Power Outages

[TexasFreedom]

The news/weather people drive me crazy. They treat every weather situation as a "code red".
It's Summer. It's hot. Don't stay out and get dehydrated.
Same rules we have had forever.

But, but, but... Robin, don't you know that it is climate change / global warming that is causing this. So that makes it so much worse. The 'old' weather not caused by climate change at 100F was so much less dangerous than the climate-change-100F weather!

Sigh... they are such idiots... but they really are thinking (if you can use that word) this way.

 

[Mountain trapper]

They're throwing this "heat index" BS around now. Just like they do the wind chill in winter. Anything to make it sound more extreme than it actually is.

 

[user 7704]

And..... It's the 21st Century and there are actually people without AC. I just went 3 weeks without my downstairs unit in the hottest month of June ever and survived. I actually freezing since it's been fixed.

My husband is fat and loves the cold.

 

[user 7704]

The weather people here are falsely leading the sheep to believe the heat index is the actual temp. Al Gore must have gotten to them. He is a local guy you know.

 

[DrPrepper1]

They're throwing this "heat index" BS around now. Just like they do the wind chill in winter. Anything to make it sound more extreme than it actually

It feels more extreme. I have never cared about the real temperature... I just care about what it is going to feel like. I know that they are using it for political spin, but I have felt that way since I was a kid. It’s only 95 degrees, but it feels like 110. Then to me it’s 110.

 

[JackDW]

This is an easy problem to FIX. Just give Al Gore more money and he will take care of it. Just ask him and he will tell you it can be fixed with more money. Climate still changing, MOR MONEY.

 

[Maverick]

Oh please, have al gore explain these and please don't till me its because of cow farts, I can go back the the 18th century but for starters I'll stick with the 20th century. The g'damn earth has been continually heating up since the ice age ended, this is not a new phenomenon we have been experiencing these heat wave for over a thousand years, to say otherwise has their head up their own ass intoxicating themselves from there own ****!

1901 – The 1901 eastern United States heat wave killed 9,500 in the Eastern United States.
1906 – During the 1906 United Kingdom heat wave which began in August and lasted into September broke numerous records. On the 2nd temperatures reached 36 °C (97 °F) which still holds the September record however some places beat their local record during September 1911 and September 2016.
1911 – The 1911 United Kingdom heat wave was one of the most severe periods of heat to hit the country with temperatures around 36 °C (97 °F). The heat began in early July and didn't let up until mid September where even in September temperatures were still up to 33 °C (91 °F). It took 79 years for temperature higher to be recorded in the United Kingdom during 1990 United Kingdom heat wave.
1911 - The 1911 Eastern North America heat wave killed between 380 and 2,000 people.
1913 – In July, a heat wave struck California. During this heat wave, Death Valley recorded a record high temperature of 57 °C (134 °F) at Furnace Creek, which still remains the highest ambient air temperature recorded on Earth.
1923–1924 – During a period of 160 such days from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924, the Western Australian town of Marble Bar reached 38 °C (100 °F).
1936 – The 1936 North American heat wave during the Dust Bowl, followed one of the coldest winters on record—the 1936 North American cold wave. Massive heat waves across North America were persistent in the 1930s, many mid-Atlantic/Ohio valley states recorded their highest temperatures during July 1934. The longest continuous string of 38 °C (100 °F) or higher temperatures was reached for 101 days in Yuma, Arizona during 1937 and the highest temperatures ever reached in Canada were recorded in two locations in Saskatchewan in July 1937.
1950s – A prolonged severe drought and heat wave occurred in the early 1950s throughout the central and southern United States. In some areas it was drier than during the Dust Bowl and the heat wave in most areas was within the top five on record. The heat was particularly severe in 1954 with 22 days of temperatures exceeding 38 °C (100 °F) covering significant parts of eleven states. On 14 July, the thermometer reached 47 °C (117 °F) at East St. Louis, Illinois, which remains the record highest temperature for that state.
1955 – The 1955 United Kingdom heat wave was a period of hot weather that was accompanied by drought. In some places it was the worst drought on record, more severe than 1976 and 1995.
1960 – On January 2, Oodnadatta, South Australia hit 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.
1972 – The heat waves of 1972 in New York and Northeastern United States were significant. Almost 900 people died; the heat conditions lasted almost 16 days, aggravated by very high humidity levels.
1976 – The 1976 United Kingdom heat wave was one of the hottest in living memory and was marked by constant blue skies from May until September when dramatic thunderstorms signaled the heat wave's end.

 

[Illini Warrior]

This is an easy problem to FIX. Just give Al Gore more money and he will take care of it. Just ask him and he will tell you it can be fixed with more money. Climate still changing, MOR MONEY.

most people don't know that Climate Change Al got an audience with Prez Trump - very early on in 2017 - the daughter got Gore an hour or so - begging & pleading to keep the blackmailing accords in place that Obammy agreed to ....

you know how much influence he had ....

 

[TexasFreedom]

Actually Al Gore can help. Book him for BS talks across the country. Tell him to talk about global warming. I can assure you every city he visits will get a freak ice/snow storm when he gets there. God has a great sense of humor.

 

[user 7704]

So last week the climate guys were screaming that we were all going to fry. This week we are below average temps and its going to be 60 tonight.

Funny how that works

 

[user 7704]

Haha fry not cry. My new phone.

 

[Schattentarn]

In California we have outages all the time. Electric companies are responsible for our numerous forest fires, not global warming. Electric companies do maintenance which in my area means hosing the pine pollen out of the transformers so they don't short circuit and blow up during the first rain. But what bothers me the most is their monopoly, a bribe monopoly on the Public Utilities Commission that oks rate hikes. In California an electric company or other utility can make upgrades or improvements or replace old equipment and then pass those costs on to the consumers in total, almost as a separate bill. So you pay for the electricity you use, plus the tax, plus whatever they want to add to your bill in terms of their cost of doing business.

 

[TexasFreedom]

Shatten… I'm surprised you don't get a 50% boost in your bills to help pay for global-warming-remediation. Heck, it won't be long before they demand the sacrifice of your first-born to their climate-change-god. But there is a cure: U-haul.

 

[DrHenley]

So last week the climate guys were screaming that we were all going to fry. This week we are below average temps and its going to be 60 tonight.

It actually felt like fall yesterday.

 

[WGregMiller]

It actually felt like fall yesterday.

Don’t get used to it, lol...

 

[JackDW]

A few years back, my brother, who lives in Virginia, took the "gloom and doom" to heart. During the winter, he drastically lowered the thermostat and added extra blankets. Wore extra clothing, even indoors, to greatly reduced his gas usage. He was feeling pretty good that he was helping the country and also saving a few dollars. After the first of the year, he received a notice from the Gas Company that their contact with the government allowed them to make an x percent of profit and that they did not sale enough gas the previous year to make that so attached is a supplemental gas bill for the "GAS YOU DIDN'T USE".

Needless to say, he went, upped this thermostat and said if he was going to have to pay for it anyways, he might as well be comfortable. So much for his energy saving. He tried.

 

[Mountain trapper]

A few years back, my brother, who lives in Virginia, took the "gloom and doom" to heart. During the winter, he drastically lowered the thermostat and added extra blankets. Wore extra clothing, even indoors, to greatly reduced his gas usage. He was feeling pretty good that he was helping the country and also saving a few dollars. After the first of the year, he received a notice from the Gas Company that their contact with the government allowed them to make an x percent of profit and that they did not sale enough gas the previous year to make that so attached is a supplemental gas bill for the "GAS YOU DIDN'T USE".

Needless to say, he went, upped this thermostat and said if he was going to have to pay for it anyways, he might as well be comfortable. So much for his energy saving. He tried.

That happened back during the Jimma Carter days too. Everyone cut their energy usage because we were told that there was an energy "crisis". That was plain ********. After everyone cut their electric, gas and heating oil usage the utility companies just raised their rates to make up for their "losses".