Posted on 07/03/2012 4:53:42 PM PDT by joeclarke
We deal with idiots that won’t let us clear the brush from up against our houses because a Kangaroo Rat may be perturbed, then act surprised when a wildfire wipes out a few hundred $1 million homes. The EPA is filled with ivory-tower fools.
:^)
Philly HHH weather (hot, hazy and humid) ranks up on the misery factor with just about anything.
My power company is shutting down their coal fired plants and putting up wind farms primarily on the east side of the state where the winds are minimal. Meanwhile the greenies are tearing out dams as fast as they can get approval.
We’re headed for a disaster
And with that, it’s bed-time in my air-conditioned bliss that undoubtedly is fueled by coal and nuclear power.
Certainly, but you first.
You posted to Joe Clark: Uh, no.
It was a big honkin' derecho. Look up the term and the news before making such an uniformed claim.
Er, uninformed claim.
without posting links corroborating your position.
Considering Joe Clark posted several links and sources, you will back up your name calling fully and respectfully before I do.
As I said, pound sand.
***Last summer we had a Haboob, which is a crapload of destructive wind, I couldn’t see across my suburban street, and it left dunes of dust in the streets. ***
Sounds like a common sandstorm to me.
Yeah, me too. Thank goodness for EPA-free technology. I’m afraid I would quite die without AC in Phoenix. It can break your heart to see the mercury at 95 F when you get up in the morning. And our troopers in Iraq have it a lot worse, so I pray for them, with feeling.
Sleep well, my friend.
It was a sandstorm...but uncommonly large. I’ve seen a few before, though. I’ve been here since 1980.
BINGO!
The PG&E and So Cal Edison have collaborated with the Cal PUC to push a mandatory high percentage of (nonexistent) green energy, while giving excessive bonuses to PG&E upper management.
They fired all the tree trimmers for the money and didn't outsource for two years, so we had storm outages like crazy. Then they cut the electricians that worked with the trimmers, so the trimmers can't work around live high voltage, and may not secure the power themselves.
We have both overhead and buried power. In CA, all power is on easements and citizens cannot interfere with tree maintenance because of that, so PG&E under the PUC can trim all they want, if they will pay for it.
This afternoon on the History channel they were showing some pictures of a dust storm rolling in over NY city during the dust bowl years.
It’s not a necessity of life.
I’m still enjoying your picture of the country drive you posted on another thread. Those were my favorite subjects, back when I took pictures, not far from where you are.
Come live where I do, and turn off the A/C. Then let’s see what necessary.
So how did people live to 95 back then?
***It was a big honkin’ derecho.***
Just say THUNDERSTORM. It’s easier to remember.
Haboob? just say sandstorm.
Remember when NBC tried to coin a new word...”Thorms” and it went over like a lead balloon.
***BTW, derecho is a meterological term.***
I am 66 years old and have monitored weather conditions since I was ten years old and NEVER heard that word till this week.
I still remember an old NANCY cartoon from the 1960s in which she is listening to a TV weatherman talk about the weather in the most technical terms but never mentioned drechos.
Finally she gives up and asks an old man what his bunions say.
***Why do they die from a lack of it now?***
Actually quite a few people died of heat back then. It was just called apoplexy.
Just like lots of people back then died of heart attacks but it was called “Indigestion”.
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