Last week a minor incident in Cambridge sort of escalated and ended up on the National Scene. A black professor was essentially "breaking in" into his own home, a police officer was called to the scene, and it escalated, ending up with the professor being temporarily arrested.
The Prez said something that the Cambridge Police department acted "stupidly" and boom - it WAS a national and big issue. Have to admit, it was maybe not the best comment from the Prez, not knowing all the facts at that time.
Today, the Prez, the arresting officer, the black professor, and the vice Prez meet in garden outside the White House for a brew and "conciliatory" (my choice of words) talks. Cool - literally cool - way to defuse the situation and have some guy talk over a few beers. Even a Prez needs a few of those once in a while. Even though these brews looked like VERY chilled "run-of-the-mill" beers and not something of a better "vintage".
Sort of sad though that there was probably 200 photographer at the other end of the lawn, so it did not really look like much of a private moment.
Never the less, three people that probably acted a tad stupidly and hastily got to sit-down face to face over a brew. Not a bad way to end the day.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Zizzling - yes we reached 103F
If we thought Monday was "Zcorching", today and possibly even tomorrow will have even more of it.
Walked the dog last night just after midnihgt. Temperature was more a night in Dallas than here in the PNW. Only missing was the sound of nightly crickets. As it was for us, it was dead silent (nice) and it seemed like most people really had not only tucked in, but also zoomed out. The heat can do that to some.
This morning it was already past 85F when jumping out of bed around 8.30 AM. At noon it passed 95F and if all goes well, we'll set a new Seattle record if we hit 101F out at SeaTac.
After airing the house out over night (or rather, letting cooler air in), house is now boarded up and we'll do OK even without any A/C or large fans. Sort of reminds of Dallas where I normally never turned on the A/C, until the cat really needed it (and then put the A/C at 85F just to keep the humidty down inside). Compare that to one of my bosses who kept his house at 65F in the Texas summer...
UPDATE:
As predicted, at 2.53 PM this afternoon the old "all-time-high" record at Seatac (100F) was broken and a new offical high-temp of 103F was recorded later in the afternoon around 5 PM. Pretty cool!
Even at past 11PM, it is still above 90F outside - that is RARE, since it under a normal year barely ever hits 90F as the high temp of a day. But, we are not complaining. Fans are humming slowly to bring in the (now) cooler night air.
Some of today's temperatures in the PNW:
Vancouver, WA: 107
Kelso: 106
Portland: 106 (all-time record: 107)
Chehalis: 106
Renton: 105
Tacoma: 104
Olympia: 104 (ties all-time record)
Shelton: 104
Seattle (Sea-Tac): 103 (all-time record)
Seattle (Boeing Fld): 103
Gig Harbor: 103
Arlington: 102
Bremerton: 102
North Bend: 102
Everett: 100
Friday Harbor: 97
Bellingham: 96
Port Angeles: 92
Forks: 83
Hoquiam: 77
Walked the dog last night just after midnihgt. Temperature was more a night in Dallas than here in the PNW. Only missing was the sound of nightly crickets. As it was for us, it was dead silent (nice) and it seemed like most people really had not only tucked in, but also zoomed out. The heat can do that to some.
This morning it was already past 85F when jumping out of bed around 8.30 AM. At noon it passed 95F and if all goes well, we'll set a new Seattle record if we hit 101F out at SeaTac.
After airing the house out over night (or rather, letting cooler air in), house is now boarded up and we'll do OK even without any A/C or large fans. Sort of reminds of Dallas where I normally never turned on the A/C, until the cat really needed it (and then put the A/C at 85F just to keep the humidty down inside). Compare that to one of my bosses who kept his house at 65F in the Texas summer...
UPDATE:
As predicted, at 2.53 PM this afternoon the old "all-time-high" record at Seatac (100F) was broken and a new offical high-temp of 103F was recorded later in the afternoon around 5 PM. Pretty cool!
Even at past 11PM, it is still above 90F outside - that is RARE, since it under a normal year barely ever hits 90F as the high temp of a day. But, we are not complaining. Fans are humming slowly to bring in the (now) cooler night air.
Some of today's temperatures in the PNW:
Vancouver, WA: 107
Kelso: 106
Portland: 106 (all-time record: 107)
Chehalis: 106
Renton: 105
Tacoma: 104
Olympia: 104 (ties all-time record)
Shelton: 104
Seattle (Sea-Tac): 103 (all-time record)
Seattle (Boeing Fld): 103
Gig Harbor: 103
Arlington: 102
Bremerton: 102
North Bend: 102
Everett: 100
Friday Harbor: 97
Bellingham: 96
Port Angeles: 92
Forks: 83
Hoquiam: 77
Monday, July 27, 2009
Zcorcher...
Well, not sure what's going on, but for the past 70 days or so, we really have had a it warm and dry - pretty extreme for Seattle in both cases.
But, people are complaining about the record heat that is upon us this week. I'd just say, chill out and enjoy it. The fal lrains and the wet winter will be arriving sooner than we realize, and a few days with 90+ temperatures is really not that bad. We just have to slow down a bit, enjoy the cooler evenings even more, and be ever thankful for not living in Florida or Texas, where this type of weather is a very daily occurance.
But, people are complaining about the record heat that is upon us this week. I'd just say, chill out and enjoy it. The fal lrains and the wet winter will be arriving sooner than we realize, and a few days with 90+ temperatures is really not that bad. We just have to slow down a bit, enjoy the cooler evenings even more, and be ever thankful for not living in Florida or Texas, where this type of weather is a very daily occurance.
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