Hah, even Indiana gets up to 95 in the summer easy.
Which is why when people complain about Americans using air conditioning too much I just laugh. Three quarters of the country hits over 85 for a few months a year every year, with less than pleasant humidity. Then half that gets buried in snow and subzero temps for a couple months.
Western Europe doesn’t have weather, they have climate. No freight trains in the middle of the night killing 17 people with over 100 mph winds, no hurricanes smashing the shit out of two coasts, no heat waves over 100 degrees, or cold snaps in the negative twenty plus range, no multiple feet of snow, and I assume no multiple feet of rain.
In America the weather kills you. Paris and it’s heatwave a few years ago where people died with temps in the 90’s was sad, but something we barely even notice here.
My job’s not geo-dependent, but Laura’s definitely is (she’s still at Boeing here in Houston, doing ISS engineering stuff). Plus, we’re tied to her insurance because it’s infinity better than what CN offers, so we’re pretty much stuck right here.
Y’all grew up here. You’re used to it.
I’m originally from the northeast, but I’ve been here so long, I wouldn’t be able to handle going back to live in a place that gets the really frigid or prolonged cold weather.
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Western Europe doesn’t have weather, they have climate. No freight trains in the middle of the night killing 17 people with over 100 mph winds, no hurricanes smashing the shit out of two coasts, no heat waves over 100 degrees, or cold snaps in the negative twenty plus range, no multiple feet of snow, and I assume no multiple feet of rain.[/quote]
Actually you pretty accurately described the UK and Ireland there, only with higher temperatures. The only reason we don’t “get” hurricanes is because of the idiotic and pedantic limitations on what storms are actually hurricanes. What we get are snappily named “hurricane-force-deep-Atlantic-depressions” which deliver the same 100mph winds and 3ft of rainwater as a regular hurricane, but without the word hurricane ever being used. We even name the storms now, as of this winter. As for feets of snow and rain? Yup. When you read the sad, sad news stories of London grinding to a halt because a single snowflake fell on the M25, generally the North Pennines have about 6-7feet
Also as a really weird side note, per square mile the UK averages more tornadoes than the USA. Granted they’re much, much smaller, and our T5 is roughly an F3, but hey, we get them everywhere every so often
We get hurricanes in the Pacific too. They just hit Mexico and points south. Typhoons are a Western Pacific thing. The Eastern Pacific has good ol’ hurricanes. We already have earthquakes and wildfires in California, so I’m glad the hurricanes don’t hit here too. Although El Niño will bring lots of rain this winter (and it’s bigger than the one in 1997-98, which was a doozy), so I can see all of San Diego shutting down because a couple drops of rain fell on the I-5 and the I-15. And it will be way worse up in LA because their traffic is already way worse than ours.
The anti-vaxxers screaming for Dr. Pan’s recall from the California legislature failed to turn in any petitions today, the deadline for such an effort. I’m happy he’ll be continuing to fight for sanity and safety in health care and education.
I bought an automatic feeder for my cat who is on a diet. She’s eaten out of it a few times, but she just saw it operate for the first time. It was hilarious watching her sniff suspiciously at the food, reach in, then jerk out as if she’s just been poked, then sniff at it again. She finally started to eat after I reassured her that it was okay. It won’t take long for her to start waiting by it around feeding time.
Shiro (the cat I took care of for a couple of weeks last year) would sit by his feeder for up to 45 minutes before it was set to open waiting for it. I imagine that Pig will do the same once she gets used to it.
That’s what I bought. $20 for a gallon. There are Ethanol-free gas stations in my area, so as long as I plan ahead I can get to one of them and pay a reasonable price.
The challenge now is…WTF do I do with 4 gallons of old Ethanol, some of which has definitely gone bad?
Depending on how old it is it can be used as an accelerator for bonfires. Older the safer. The newer shit should be applied before lighting while the old crap might actually put it out. You could soak a couple logs in it as firestarters, but I wouldn’t take them anywhere like that.
Of course, this is about as safe as anything stupid involving fire.
On a safer note, it appears that ethanol in less than a 24% solution is sewer safe, but you aren’t allowed to dilute it. You could pour half a gallon or so into a full tank of gas in your car, that could go bad too though, might be cheaper to throw it on a fire and accidentally burn down your garage.
A real quick search doesn’t turn up anything useful. I do know that old gasoline won’t even burn if you apply a lighter directly to it, I don’t know if ethanol actually does that. The bonfire idea is from what a friend used to do with old gas, and he actually put out a fire with some once.
