evacuation right up to my very neighborhood.

I raced home, side by side with emergency vehicles that were also responding. I put my hazards on a rode with emergency vehicles that didn't drive with their lights on, but the people behind the wheels were clearly emergency officials in their own private cars. There was at least one sheriff's car I rode with. That was interesting. As entertaining as that was, I was now focused on what I needed to do.

I needed to pack my truck.

When I got home, I broke the news and... guys... I'm not proud of the way I've been handling this. I will not lie to you. I have not been calm. I have lost my cool a couple of times. This was one of those times. I found that Burr was up but not keeping tabs on things. (At least, at the time, so I thought.) I was beyond upset that he didn't seem to know or care that a mandatory evacuation had just been called for a short distance from where we lived. He had the attitude that he wanted to wait until we officially had the mandatory evacuation ourselves.

At the same time, I realized that I had accidently brought keys from work that I should not have. They needed to go back immediately. Right in the middle of preparing to possibly evacuate, I discovered that I had to turn around and head back to work. Like I said, I was beyond pissed. I ended up shouting at Burr and the guy who relieved me at work, for allowing me to leave without checking to make sure he had everything he needed for his shift.

I went back to work. The freeway I took back to work closed right behind me due to a new fire that popped up on Camp Pendleton. It would seem they were setting a backfire and that fire got out of control. Thankfully, I got by before the highway was closed and traffic got back up. I got to work, tossed the keys on the desk without seeing my relief, and raced back home again.

Once got home, in a more calm and paient matter, the firs thing I did was talk to Burr and I tried to figure out what his opinion was of everything. It turns out he was paying attention, but in my opinion, what he was monitoring was not the same information I suggested he follow and who he was going by was not up to date. We also disagreed on when we should start loading vehicles. The next community over did not get a "Voluntary Evacuation" and then a "Mandatory Evacuation." It just went straight to mandatory. I did not want that to happen to us, so I reasoned that a nearby fire must have suddenly made an impressive run, and that we should waste no time in waiting for official word. At the VERY least, we should go ahead and pack the cars since it was so close by. The map literally had the evacuation right to the entrance of our neighborhood.

So, much calmer and apologetic, but still focused and determined, I loaded up my truck... completely. I packed everything I cared about, Orange Bunny's stuff, and the stuff of our new roommate, Danny. It took a few hours because, not having the mandatory evacuation just yet, I thought I had time to load up and take a glance into other boxes just in case I spoted other stuff I really wanted.

Once I was done... you guys won't believe this...

I load up my truck, to the brim. I pack it as full as I can get it. I just about close the tailgate and door, when Orange Bunny comes out with some breaking news... the evacuation order was a mistake.

That's right, the evacuation order that came right up to our neighborhood, what had me moving boxes all night, after work... the evacuation order... was a mistake.

It was described as a "glitch" with the Reverse 9-1-1 system... so ends Day 3.

...

Day 4 - Well, after getting these guys moving, packing, going through boxes, and helping me pack up, everyone became tired again and they decided to go back to bed. I stayed up and watched the news for the rest of the morning. Even though the announcement was a mistake, that didn't mean the fires to the North were out, so I still felt one person should still stay awake and be monitoring the news until this whole ordeal is over.

I did move my truck. I normally park on the street to keep the driveway clear. I haven't minded. It makes pulling in and out a lot easier for me, but now I had all my most important personal belongings in my truck. I didn't feel safe leaving it in my normal spot, so I backed it into the driveway and put the back end of the truck right up against the garage.

It's now about 11:30am on Wednesday. I took out the wireless laptop while I watch the news. One of these guys should be waking back up soon so that I can get some sleep.

The good news is that the wind is calm. The Fallbrook fires do not seem to be progressing towards us. The sky is ashy again, not not as thick as the past two days. I do not see any smoke rising. There's a permemant golden sunrise feeling outside. You know how the day seems golden around sunrise and sunset, but clear in the middle of the day. It's still golden, due to a very thin haze of ash that's lingering overhead.

The good news is that, yes, on Day 4, we FINALLY have permission to fight this fire with aircraft. Three congressman came to San Diego in person and made sure the red tape was cut. Military helicopters are now fighting the fires around the county. I feel a lot better about that. Now we can finally start to get a handle on this crisis, but... geez, the numbers are staggering.

Billions of dollars in damage. I'm not just tossing that number out. They have officially stated that the cost of this fire is over a billion dollars.

In a lot of regards, not to make a bad comparison, but every news channel is saying this, officials are even saying this... this event has become bigger than Hurricane Katrina, in terms of destruction and the number of people effected by the fire. They're saying over a million people have either been evacuated or burned out of thier homes in these fires.

Two fires have merged and the total acreage of all the fires combined has offically surpassed the San Diego wildfires of 2003.

Over 400,000 acres have burned.

The Santa Ana winds start to die down today. I can't wait. I know I'd sleep a lot easier knowing that the fires might soon be contained and, hopefully, put out soon. It'll still take days, though. I just gotta get over this fear that I have that we could be ordered to get out at any moment. I just jumped up and looked out the window believing that a fire truck may have just driven into the neighborhood... it was just a UPS truck. This whole ordeal is giving me incredible anxiety. I have not been sleeping well...

I was supposed to go sign my acting contract today. I'm going to have to cancel that. I hate to, but chances are, with all the fires all over the county, like most places, they probably won't be open anyways. I'll call anyways and make sure.

...just heard on the news that they're expecting full containment of the Fallbrook Fire by October 28th. That's great news. That's real assuring, considering another fire was quoted as not being able to be contained until November 4th. Nice... okay, I need sleep. I'll update you guys again tomorrow. Please join me in hoping that only good news continues to develop tonight.

Wildfire Update

2007-10-23T21:17:33Z

Things are finally starting to calm down for us.

Last Saturday, I noticed a news story online that said Santa Ana winds were expected the next day. "Here we go," I thought. We've had a few fires this year already, but nothing close to the Cedar Fire of 2003. I knew the potential for another massive fire was definitely possible, but I didn't think it could actually SURPASS the fire storm we had just a few years ago. I really thought that was a once in a hundred years kind of fire... Regardless, I knew another BIG fire could still happen, so whenever the topic came up, I was usually the guy that reminded everyone that, "You know... all the places that burned have grown back and then dried up again. It COULD happen again."

Sunday, Day 1, OrangeBunny and I sat down to watch the race on TV. I noticed news about a fire and kept going back to it every commercial break. The fires were small, but the words "out of control" and "explosive" were being used. I didn't want to believe it, but I knew what I was watching could be the start of what we all feared.

As the afternoon wore on, things started going wrong all over the place. First, the major thing was that we couldn't get fire fighting planes off the ground. One of the fires, the "Witch Creek" fire, burned right next to the Ramona airport where the CDF planes were housed. Due to the smoke and the strong winds that were causing the explosive spread of the flames, the planes could not ake off. We had no air support to help knock down these 40 to 50 foot flames. It was all up to fire fighters on the ground. Unfortunately, when fire like this is pushed by gale force winds, almost horizontally, you can't march up to a fire like this and start fighting it. You just have to stay out of it's way and make sure people get evacuated.

Fire fighters COULD NOT STOP this fire.

It's my understanding that, apparently, things went a lot better this time than during the 2003 fires. The media was saying that all the different agencies had better communication amongst each other, more lives were saved, information was getting out faster and better than before, but there's a couple of things I think are still a problem.

1. Reverse 9-1-1: You know how if you have an emergency here in the United States, you call 9-1-1 to get help? Well, reverse 9-1-1 works just that way, in reverse. If you live in an area that needs to be evacuated, emergency officials will actually call YOU with the Reverse 9-1-1 program. Sounds great, right? Well, there's one major problem... the Reverse 9-1-1 only works on land base, corded, regular telephones. It does not work on cordless phone or cell phones. Now, tell me, how many of you have a cordless phone at home? And how many of you, like me, do not have a phone at home and live off a cell phone? If I needed to be evacuated, it turns out, I would not have been evacuated.

Sure, it is a huge step in the right direction and for people who have regular phones still, this is a great thing. People did say they received the warning. I admit, it is better than nothing, but my complaint is that this is something that needs to evolve and get better soon. Too many people have cordless phone and cell phones. I don't think it'd be that hard, particurally with cell phones, that if you have a number with a certain area code, you get a recorded message through your cell phone provider.

2. Fire Fighting Planes Grounded: I always worried about the CDF keeping their planes at Ramona airport. It's out in the country right in the middle of the area we all almost expected to burn again. To me, it would have made more sense to house a plane at each local airport rather than keep them all in one place. You may think, "Well, they were just caught by surprise." No, remember officials knew the Santa Anas were coming and they even said they "staged" fire fighting equipment around Southern California in preparation for these fires. They just didn't do a good enough job staging these planes. They let them sit in the most volatile areas of the county.

Now, I admit, that was only half the problem. The strong winds prevented the planes from making runs anyway. It was too dangerous to fly low and dump these payloads over fires that create their own turbulance, but if wind wasn't a problem, then the planes still would have been grounded due to the smoke. That is my complaint. The planes should have been kept at a better location. I think it's time we look for a better location to house our fire fighting aircraft.

Even after we got the planes out of their, we moved them to Hemet and then they were grounded again due to too much dust! Unbelievable... so, yeah, these fires got out of control, I believe, mainly because we didn't get the air support we needed. As strong as the winds got, we still could have held the fire back some if we had only been able to get some planes and helicopters into some of the calmer areas.

Anyways, Day 2, I stayed up since I woke up for the race around noon. I had to work the next day, but the small fires were turning into big fires in San Diego, and they were only getting bigger. Not only that, but more fires were popping up. Fires in San Marcos, Fallbrook, Cleveland National Forest, Palomar Mountain... Fires were popping up everywhere! 2 fires turned into 5, then 7, then 10, then at one point I beileve they said 12 separate fires were being reported! I couldn't sleep. It didn't look like it was bad as the Cedar fire yet. The numbers of acreage was still very small in comparison, but two things made me sit up and take notice. Two things made me go... omg... this is getting way out of hand...

The first was the evacuation of an entire town. When the entire town of Ramona, home to some 10k people, plus, was told to leave... that was when I knew we had another historical monster fire on our hands.

The second was when this fire burned through Poway and crossed the 15. That is a major, wide highway. For the fire to jump the 15 (It burned under a bridge first but later jumped the freeway further up north), that's huge right there. That same "run" as fire fighters call it, is the same fire that burned into Rancho Bernardo and surprised a lot of residents. I'm not sure they got too much warning. That happened so fast, I'm not sure the warning could have got out fast enough. It's a miracle, in Rancho Bernardo, that nobody was killed that night. The fire was on the other side of a major highway, off in the distance by several miles, and all of a sudden there in Rancho Bernardo so fast... I just can't believe it.

So, seeing the progression of the fire, and now seeing fires pop up actually near us, I stayed up to closely monitor the news. By sunrise, I could see smoke to the South and to the North. I wasn't too worried about the fire to the South as that was burning away from us, but the fire to the North, the Fallbrook fire... if it behaved like the other fires, it could actually burn down into our very neighborhood by day's end.

I'm running out of time, so I can't go into great detail about the rest of what happened, so let me summarize...

Thankfully, the Fallbrook fire, which ended up being three fires very close to one another, grew to 15,000 acres, but stayed up in that area. As far as I know, it did not burn into Bonsall or into Oceanside. I did see flames of the way home from work last night, but it may have been Fallbrook. It sucked that I still had to go to work. I did managed to catch a nap before hand, though, so I'm okay. I slept again last night while Burr stayed up to monitor things. I have to work again and take off right now. Burr is sleeping and has the night off. We are packed and ready, all of us, Bunny included. We have boxes of out stuff packed and waiting by the door if we need to go, but it looks like the worst for us may be over. Still, we've not putting things back away yet. We're staying ready just in case.

Fire Storm 2007: San Diego

2007-10-22T23:54:24Z

This is the scariest thing I've ever experienced in my whole life...

I can't believe how much of the city has burned down to the ground...

Acting

2007-10-18T21:04:29Z

I've finally stopped day dreaming about it. Ever since I was 7 years old, I had always wanted to act. Whether it be for a serious drama or a comedy, I've always wanted to entertain and I've always believed I had some sort of potential. Even as I grew up and had random encounters with celebrities, I would always feel comfortable around them and never allowed myself to get star-struck. Finally, two things clinched it. A high school play in my senior year and visiting my first comedy club on amateur night. Something about the stage called to me and I knew I should never let this interest die and remain just some childhood dream.

So, I finally went to my first talent agency. I kept my expectations low. I went in with the, "It couldn't hurt" mentality, but even as I was doing it, I was convinced I would be turned away for a number of reasons...

I saw a lot of kids passing through the door, young faces and young girls on their way to being models. I sat there, a 28 year old male, in business casual cloths, black jeans, cell phone clipped to my waist, drinking a soda. I was anything but fashionable. They did tell me not to dress up and to wear what I normally wear everyday, though, so I did exactly that.

Another reason I was afraid of doing this, I have major dental issues right now. They're on their way to being fixed, but the appearance is... not too great right now. The worst thing is that I lost a front tooth due to a baseball accident back in 1995. It was replaced with a temporary fix, but finally had to come out last December. My job wouldn't cover a permanent replacement because the insurance doesn't cover what it considers "cosmetic." Great... so, I'm saving my money for a new front tooth. The rest of my teeth are decent but not pretty. Due to some rather prominent canines, if I ever get into movies, I could probably land a roll as a werewolf, heh...

When they sat me down and talked to me, I handled it just like a job interview. I spoke up, I spoke clearly, I never stuttered, and for every question they asked, I felt I had a solid answer ready. This was very hard for me because I tend to be a shy and quiet person. I feel I can easily flip the switch and act when I need to, but in person, I'm very reserved. I forced myself to be more out going. However, I felt confident about the screening process. In fact, I even felt that I could have offered a lot more insight into myself that they might have found even more interesting.

After the interview, I did my first photoshoot. Again, because of my teeth, I didn't smile. I kinda... smirked. I knew even then I was probably killing my chances. I thought it was better to just go through the photoshoot without smiling and hope that my face was enough to catch someone's interest. The photographer said I did really well. I looked at the photos after she was done. I thought she was just being nice. I didn't think I did that good of a job, but I thought there was a couple of decent photos in there.

Then... that was it. "Thank you, we'll let you know in 3 to 4 business days."

Three to four business days later, "Can you come back in? Our senior representative would like to talk to you." I thought that was normal. They said whether they decide to use a new talent or not, they bring everyone back in a second time to have a heart to heart about how they did. I went in fully expecting to hear, "Thank you for coming by, but... without smiling, we can't use you in a lot of things... you didn't take too many good photos... we're looking for more outgoing individuals... you're just not what we're looking for, etc..."

Instead...

"We screened over 200 people. We approved 59 with 3 alternates. You are one of the 59."

I couldn't believe it! I went in expecting to be turned down. In fact, I went in there prepared to ask questions like, "So, when's a good time for me to try again? Three months? Six months? A year? What should I do next time to better my chances?" But, instead I got approved and I sat there dumbfounded as we discussed a contract.

I was in... Wow! o.o I just thought I'd break the news with you guys.

...to answer one question before I get it, no, I'm not doing porn.

I owe you artwork.

2007-09-10T11:42:58Z

I dreaded doing it, but I finally sat down and I took a tally of all the artwork I owe other people...

If you read the subject "I owe you artwork" and read my journal, it's probably true. I owe at least 68 people artwork. You're probably one of those 68 people.

I was tempted to call this journal "68+ Reasons Why I Suck," but I didn't want to seek pity by posting this... I just wanted everyone to be aware...

THIS IS WHY I'M CURRENTLY NOT DOING ANY TRADES, REQUESTS, OR EVEN PAID COMMISSIONS!

Trust me, I'm so tempted... I want to do trades with people so bad right now, but I gotta clear my conscious of all these back owed commissions and trades before I move forward with my art again. It's killing me that I owe so much and I don't want people to give up on me. I posted this to show that I remember, even if you don't, and I hope no one's given up on me...

I really REALLY want to eventually get all these done. Some of the goes back many years. Most of the people listed below probably even forgot I owed them something...

1. a-nine
2. Aayrick
3. Adamstation
4. Akuro
5. AraKaraath
6. balloonpup
7. BigBlueFox
8. Burrwolf
9. Cameroo
10. Caramitten
11. Changes
12. ChristyKitsune
13. Cownugget
14. Cunningfox
15. Deaddays
16. Dragoneer
17. Drakkolupen
18. DrHoz
19. Espilonarge
20. Foxx
21. Foxyer
22. Greedywoozle
23. Hollyann
24. JayWolf1985
25. Jim Groat
26. Jizzal
27. Kaijima
28. Kalosoan
29. Kangaroo_Boy
30. Kanis
31. Kobi-Lacroix
32. Kritterfox
33. Kitnoki
34. Lethe-gray
35. LonewolfMJ
36. Lopehyena
37. Lunar-Prodigy
38. Mark1
39. Micahfennec
40. Millerjsullivan
41. MintzBuck
42. MoT
43. Nauta
44. Neopagan
45. Northwolf
46. Oboroten
47. Oliverfox
48. Orena
49. OzKangaroo
50. Segremores
51. ShinAkira
52. Silver Wolf
53. Susan Deer
54. Tails90-da-Kitsune
55. Terminotaur
56. TeronWarFang
57. Thegoryone
58. Thrashwolf
59. Timosprey
60. Tombfyre
61. Torrle
62. Turnsky
63. Tym-Tim
64. Uniformvixen
65. Wolf-Ekko
66. Wolfgangcake
67. Wolf-max
68. Zaximillian

There's probably even more. These are just the ones I remember right now...

UFOs: Black Triangle Update

2007-09-06T14:34:55Z

It’s been years since I gave you guys an update on my dramatic UFO sighting of 2004 in the San Joaquin valley area of central California. I haven’t lost interest in it, far from it. There’s still sightings being reported and this aircraft is still scaring the hell out of people driving down Interstate 5. I don’t care if it’s aliens, the government, or a drunk crop dusting helicopter pilot… I’m certain that if this continues, it will eventually cause a serious accident!

For those of you who missed it or may not read my journals from back then, I witnessed an incredible sight while Burrwolf and I were traveling from San Diego to San Jose during the summer of 2004. A brief summary is that I witnessed four very bright lights shoot up from crops in the middle of nowhere, do aerobatic maneuvers dangerously close to the freeway.

This UFO sighting was more than just a few small lights in the sky. This was practically a close encounter!

This aircraft, whatever it was, came down to the ground and buzzed the freeway so low that it scared drivers on the road who were witnessing it. It was a bright and a very intense experience. Some people truly believed they were witnessing a plane crash, only to be startled more by it’s sudden turns and aerobatic displays right above the freeway.

These lights were bright. I’ve seen them. Although my sighting didn’t have the lights cross over the freeway, reading back through these other experiences on different nights, I believe much of what I’ve read.

There’s a couple of people I wonder about, especially the guy who claims he telepathically called the aliens down to him while he was driving. For the most part, I believe in the rest of these reports and who knows? Even if a guy seems like a nut, who’s to say that, coincidently, he didn’t actually see something that was real? Many people have different opinions of what they saw. Myself, I’m leaning towards a new aircraft being tested, possibly an unmanned drone, but even that raises questions. Why there? Why dangerously close to the freeway with very bright lights?

So, I’m giving you guys an update and posting all the reports I currently have handy.

Please keep in mind that these reports are anything but complete. There’s a chance an older report may be posted recently and I missed it because I only check from 8-19-2004 on forward. There’s also a chance that I skipped a town I didn’t realize was in the same general area.

All of these reports are provided from Peter Davenport’s National U.F.O. Reporting Center.

Old Reports (Previously Mentioned)

New Reports

This is RAMBAAAAA!!!

2007-09-01T11:18:28Z

Terremoto Luces / Earthquake Lights!

2007-08-21T06:14:09Z

This is absolutely amazing! You may have heard about the devasting 8.0 earthquake in Peru, but what you may not have heard about is that a rare phenomenon was documented fairly well on a number of people's video cameras during the earthquake.

The earthquake struck at night near the capital city of Lima, Peru, and because the quake actually lasted 2 minutes, plenty of people were able to quickly turn on their video cameras and cell phones with recording capability. Not only were they able to record the earthquake, they managed to get perhaps the best ever footage of Earthquake Lights!

For the longest time, strange balls of light or flashes of light have been rumored to accompany earthquakes. No one was able to document this until Japan managed to get some strange lights captured on photographs during an earthquake swarm in the 1960s. Canada later was able to also photograph an earthquake light, when people were reporting seeing strange, silent, lightning like flashes in the sky before, during, and after an earthquake they had.

Now, on August 15th, 2007, when a massve 8.0 earthquake shook the capital city of Lima, Peru, for two full minutes, people poured out into the streets and soon captured what may very well be the best footage of earthquake lights ever documented. This footage has made me a believer and I am now fascinated by the phenomenon. It's believed that the stress in the earth, released by a massive earthquake like this, can make these lights appear right above extreme seismic stress.

The following is taken from Wikipedia regarding EQL: "The lights are most evident in the middle of an earthquake, although there are reports of lights that occurred after or even before the earthquake, as in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. They usually have shapes similar to those of the auroras and are white to bluish in hue, but occasionally they have been reported to have a wider color spectrum. The luminosity is typically visible for several seconds, but there have been cases in which they lasted tens of minutes.

There have been also cases in which electromagnetic waves caused by the earthquake interfered with radio transmissions, such as during the Great Chilean Earthquake of 1960.

Records of earthquakes that were accompanied by lights can be found as far back as 373 BC in ancient Greek writings, that "immense columns of flame" foretold the earthquake that destroyed the cities of Helike and Bura. However, even in the early 20th century they were still considered a myth, until photographs of actual lights were taken in Japan in the 1960s.

In Peru's earthquake that occurred south of Lima on August 15 2007, earthquake lights could be seen across the Lima sky before and during the earthquake. Several videos were taken."

There were two others, but these three were best. What do you think?