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OT - Weather Worries?
Is anyone else worried about the weather we're having? I'm sure it's
not just Texas that is effected. We hare in the worst drought in recorded history and it is expected to go on for another *year*! This in a part of the world that usually sees more rain and humidity than sun! Texas is know for it's cattle ranching, but now ranches are losing record numbers of cattle from their herds because there just isn't enough ground water and growth to keep them alive! Farmers are losing *billions* of dollars in dying crops. The city of Houston has created a controversial run-off from Lake Conroe to supplement its needs. Most fountains in the city have been turned of and are not scheduled to be turned back on in the foreseeable future. Water mains are breaking because the ground is drying out and shifting, which is making the situation worse. People's wells are drying up and they having to drill deeper wells - that means that the *groundwater* is disappearing! This may take *centuries* to fully replace *IF* the drought ends. Along with the drought is the worst heat wave in recorded history. The "heat index" here just now is 114F!! Power plants are unable to keep a continuous supply of electricity to all of their customers and the whole city is experiencing "brown-outs" (the electricity will suddenly go off, flicker, go off again and then come back on - it's playing hell with our electronics, it's burned out one of our hard-drives and screws up DVR recorders). This has been happening on an average of 5 to 6 times a day. There are some areas that are experiencing black-outs for hours or more. Of course the cost of all this will trickle down to higher food prices and other things and that will cause individual problems. But just now I'm talking about global problems on an apocalyptic scale. Is anyone else as worried about this as I am? Is the news media just causing another panic or is this really something to be afraid of? -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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OT - Weather Worries?
On 8/18/2011 5:34 PM, hopitus wrote:
On Aug 18, 3:10 pm, CatNipped wrote: Is anyone else worried about the weather we're having? I'm sure it's not just Texas that is effected. We hare in the worst drought in recorded history and it is expected to go on for another *year*! This in a part of the world that usually sees more rain and humidity than sun! Texas is know for it's cattle ranching, but now ranches are losing record numbers of cattle from their herds because there just isn't enough ground water and growth to keep them alive! Farmers are losing *billions* of dollars in dying crops. The city of Houston has created a controversial run-off from Lake Conroe to supplement its needs. Most fountains in the city have been turned of and are not scheduled to be turned back on in the foreseeable future. Water mains are breaking because the ground is drying out and shifting, which is making the situation worse. People's wells are drying up and they having to drill deeper wells - that means that the *groundwater* is disappearing! This may take *centuries* to fully replace *IF* the drought ends. Along with the drought is the worst heat wave in recorded history. The "heat index" here just now is 114F!! Power plants are unable to keep a continuous supply of electricity to all of their customers and the whole city is experiencing "brown-outs" (the electricity will suddenly go off, flicker, go off again and then come back on - it's playing hell with our electronics, it's burned out one of our hard-drives and screws up DVR recorders). This has been happening on an average of 5 to 6 times a day. There are some areas that are experiencing black-outs for hours or more. Of course the cost of all this will trickle down to higher food prices and other things and that will cause individual problems. But just now I'm talking about global problems on an apocalyptic scale. Is anyone else as worried about this as I am? Is the news media just causing another panic or is this really something to be afraid of? CatNipped OT long and boring if you have no water/power issues Please try not to get too worked up over this; I've been watching the TX drought news every night on weather channel plus channel news; media news focuses on what will get viewers excited and watching every word and weather map fearing the worst. Media news is not high on cred to me. You are now in same boat (no pun intended) with FL which has even less fresh water sources than you do; FL has one huge lake right in middle loaded with bass fish; it is also polluted. You probably have more lakes for runoff tribs than FL does but not as much rainfall (rainfall is the lifesaver in FL). AFA the brownouts and blackouts: welcome to the club of that too....rollling brownouts go on all summer in FL with all those a/c units cranking away in the high heat and humidity of this, the worst month, August. Didn';t bother me to be outside then but I grew up like that: no a/c; but I wouldn't send my worst enemy to south FL this month. Of course, no power problems there in winter, that's the greatest weather there; I dunno about Houston. Brownouts and blackouts, rolling or not, are a big PITA and mostly dealt with by closing blinds and drapes to keep cool air in, and *avoiding opening entrance doors for more than a sec*; of course all windows shut. South FL does *not* cool down at night like here, and I also dunno about Houston. If your upstairs tenant loves heat, the higher you get indoors the hotter you get so he'll be loving it. What he *won't* love will be LOLOLOL no computer to play on and will have to go acoustic with his gittars. Don't worry I seriously believe TX authorities of both water conservation and power sources are smarter than both FL and CO put together. Your lawn may also get brown and ugly as the ones here are with watering restrictions severely limiting lawn care/sprinkling. Heavy fines. We in condos could care less. Hoping to have reassured you somewhat. Thank you, yes. I sorta figured the media was, as usual, blowing things out of proportion (I still blame them for the worldwide financial crisis - they caused a panic that was bigger than "Black Friday"!) - and I haven't been reading anything similar from other members here and in other places (and you really need to talk to "real people" if you want the "real truth" about things). But, you know, there's always that little voice in the back of your mind saying that global warming is here and getting too real! -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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CatNipped wrote:
But, you know, there's always that little voice in the back of your mind saying that global warming is here and getting too real! "Little voice"? LOL. Make it a trumpet. Quite real, IMHO, no doubt about it. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... Is anyone else worried about the weather we're having? I'm sure it's not just Texas that is effected. We hare in the worst drought in recorded history and it is expected to go on for another *year*! This in a part of the world that usually sees more rain and humidity than sun! Nope, no drought here. I'd send you my rain if I could. Last weekend we had a thunderstorm and 60MPH wind that knocked down trees in one of my elderly neighbor's front yard. I unpacked my oil lamps just in case I lost power. It was sunny on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday. But we got more rain today. I heard thunder but it wasn't enough to knock out the power. Jill |
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On 8/18/2011 9:07 PM, jmcquown wrote:
"CatNipped" wrote in message ... Is anyone else worried about the weather we're having? I'm sure it's not just Texas that is effected. We hare in the worst drought in recorded history and it is expected to go on for another *year*! This in a part of the world that usually sees more rain and humidity than sun! Nope, no drought here. I'd send you my rain if I could. Last weekend we had a thunderstorm and 60MPH wind that knocked down trees in one of my elderly neighbor's front yard. I unpacked my oil lamps just in case I lost power. It was sunny on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday. But we got more rain today. I heard thunder but it wasn't enough to knock out the power. Jill We just now had another brown-out. It fried my DVR! We had already had a technician scheduled to come out Sunday, so I only have a few days of thumb twiddling. Actually I'm trying to write something so it's just one more distraction and excuse eliminated. ; -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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On Aug 18, 4:10*pm, CatNipped wrote:
Is anyone else worried about the weather we're having? *I'm sure it's not just Texas that is effected. *We hare in the worst drought in recorded history and it is expected to go on for another *year*! *This in a part of the world that usually sees more rain and humidity than sun! Texas is know for it's cattle ranching, but now ranches are losing record numbers of cattle from their herds because there just isn't enough ground water and growth to keep them alive! *Farmers are losing *billions* of dollars in dying crops. *The city of Houston has created a controversial run-off from Lake Conroe to supplement its needs. *Most fountains in the city have been turned of and are not scheduled to be turned back on in the foreseeable future. *Water mains are breaking because the ground is drying out and shifting, which is making the situation worse. *People's wells are drying up and they having to drill deeper wells - that means that the *groundwater* is disappearing! *This may take *centuries* to fully replace *IF* the drought ends. Along with the drought is the worst heat wave in recorded history. *The "heat index" here just now is 114F!! *Power plants are unable to keep a continuous supply of electricity to all of their customers and the whole city is experiencing "brown-outs" (the electricity will suddenly go off, flicker, go off again and then come back on - it's playing hell with our electronics, it's burned out one of our hard-drives and screws up DVR recorders). *This has been happening on an average of 5 to 6 times a day. *There are some areas that are experiencing black-outs for hours or more. Of course the cost of all this will trickle down to higher food prices and other things and that will cause individual problems. *But just now I'm talking about global problems on an apocalyptic scale. Is anyone else as worried about this as I am? *Is the news media just causing another panic or is this really something to be afraid of? -- Hugs, CatNipped I'm worried; but not longterm. The drought will eventually break and the heat with it. Weather cycles. In 1936, I'm sure they thought it was the end of the world then. Another severe drought came along in the mid-fifties, and another in 1980. So I think it's just "time" for another one in our part of the country. In fact, if it weren't for better farming practices we'd be in the middle of another dust bowl. We are extremely frugal with water. It actually annoys me to see a lush, green lawn this summer. It just shows incredible waste of a commodity that's particularly precious this year. So, yeah, I think it's definitely cause for concern and extreme conservation but not real fear. Here's a link that you might find interesting: it's a map of the "exception drought" areas of the US- nearly all of Tx. is included -- and a short explanation of the extreme heat/drought correlation. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=climate-drought Sherry |
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On 8/18/2011 11:09 PM, Sherry wrote:
On Aug 18, 4:10 pm, wrote: Is anyone else worried about the weather we're having? I'm sure it's not just Texas that is effected. We hare in the worst drought in recorded history and it is expected to go on for another *year*! This in a part of the world that usually sees more rain and humidity than sun! Texas is know for it's cattle ranching, but now ranches are losing record numbers of cattle from their herds because there just isn't enough ground water and growth to keep them alive! Farmers are losing *billions* of dollars in dying crops. The city of Houston has created a controversial run-off from Lake Conroe to supplement its needs. Most fountains in the city have been turned of and are not scheduled to be turned back on in the foreseeable future. Water mains are breaking because the ground is drying out and shifting, which is making the situation worse. People's wells are drying up and they having to drill deeper wells - that means that the *groundwater* is disappearing! This may take *centuries* to fully replace *IF* the drought ends. Along with the drought is the worst heat wave in recorded history. The "heat index" here just now is 114F!! Power plants are unable to keep a continuous supply of electricity to all of their customers and the whole city is experiencing "brown-outs" (the electricity will suddenly go off, flicker, go off again and then come back on - it's playing hell with our electronics, it's burned out one of our hard-drives and screws up DVR recorders). This has been happening on an average of 5 to 6 times a day. There are some areas that are experiencing black-outs for hours or more. Of course the cost of all this will trickle down to higher food prices and other things and that will cause individual problems. But just now I'm talking about global problems on an apocalyptic scale. Is anyone else as worried about this as I am? Is the news media just causing another panic or is this really something to be afraid of? -- Hugs, CatNipped I'm worried; but not longterm. The drought will eventually break and the heat with it. Weather cycles. In 1936, I'm sure they thought it was the end of the world then. Another severe drought came along in the mid-fifties, and another in 1980. So I think it's just "time" for another one in our part of the country. In fact, if it weren't for better farming practices we'd be in the middle of another dust bowl. We are extremely frugal with water. It actually annoys me to see a lush, green lawn this summer. It just shows incredible waste of a commodity that's particularly precious this year. Yep, this is the only time our brown, neglected lawn is an *asset*. LOL! So, yeah, I think it's definitely cause for concern and extreme conservation but not real fear. Here's a link that you might find interesting: it's a map of the "exception drought" areas of the US- nearly all of Tx. is included -- and a short explanation of the extreme heat/drought correlation. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=climate-drought Sherry Thanks, I'll go take a look at it. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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On 8/19/2011 1:19 AM, hopitus wrote:
On Aug 18, 9:28 pm, CatNipped wrote: On 8/18/2011 9:07 PM, jmcquown wrote: Is anyone else worried about the weather we're having? I'm sure it's not just Texas that is effected. We hare in the worst drought in recorded history and it is expected to go on for another *year*! This in a part of the world that usually sees more rain and humidity than sun! Nope, no drought here. I'd send you my rain if I could. Last weekend we had a thunderstorm and 60MPH wind that knocked down trees in one of my elderly neighbor's front yard. I unpacked my oil lamps just in case I lost power. It was sunny on Monday, Tuesday& Wednesday. But we got more rain today. I heard thunder but it wasn't enough to knock out the power. Jill We just now had another brown-out. It fried my DVR! We had already had a technician scheduled to come out Sunday, so I only have a few days of thumb twiddling. Actually I'm trying to write something so it's just one more distraction and excuse eliminated. ; CatNipped Uh.....hopitus forgot to mention that any electronic appliance/device that you value should be plugged into a better-class *surge protector* as what fried your DVR was not the brownout; it was the "surge" of power when the power returned to the electronic device. Please send the upstairs tenant out tomorrow to buy several and not the cheapest ones; surge protector should have an "on-off" switch at the very least: the cheap ones don't. If he needs a horror story to go do this, I got one for you. One of my close pals, fellow NFL fan, had two huge big-screen tvs in her house we watched games on; one was her son's. They went on vacation (it was summer) and the usual blackouts and rolling brownouts went on in their absence while they were in Rochester, NY two weeks. Upon their return, *both* tv's were totally fried and they were beside themselves; luckily her French Canuck SO (who watched hockey instead of NFL) gifted them all with replacements. I have many surge protectors here only because lightning will do the same thing and lightning has been an ever-present PITA here since winter quit. Oh he has top of the line surge protectors for all *his* stuff IOW, the *important* stuff. We can't get any to protect *my* stuff. The 69" TV that takes up half the wall space in the great room is on one, my puny 42" has none. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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CatNipped wrote: Is anyone else worried about the weather we're having? I'm sure it's not just Texas that is effected. We hare in the worst drought in recorded history and it is expected to go on for another *year*! This in a part of the world that usually sees more rain and humidity than sun! Texas is know for it's cattle ranching, but now ranches are losing record numbers of cattle from their herds because there just isn't enough ground water and growth to keep them alive! Farmers are losing *billions* of dollars in dying crops. The city of Houston has created a controversial run-off from Lake Conroe to supplement its needs. Most fountains in the city have been turned of and are not scheduled to be turned back on in the foreseeable future. Water mains are breaking because the ground is drying out and shifting, which is making the situation worse. People's wells are drying up and they having to drill deeper wells - that means that the *groundwater* is disappearing! This may take *centuries* to fully replace *IF* the drought ends. Along with the drought is the worst heat wave in recorded history. The "heat index" here just now is 114F!! Power plants are unable to keep a continuous supply of electricity to all of their customers and the whole city is experiencing "brown-outs" (the electricity will suddenly go off, flicker, go off again and then come back on - it's playing hell with our electronics, it's burned out one of our hard-drives and screws up DVR recorders). This has been happening on an average of 5 to 6 times a day. There are some areas that are experiencing black-outs for hours or more. Of course the cost of all this will trickle down to higher food prices and other things and that will cause individual problems. But just now I'm talking about global problems on an apocalyptic scale. Is anyone else as worried about this as I am? Is the news media just causing another panic or is this really something to be afraid of? IMO, the news media is way behind the times in "causing another panic" - especially when too many of our politicians just plain aren't interested! You don't mention the growing shortage of edible fish and seafood, or the increasing pollution of our drinking water by mining methods and "fracking" to obtain the allegedly "plentiful" natural gas. (But never mind - at the rate our rain forests are being destroyed, we'll probably run out of oxygen before famine wins out.) |
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Patok wrote: CatNipped wrote: But, you know, there's always that little voice in the back of your mind saying that global warming is here and getting too real! "Little voice"? LOL. Make it a trumpet. Quite real, IMHO, no doubt about it. And you can't really fault "third world" countries for wanting to improve their standard of living to match that of the industrialized world, but the rain forests produce most of the world's oxygen. Wipe them out, and ALL life disappears! |
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