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green lantern
07-28-2005, 03:05 AM
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-07-28T004620Z_01_N27299791_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-POWER-HEAT-DEMAND-DC.XML


NEW YORK (Reuters) - The brutal heat wave blanketing much of the United States has triggered a second day of record power demand for air conditioning, straining the grid and leading operators to take steps to avoid blackouts.
The_Penguin
08-08-2005, 10:38 PM
No black outs yet. Looks like the power companies improved from some time ago.
lord tammerlain
08-09-2005, 03:36 PM
I think it is time to close the Canadian boarder to the US especially for electricity. Then watch the blackouts fly
::Major_Baker::
08-09-2005, 03:38 PM
Impeach Bush!
Bamby
08-09-2005, 06:46 PM
Impeach Bush!

God what is it 100F?

Try 110F OR 42C with no air conditioning and full gear, ahhh horrible
Bamby
08-09-2005, 06:46 PM
God what is it 100F?

Try 110F OR 42C with no air conditioning and full gear, ahhh horrible

at least you get hot weather
GI Joe
08-09-2005, 06:51 PM
I love this hot weather. I have been shredding the water in Lake Erie on my Kawasaki ZXI 1100. Its been a great boating year.
Jarlaxle
08-09-2005, 10:56 PM
I don't mind it...though my St. Bernard & Maine Coon Cat do.

I would mind if my car did not have air conditioning.
gopman
08-10-2005, 09:10 AM
I love the weather too, and by some miracle CA hasn't blacked out. They have a seriously backward power system. There's only one connection between the power grids in Northern and Southern California, and it can only carry something like 4,000 megawatts.
Ghost Writer
08-10-2005, 09:37 AM
Nine posts already and no one has blamed Clinton for the heat wave. There may be hope for this forum yet.
::Major_Baker::
08-10-2005, 11:12 AM
Nine posts already and no one has blamed Clinton for the heat wave. There may be hope for this forum yet.
Well, it's clearly Bush's fault, not Clinton's. ;)
Albert
08-10-2005, 11:37 AM
Last summer in CNY (as in central New York) we had a cool damp summer that followed a harsh winter and all the locals were saying, “tell me again about global warming”.

Haven’t heard anyone saying that this year. :)
GI Joe
08-10-2005, 12:06 PM
Last summer in CNY (as in central New York) we had a cool damp summer that followed a harsh winter and all the locals were saying, “tell me again about global warming”.

Haven’t heard anyone saying that this year. :)


I have because June was cold.
spork
08-10-2005, 05:59 PM
Last summer in CNY (as in central New York) we had a cool damp summer that followed a harsh winter and all the locals were saying, “tell me again about global warming”.

Haven’t heard anyone saying that this year. :)

I have. Once the rain stopped, we've been in the hot muggy zone. When I was a kid, we had about 2 weeks of muggy in northern NH, not a whole summer of it. When I was a kid we had huge snowstorms. Now we get very cold temps (last January and February were -20F) and not nearly as much snow.

Thank Heaven we know that climate change is junk science. The Biblethumpers tell us so.
green lantern
08-10-2005, 07:44 PM
Nine posts already and no one has blamed Clinton for the heat wave. There may be hope for this forum yet.its all clinton's fault :cool:
timlea
08-10-2005, 08:21 PM
its all clinton's fault :cool:

No, it's Karl Rove . . . aka. . the architect. . .