We have discovered that our local media MUST have something to get upset about, and try to get the public to panic. This week, it’s the summer weather. The last time I checked, it was the end of August, and if I remember correctly, it’s always hot, and the hot weather sometimes continues into September. If I remember correctly, the first Wednesday after Labor Day (back to school in Seattle), my sophomore year of high school, it was really hot on the first day of school, and I sweltered in my new fall clothes.
So these are three of the stories on the front page of the KOMO web site today. They just can’t help themselves!!
Western Washington prepares for more sizzling temperatures; another high of 90+ possible.
Again, if i’m not mistaken, in June of 2021, we had most of a week of temperatures over 100.
As possibility of danger rises during heat wave, roadwork crews get ready to feel the burn.
As I also recall, local drivers often get into accidents around work zones, regardless of the weather, despite constant warnings from media and the State Patrol that fines double for infractions in work zones. This is common, since area freeways are ALWAYS work zones. The state takes good care of its highway workers, with adequate water, shade and rest.
Well, do you feel the panic yet?
Western Washington blisters under upper 80s temperatures. Heat Advisory in effect.
Please tell me why it takes three stories for the “panican” media to get us all hot-and-bothered about Summer weather (see what I did there?). Nearly every year, August is pretty hot, and I rarely hear anyone complain in this normally wet-and-rainy part of the country. Our public utilities tell us to conserve water, year-round, regardless of the snow pack, and it has been years since we had a real “drought”. The water utility puts out a “water the yard” calendar every year, telling us when we MAY water our lawns; that calendar is routinely ignored (including by us).
When we were in South Dakota in 2020, we went out in temperatures like below, and I don’t recall any panic or warnings by the local media. Everyone took it in stride.
We were a bit surprised that the comfort level at that temperature wasn’t that bad. We sure did survive it.
So, we just have to ignore the media and go about our daily lives. It’s almost autumn, with the welcome return of cooler weather and rain. Yep, we’ll take that in stride, too.
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If it bleeds, it leads. They assume (and I assume they know what they are doing) that they will sell more news if it’s bad. Almost as though people want to hear bad news.
Meanwhile, in Texas the road construction crews work at night, when there is less traffic and it isn’t hot out. Recently, up here in Whatcom County, they’ve been doing the same thing. Each morning I get up and either there’s a one mile strip of highway graded out, or there’s a fresh one mile strip of new asphalt. Or sometimes both. Orange cones on the side of the road, not a highway worker or truck to be seen. I assume that in Texas the workers were given the choice and chose blessed darkness, whereas in Washington they are being paid double time, but I hope I’m wrong about the latter.
I grew up in the Midwest, the years split about evenly between St. Louis and northwestern Illinois, and we are blessed to be able to spend our summers here in IL now that I’m retired. Folks here tend not to have central a/c, and to be upset by temperatures in the low 90’s. I give that some respect because the humidity here can be oppressive, with dewpoints in the mid to upper 70s not uncommon. But having called the Great State of Texas my home since the late 1990’s, and having survived about nineteen summers there before retirement, I do chuckle a little bit at my Illinois friends and family in July and August, when North Texas sees overnight lows in the low to mid 80s most of the time. I vividly recall the summer of 2011, when we logged 40 consecutive days in triple digits. (Wichita Falls did a 52 day streak that year.) One morning as I drove to work in downtown Dallas, at 5:45 AM, still in darkness, the reading on my car thermometer near our parking garage was 87.
I don’t even use the H-word anymore unless it’s at least 90 outside. 😉
Also, the “dry heat” thing is a myth. As former Alabama coach Gene Stallings once said when he was coaching the NFL Cardinals, just after they moved to Phoenix, “Your oven is full of dry heat when it bakes a loaf of bread. Hot is hot.” One just get used to it, as you did in South Dakota, and as most everyone in that kind of climate anywhere else must do. The panic is definitely a sales tactic, as Heresolong noted. There also is the inevitable adherence among the media class to the religion of (drum roll and solemn music) Climate Change, which pretends as if there was never a hot day, heat wave, cold day, cold wave, tornado, hurricane, blizzard, thunderstorm, or anything else but perfect conditions and temperatures 24/7, before the invention of the SUV. You nailed it: they just cannot help themselves.
It must be exhausting to be a leftist.