This is ridiculous (Weather grumble)

[alfreda89]

This is a grumble because I'm too uncomfortable to rant.

Something I didn't know previously is that behind hurricanes--to the lee side, so to speak--a huge high pressure dome settles in to balance the low pressure of the hurricane. It was 108 in Austin yesterday at the airport--107 at the old reporting station near us--and pretty nasty in other places in Texas. Gas is high and scarce. For the first time, I actually asked W where we'd live if electricity tripled.

Going outside just exhausts me. Must make it to the grocery, but first I need to fill out that class action article lawsuit paperage...I kept misplacing it, and it must be postmarked by Friday.

Typing around a huge mountain of marmalade cat is quite awkward. And stayed up too late reading, blast it. On the other hand, with help from the sleeping and pain pills, I got five straight hours of sleep. (And the crowd roars!)

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[oliana0.livejournal.com]

After watching a documentary on the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, I sometimes wonder how well weather has been communicated across long distances.

If we were not intravenously tied to the internet, national news and local weather prognostication, would we even know a hurricane ripped up the coast a scant 200 miles away?

It was sunny, hot and a little breezy. How would we know?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

You're right, we might not know. Unless someone came through weeks later and told us that the night of high winds we had followed "A Mighty Wind" from the gulf, we might never make that connection. It's not like watching dropped pinecones close their seeds, and having it rain the next day....

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Ack, my sympathies. I don't like heat. I've had to cope with it in various foreign locations - I acclimatise, but I still dislike it.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I am still grateful--it could be 10 inches of rain (we were considering sandbags) or we could be without A/C. But oh, I dream of true autumn.