July 01, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
119.5 last Thursday. 110 and rising at the moment. Has been rather warm of late. No rain either… unless you count the bit of hail the other evening. High winds have been the norm also – 50+ mph. Only good thing about this I don’t have to mow my acre of weeds – they all are dead! My tomatoes all died. (My only attempt at gardening.) Also a lot haze in the air from the forest fires. My eyes have been watering for a week. Because of the heat and dry, wheat harvest started a couple weeks early.
1Here in Knoxville TN it’s been a NORMAL 105…..normal for ARIZONA in August, that is. My roses are mad at me for planting them this year…
My daughter in SW Ohio drove home from work Friday night…..one minute it’s sunny, and the next (to quote her) it’s “Auntie Em, Auntie Em.” And she drives an SUV.Temp went from 103 in Cincinnati to in the 60’s within a hour’s time.
Climate change…WHAT climate change???? And yes, I believe in Jesus, etc. But I’m not STUPID.
2mb where are you? Can’t complain much here, warm but not shocking and it is RAINING so we may wind up having a few trees left after all. May take big ones 5-6 years to die, so won’t really know what we are looking at for awhile. Of course, Bastrop, Texas, parts of NM and a lot of CO now have NO trees, only ashes, so what in hell am I whining about?!
3I left Ohio on Thursday missing any of the high winds coming from the central part of the state; only to be in NYC where temperatures were in the high 90s. It is nasty wherever I live or go these days.
4It was 107 here in Middle GA yesterday, and today’s another scorcher. It’s not three o’clock yet, and it’s 103. Local weather reporters say we’ll see a drop in temps on Tuesday. It’s always been hot here in the summer, but I can’t recall when we’ve had multiple days of 100+ temps.
5And we’re having a cold, wet “summer” in Southeastern Alaska”. Everything is late growing, struggling against the weather. Still, I’m grateful to be here and not in that heat. You all have my sympathy, believe me.
6I’m in N. Aladamnbama. It’s 104 on the porch, in the shade, with a fan. It’s too hot to breathe. My two dogs refuse to move from beneath the table in the house with the a.c., (such a blessing), going. I guess they’re hunting for more shade.
7Only 86 here in Delta County, Texas, because at least some Gulf clouds are floating through. We’re hoping Houston will allow some of that rain to get all the way up here. Our water bill is going up and some tomatoes are cooking on the vine. Our Texas Hill Country Red Okra seems to be hanging on, though. Already went through the Red Ripper field peas and those got replanted today; same with butter beans. Potatoes are dying. We knew they might. Spring taters were wonderful in May.
8From N Florida:
The fires are out, at last. Thanks, Debby. Currently 93, partly cloudy, 56 humidity – not too bad.
Drought conditions for last three years. Droughts look quite different between here and Texas, I’d think. Still lots of green supplied by seasonal rains but rivers and lakes are waaaay down. N Central FL lakes are pitiful.
9I just returned from Colorado where half of the state is on fire.
OK, I exaggerate, but the news reports are not exaggerated. It’s scary up there.
10On the Washington/Idaho border we aren’t getting the high temps yet but Mother Nature has become increasingly bi-polar and almost daily she can flip from manic to depressive. Tuesday was 84, Wednesday the high was 54. Yes a 30 degree difference in the high temp. I haven’t been able to put my winter clothes away.
This is normal weather in our neighborhood. IF IT WAS APRIL!
115:10 pm Friday the derecho roared thru. A lofty pine now leans drunkenly across the electrical wires leading into our complex. DaMrs and I are 2 of 600000 Ohioans without electricity.
We are taking turns charging the phones off the car and trying to keep track of AEP’s progress. They only had a skeleton crew on Friday night! Then they made sure the soccer stadium got electricity first so the CEO of this uber-profitable “public” utility could enjoy the game in his box.
Teeny tiny phone screens tell us that our power should be back on ohh…next FRIDAY! The same screens predict 90+ degree heat through then.
So far 130 pounds of Walmart ice bags have kept the fridge contents safe and I’m hosing down the poor little dogs with the mist setting one the hosepipe to help them keep their cool.
But us and 599998 of our closest friends are rapidly losing ours!
12@aggieland liz et al – I am in Colorado – the non-mountain side. Even though I am about 200 miles from the forest fires, I could see and smell the smoke. Closer to home, there was about a 40,000 acre range fire – that was about 75 miles south west of me. Even closer, last week a 400 acre range fire about 10 miles south east of me took out 7 farm buildings but they saved the house. Took departments from 6 towns and two states to stop that one. There was one a couple of days ago a few miles west of me but they got that one put down in short order with no real damage. There is always a stubble fire somewhere around during wheat harvest. So far there have been none… but harvest is only about half over. We shall see.
13It is simply unbelievable here in Hotlanta GA, however we are surviving. It is 4:31pm and the temp is 108 but, according to wunderground.com, the wind/chill is 114.
1478 degrees Fryday morning at 5:30am as I crossed the Ohio. Cat tending this week. 90 something plus that afternoon (2ish) as I got off. Dry sauna type heat. Woke up from my nap about 5:30 pm to a Skype message from a friend in Salem VA area. Wanted to check on me and to let me know they were bugging out. They live in a trailer and thing were a tetch too interesting for them. All I knew of at that time was we were have a”toad strangling” down pour. Power flickered on and off but we did not lose power here in the hollar. Ohio was not so lucky. Blackouts all the way to the Columbus area that I heard of. Went to do another round of cat tending this morning,light rain and overcast. Saw a lot of small to middlin branches down. One power line sagging over one road into the complex.
Friend in Jersey reported that it was so hot his neighbors heat pump/air conditioner thingie blew up and nearly caught the neighbors house on fire.
Friend in Philly reported a “truely awesome and profound light show” and wind and rain.
15from the foothills of Mt Hood in Oregon. This is the third year of no summer–well, a couple of days of 90, then back to the 60s (although we haven’t had to 90s yet this year). Today is 55 at 1:30 pm with drizzle.
16::sigh:: About 100 degrees just north of Washington, DC, and our house has no power. Oh, and the power company says maybe by Friday.
The good news is that we’re camped out at my in-laws’ place. The bad news is that we’re camped out at my in-laws’ place.
I’ve lived in this area for nearly 40 years and let me tell you, climate change is here and it ain’t pretty. Also, our power company has a well-deserved reputation for being just like JFK described Washington: full of “northern charm and southern efficiency.”
17We’re having 90’s here, normal for August, but NO RAIN. Seems like it’s been weeks. Not sure how the crops are holding out but keeping the garden alive. Ironically got chased inside from an outdoor breakfast by rain….you could count the drops.
Only bright thing is that I haven’t heard anyone sneer about climate change lately like they do after every snowfall in winter.
18All the above is very interesting, and Juanita, it is so kind of you to inquire. Seriously. Texans are generally such nice people – well the ones who aren’t completey bonkers are, anyhow. I miss them. Here in Brownbackistan (KS) it’s very hot and very dry, but considering what others are going through, I won’t complain. As long as I can pay the electricity bill for the fans and central air to keep my house at 81, I’ll take it.
19Here in Arizona, it is business as usual. 110 degrees and 16% humidity. Other than cussing out the idiot who first remarked that “it’s a dry heat”, we’ll be fine as long as our “Accidental” governor keeps her fat mouth shut.
20Not quite as hot today in DC: 97 or so. Hot enough for me to stay inside close to the A/C and watch Tiger win his tournament. Watching some thunderstorms coming in from the East and hoping we get some more rain–minus the winds. Many friends are still without power and may not get it back until late next week. One friend in Annapolis never lost power during or after the storm–until today when the power company showed up and TURNED OFF the power in the entire neighborhood and THEN LEFT!
21THAILAND.
22Here near the Gulf of Siam the weather is strange. The locals tell me & from my 10 years here..that it is hotter than usual & the weather is just acting oddly…
“This is NOT climate change. This bad weather is just Jesus sneezing.” I gotta tweet that.
Summers now are a LOT hotter than I remember them as a kid. Winters are shorter and milder too. I doubt this is just a “natural warming cycle”. Amazing that we just happen to be having this so-called “natural warming cycle” after we have been releasing a lot of chemicals into the air for a century.
23Here in Missouri, we are thinking of re-naming it Misery. You know it is hot when you take your visiting friends and their family back to the hotel at 11:30 in the PM and the thermometer reads 95!
I live in Independence, Missouri, home of President Harry Truman, and as you can imagine, what with our name and everything we take the Fourth of July real seriously around here. I and many of my neighbors in this historic district (we live just down the street from HST) are quietly praying that the fireworks don’t set the 100+ year old homes in the neighborhood on fire this year as lately a sneeze is about all it takes to start a blaze.
24I’m in S. CO and yesterday was a hot 100 degree day and today, the 2nd of July, will be another 100 degree day! At 6 a.m. there was a nice breeze blowing and it was only 70 on my front porch.
25The fires north of me are being contained more and more which is a blessing!
It was 90 and hot in Boston yesterday.
But we took the T(air conditioned) and went into Boston to Fenway to see john Waters -Pink Floyd
The Green Wall became “The Wall”.
Unbelievable show, special effects awesome!
the evening cooled with a great breeze.
Opposite the Wall, the moon was almost full and was just as special as the special effects.
I am spending the 4th with my 2 children here in MA.
I hope all the wonderful friends have a great 4th, stay cool and safe.
26In northern Ohio, we’re picking up the pieces from yesterday’s storm. And that really is ‘pieces’, as the golf-ball size hail shredded trees, bushes, plants, and acres of farmers crops. I guess we were lucky though, the power was only out for a little over 4 hours. Some parts of the state are still waiting for their electric to come back.
27This has been the hottest, driest June I can remember. The rain that does come, comes too quick and hard, runs off without soaking in.