this made me laugh really hard, picturing the event unfolding in my head.

derek burgess
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On Oct 26, 2012 6:02 PM, "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I know there isn't much time left in the day to discuss this important
> topic, but here goes:
>
> For years, I thought the worst thing that ever caught fire in my Westy was
> a down sleeping bag. While it only burned for one or two seconds, the heat
> from the fire made the down rise instantly through the air and festoon the
> inside of the Westy in a snowy wonderland that took two rolls of packing
> tape to remove.
>
> But this past weekend, I think the down bag episode was surpassed by a
> gigantic moth, its body the size of a man's thumb and a wingspan of about
> 3.5 to four inches. It flew in through the sliding door and careened toward
> the fluorescent light over the stove before it hit the raised stove lid and
> thudded to the stove deck next to the burner, where it instantly caught
> fire. Whatever it was it could fly about 35 miles per hour pre-ignition,
> twice than when aflame. I was busier than a pair of jumper cables at a
> trailer park funeral trying to catch it and get it out of the camper before
> it flew into a pile of clothes or a roll of toilet paper, or worse as I
> knew, my down sleeping bag. It burned for an amazingly long time, flying
> out of the stove flame again and again and threatening to set fire to
> everything it collided with in its fire-stoked death troes, with me being
> about two moves behind it during the perilous half-minute of its life. It
> came to an ironic final rest near the burner that literally started it all.
>
>
> Jim
>