Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

When I came from Southern California to Tacoma in 1985, you could. Manage fine without air conditioning and almost everyone did. There’s be one, maybe two miserable weeks in the upper 80s and 90s when you were very glad for fans and wet towels, then to y ended and it was back to life as usual.

Now there’ll be multiple weeks in a row with 90s and 100s, where it doesn’t cool off much at night. And there’ll be air pollution from forest fires. Air conditioning is a necessity for anyone with any condition that temperatures and pollution can intensify, and it’s at least very welcome for anyone else.

Been out here now almost 20 years, and the shift in summer temperature sure has felt dramatic a few years, and the 'winter' is so mild now as to be forgettable.

 

[RealAlHazred]

EDIT: No, you know what, that treads too close to a political joke. You're supposed to be smarter than this, @RealAlHazred -- win their hearts and minds, and THEN feed those to Great Cthulhu! Baby steps!

 

[Bedrockgames]

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If Roy Scheider had been watching Jurassic park in the bottom one: that would have blown my mind

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And there’ll be air pollution from forest fires.

Yeah, I'm really worried about forest fires across the nation. Our woods are going to be drier and hotter than they've been in millennia and I don't think we're prepared, in any sense, for when they start going up.

 

[CleverNickName]

Yeah, I'm really worried about forest fires across the nation. Our woods are going to be drier and hotter than they've been in millennia and I don't think we're prepared, in any sense, for when they start going up.

That was the main reason we wanted the roof replaced. Hundred-year old cedar roofing is a tinderbox, and fires get closer and more intense with each passing year. I tried to get steel roofing, but it was prohibitively expensive on short notice...composite will have to do for a few more years.

 

[Scribe]

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Sometimes threads just get so weird, how do you people even continue this.

 

[Ryujin]

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Sometimes threads just get so weird, how do you people even continue this.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That dog needs to meet up with Kwai Chang Caine and/or David Banner…

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Re: houses & renovations

While you’re doing all your various fixer-upper projects, adding safety bars to your bathrooms should be on the list for any home you plan to live in 10+ years.

My folks built our current house in 1998. Safety rails were planned in the initial build, but were forgotten by the builder. They installed rails in every bathroom a couple years later. Not 3 weeks after installation, they saved MY neck when my right foot improbably hydroplaned out from under me.

And a few years after that, those rails got additional use when I was recovering from an ACL/MCL repair surgery.

 

[CleverNickName]

That's good advice, @Dannyalcatraz. I've already identified a few handrails that need tightening/replacing; might as well add a few others.