WELL, THAT WAS FUN (NOT)
We finally got “L.A. hot summer” today. Got all the way to 112F here in the west end of the San Fernando Valley around 2:30 PM. And then at 2:45, the power went off in the southern side of the valley (Studio City in the east to Tarzana in the west, including Encino. By the time power returned at 5:50 PM, the temperature inside Le Chateau du Chat was pushing 90. It’s all the way down to 105 outside, so no opening windows for a bit of breeze.
And the 10 day forecast is 110 tomorow, 106 on Saturday and Sunday, all the way down to 100 on Monday, then a chilly 91 on Tuesday, dropping down to a frigid 86 on Wednesday and having the good taste go into the low 80s and stay there through the 19th. Of course, in the city on the edge of a desert on the edge of an ocean, that all depends on the winds - from the SSW, the ocean, cool; from the NNE, the desert,hot.
I really shouldn’t complain, last year the end of July was like this for 10 days, and a week in late August. Took us till now to do it this year. Which of course means….
Glo-bal warm-ing is a lib-er-al plot!
Of course, when I turned the computer on, it had “time traveled” to Tuesday, August 12, 2012. Flip flip flip through the “help” menu… ah, here it is “set date and time.”
And here we are back at Thursday, September 5, 2024.
60 days to go to November 5!!! Ohhh noes….
So, did anything happen while I was away? We’ll now return to our regularly-scheduled programming.
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I'd wondered why you'd been largely absent lately! No comment from TC on the many things going on in the news?? Now, I understand - you've been trying to survive! It hasn't been quite as hot up here in the north end of the state, but the idea of Autumn has been a nice fantasy.
Stay cool any way you can, and watch out for those schools; if they're not shooting at you, they're performing sex-change operations. :-(
My thoughts are with the people in Winder.
Take care of yourself Tom.
Stay hydrated. It's been really
bad here on the mountain
with little to no rain for
weeks and brutal temps/
humidity. We seem to be in
some kind of odd pocket with
rain skirting around us. We have 3 days of temp respite
coming in this weekend.
The cats stay close to my
place right now, as free food
and I have plenty of water
sources for them. Lots of
shade under my decks.
The Forest Folken: coons, fox,
deer, birds, I put food out for
in late afternoon and make
sure their water tubs are full,
since the creek has dried up.
But...let's make sure we drill
baby drill! Heat the planet up
more! More oil rigs in the
Gulf! Sure, heat it up. 🤬