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2025-07-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

New York City subway loses power amid life-threatening heat dome broiling millions across eastern US

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-30 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [222 views ] Top

#1 You think you're bad off now - wait until you elect Mamdani!

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-30 01:32|| 2025-07-30 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2
Down in eastern GA., we reached a 108 degree Heat Index.

The big box stores were full of people wandering around to avoid the heat and using the store AC to cool down.

It seems a number of good people had purchased the Wally World large packages of 16oz water bottles, froze them the night before, and were handing them out free to Homeless and people stranded in the heat.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-07-30 04:40|| 2025-07-30 04:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Life Threatening Heat Dome of DOOM. Also known as Summer.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-07-30 05:55|| 2025-07-30 05:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Dallas has had the 19th coolest July since 1882 (I think). In other words, relatively cool. We just hit 100 for the first time in 2025 yesterday.

Global cooling is making a comeback!

Posted by Bobby 2025-07-30 08:27|| 2025-07-30 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Hilo Bay Hawaii - massive flooding

Posted by 3dc 2025-07-30 09:01|| 2025-07-30 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Slap some more solar panels and wind turbines down and you will be fine /sarc

Posted by DarthVader 2025-07-30 09:15|| 2025-07-30 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 We laugh at these alerts in Texas....

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-07-30 09:47|| 2025-07-30 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 So true - we finally hit the 90s yesterday for our neck of wine country. I've had the pool ready for 2 months now. Pffffft.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2025-07-30 10:07|| 2025-07-30 10:07|| Front Page Top

#9 The big box stores were full of people wandering around to avoid the heat and using the store AC to cool down.

I think a movie theater would be better for that...unless the movie is too stupid.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-07-30 12:22|| 2025-07-30 12:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Went to a stupid movie recently. Cost a couple dollars. Person I went with and I enjoyed the visual expo, but didn't enjoy the movie until we got out and laughed about plot holes and dialogue, poor acting and off timed jokes. Whatever little interest I had in latest release eye candy was squashed after recently watching a couple episodes of the TV show Combat! and it's competency in all aspects of film.

Chatter here is that Kansas, in general, will have gone into July in the 80s and will leave July in the 80s.

But back to subject; yes they will see, losing power seems to be a feature of communism.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-30 12:47|| 2025-07-30 12:47|| Front Page Top

#11 ^Clearly you haven't been to a movie theater lately.

It's much cheaper to wander around a big box store!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-07-30 13:02|| 2025-07-30 13:02|| Front Page Top

#12 That's what I'm saying, movies out right now, for me, are not worth the ticket. Large popcorn and drink $17?

....then again, you put me in a Hobby Lobby for 3 hours I may be walking out with $300 of modeling supplies. Worse if I were in a hardware store and got inspired. I would at least have a tangible good afterwards, I guess.

Yes, AC tourism is a thing, and out here they sometimes even pretend to be shopping.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-30 13:35|| 2025-07-30 13:35|| Front Page Top

#13 The heat wave is supposed to break tomorrow, I hear. For Cincinnati that means dropping from low 90sF to high 70s.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-30 14:17|| 2025-07-30 14:17|| Front Page Top

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