Looks like we're in for a stretch of hundred degree-plus weather starting tomorrow, but folks here are prepared for that, and it isn't record-breaking. The people who have to work outside, particularly farm laborers, are the ones at greatest risk, but the health authorities have been doing everything they can to reduce their risk.
We have a heatwave scheduled for next week, though the weatherman said the highest temp should be 94. Still, with high humidity, that's miserable for us New Englanders.
I grew up on the northern California coast; occasionally (certainly not every year) temperatures would get into the 80's and people were about ready to drop in the streets. Once in the ten years we lived there it got up to 90 degrees and it was awful. BTW, a lot of the early settlers were from New England, and it showed in the architecture.
"One lawsuit, which named more than a half-dozen members of the "Trump Train" as defendants, accused the Trump supporters of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 law named after the violent white supremacist organization and intended to prohibit groups from engaging in voter intimidation.
The second lawsuit claims the public safety director in San Marcos, Chase Stapp, and several unnamed local law enforcement officers failed to provide emergency assistance as Trump backers played a "madcap game of highway 'chicken,'" swerving within inches of the bus and sideswiping one staffer's vehicle.
Video footage taken on Oct. 31, 2020, showed pickup trucks and SUVs bearing Trump flags surrounding the Biden bus along Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin. At the time, the Biden campaign said the caravan attempted to force the bus off the road, putting staffers and volunteers at risk.
The incident gained national headlines when Trump tweeted video of the incident a day later with the message, "I LOVE TEXAS!"
Which emphasizes the bloodlust and terrorism of Republicans.
I keep wondering what caused the partial collapse of the condominium building in Miami Beach; I can't think of any causes other than foundation failure or defective construction that managed to evade inspectors. Yesterday there was a very puzzling (albeit far smaller) disaster in Lemoore, California, about a hour's drive from here. A welder was removing a no longer needed pipe from the side of a city water tank, and that caused some sort of accumulated flammable gas inside the tank to explode; security cameras show the huge tank being launched like a rocket. The welder was killed, and another worker was injured. My first thought was that the water might have come from a well that produces some natural gas--several towns and cities in the Central Valley (all north of Lemoore, I think) used to gather natural gas from their municipal water wells for use by residents. But today the newspaper said the exploding tank and the one next to it had been filled from the same well. Quite the puzzler.
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DeleteLooks like we're in for a stretch of hundred degree-plus weather starting tomorrow, but folks here are prepared for that, and it isn't record-breaking. The people who have to work outside, particularly farm laborers, are the ones at greatest risk, but the health authorities have been doing everything they can to reduce their risk.
ReplyDeleteWe have a heatwave scheduled for next week, though the weatherman said the highest temp should be 94. Still, with high humidity, that's miserable for us New Englanders.
DeleteI grew up on the northern California coast; occasionally (certainly not every year) temperatures would get into the 80's and people were about ready to drop in the streets. Once in the ten years we lived there it got up to 90 degrees and it was awful. BTW, a lot of the early settlers were from New England, and it showed in the architecture.
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ReplyDelete"One lawsuit, which named more than a half-dozen members of the "Trump Train" as defendants, accused the Trump supporters of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 law named after the violent white supremacist organization and intended to prohibit groups from engaging in voter intimidation.
The second lawsuit claims the public safety director in San Marcos, Chase Stapp, and several unnamed local law enforcement officers failed to provide emergency assistance as Trump backers played a "madcap game of highway 'chicken,'" swerving within inches of the bus and sideswiping one staffer's vehicle.
Video footage taken on Oct. 31, 2020, showed pickup trucks and SUVs bearing Trump flags surrounding the Biden bus along Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin. At the time, the Biden campaign said the caravan attempted to force the bus off the road, putting staffers and volunteers at risk.
The incident gained national headlines when Trump tweeted video of the incident a day later with the message, "I LOVE TEXAS!"
Which emphasizes the bloodlust and terrorism of Republicans.
There should have been arrests.
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DeleteI keep wondering what caused the partial collapse of the condominium building in Miami Beach; I can't think of any causes other than foundation failure or defective construction that managed to evade inspectors. Yesterday there was a very puzzling (albeit far smaller) disaster in Lemoore, California, about a hour's drive from here. A welder was removing a no longer needed pipe from the side of a city water tank, and that caused some sort of accumulated flammable gas inside the tank to explode; security cameras show the huge tank being launched like a rocket. The welder was killed, and another worker was injured. My first thought was that the water might have come from a well that produces some natural gas--several towns and cities in the Central Valley (all north of Lemoore, I think) used to gather natural gas from their municipal water wells for use by residents. But today the newspaper said the exploding tank and the one next to it had been filled from the same well. Quite the puzzler.
ReplyDeleteP.S. The tank that did not explode has no flammable gas in it.
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US intelligence community releases long-awaited UFO report
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Hmmmmm. . . sounds like they are unidentified possibly flying possible objects.
Delete*chuckle* That sounds about right, Alan.
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