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| East Coast Heat Wave From Hell; how are you staying cool? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 1 2006, 07:12 AM (727 Views) | |
| Phlebas | Aug 1 2006, 10:39 AM Post #26 |
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Bull-Carp
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That should be your state slogan - "Hey, you're better off here than in New Jersey!" |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Optimistic | Aug 1 2006, 10:42 AM Post #27 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That slogan would fly for any state minus Delaware. |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| ivorythumper | Aug 1 2006, 11:11 AM Post #28 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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:lol: A bit too obvious perhaps... |
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| ivorythumper | Aug 1 2006, 11:12 AM Post #29 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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That just shows we've arrived! |
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| dolmansaxlil | Aug 1 2006, 11:58 AM Post #30 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Urban sprawl. Ick. |
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson My Flickr Photostream | |
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| Christopher T | Aug 1 2006, 12:50 PM Post #31 |
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Junior Carp
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I don't live far from Phlebas and we didn't lose power, thankfully. My building has "central a/c", which is really an evaporative cooling system. Anyone know why that's the stupidest thing ever for my building to have? Because they only work in hot and dry climates. Not NYC humidity! My apartment is struggling to stay below 80 degrees and I have a dehumidifier running constantly to keep it below 50 percent humidity. I can't wait to move into my own house with REAL central a/c.
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| ivorythumper | Aug 1 2006, 01:39 PM Post #32 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Older homes in AZ have them also, but they don't work during the August and Sept monsoon seasons. When humidity is 15 - 50% they cool the place down well, but they blow a lot of air around. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Aug 1 2006, 01:39 PM Post #33 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I hope you are playing devil's advocate here, IT. If not, though, allow me to throw down. It's a side note, but it should be said that it's a fallacy to point to natural processes, and relate them to our own as a means of justifying our technology. Beaver dams aren't the same as the Hoover, for example, and small-scale human activities like brush burning, river damming, slash-and-burn agriculture, and game hunting can have a positive impact on the environment, whereas large-scale practices are a huge detriment, because they are actually not in the same category. Anyway, irrigation can deplete underground aquifers, which is especially dangerous in the Midwest where the water table is so low to begin with. In addition, irrigation in soil which is not geologically used to so much saturation (like some in the Midwest) can lose its structural integrity, and buildings/road surfaces/etc may lose their ground support as a result. This soil composition may also be prone to high surface water runoff, which can cause water quality issues (especially in agricultural/residental land uses) Damming is extremely bad for the environment. It is true it is a popular practice, but it has serious ramifications for the river’s ecosystem that resides downstream. Lack of riverbed sediment and suspended solids, harsh water temperature changes, the breaking up of migration patterns in fish (and fish ladders are just plain inferior to having a through river channel), issues with anoxia, and bioaccumulation of toxic metals are just a small handful of changes a dam can bring to a river basin. As for overpopulation, well, just because New Jersey has the densest population doesn't leave Phoenix off the hook. (A fallacy I'm sure you caught.) I'm actually reading a great Science Magazine article right now that summarized historic water quality, living resources, and geological data as a function of local human impact on the environment. There were over 30 selected study sites, all very diverse (even in the degree of human influence throughout history), but the findings are remarkably similar: human influences are directly related to the decline in environmental health. From this study, it is safe to say that the overpopulation of Phoenix (and other urban areas, of course) has degraded the local environment to some considerable degree. |
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| The 89th Key | Aug 1 2006, 01:40 PM Post #34 |
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| dolmansaxlil | Aug 1 2006, 07:34 PM Post #35 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's 11:30. Current humidex 108F. Current air temperature inside my apartment, even though I've had the AC on all day (set at 78, but it hasn't shut off) and haven't opened the door since 3pm, have the blinds drawn, etc: 85F.
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson My Flickr Photostream | |
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| George K | Aug 1 2006, 07:35 PM Post #36 |
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Finally
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Down to 79 in southern Wisconsin. Storms tomorrow. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Optimistic | Aug 1 2006, 07:42 PM Post #37 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Send 'em our way when you're down with 'em, George. It's awfully muggy
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Larry | Aug 1 2006, 08:39 PM Post #38 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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New Jersey's motto: Welcome to New Jersey. Now get the hell out....... It's 68 degrees in my house....... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| apple | Aug 2 2006, 05:22 AM Post #39 |
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one of the angels
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i don't know that i agree that urbanization is better. For one thing concrete does not allow rainfall to seep into the ground.. off it goes in storm channels and is diverted down the road, so to speak.. That's really bad for for underground water stores. Also water is 'stolen' from upstream, compromising agriculture in many instances. Whole smaller communities can fail from this water diversion. |
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| John D'Oh | Aug 2 2006, 05:28 AM Post #40 |
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MAMIL
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On my drive to work, the roadside display claimed 88 degrees, at 7.30am. They're forecasting 102, and 'feels like' 115. Feels like hell, more like. |
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| George K | Aug 2 2006, 05:38 AM Post #41 |
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Finally
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![]() Looks like a good day to go on a Piano Safari, then tomorrow POOL TIME!
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| John D'Oh | Aug 2 2006, 05:43 AM Post #42 |
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MAMIL
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Swine |
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| George K | Aug 2 2006, 05:50 AM Post #43 |
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Finally
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Heat Wave Who's Heat Wave? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Bond, James Bond | Aug 2 2006, 05:54 AM Post #44 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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You rang? |
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