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. :-(
I feel for you and millions of others. And the critters. I keep birdbaths, but what bird can drink water that's 100+ degrees? The mid-Atlantic has been glorious since Labor Day. OT, Shenandoah Dems will open an office this Sat. in our 70% red county.
It's a good thing we, Californians, are a tough skinned lot. It was only 106 today in Sacramento. And since we get the Delta Breeze, most of the summer, it's going to cool down to 67. This is definitely not a good time to visit Death Valley.
113 today in Pasadena, down to 105 now at 8:07 pm. Usually, no matter how hot the day, it gets down rapidly when the sun sets. Not today. It’s like being in a dry sauna.
So sorry to hear this; heat + no power = misery for sure. Does a cold wet cloth on your head help a bit? Not nearly as bad as what you're enduring, but the Midwest sure has had it's issues this year, too. The cicada circus kept us amply "entertained" and then left us with the mites that feed off their eggs, and the mites continue to feed off of US as well. The itch is nearly unbearable but I'd still take it over your heat. Stay home, keep the kitties cool, and if you get bored enough write some more; we love our role as beneficiaries!
And its been 45 at night here the last week of August into the first of Sept! And the days are sunny and warm but NOT HOT! My hummers & Orioles have left apparently - thinking its fall.
Not trying to rub it in - frankly, I'm just enjoying it. I think this year has been an odd one.
I feel for you Tom - I do not like the heat. And we all are going to have to get used to it.
Eesh. When it gets that hot and the electricity is out, take a book to the bathtub. Unless it's humid too, which it might not be next to the desert as you say.
I remember camping when it hit "just" 109 and weirdly laying in a canoe (on dry land yet) was helpful - it was as if it acted like a heat sink for my poor overheating brain. We'll all have to discover and adopt more passive cooling systems like wind towers to suck heat out of our homes, better designed eaves and grow those trees, while the Saudis burn oil to ski on fake snow with their billionaire friends under domes unless Kamala wins and the world regains it's sanity.
Actually being "next to the desert next to the ocean," we get humidity. Days like this remind me of the Midwest in August, or Central Texas all summer (Down in Killeen, used to take a shower and by the time you walked back to the bedroom you needed another shower).
Even though next to water, Seattle doesn't get much humidity. I lived for a while in N Carolina, usually leaving before summer hit. One year I was late leaving. Even with the AC going it was like breathing tomato soup. No idea how or why anyone puts up with it.
But stay away from Seattle. Our traffic has gotten deadly.
You still have a ways to go to catch up to us. The 101/405 intersection right near Encino is officially the most "saturated" (with traffic) freeway (there's an oxymoron!) intersection on the planet. "Rush Hour" here is now 24/7, but particularly bad in the morning and evening. When I first came to LA 56 years ago, "rush hour" really was - an hour.
I do everything I can to avoid freeways. The horrors of traffic I encounter are on surface streets. Simply way too many cars—or perhaps way too many people avoiding the freeways
They call folks who spend winter in NC "halfbacks" because folks used to go to FL for the winter but many came half way back up due to many factors. Here in VA, many relatives who visit from arid AZ will complain of the heat when it's almost ten degrees cooler than they are used to, because the humidity makes it seem so much hotter... and your sweat can't even evaporate. Heat and humidity Ugh!
I lived in N Carolina half the year because my daughter lived there and couldn’t travel. It was an adventure —drove across the country 4 round trips with two cats and a dog. Different route each time, not always freeways. I’ve seen a lot of the US countryside.
That sounds like a big mix of fun, wonderful and awful! So... you weren't "half backs" you were "all across and backs". Sadly, that lacks a certain cachet.
The most fun was when one cat got loose in an Oklahoma City campground. Luckily, he wasn't allowed Fancy Feast often: the sound of the can being opened had him homed back in on the car.
We used to take the dog and stay at The Colony. Every trip we would sit on a bench by the river and watch the boats. When a lobster boat came in and unloaded right next to us we would watch them carry their catch across the street to Port Lobster, then walk over and get a lobster roll, then back to the bench to eat it. It just doesn't get any better than that.
Heat has been awful this summer. Although in my part of SW Michigan we made it into the 90's the heat index hit 105° several days. Of course addressing climate means reorientating a value system based first to last on money and profit taking/making. The pain you feel is international businesses and their moguls grabbing you by the short hairs. (If you're rich enough they let you do it.) The "they" include elected officials whose election depends on...money. It's the economic system. That's also why there is no action on reasonable, even sane actions to address gun violence. A few have their greedy hands on too much. And we all know the names of many of them. The great Mel Brooks brought 15 Commandments down from on high, tripped and dropped one tablet...that's why there are 10! Even these make no difference despite the reactionary silliness in OK, LA, and other right wing state dictatorships. Rant ended. Bless you Tom and your kitties. God bless us all.
I've been watching Woodland Hills weather on my phone recently and remembering how hot it was back in the early 80's when my wife and I lived there for three years. We had an air conditioner on our rental house over on Jumilla Ave. It blew a fuse the first time we tried to turn it and we learned to live without it, Seemed like it was over 100 degrees a lot but that with low humidity is a lot easier to take than a humid 90. We spent a lot of time in the Pierce College pool, summer and all winter long.
It was supposed to get up to 100 in Hood River and Portland today, but the smoke was so thick from the massive wildfires in central and eastern Oregon it kept the temps down in the high 80s low 90s. Actually a pretty fucked up reason reason we stayed cooler
Ugh. That is entirely unreasonable heat. Add a power failure, and you've got a preview of Hell. I remember those endless months in SoCal when the rest of the country was heading into lovely autumn but the LA basin was heating up in earnest. Hang in -- winter (if you can call it that) is coming.
When the heat is oppressive it's a good time to trek off to wander around in a few of the air conditioned public buildings we pay the bills for, the public library, an administrative building, the courthouse (Court watching can be enlightening, especially arraignments and probate matters where family disputes play out.), etc. If all else fails and you have streaming service, watch documentaries about the Shackleton Expedition, the conquest of Everest, or the TV series "The Terror" about the Franklin expedition to find the Northwest passage. Still available on Netflix, I think. If all else fails, think about the Germans trying to defeat the Russians in the Russian winter.
It was 110 plus up here in Altadens round 2:15 or so. 93 in my computer office in my shop, out back. (no AC) 100 in my office when we got home from the usual Thursday dine out. Got fans roaring, but still 100 outside. All I have right now is wind chill from the fans. The DOJ Russia right wing news influencer indictment is tasty news this afternoon. Read Lucian Truscott to get all the available detail.
Oops, 114 up here. Just looked at the pic of the thermometer in the shade.
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. 🤬
I feel for you and millions of others. And the critters. I keep birdbaths, but what bird can drink water that's 100+ degrees? The mid-Atlantic has been glorious since Labor Day. OT, Shenandoah Dems will open an office this Sat. in our 70% red county.
It's a good thing we, Californians, are a tough skinned lot. It was only 106 today in Sacramento. And since we get the Delta Breeze, most of the summer, it's going to cool down to 67. This is definitely not a good time to visit Death Valley.
113 today in Pasadena, down to 105 now at 8:07 pm. Usually, no matter how hot the day, it gets down rapidly when the sun sets. Not today. It’s like being in a dry sauna.
So sorry to hear this; heat + no power = misery for sure. Does a cold wet cloth on your head help a bit? Not nearly as bad as what you're enduring, but the Midwest sure has had it's issues this year, too. The cicada circus kept us amply "entertained" and then left us with the mites that feed off their eggs, and the mites continue to feed off of US as well. The itch is nearly unbearable but I'd still take it over your heat. Stay home, keep the kitties cool, and if you get bored enough write some more; we love our role as beneficiaries!
And its been 45 at night here the last week of August into the first of Sept! And the days are sunny and warm but NOT HOT! My hummers & Orioles have left apparently - thinking its fall.
Not trying to rub it in - frankly, I'm just enjoying it. I think this year has been an odd one.
I feel for you Tom - I do not like the heat. And we all are going to have to get used to it.
Eesh. When it gets that hot and the electricity is out, take a book to the bathtub. Unless it's humid too, which it might not be next to the desert as you say.
I remember camping when it hit "just" 109 and weirdly laying in a canoe (on dry land yet) was helpful - it was as if it acted like a heat sink for my poor overheating brain. We'll all have to discover and adopt more passive cooling systems like wind towers to suck heat out of our homes, better designed eaves and grow those trees, while the Saudis burn oil to ski on fake snow with their billionaire friends under domes unless Kamala wins and the world regains it's sanity.
Actually being "next to the desert next to the ocean," we get humidity. Days like this remind me of the Midwest in August, or Central Texas all summer (Down in Killeen, used to take a shower and by the time you walked back to the bedroom you needed another shower).
Even though next to water, Seattle doesn't get much humidity. I lived for a while in N Carolina, usually leaving before summer hit. One year I was late leaving. Even with the AC going it was like breathing tomato soup. No idea how or why anyone puts up with it.
But stay away from Seattle. Our traffic has gotten deadly.
You still have a ways to go to catch up to us. The 101/405 intersection right near Encino is officially the most "saturated" (with traffic) freeway (there's an oxymoron!) intersection on the planet. "Rush Hour" here is now 24/7, but particularly bad in the morning and evening. When I first came to LA 56 years ago, "rush hour" really was - an hour.
I do everything I can to avoid freeways. The horrors of traffic I encounter are on surface streets. Simply way too many cars—or perhaps way too many people avoiding the freeways
Both and all. There are more people in Los Angeles County now than there were in the entire state of California when they were designing the freeways.
They call folks who spend winter in NC "halfbacks" because folks used to go to FL for the winter but many came half way back up due to many factors. Here in VA, many relatives who visit from arid AZ will complain of the heat when it's almost ten degrees cooler than they are used to, because the humidity makes it seem so much hotter... and your sweat can't even evaporate. Heat and humidity Ugh!
I lived in N Carolina half the year because my daughter lived there and couldn’t travel. It was an adventure —drove across the country 4 round trips with two cats and a dog. Different route each time, not always freeways. I’ve seen a lot of the US countryside.
That sounds like a big mix of fun, wonderful and awful! So... you weren't "half backs" you were "all across and backs". Sadly, that lacks a certain cachet.
The most fun was when one cat got loose in an Oklahoma City campground. Luckily, he wasn't allowed Fancy Feast often: the sound of the can being opened had him homed back in on the car.
Ouch, from Kennebushport.
Kennebushport!
We've been there many a time. Now I want a lobster roll.
They are the best there 😎
We used to take the dog and stay at The Colony. Every trip we would sit on a bench by the river and watch the boats. When a lobster boat came in and unloaded right next to us we would watch them carry their catch across the street to Port Lobster, then walk over and get a lobster roll, then back to the bench to eat it. It just doesn't get any better than that.
Heat has been awful this summer. Although in my part of SW Michigan we made it into the 90's the heat index hit 105° several days. Of course addressing climate means reorientating a value system based first to last on money and profit taking/making. The pain you feel is international businesses and their moguls grabbing you by the short hairs. (If you're rich enough they let you do it.) The "they" include elected officials whose election depends on...money. It's the economic system. That's also why there is no action on reasonable, even sane actions to address gun violence. A few have their greedy hands on too much. And we all know the names of many of them. The great Mel Brooks brought 15 Commandments down from on high, tripped and dropped one tablet...that's why there are 10! Even these make no difference despite the reactionary silliness in OK, LA, and other right wing state dictatorships. Rant ended. Bless you Tom and your kitties. God bless us all.
I've been watching Woodland Hills weather on my phone recently and remembering how hot it was back in the early 80's when my wife and I lived there for three years. We had an air conditioner on our rental house over on Jumilla Ave. It blew a fuse the first time we tried to turn it and we learned to live without it, Seemed like it was over 100 degrees a lot but that with low humidity is a lot easier to take than a humid 90. We spent a lot of time in the Pierce College pool, summer and all winter long.
It was supposed to get up to 100 in Hood River and Portland today, but the smoke was so thick from the massive wildfires in central and eastern Oregon it kept the temps down in the high 80s low 90s. Actually a pretty fucked up reason reason we stayed cooler
Ugh. That is entirely unreasonable heat. Add a power failure, and you've got a preview of Hell. I remember those endless months in SoCal when the rest of the country was heading into lovely autumn but the LA basin was heating up in earnest. Hang in -- winter (if you can call it that) is coming.
How are the kitties dealing with the heat?
Long siestas.
When the heat is oppressive it's a good time to trek off to wander around in a few of the air conditioned public buildings we pay the bills for, the public library, an administrative building, the courthouse (Court watching can be enlightening, especially arraignments and probate matters where family disputes play out.), etc. If all else fails and you have streaming service, watch documentaries about the Shackleton Expedition, the conquest of Everest, or the TV series "The Terror" about the Franklin expedition to find the Northwest passage. Still available on Netflix, I think. If all else fails, think about the Germans trying to defeat the Russians in the Russian winter.
It was 110 plus up here in Altadens round 2:15 or so. 93 in my computer office in my shop, out back. (no AC) 100 in my office when we got home from the usual Thursday dine out. Got fans roaring, but still 100 outside. All I have right now is wind chill from the fans. The DOJ Russia right wing news influencer indictment is tasty news this afternoon. Read Lucian Truscott to get all the available detail.
Oops, 114 up here. Just looked at the pic of the thermometer in the shade.
I did. Good stuff. As usual with him