Grand California Fire

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Does this mean the Lounge gets new couches and carpet?

This of course worries me most of all - definately were the most comfortable seats in the resort.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Does this mean the Lounge gets new couches and carpet?

Ha. This is Disney! The couches will be reupholstered with the skins of the now gone Country Bears and the carpets will be made from the curtains and backdrops of the Snow White show.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Ha. This is Disney! The couches will be reupholstered with the skins of the now gone Country Bears and the carpets will be made from the curtains and backdrops of the Snow White show.

Suddenly, I'm transported to Gone with the Wind in post war Tara - and Paul Presler is playing the role of Rhett Butler...

[mistyisjafo]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

That's what they get for having a fake tree.

What did fake trees do to you? LOL

I actually have a fake tree but then I'm allergic to pine.

[Stan4dSteph]

Maybe they'll have a fire sale on the furniture. I could use a new couch.

[Prudence]

In some places, cut trees are banned in multi-family dwellings. Not sure how that applies to hotels.

[innerSpaceman]

^ Wtf?

[Prudence]

I kid you not. It appears in some International Building Code. It was big news here last year because WA was going to adopt the IBC and people were quite annoyed with the Christmas tree and BBQ prohibitions. They ended up not adopting those provisions.

Apparently in less forested portions of the country, cut trees dry out and ignite. (This is particularly true if your wacky German friends and relations insist on putting LIT CANDLES on their trees. But that's another story.) Hence the ban in multifamily dwellings, where one person's flaming Christmas torch can displace multiple familes.

Here, the argument in favor of cut trees was that we grow our trees in state so they're "less dead" than in other states where trees are shipped in.

Regardless, I have a faux tree because one of my cats has a personal mission to destroy all plants and I got tired of coming home and finding the tree had been knocked over. Again. She leaves the faux tree alone.

[CoasterMatt]

We used to have a kitty that would chew on the christmas light cords, but that problem solved itself

[lindyhop]

Originally Posted by Prudence

So, it's a week before my trip and so far my airline has had a plane departing from my airport with a hole in it that caused loss of cabin pressure and my hotel has caught fire.

I'm not sure if this means I'm jinxed and my trip is cursed or I'm blessed and all the available misfortunes have already happened.

Prudence, you haven't lived if you haven't had the opportunity to wander around outside a hotel in the middle of the night in your jammies. I was staying at a hotel in Pasadena a few years ago and was awakened by the god awful sound of the fire alarm and a flashing strobe light. This was November 2001 so with 9/11 in mind I figured I should take it seriously and wandered outside with everyone else. There we all were, shivering on the sidewalk, in various states of dress and whatever. Amazing what people wear to bed.

It turned out to be a false alarm, someone had been messing with the alarm in their room and set it off. We could go back to our rooms almost right away but the noise was unbearable. It took the fire department at least an hour to fix things so the alarm would go off and we could all get back to sleep.