Heat wave
FWIW, I've NEVER watered the "grass" around here, but for some reason it
still grows & I have to cut it every week or so during the summer.
On 9/6/2022 8:25 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:50:57PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote:
Here, down to a balmy 21 or so daytime, big fat low revolving over us dumping good amounts of rain. The grass has lost the bright yellow glow and patches of green are returning. Rain til the weekend. Happier days.
Cot
What is this grass of which you speak? :-)
I stopped watering the grass several years ago when it became painfully obvious that:
1) California didn't have enough water to meet existing requirements,
let alone the increases expected from population growth.
2) It was extremely unlikely that California would be able to get the
votes required to change the allocation system, so there was no way
to prevent long-established agriculture, etc., having first rights
to take as much water as they wanted to grow crops; there wasn't
even a way to require efficient irrigation systems (too expensive)
or to prevent crops such as almonds (or even hay) being exported.
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Lawn ;-)
Cot
On 7 Sep 2022, at 01:25, John Francis johnf@panix.com wrote:
What is this grass of which you speak? :-)
Not far behind you Alan - 25°C for us - but then I grew up in the UK!
John in Brisbane
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan C cole@lantic.net
Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2022 9:28 PM
To: pdml@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Heat wave
Welcome to Phalaborwa. We turn on the heaters when it goes under 40°C!
Alan C
On 07-Sep-22 02:25 AM, John Francis wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:50:57PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote:
Here, down to a balmy 21 or so daytime, big fat low revolving over us dumping good amounts of rain. The grass has lost the bright yellow glow and patches of green are returning. Rain til the weekend. Happier days.
Cot
What is this grass of which you speak? :-)
I stopped watering the grass several years ago when it became painfully obvious that:
1) California didn't have enough water to meet existing requirements,
let alone the increases expected from population growth.
2) It was extremely unlikely that California would be able to get the
votes required to change the allocation system, so there was no way
to prevent long-established agriculture, etc., having first rights
to take as much water as they wanted to grow crops; there wasn't
even a way to require efficient irrigation systems (too expensive)
or to prevent crops such as almonds (or even hay) being exported.
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We are enjoying some cool mountain air. I think it's around 16°C right now.
On Tue., Sep. 6, 2022, 12:12 p.m. John Francis, johnf@panix.com wrote:
It's a little warm out here ...
Yesterday some parts of the greater SF Bay Area had temperatures as high
as 117F.
It's not quite that bad here, but yesterday got to just shy of 110, and
today is on track to be at least as hot.
(It's around mid-day, and the temperature outside is 103).
And, of course, at just a few minutes before 8pm on Friday out air
conditioner attempted to cycle on, made a nasty 'clunk' sound, and stopped
working.
We managed to find a repair company that was still answering the phone,
and they sent a technician out. Unfortunately our unit is over 20 years
old, and the part that needs to be replaced has to be shipped - nobody
local nowadays keeps every part that old in stock. And Carrier's parts
shipping department was closed for the holiday weekend ...
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