Life on Mars--thumbs up!

Life on Mars US is turning out to be a good adaptation. I like how the writing is tight enough to keep the story going. The episodes also follow (generally) the sense of the original episodes, but with added or changed roles. I'm not so sure I like the Gene Hunt on the US show. He isn't in it nearly enough...but it would be hard to top the Gene Hunt in the BBC original. He ended up taking over the original LoM!

I'm surprised I'm liking it as much as I am.

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Yesterday there was a fire across the street from our house.  It started when some careless workers shingling a roof used one too many extension cords and lit a tree on fire. ALL the other trees in the line caught fire in a matter of minutes, and spread to the house next door. There were at least two BOOMS! as the fire hit something flammable.

  We could feel the heat from the fire from our driveway. It was that hot. Then it spread to the neighbor's roof, and smoke started billowing out of their air conditioner unit on the top of their house.

About 10 to 15 minutes later, about 12 ladders and other Fire Dept trucks, and some police cars AND a couple of helicopters (news) surrounded the area.

  There were several trucks in either direction and on the other side of the block.

Tons of smoke. The fire trucks didn't leave until a few hours later. A reporter and a cameraman from Fox News interviewed the Chief. They also interviewed our neighbor, who stood across from his house as it burned, staring. One of his daughters was crying, mostly for her drawings that were still in the house (which turned out to be okay-her room wasn't destroyed) and also for the cats that were outside.

I guess the story didn't make it onto Fox. We didn't see it that night.

And today, two firetrucks passed through our neighborhood twice, to make sure there weren't any smoldering chunks anywhere.

Although we couldn't smell the smoke yesterday, we sure could smell it today.

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ladyjax and others who are interested in how 8 passed and how the 'blame' is being passed onto black (and Hispanic) voters - you might be interested in reading joysterlicious ' post on the subject.