The Sun Will Come Out Tommorrow....

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:05 pm

This is off topic, but not really since we do at least some of our super-8 filming outdoors.

The sun is really hot here in the U.S. I mean, sunburn hot. I mean, hotter than I can ever recall. The last two months have been the hottest ever on record in the western United States. In the midwest, 300 boy scouts were overcome by the heat on the day that President Bush was to appear and speak to them, President Bush was asked to not appear and was asked to come back the next day.

Example, I get out of my car at 6:00 PM to drop off DVD's to a client, and while I'm waiting to be let in, the sun feels like it is a noon sun. I know what a noon sun feels like, and the sun, two hours before sunset, at 6 pm, feels to me to be as hot as the sun is at noon.

I leave and go to a friends place and after I mention how hot the sun feels to me, he shows me his lower leg and it is completely sunburned red from being in the sun at the beach, for what he claims was an hour. Yes, he forgot to put UV protection on his lower leg, but the two incidents one right after another concern me.

I bring this topic up for those of you who have elderly family or friends. Please tell them to wear hats and keep hats in their cars for when they go out in the sun, even if they are just going to the store. Tell them it's better to be safe. It's quite possible that the sun rays today, at this moment in time, maybe more harmful than in the last hundred years, or perhaps ever, at least in the United States.

They say that if a lobster is put in water and then slowly the water is brought to a boil, that the lobster doesn't notice, (I don't know if that is true, but....) I hope the same thing is not happening to us.

Post by **etimh** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:14 pm

Damn! And I was worried about how I was going to pay the rent tommorrow.

Just kidding Alex.

Interesting thoughts and good advice.

Tim

Post by **Super8SLiCK** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:18 pm

Alex, take a trip to New Orleans...everyday in the summer over here it's as hot as you say it is now in Cali...

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:20 pm

Six O'clock sun, as I recall, has a "softer" heat to it than the noon sun.

What is your experience in New Orleans, is the six o'clock sun as intense as the noon sun, if yes, has it always been that way?

Post by **Super8SLiCK** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:34 pm

At 6:00, the sun is noticeably less intense, but it's not too far from the noon sun. It's usually like that from June to late September.

I'm not sure how long the winters are in Cali, but they're only about 3-4 months of decent winter here. Last year was an exception, it didn't get cold until late November, but even in December we had almost a week of highs in the high 70s/low 80s. That went on off and on through early 05 until March, then it started turning summer...

Fortunately it's storming today and it's nowhere near as hot as it usually is.

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:58 pm

It's 90Ã‚Â°F here (feels like 96Ã‚Â°...)

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:06 am

Super8SLiCK wrote:Alex, take a trip to New Orleans...everyday in the summer over here it's as hot as you say it is now in Cali...

How are you surviving?

Post by **monobath** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:40 am

Hopefully, Super8SLICK is not still in New Orleans. The situation there is dire.

Do we have any other New Orleans members on the forum? Metarie, Slidell, Kenner, La Place, Reserve? Baton Rouge, Gonzales, St. Amant, Springfield, Ponchatoula? Those are the places around New Orleans where most of my relatives live.

Any members living points east of New Orleans in the path of the storm in Mississippi and Alabama? Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Mobile?

I have hundres of relatives who live in the region, a few in New Orleans proper. As far as I know, they all heeded the first evacuation warning and are now mostly staying with relatives in Baton Rouge. I hope all forum members and their relatives who live down there are safe.

Post by **ccortez** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:06 pm

monobath wrote:Hopefully, Super8SLICK is not still in New Orleans. The situation there is dire.

Do we have any other New Orleans members on the forum? Metarie, Slidell, Kenner, La Place, Reserve? Baton Rouge, Gonzales, St. Amant, Springfield, Ponchatoula? Those are the places around New Orleans where most of my relatives live.

No shit, monobath? My dad is from Thibodaux (Bayou Buffe, really). His sister lives in Morgan City. We a couple of coon-ass Texans, ain't we? 8)

I don't know how/where my aunt in Morgan City is, but we aren't close and haven't talked in some time, so it's normal that I wouldn't have heard from her. I hope they all got out OK and their homes aren't destroyed.

I'm sad. Entire blocks of antebellum homes in LA and MS wiped away, after decades of surviving dozens of hurricaines. I'm sure New Orleans will never be the same, and I'll miss it terribly as it was. My wife and I have never even been there together.

Post by **fastwind** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:18 pm

CLIMATE CHANGE. I was in Puerto Rico this time last year. The sunlight
felt "different". It had an unfiltered or barely filtered quality. At 9am
on the beach, it felt like the ozone layer above that island has been
seriously depleted. People EVERYWHERE are feeling the effects of
climate change and ozone depletion. The Gulf Coast hurricane this year.
The big floods in Europe a few years back. Humans simply have to
adapt and pay for their greed and disrespect towards Earth.

Post by **monobath** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:21 am

ccortez wrote:
monobath wrote:Hopefully, Super8SLICK is not still in New Orleans. The situation there is dire.

Do we have any other New Orleans members on the forum? Metarie, Slidell, Kenner, La Place, Reserve? Baton Rouge, Gonzales, St. Amant, Springfield, Ponchatoula? Those are the places around New Orleans where most of my relatives live.
No shit, monobath? My dad is from Thibodaux (Bayou Buffe, really). His sister lives in Morgan City. We a couple of coon-ass Texans, ain't we? 8)

I don't know how/where my aunt in Morgan City is, but we aren't close and haven't talked in some time, so it's normal that I wouldn't have heard from her. I hope they all got out OK and their homes aren't destroyed.

I'm sad. Entire blocks of antebellum homes in LA and MS wiped away, after decades of surviving dozens of hurricaines. I'm sure New Orleans will never be the same, and I'll miss it terribly as it was. My wife and I have never even been there together.

Yeah, I got folks in Abbeville and Vacherie and Edgard, all around Thibadaux. I got family that live near Laura Plantation that burned down last year, and my Dad was born on Evergreen Plantation.

My sister went back to her house in St. Amant today and discovered that her tin roof is gone. The winds blew it off. But she was lucky. What she lost is nothing compared to what the people in New Orleans and Morgan City and all over St. Tammany and St. Bernard and Jefferson parishes lost.

There's nothing like South Louisiana. I'm sorry for all of the loss.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:35 am

If one does a googele search with the words "New Orleans" (in quotes) and "global warming" (in quotes), thousand of hits come up.

Not all of those links came after Katrina hit.

Now we get to ask ourselves what was it that was more important than reinforcing and raising the levees around New Orleans.

The rebuild is estimated at 25 billion, how much would it have cost to raise and reinforce the levees instead? Perhaps the reasoning that is used is just how much higher should the levees be made, so since nobody knows, nothing is done.

That sounds about right for government in action, or inaction.