• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    291·
    4 months ago

    Me in Houston right now as CenterPoint Energy fails to restore our power. 1.3 million people still without power and it’s like 95 and feels like 105.

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      You guys have it bad. I know PGE likes to make us pay for every cent but at least it’s mostly stable. GL!

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        3·
        4 months ago

        I think I read he landed in Asia for a vacation or something just the other day. So typical Republican compassion: none.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      510·
      4 months ago

      Me in Houston right now as CenterPoint Energy fails to restore our power.

      Run a generator? I mean, I assume that they’re gonna have it back in a few days at most.

      • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
        291·
        4 months ago
        1. It’s been 3 days and they are staying it will be “several more days”
        2. I don’t have a generator.
        3. I don’t have money for a generator.
        4. There are no generators to buy, as they have already been bought.
        5. Even if I had one, it’s pretty hard to find any gas.
        6. Fuck you. It’s 105 out with heat advisories and 1.2 million people still don’t have power.
  • neidu2@feddit.nl
    18·
    4 months ago

    As a scandinavian, this is me waiting to go home every time I visit the Houston office.

      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Hey, I’m not there, I just wish I was. My friend who lives in the Bay Area sometimes checks my forecast and calls me to make fun of me when my weather is terrible but his is great as always.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      2·
      4 months ago

      Same here… I work in a factory in NY and it’s usually like 2-5° hotter in the factory than outside… With this humidity it’s absolutely atrocious working conditions.

      Thanks to the SCOTUS we now have to rely on them to clarify laws like the law in NY that says “all factories must maintain reasonable temperature and humidity.”

      …that’s it. There’s no definition to “reasonable” in that law. It’s exactly the kind of situation they dumped Chevron Deference for. Now they get to protect corporations even more…

  • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Except in England, where it is still largely grey and miserable. We are still patiently waiting for summer.

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
      41·
      4 months ago

      I’ll pray for you guys to get the sweet 40°C for a few days. The time for it is soon. Like last year.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      There’s been a lot of sun so far this summer though. At least up north. Good to have a little rain to stave off the forest fires. 😌👌💧

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      please can we swap? please, it’s been 36C outside for the past two weeks (with maybe a day or two of 24C) in Poland. Leaving the house is just not a good idea survival wise, my flat can barely cool down at night to sleep, i’d kill for 15C and rain right now

  • marx2k@lemmy.world
    61·
    4 months ago

    Gotta say I love Wisconsin in the summer. 64 right now, high of 80 today.

    Winters are long and grey tho. But on the other hand, the only natural disasters we see are tornadoes.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 months ago

      You should try the pacific northwest. It gets up into the 90s a few days per year. Not really any natural disasters. Floods I suppose, but as long as you don’t buy a house in a flood plain (why do people build there?) you’ll be fine. No snow, if that’s your thing. Just a lot of rain in the fall/spring/winter.

      I’m in Spokane currently and really like the climate, though I’m a weirdo who likes overcoming extreme cold and heat (cold more than heat), and I love the snow, driving in it included. I could honestly take colder and longer winters.

      • lessthanluigi@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Not really any natural disasters.

        We now have smoke season in the PNW. It gets really bad, and last for like a week or 2. I think since like 2018 we have been getting them. Then again, I live in Seattle, and Spokane is a lot further from the mountains.

        • Joelk111@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          In Spokane smoke season is just as bad if not worse, it’s a lot dryer here. I have family in the PNW so I visit frequently, and grew up there, so I’m aware of both climates and forest fire season. I’m not sure how mountains are relevant, but in Spokane we’re very close to large forests such as the Colville National Forest, and the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, in addition to forests further north, not to mention brush fires. One last year (called the Gray Fire) burnt down 259 structures and 10,085 acres, according to the fire’s Wikipedia page.

          Tl;dr: I’m very aware of fire season, but I generally consider it a sad and unfortunate inconvenience, not a common natural disaster, though in instances like the Gray Fire, it does happen.

      • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Honestly, I don’t care about the temperature at all. I spent time in Nevada when it was a balmy 102F and it was actually pleasant. But a Minnesota 85F with 95% humidity fucking kills me. There is no escaping high humidity heat.

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 months ago

      I’m in the Netherlands. We’ve had like three days of summer so far. Mostly rain. I’m not complaining though. It’s nice change from previous years of serial heat waves. There’s still time for the heat waves though, so we’ll see how this year will go into the books.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      Yeah it’s been nice in Northern Europe, NGL. No major heat waves so far. Good old 2000’s summer.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.world
      42·
      4 months ago

      My face when you don’t know what MFW stands for and instead of looking it up asked strangers on lemmy:

      :|