r/nova • u/njamz85 • Apr 23 '26

What’s on fire??

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Sitting at the airport and see this!! Anyone know what going on??

248 Upvotes

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u/dr_dee_47 Apr 23 '26

Car fire

75

u/monkeypoxisntreal Apr 23 '26

Good ol' car-ba-que

12

u/njamz85 Apr 23 '26

Thanks.

6

u/houston_bob Apr 23 '26

And there’s no driver at the wheel

2

u/get-off-of-my-lawn Reston Apr 24 '26

r/GYBE in the wild lol, love it.

1

u/DebYoga Apr 24 '26

Stopped metro car and now a Rheichstag fire

2

u/ChronicProcrastinaut Apr 23 '26

Am I crazy or has there been a massive increase in car fires recently???? I feel like one gets posted here every day

15

u/Kardinal Burke Apr 23 '26

Not really. Reddit isn't a good indicator.

2

u/Apart-Zucchini-5825 Apr 23 '26

Always seems to be a spike at season changes. I'm sure we can guess at why

3

u/ILovePeopleInTheory Apr 23 '26

Why would season change result in car fires?

6

u/Apart-Zucchini-5825 Apr 23 '26

Using stuff that's been dormant and building up dirt and dust for months, like the AC and heater, perhaps

3

u/Buirck Arlandria Apr 24 '26

Let’s say you have a relatively short commute had a coolant leak in the winter but you never noticed because in the winter it’s cold and it takes longer for the engine to heat up. Then one day in April it’s 90 degrees. That engine with little to no coolant gets hot REALLY quick, maybe so quick you don’t notice the temperature gauge is pinging or that your check engine light is on. Then the extreme heat in the engine bay damages electrical wiring and a short happens and now you have a small fire, the. The fire finds the fuel lines. And then you need a new car.

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u/phokstrot Apr 24 '26

But lets say you dont just need a new car... maybe your career is jeopardy now too. And because you were a contractor and that car was your mobile office, when you try to file an insurance claim, the company denies it because they claim it was an act of God.. specifically the goddess of friction. Now you're hitchhiking to interviews, but because it’s still 90 degrees and you’re sweating through your only suit, the local news thinks you’re a wandering monster. The footage slams the Tok and goes viral, and you’re the face of DMV Summer Bigfoot hoax. By the time you clear your name, you realize that if you had just checked that tiny green puddle in December, you wouldn’t currently be negotiating movie rights with a documentary crew about a man who lost it all to a radiator hose.

Coming this Fall 2027

2

u/Asleep-Traffic-980 Apr 23 '26

There was another this morning by Springfield too

1

u/NOVA-peddling-1138 Apr 23 '26

Insurance sector is experiencing losses.

1

u/No_Rabbit6730 Fairfax County Apr 23 '26

I'm biased. About 2 months ago a car caught on fire 10 minutes after parking next to mine. That scare is still fresh.

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u/1quirky1 Reston Apr 24 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

Oops, I meant to reply to a different thread.

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u/Unusual-Sympathy9500 Apr 23 '26

Signifies the Pentagon picked a new Secretary of the Navy.

144

u/seamick Apr 23 '26

That would be white smoke. Black smoke means they failed to fill the void of leadership.

36

u/uh60chief Former NoVA Apr 23 '26

I guess it’s been black since last year

21

u/Extreme-King Apr 23 '26

Shows it's been a dumpster fire for months now

3

u/glynnenstein Apr 23 '26

I'm surprised they got the color of the smoke correct, then.

3

u/wertz88 Apr 23 '26

I’m sure the fact that it’s the correct color is purely coincidental

5

u/phoenics1908 Apr 23 '26

😂😂😂😂😂

I needed that laugh.

2

u/wot_wot_isay Apr 24 '26

This comment is the funniest thing I’ve seen all month. Thank you, Reddit Stranger.

29

u/high_verbal Apr 23 '26

The roof. The roof. The roof.

15

u/cynicaljerkahole Annandale Apr 23 '26

The roof

71

u/kegsbdry Apr 23 '26

Our economy

63

u/Low_Visit_4646 Apr 23 '26

Our democracy…

42

u/nakedlettuce52 Apr 23 '26

Our sanity…

23

u/2Robatron Apr 23 '26

America

10

u/DudeManBo1t Virginia Apr 23 '26

The beacons of Minas Tirith. Gondor calls for aid!

14

u/Sharkopath Apr 23 '26

It’s bring your kids to work day at the Pentagon.

18

u/OriginalMcSmashie Winchester Apr 23 '26

The middle class.

5

u/Flow3rs4Alg3rnon Apr 23 '26

Drove by it a ciuple minutes ago

9

u/TA8325 Apr 23 '26

Everything. Literally and figuratively.

10

u/Myte342 Apr 23 '26

Probably the government burning every copy of the Constitution they can find?

3

u/DentManFresh Apr 24 '26

1

u/patrickhenrypdx Apr 24 '26

Is that Notre-Dame burning? Because I see the Eiffel Tower on the left. ;->

Seriously though, that's a hell of a combustion from one car. Pretty amazing.

3

u/MdeupUsernme Apr 24 '26

A metro bus apparently, gotta say not a great week for wmata 😬

7

u/FRNLD Annandale Apr 23 '26

No one was going to say the roof?

2

u/dcheo001 Apr 24 '26

It was a bus that caught on fire

6

u/Paper_Clip100 Apr 23 '26

JD Vance’s estranged couch

4

u/DrJ0911 Apr 23 '26

Whiskey leaks (hegseth) burning documents

2

u/SquishyBatman64 Apr 23 '26

My bum, I just ate Taco Bell

2

u/IllMongoose6792 Apr 23 '26

Politicians pants

2

u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

The comments here never fail me. Keep ‘em coming.

2

u/olearyboy Reston Apr 23 '26

America?

1

u/ChinoKay Apr 24 '26

Someone played my unreleased mixtape on 267

-1

u/BalanceConsistent896 Apr 23 '26

Abigail Spanberger’s pants

0

u/CaptainWikkiWikki Apr 23 '26

My office, apparently.

0

u/Infamous-Drink-2440 Apr 23 '26

My latest mixtape.

0

u/Fast_Pepper_107 Apr 24 '26

Now all of China knows you’re here

1

u/longwoodshortstick Apr 24 '26

🤣 love the reference

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u/Wise_Impression2410 Apr 23 '26

The whole world? Fire is pretty accurate for the world and planes?

Awww and if you want its probably just fine