From an AP story about the Australian fires at http://wvgazette.com/News/200902090356 via zebulon_y:


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100F/38C in Coastal Orange County is illegal, impossible, and insupportable. I think the hottest place in the nation is Fullerton right now, and my house is making crackling noises from expanding.

Why me? Why anyone? Why me?

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It's 95F with 44% humidity = heat index of 103 in NEWPORT BEACH CALIFORNIA next to the UPPER BAY. This is un-possible.

I demand a recount.

The SF Chronicle reports the gloomy bullet points from a doomy official state report about climate change in California.

Without serious reduction in emissions:California will become significantly hotter and drier by the end of the century, causing severe air pollution, a drop in the water supply, melting of 90 percent of the Sierra snowpack and ( Read more... )

I'm warming up to Ruba. There's no where else to go that late, so this is a good thing. This evening's entertainment included some personal history about being a Marine and a felon simultaneously and how that worked out, someone's idiotic $500 plastic sunglasses, and a guy named Bilbo who wore too much fringed stuff and a mullet ( Read more... )

It's not supposed to be like this here.

100F in the upper Newport Bay? No. There has been a clerical error.

How are you gentlemen? Someone set up us the Midwestern-style summer. We are on the way to destruction.

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