Casio Status for California, 10 July 2002

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[Grampa Dave]

Well, this will get us started on this hot subject today in California. Casio graphic link: (Casio Power Status Link)

[Grampa Dave]

Please post your comments, replies and new data to this thread. Thanks.

[Grampa Dave]

This can get us started. Someone with better HTML skills can capture the Casio chart and post it so that it show throughout the day: (Casio Power Status Link)

[Dog Gone]

[Grampa Dave]

This is the official Casio weather prediction link for today: (Casio Weather Link for 10 July 2002)

Again if anyone has the HTML skills to capture this graph in an ongoing display, please do it.

[Grampa Dave]

Thank you kind sir. I need to learn how to do that.

[Carry_Okie]

Looks like we have a couple million KW available today compared to yesterday. Still too tight.

[Grampa Dave]

Ping for the out of Kali contributors to this area of "hot" interest.

[Grampa Dave]

Here is the Weather advisory warning that I got this morning and posted on yesterday's thread.

Stay cool and safe out there. This is serious stuff for those of us in harm's way due to the heat and the Fascist/Enviralist Davis.

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA
615 AM PDT WED JUL 10 2002

SONOMA AND MARIN COUNTIES-NAPA COUNTY-
ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES-SANTA CLARA COUNTY-
SALINAS VALLEY/INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY/SAN BENITO COUNTY-
615 AM PDT WED JUL 10 2002

...HEAT ADVISORY TODAY FOR INLAND PORTIONS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AND
MONTEREY BAY AREAS...

HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY ARE FORECAST TO REACH OR EXCEED 105 DEGREES
ACROSS MUCH OF THE INLAND SECTIONS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY
BAY AREAS. INLAND TEMPERATURES ACROSS MONTEREY COUNTY COULD TOP OUT
AT 115 OR A LITTLE HIGHER. THESE SIZZLING TEMPERATURES WILL BE A FEW
DEGREES ABOVE THE VERY HOT READINGS RECORDED ON TUESDAY. HOTTEST
READINGS ARE EXPECTED TO ONCE AGAIN OCCUR ACROSS INLAND AREAS...WITH
MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES NEAR THE IMMEDIATE COAST.

TODAY SHOULD BE THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE WEEK...BUT VERY WARM WEATHER
IS EXPECTED INLAND THROUGH FRIDAY...WITH A SLOW COOLING TREND
FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...AS THE STRONG HIGH ALOFT RESPONSIBLE
FOR THIS HEAT WAVE MOVES EAST.

A HEAT ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHENEVER HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO
MEET OR EXCEED 105 DEGREES OVER A LARGE AREA.

TEMPERATURES IN CARS CAN REACH 150 DEGREES IN LESS THAN 20
MINUTES... AND EVEN A FEW MINUTES AT THESE TEMPERATURES CAN BE
LETHAL. CHILDREN AND PETS SHOULD NEVER BE LEFT UNATTENDED IN
VEHICLES.

OTHER IMPORTANT GUIDELINES...

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE CURTAILED DURING THIS HOT WEATHER. DRINK
PLENTY OF NON-ALCOHOLIC FLUIDS. CHILDREN...THE ELDERLY...AND PEOPLE
WITH CHRONIC AILMENTS ARE USUALLY THE FIRST TO SUFFER FROM THE HEAT.
HEAT EXHAUSTION...CRAMPS...OR IN EXTREME CASES...HEAT STROKE...CAN
RESULT FROM PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO HOT CONDITIONS. FRIENDS...
RELATIVES OR NEIGHBORS SHOULD CHECK ON PEOPLE WHO MAY BE AT RISK.

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Answers to your questions about this email at: http://www.my-cast.com/faq_severe.htm

[monkeyshine]

The status of my casio says 7:37 AM. It's been telling perfect time since 1988.

[Carry_Okie]

Usually it's a matter of looking at the source code and figuring out what directory they are using for the image. Then simple append that directory onto the main site link and voila!

Here is an example (I put spaces after the < designator to prevent activating the link):

This is the URL for Urth Fist Santa Cruz:

http://members.cruzio.com/~cruzef This is the URL for the image I found there: < img src="/pictures/efsymbolanimation.gif" width="277" height="364" border="0" align="bottom"> Here is what I post here: < img src="http://members.cruzio.com/~cruzef/pictures/efsymbolanimation.gif" width="277" height="364" border="0" align="bottom"> Thusly:

They're fisting the Treeeee!!!

[Timesink]

My Casio's working just fine today, thanks!

[Dog Gone]

Around 2 pm PDT is when it will get very interesting.

[hauerf]

Cool link. Thank you.

Maybe if enough of us pool our money to give Grey Doofus a nice campaign contribution, he'll let us have some more generating capacity in California. I'm thinking $100,000 is about what he would want to extort to loosen the reins on one or two proposed plants.

[Robert357]

Thank you for the instructions, I've been wanting to know that one for a while myself.

Personally I like the bumper sticker, "Earth First, we will log the other planets later"

Unfortunately up here in Western Washington if I had that on my car and I was stopped in a small logging town someone who didn't read just the earth first part might drive their truck over my car. Then again, if I went to a university town, the enviro-waco's might break out the windows.

It is hard to try to keep the environmental benefits of various things in a "reasonable balance." My hat is off to you.

[Robert357]

Thank you for starting things off. It is amazing how many additional MW's of power they have lined up for today. I think later this morning I will check and see which unplanned outages have been fixed or it they are importing to beat the band. It looked like late last night they started importing a lot more power from the PNW.

Hopefully, I will also get a response from the ISO Communications director, but given quasi-state government, I don't expect an answer until next week.

My take is that they have enough additional generation available to cover today unless they have some large unplanned outages.

The LA Times & SacBee are the only papers I saw that called yesterday an Emergency. Even the times in its local page had one article calling it an Alert and another calling it an Emergency. I expect today to be an Alert kind of day.

[Grampa Dave]

I believe what you posted here, is the answer to the increased availible MGWH's: It looked like late last night they started importing a lot more power from the PNW.

It would be interesting to see what we are paying for the power from Oregone and your socialist/watermelon state.

[old school]

No! Let's just vote that no-good, rotten, son-of-a-b*tch out of Office in Novemeber!

[Carry_Okie]

Thank you.

It takes passion to make yourself do the work, but it takes extreme patience to teach that work to those obsessed with a cause. To reach either side requires that you convince them of your passion for much of what they believe. To effect resolution is, in my experience, not a synthesis of existing stances, but showing either party how "the problem" as they understand it, is in error and that a third party wants it that way in order to put both "sides" at odds.

"We are asking the wrong questions."

The passion has to drive the necessary self-control, persistence, and patience to get the message across. Sometimes it even takes controlled anger or serious risk-taking. You have to give your life to it or people will doubt you.

The one skill I am lacking is the skill necessary to read the level of understanding in those whom I would reach. I try to think well of people and speak to the best of their intellect, but sometimes I miss. If I blow them away they think I am arrogant. If I talk in simple terms they might think I consider them stupid.

It's a tough tightrope. It might be easier if I had the aura of fame, but then they might type me as belonging to one "side" or the other. I'll let you know how it works out. I sure wish I was selling more books.

[Grampa Dave]

Try this again:

So it is just like posting a picture. I'm still having a problem with the weather chart.

[NormsRevenge]

Fascist/Enviralist Davis.

LOL.. Something about Je$$e and his inliterate comment and the word Enviralist hit my funny bone.. Enviralite . Inviralist ..Ilviralist .. ElViralist .. Damn heats boilin' me brain ..

72 degrees and rising ..