Now, state leaders are unveiling new plans to prepare for more extreme heat emergencies.
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Facts: California is hot. It's always been hot. It will continue to be hot.
When I was a kid, it seemed like every day in the summer was above 100 degrees.
I remember about 10 years ago the San Joaquin Valley had 30 days in a row above 100 degrees, followed by 3 days above 110, topped off by a 116 degree day. It was so fucking hot that last week that we were sopping wet just standing around inside the warehouse. What really sucked was I was loading trailers, so I'd get an empty to my dock doors, and when I opened the trailer door to start my next load, I'd get hit with what felt like a blast furnace. It was so fucking hot inside those trailers you couldn't breathe.
The next day it dropped to the high 90s and everybody was talking about how nice and cool it was.
Easiest way to "deal" with California's heat is STOP removing generating capacity if you don't have a ready-to-go replacement! After 50+ years living in this state, the only constant is that State Government gets stupider and more inept with each election cycle.
ReplyDeleteBack in the good old days it had to be over 105° for the weather people to refer to it as 'Extreme Heat'. Nowadays it's anything over 100°, which used to be just a normal summer day in the valley.
ReplyDeleteIf you want really hot, go to Redding and Red Bluff. Those people are TOUGH!
Back in the Seventies, saw a thermometer in Jones Valley that read 126F. Next day, decided to to a ballgame in Oakland where it was 63F. Everybody around us was wearin' tank tops and shorts while we froze.
DeleteHi, IR! Miss you and love you!
DeleteTickled to hear your governor is the least popular governor in the U.S.A.!
Well deserved.
Thanks, Elmo, but Oregon sucked so badly that we're actually back in Commiefornia. Thinkin' of buyin' in Yreka area, maybe Los Molinos since Siskiyou County burned so badly last year.
DeleteIt's hard to believe that Oregon is so screwed up that it would force you to come back here. Yet knowing what I know about Kate Brown and the Oregon legislature I understand completely.
DeleteBless both you and Mrs. Redneck. Best of luck to both of you.
Tossing Newsom on a funeral pyre, wouldn't lower the temperature, but it would help California.
ReplyDeleteC'mon Baby. Light his fire.
DeleteThe solution is easy for Sacramento: Level it, let the delta reclaim it, and it will cool down.
ReplyDeleteAlso, save California by doing away with those assholes in the capitol.
The writer, Elizabeth Klinge makes the English language kringe before her onslaught of journalistic butchery.
ReplyDeleteAside from her deplorable grammar, improbable syntax, and atrocious punctuation is the complete lack of mention of the intended recipients of the Billions of fed monies, i.e. taxpayers nationwide.
Too, entirely absent is Gov gruesome's official position to keep Diablo Canyon operating up to ten years past its federal permitting and scheduled closing. That's another Five Billions of fed monies to keep CA happy.
https://calcoastnews.com/2022/04/newsom-wants-to-keep-diablo-canyon-in-slo-county-open-past-2025/
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ReplyDeleteI felt 116 degrees a while back leaving a Mexican restaurant in Phoenix named Garcia's. I get the blast furnace reference. That was 40 years ago, and I still remember it.
ReplyDelete$300 million dollars? Where the hell do they come up with these amounts? Must be Newslum's gambling debt, or maybe he's splitting it with Aunt Nancy! What we really need to worry about here in California is: 1) the availability of water and why we keep building more houses without a guaranteed supply of it, and 2) clearing out underbrush and conducting controlled burns in order to greatly reduce the number and intensity of wildfires.
ReplyDeleteServed in the Persian Gulf from 1984 on. The heat valve got stuck. My friends really don't get how I can walk around in dead of winter in a t-shirt and shorts and not be cold. Absent a wind, there is no cold. You work in the daytime temps in the engine room where the only actual AC is dumping the heat into the engine rooms out of main control and that are routinely at 120 and then you stand watch on up on the bridge at 0400 and the temperature has dropped down to 80 degrees and you are standing there freezing your ass off. As I said, it broke something.
ReplyDeleteI worked as a laborer for my old man the summer of 81 while did jobs in San Bernadido and Temecula. Half way through the day, my arms seized up and I didn’t know what was going on, (too young and inexperienced), my old man said, “you haven’t drank enough water dummy, take a few of these, drink some water and get back to work”, and he threw me a bottle of salt tablets. I learned to watch for signs of heat stroke after that. And, I decided I didn’t want to be the trades after that summer and started paying attention in school. Never figured out if the old man was providing me with a life lesson or if he was just an asshole.
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