Tuesday: A day to stay safe and cool!!!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday: Crimson Quillfeather
Tuesday: ejoanna
Wednesday: Pam from Calif
Thursday: art ah zen
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday: Gwennedd
Sunday: loggersbrat
The wildfires in California are by no means ending. They are expanding, now in the Sierra Nevada. We had some clearer (e.g., less smoky) days last week, but Monday it was smoky when I went out to try to triage water my garden—really fast.
But it’s the heat that’s been driving us further inside. Triple digits, even in the shade. I have 2 weather stations outside: one on a sunny deck; one on the north side of the house, and almost always in the shade.
The highest temp on the deck Sunday was 122º ! Like Death Valley!! On the north side, where an “official” temperature would be taken, it was “only” 101º! And I have never recorded a temperature that high at that shady locale. Never.
What can I say? Well I am thrilled that we have air conditioning, solar panels, and a higher MERV filter on our central fan system.
Now PG&E (remember them?) is making noises about PSPS events this week. You know what a PSPS is? Right? Public Safety Power Shutoff. In other words, a freaking nightmare. Last October we “lived” through a 5-day stretch of no power at all. Nothing. So did a lot of people in Northern CA as well. It. Was. Awful. For the first time EVER I did not publish an IAN diary on schedule, cuz, no electricity.
I don’t mean to whine. . . Oh, maybe I do.
Meanwhile, the heroes are battling the old and new fires.
We now have this definitive 4th season in CA: Fire Season. And this year it started in August.
Are you safe from natural disasters right now? Covid situation? Political Jitters?
Check, check, and. . .check.
AAAARrrrGGhhhhh!!!!!!
Just worn out.