Micah: July 4 doesn’t feel complete without @mattdpearce.bsky.social posting about the flaming palm trees of LA and it’s one of the twitter events I miss the most

July 4 doesn’t feel complete without @mattdpearce.bsky.social posting about the flaming palm trees of LA and it’s one of the twitter events I miss the most

Second, @mattdpearce.bsky.social’s masterpiece of an essay on people setting palm trees on fire on July 4 in LA: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-07-01/4th-july-flaming-palm-tree

Every July 4th gives us one of Los Angeles' most important symbols: the flaming palm treewww.latimes.com Los Angeles has a love-hate relationship with palm trees. It reaches its fiery apex every Fourth of July.

The article is paywalled for me so i don't know if it mentions it, but my dad was a firefighter in LA back in the day, and apparently a lot of rats nest in palm trees too. So when they rolled up on the palm tree fires, there'd be a stream of rats coming down the trunk and scattering too.

Right???

What...in the hell?

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