Damnit…typo…should read:
“It’s downright freezing in them unless the heat comes on”
Poor Johnny. You live in the hellhole known as L.A., and you don’t even like the weather, its one redeeming feature!
OK, I’ll admit that I find 20 degrees Fahrenheit to be too cold to support human life. If that makes me a candy-ass, well then I guess I am. I’d just like to be in Minnesota sometime when a 7.5 earthquake hits. Then we’ll see who’s the candy-ass!
We’ve been on a warm streak lately; it’s warmed up to 20! Going back down to zero and below again tomorrow. (Northern Illinois here.)
But 1. we’re used to it and therefore prepared for it and 2. it genuniely isn’t reasonable to expect people to work or study inside a building that’s too cold. I don’t care how many layers you wear, you’re inactive and you’re gonna get very cold.
Talk about manufactured energy crises: a former boss used to turn the heat down to 45 on evenings and weekends (when he wasn’t there) to save money. This was in a steel, concrete and glass-fronted building, w/o a scrap of insulation in it, during sub-zero midwestern winters. To work on the public desk I wore: full set of silk long johns, 2 pair of socks, shirt, sweater, wool blazer and wool pants, and gloves. (He threatened to fire me for wearing the gloves; said they “didn’t look professional”.) And I love cold weather!
We just went through a variation of this, paying megabucks to have the local schools airconditioned. We’re shifting to a year-round school calendar. It was–quite rightly–decided that school couldn’t be held without a reasonable climate control system. Keep in mind the midwest also has blistering summers (truly lousy climate, I’m tellin’ ya). Remember one of those heat waves when the Chicago morgue ran out of room and had to hire refrigerated trucks to handle the bodies of people who died of heat?
So, no, the Californians aren’t sissies or wimps. Don’t know enough about the economic situation to comment, but wimpiness isn’t the problem.
Veb
Greg, what’s wrong with earthquakes? They’re just the Earth’s way of letting us know we’re not really in charge. It’s not the quakes I mind. I think they’re kinda fun. (Although I did get out of bed for the one we had 7 years ago.)
The thing I hate about them is turning on the news and hearing people say they felt an earthquake. Over and over. All day. “Well, I was having coffee, and all of a sudden the ground started to shake!!!” Duh. There was an earthquake.
Oh forget about the temperature. It could be -100 for all I care.
However, the power comp. PG&E has been doing rolling blackouts today in my city. Nasty, they shut down all of the business district.
You know what that means? No heat inside.
Duck Duck Goose cant get online if there is no electricity for him.
It was so warm this past Saturday (37 degrees) that I didn’t wear a jacket outside!
I wanted to laugh at the Californians (heck, I laughed at the Floridians a while back for their inability to stand cold), but I think it’s all a matter of what kind of temperature people deal with.
For instance, I spent a week in Mexico in July. It was 110-120 degrees every day.
Then I went to San Diego; it was around 80 degrees.
I was so cold from the sudden change in temperature that I wore a sweater!
Hijack: I heard this today. Is it true that it snowed somewhere in California and the state police had to come control everything since all the people traveling to see the snow was getting out of hand?
Ohhhh-kay.
And somehow I got the impression Duck Duck Goose is a “her”.
Anybody got an aspirin?
Veb
I think he meant he’d like to be in Minnesota when an earthquake hits. To see all the candy-ass chickens get freaked out like they do in California when 3 pointers hit.
I must admit, it’s always hilarious when visitors from other states act like they were going to die when a small quake rolls through.
Hmmm…it appears they have a different idea about how things are run in CA than to PA. Back in the winter of 1993-94 we went through a number of electricity emergencies through shortage of power. The state government decided that all “non-essential” use of power should be stopped for a few days. This did not extend to schools, nor did it extend to buildings at Penn State, which I was attending at the time. During one day of the “emergency” period the air temperature reached -25 F. Classes were still not cancelled. Imagine how much energy it took to keep all those old buildings heated.
Could the CA government force the schools to re-open?
We do the same with outlanders who soil their drawers over funnel clouds. Yes, as in twisters. Yes, you can see “fingerlings” extending down from clouds, trying to reach ground.
Makes life even more interesting when you see them touch down. They’re lethal and unpredicable as hell, but “it’s always hilarious when visitors from other states act like they’re gonna die” when they see a twister land and go into their “Johnny from Airplane” hysterics.
Veb
Well, snow is routine in many parts of California (the ski resorts would have some problems without it ;)). If it snowed in, say, the San Fernando Valley, I guess that could stir up some spectating.
The power situation is not affecting us in L.A. because we have city-operated power. But it could just as easily be us, so we are watching the rest of the state struggle with this ridiculous mess with some sympathy.
In L.A., 30 degrees (the temperature when I got off work yesterday at 1am) is cold. OTOH, My Midwest friends and relations come here and whine about the heat when it’s not even 90.
"And somehow I got the impression Duck Duck Goose is a “her”. "
Thats right, but you know as usual it occured to me after hitting submit, sigh.
Just you wait, soon LA is going to get rolling blackouts & then the rest of the West.
It was not 20, it was in the 20’s… SUre, some times in Pacific Grove it’s in the 10’s…
Welcome to the wonderful world of deregulation.
Maybe the government is useful for some things, huh?