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    Will there be food riots?
    If Congress decides to cut food stamp programs it is a distinct possibility. Free food distribution centers will have less and fewer commodities will be available through the Ag. Dept. This could be a multi-year drought where all of these conditions worsen. Thank you, Republicans, for denying global warming for 30 years and putting us in this mess. (I used up this space because of a double post)
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    Half of all US counties now declared in drought
    With the temperature slated to break a 120 year all-time record today in OKC at 114 degrees, fully half the country is declared to be in drought. Prices will increase for food substantially next year, if not in the fall. No relief in sight as of yet. I have no compunction about running my air-conditioner these days...
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    How do you spell relief?
    Good weather reporting, Anna. Yesterday was almost comfortable, with cloud cover and intermittent showers. 2 day rain total was 0.05", so a shower was more like a faint drizzle. Forecast calls for triple digits again starting today. Uggh Like Poncho Bill says, it's crunchy and brown and our municipal water folks are asking for reduced water use, to 3 days a week . Folks with automatic sprinklers haven't made the effort to modify their watering cycles... My granddaughter Willow is visiting from Ft. Collins (no more smoke and fire!), so she's learned to feel the difference between hot and dry to hot, dry and humid. I use the water from her kiddie pool to feed the shrubs and garden veggies. June's electric bill was over $200. Arrgh! For some reason the hundred or so winfd turbines west of Salina KS haven't been spinning lately to enhance the power coming from the many coal fired plants. Anyone know why the wind turbines are not being used?
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    meanwhile in Oakland
    it's gray and overcast!
  • PonchoBill
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    HOT!!!
    Damn hot! This has gotta be the hottest summer on record for northern Ontario. No end in sight either. I stopped caring about my green lawn weeks ago. It is an unsightly brown and very crunchy. My hydro bill is sky high. The CA is worth every penny tho.
  • Anna rRxia
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    KC sizzle breaks
    Yesterday's high temp. in KC was 88. That breaks a 20 day string of 90+ temps for the KC metro. area. The forecast? Temps. at or above 90 for as far as the eye can see. Good luck staying cool Ted! At least you don't live in Las Vegas or Phoenix or Death Valley. In N. New England we are sizzling in or around 90 with high humidity. I think it's time for a tube trip down the White River. Unfortunately the water doesn't keep the beer cold!
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    The heat boss, the heat!! (More water!)
    Poor Ted! The relief we've felt in the New England area -- morning lows in the high 40s -- didn't quite make it to the KC metro area. They had a "low" high temp. of 92 degrees last Monday and now temps. are headed back up to the triple digits. Man, that would just kill me! This makes more than 10 days of plus 90 degrees for those poor folks in the Plains. We'll be checking to see when you guys nose in under that mark. No end in sight. Other temps. around the country are staggering. Record highs almost everywhere except NE, where beautifully gorgeous endless summer continues unabated. We've been at the beach where water temps. are up this year already. You can now swim in Maine, which was an impossibility before 2000 unless you were a polar bear. In the rest of the country they are speaking of some really insane temps. like 127 degrees in Las Vegas. On average about 10 degrees more than the usual. Is this year the tipping point as far as Global Warming is concerned? I don't think from a scientific point-of-view a causal relationship can be proven but from a common-sense human and closely watched domestic animal point-of-view the case was closed long before this summer... Stay cool everybody! Alcoholic beverages are dehydrating. If you drink you should make every other one a 16 oz. water. Hey, if you don't believe me ask any EMT what shows up in the emergency room on hot days other than the elderly.
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    Hot Days In the blazing sun where I was observing the grape vines with their thick, sturdy and jagged leaves...I gazed upon them finding that the beetles had paired up and were all making love freely in the light of the sun. Ahhh Mother Nature and her subjects of love. The unbridled passion of beetles on a leaf to stray cats of the city. The heat of the day to the cool of the dark of night is her nudging of love to sweeten the journey and make a new morning to begin the heat again. It's going to be hot, like the day before. They'll do it again, like ornaments or earrings placed to be seen.
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    Good point, Anna
    And I sure do remember. I think that one of the side-effects of A/C use is that I never get "hardened off" to the heat. I really do think that I'm less heat-tolerant after 6 years in central-air NC than I was when I lived in New England with no A/C and sleeping on the second floor of my 100-yr-old house with plenty of hot-and-humid summer days to go around.
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    Born on the Sun?
    Check out Robert Wuhl in the control room. I don't think he was acting. Robin ad libbed a lot of this movie.
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Last weekend I was in my Forester and I was looking at the outside temp gauge it read 0 and my wife noticed. She asked what temperature it was outside, I said "..there ain't one" A dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago... ________________________ www.autoquoteresearch.com
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it's warming up it's 21 degrees not 15 today!! yeah :)
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Warmed up to 30 degrees today in Erie, Pa., but the wind chill was 14 degrees, and we're up to about 8 inches of snow. More snow for the rest of the week and colder temps are returning tomorrow.
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Just back from a walk with El Bruto. Most of the Almond blossom is out now. Nice and warm in the sun but still a chill out of it just going to put some photos up on the Blog Bob
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It is 4 degrees F. But the sun is out here too.NE Washington Bob, thanks for listing your Blog site and sharing your photos.. You live in an amazing place. Could you continue to list your blog site with your name, so we know where to go. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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It's not supposed to be like this in the Bay Area. However my kids did get to play in the snow for the second time in their nine-year lives in the hills above our home. High of about 45 today, degrees that is.
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S.NJ is cold this morning and I'm home with a sick little boy, he has a tummy virus...Yucky!!
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Sunny and warm today. Lower 40's. The sun feels wonderfull though!!! Gratefulmom, Hope your son is feeling better. A little TLC can fix anything.
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....in the post coldwar country its.....dark and cold!!!!
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60 degrees today and sunny. So much for winter. Global Warming...
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The sky here in NJ this morning is a strange shade of red.Sun went down in honey and the moon came up in wine
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Woke up to freezing rain, a bit of an icestorm. Our vehicles as well as everything else was a sheet of ice. Then it warmed up about 2 degrees and rained all day. Needless to say my work day as an Ironworker really sucked. Kept telling my crew, there's nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!
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We have had 40 inches of snow in January, now it is warming up a bit and then turning to slush and freezing at night. Schools have been closed most of this week. Alao a period in there of temps just above 0 F. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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cold and rainy today. Unfortunately all the flowering fruit trees were lured by the faux spring into bursting into bloom, which is probably not going to turn out well.
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isn't that how it goes? Maybe it will warm up enough so the bees can get busy. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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A little bit of everything. Too many storms (bad ones) lately. As the elders say, "If you don't like the weather stick around another 15 minutes. It'll change. . . "
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it was 60 yesterday and today it's 25 Brrrrrrrr in South NJ
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Just a classic 419 scam. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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cold,cold,cold and the water is five feet high and rising!
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How did that post servive the mods??? Sounds like a scam to me!!! Be very careful!! The weather hear in Erie is very cold and yesterday we had a snowstorm, dumped about 10 inches of snow on us at work. I'm ready for summer!!!
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the Ivory Coast scam! Sorry for the aggravation, friends, Ivian should be troubling us no more.
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Crazy wind pushes my van into lanes without my consent. 50-60 on average. I'm not used to it man, I miss Vermont's snow. NC is awfully nice though. You can't beat the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Clear night sky and cold but perfect for seing the eclipse and saturn Peace Isaac
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I learned that I will not be meeting with the clients today because ice is falling from the sky - this, of course, avails me the opportunity to have a burn-fest extraordinaire, fire up 2/21/69 and pray for better weather. "Where does the time go?"
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was -1 when i woke up ...time to finally go where the weather siuts my clothes
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When I left for work this morn. BRRRRRRR!! Time for summer, we can skip spring!
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Go away!! We got 3 inches of the white stuff and it's still snowing!! I want summer too!!
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They told us to stay home again - not that I'm complaining, I just miss the clients. Speaking of the clients, one of them, a sophomore, has been battling a malignant brain tumour. Sheis one of the sweetest girls - the song "Ripple" comes to mind - in the school and a drive was begun to help fund her mounting bills. The head of the drive said that if $6,000 were raised a day of school would be missed, a number of students would donate their locks and several teachers would shave their heads in front of everyone at the school. The day the news of $ raised and hair removal everyone wore rags that said "stay strong." Several local TV crews showed up to disseminate what had gone down and everyone was overwhelmed as over $21,000 had been raised. Taylor even helped shave a head! In the many years I've been teaching this event has really shown the way the community in which I work can come together - and for that I'm grateful. O.K., time for 2/22/69 and a taste more coffee. Rock on Dead people! "Where does the time go?"
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That is beautiful! It makes me love me fellow man a little more. Well Beams heading her way & Peace to all Thanks for sharing '69 is a great year, go Pigpen! L
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Or so they say. It's dry at the moment, though, giving the water a chance to soak in a bit. Thanks for your tale, Deadicated. Live strong beamz headed to Taylor.
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Alot warmer today, around 25 to 30 degrees today but we got about 6 more inches of snow. I'm tired!!!!
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in for some more stormy weather,this wknd.just came back from mass.and their was snow and ice and rain.but had fun playin' in the snow.sunny sies w/big puff balls streaming across the sky,today.
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Starting to cloud up here on the coast - it was a gorgeous morning though! I'm spoiled, and am tired of rain! Back home where my hubby and son live, they're tired of snow (something like 80 inches this year so far?), so I guess I shouldn't complain. but hey! It's Southern California, dammit; it's supposed to be sunny!
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Still cold, but should warm to upper 30's today. Nice to see nothing but sun and blue skys.
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Steve-O, you must be in my latitude. NOAA says we're going for 34 degrees today, & this will be the first day like that since, I think, early January. I'm trying to figure out how to rig the lights to get the tomatoes & basil started indoors."Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world." And the hands, baby. Wanna get those hands dirty.
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After our first snow of the year on Friday (1-3 inches) we had a snow day! Yeah! A perk of being a teacher. Started to melt out entirely yesterday and now it's climbing up to low 40s, sunny, no precipitation in sight (yeah- no indoor recess for the kiddies!) Able to go sledding and build snow sculptures with my kids on Friday and saturday- perfect snow for it, not a lot of it, but perfect. I'm now ready for spring and getting the garden together....Ami
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Am going to Cadiz this weekend, and if weather stays like this, we will hit the beach!********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens