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More than 60 campers rescued from California lake as wildfires spread [Click] Gee—Shaver Lake, that’s a day trip into the mountains NE of here. But it seems obviously dangerous to go camping up there under the current conditions.
ReplyDeletePhotos and updates here. [Click]
Delete'A risk to firefighters': Trump's drone ban makes it harder to stop wildfires [Click] Gee—who could have known?
ReplyDeletelistener said on 9/06/2020 at 01:28:00 AM
ReplyDelete113°F is not decent.
How do folks cope?
Do you grocery shop at night?
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Well, one becomes acclimated (over again, each summer). Temperatures in the low to mid 90’s are pretty comfortable here. Temperatures over 105F are unusual, as are hot spells lasting more than a few days. Rarely we get a day of Phoenix-like high temperatures—119F (maybe it has reached 120F, but I don’t recall that ever happening). I think we seem to have had an unusual number of days over 100F this year.
On hot days walk completed before 10AM and shopping by noon; gardening after dinner.
Cotton clothing, long sleeves and trousers, wide-brimmed hats. A lot of Anglos don’t protect their skin from the sun, and boy, do they pay for it when they get old.
Air conditioning, in house and cars. Zoned air conditioning in larger houses; a whole-house fan to suck in cool air at night would probably be a good idea, but we don’t have one, and it might be a problem for people with hay fever.
People who must work outside in such heat learn to seek shade as needed and stay hydrated; they must also compensate for salt and potassium loss in perspiration. Education programs for farm workers have decreased (but not eliminated) cases of heatstroke (a very bad way to go.)
We don’t spend any money on snow tires, Polar Fleece clothing, or snow plowing. Guaranteed no heart attacks while shoveling snow off the driveway or front walk.
Thanks, Alan. Wow.
DeleteNo ice to slip on either. (We lost a friend to that a few years ago.)
I understand about becoming acclimated (that's how we deal with Winter cold). And I envy your low humidity. But I actually *like* shoveling snow. :-D
Do take care.
Thanks; we are doing all right. The stories I read in the news seem somewhat sensationalized. There is some possibility of short rolling blackouts, but none so far. A big power transmission line and a power plant failed earlier in the day, but were brought back up or replaced with imported electricity, I believe.
DeleteTrump Seeks to ‘Rebrand’ Kamala Harris [Click]
ReplyDeleteTrump Pulls Money from TV and Pours it Into YouTube and Google [Click] I have noticed.
Trump Fixates on Promise of Vaccine [Click]
It all sounds pretty desperate to me.
Trump Poached Art From Ambassador’s Home in Paris [Click]
ReplyDeleteFrom the New York Times:
ReplyDelete“No president has entered Labor Day weekend — the traditional kickoff of the fall campaign — as such a clear underdog since George [H. W.] Bush in 1992. [Clinton won 370:168 electoral votes.] Mr. Trump has not led in public polls in such must-win states as Florida since Mr. Biden claimed the nomination in April."
A new Dallas Morning News poll in Texas finds Donald Trump edging Joe Biden, 48% to 46%, among likely voters. Among registered voters, Biden leads 44% to 43%.
ReplyDeleteA new CBS News/YouGov poll in Wisconsin finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump, 50% to 44%.
A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally, 52% to 42%.
Judge Orders Trump Admin To Temporarily Halt ‘Winding Down’ Census Field Operations [Click]
ReplyDeleteDavid Frum: I Crossed Back Into a State of Denial [Click] “At the Canada-U.S. border, I encountered a study in contrasts.”
ReplyDeleteOHIO: As of Sunday afternoon, there have been at least 130,558 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,259 deaths, and 13,841 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
ReplyDelete3.26%
DeleteThe current (4PM) temperature is 108F, which ties the record for the date. Hot, but definitely better than 113F.
ReplyDeleteHere’s a story about the fire in the mountains NE of Fresno. [Click] I think the smoke is keeping the temperature here down a bit by partially blocking the sunlight.
ReplyDeleteEditor of ‘The Atlantic’ Says More Is Coming [Click]
ReplyDeleteTrump Hit with Barrage of Books [Click]
Biden Settles on One Message for All [Click]
McCarthy Says Trump’s War on Mail Ballots Could Backfire [Click] Well, we certainly hope so!
Now to watch CANADA for President and some related videos. [Click]
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/washington-post-editorial-board-donald-trump-catastrophic-063958368.html
ReplyDelete"The Washington Post’s editorial board spelled out in its latest column why it believes that four more years of Donald Trump as president may irrevocably damage the civic fabric of America.
Trump “is a president who does not so much govern the country as harass it,” the newspaper’s board wrote in the piece published Friday.
In its column ― headlined “Presidents are expected to set the national tone. What we got with Trump has been catastrophic.” — the board recalled Trump’s “repeated use of xenophobic, racist and misogynistic themes and tropes.”
“No postwar president even approached this level of conduct unbecoming the position he holds,” it continued. “Even at his nastiest, Richard M. Nixon generally saved ugly comments about his political foes, the media and minority ethnic groups for the privacy of the Oval Office.”
“No postwar president even approached this level of conduct unbecoming the position he holds,”
DeleteThat would be post Revolutionary War, would it not?
Belarus protests show no sign of fading as 100,000 turn out in Minsk [Click] “Belarus protests show no sign of fading as 100,000 turn out in Minsk. . .low-level protests [are] now happening every day. . .” Gee.
ReplyDeleteBelarus: The great-grandmother taking on President Alexander Lukashenko [Click]
Man blows up part of house while chasing fly
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54051423
From Liane*in*VT...
ReplyDeleteIf you're wondering what campaigns to donate to: we need to take 4 Senate Seats. Competitive Senate seats currently held by republicans are:
[D candidate] in [state] against [R incumbent]
Jamie Harrison in S. Carolina (https://jaimeharrison.com/) against Lindsay Graham
Sarah Gideon in Maine (https://saragideon.com/) against Susan Collins.
Amy McGrath in Kentucky (https://amymcgrath.com/) against Mitch McConnell
Mark Kelly in Arizona (https://markkelly.com/) against Martha McSally
Theresa Greenfield in Iowa (greenfieldforiowa.com) against Joni Ernst
Steve Bullock in Montana (https://go.stevebullock.com/) against Steve Daines
Cal Cunningham in North Carolina (https://www.calfornc.com/) against Thom Tillis
From the Washington Post:
ReplyDeleteTrump’s bad marriage with the military has finally exploded [Click]
The versatility of Kamala Harris [Click]
‘It is getting better now’: Family letters from the deadly 1918 flu pandemic [Click] What strikes me about the column is the ignorance of so many about the Spanish Flu. But I heard about it from an early age because it took my mother’s mother, and afflicted her father ever after. There was a copy of the sheet music for There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding kept on his piano, and he continued to play it from time to time as long as he was physically able to do so.
I still remember the tune of the song and part of the words; I am sure my memory would be very easily refreshed.
DeleteHere’s the song [Click] It still makes me weepy.
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