# LA News: yes, hot - dry - things are burning. Can we PLEASE move on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-news-yes-hot-dry-things-are-burning-can-we-please-move-on/508007 "2009-08-28T07:07:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-news-yes-hot-dry-things-are-burning-can-we-please-move-on/508007/21 "2009-08-31T18:28:12Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > For those of you who don’t live here, and maybe some who do, this may seem unfeeling. Too bad. > > In LA, it gets really hot. Every year. Shit burns. Every year. EVERY YEAR. EVERY FUCKING YEAR. > > In LA, “Fire” is the fifth fucking season, Ok? But fires are shiny. We were in LA and San Diego last weekend, leaving on Wednesday, and saw the smoke. We had yet another fire in Santa Cruz this month, but it didn’t get that much coverage because Santa Cruz is practically southern California to the San Francisco broadcasters. But the fire was on the front page of the Murky News every day. ---
**Author:** ![Mom-of-Andrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@Mom-of-Andrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mom-of-Andrew)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-news-yes-hot-dry-things-are-burning-can-we-please-move-on/508007/22 "2009-09-01T01:48:15Z")
You should live in ‘tornado alley.’ Every redneck with a 4WD and video on his cell phone is ‘an associate weather chaser.’ The teams from the local universities are actual ‘STORM chasers.’ Yes, my friends, there is a hierarchy. Any cloud looking remotely like it might be moving in a circular pattern will preempt all programming for hours. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-news-yes-hot-dry-things-are-burning-can-we-please-move-on/508007/23 "2009-09-01T01:59:51Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > I apparently have a role as your San Diego weather harrasser. 🆒 > > Anyway, were you in town yesterday? They’d have to pre-empt their standard broadcast because it was 104 at Montgomery Field yesterday and 91 at the airport. TOO DAMN HOT. It _was_ pretty warm. We turned on our AC for, i think, the third time in the year that we’ve lived here. Still, without the godawful humidity that is so prevalent on the east coast, 91 is pretty bearable, and it does still cool down at night a bit. I still managed to go for a run on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, but i’m something of a hot-weather runner. I’d prefer to run in 90 degrees than in 40 degrees. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-news-yes-hot-dry-things-are-burning-can-we-please-move-on/508007/24 "2009-09-01T02:21:28Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Pssht, I used to live in LA and now I live in Minneapolis. So my weather reporting has gone from “It’s hot!” every summer to, “It’s hot _and_ humid!” every summer, plus the “It’s fucking cold!” winter bonus. This year in Chicago, we’re also getting the “it’s fucking cold!” **summer** bonus. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-news-yes-hot-dry-things-are-burning-can-we-please-move-on/508007/25 "2009-09-01T13:01:48Z")
When I lived in the Houston area there would be near-hysteria every winter at the prospect of a “freeze”. Big scary fronts would be pictured on the weather maps, there’d be dire warnings from the forecasters and flashy graphics about protecting “People, Plants and Pets”. You and your dog probably won’t congeal into a icy lump the moment it hits 32 degrees. And if frost is such a dire threat to your garden, try growing something native to the region. It frosts every year in and around Houston, typically several times a year. It’s not Armageddon. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-news-yes-hot-dry-things-are-burning-can-we-please-move-on/508007/26 "2009-09-01T14:24:46Z")
Um…there are fires raging that cover a hundred of thousands of acres, firefighters are dying, homes and lives are being destroyed, and you are annoyed that your precious TV shows are being pre-empted??? WTF??? ??? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-news-yes-hot-dry-things-are-burning-can-we-please-move-on/508007/27 "2009-09-01T14:41:47Z")
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