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RealAvalon

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  1. Mr. Hoode promotes the op’s book, that no one heard off until another poster mentioned the same picture was being used on the book cover as is used by the op for his avatar.

    https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/what-are-you-reading-during-your-staying-at-home.156979/post-1951294

     

    If the book's target market was gay men and not older women, it was an odd choice of photo for the cover art. @muscmtl .

  2. The javelin comes to mind. :)

    I was thinking pole vault. Although I'm thinking there's probably a new version of archery that could be a crowd favourite, or a new move in gymnastics' floor exercises, the Dick Spin. First the single dick spin, and then the double, and then the triple and then the quadruple ... oh wait @sync maybe I'm mixing up my summer and winter games ... there'll need to be adjustments with the marking systems. There'll need to be artistic impression marks for the whipping out of their hard dicks for the element ...

  3. NOAA doesn't recognize winter storm names and likely wouldn't recognize heatwave names either.

     

    Who would use this...The Weather Channel?

     

    How does the Weather Channel decide which storms will be named?

     

    To the chagrin of the professional weather community, there are no strict scientific criteria that must be met before a winter storm can earn a name. Ultimately, the decision is up to TWC senior meteorologists. Some of the things they take into consideration include:

    • If it's evident from the forecast maps and models that the storm is shaping up to be one of historic or record-breaking proportions.
    • If the NWS has issued a winter storm warning.
    • If the storm is forecast to impact an area of at least 400,000 square miles, a population of at least 2 million people, or both.

    If the answers to all of the above are "yes," it's very likely the storm will be named.

  4. So has Chicago and no one cared until the heat wave of 1995, when nearly 750 people died. At the time, very few older residential buildings had air conditioning. Most of the deaths occurred in poverty-stricken areas where residents can't afford their utilities, let alone the cost of window air conditioners. Even if air conditioning was prevalent, the strain on the electrical grid would have caused it to fail, as occurred in 1999 when an underground transformer exploded and caused an outage. Power was out for more than a week, trapping hundreds of elderly residents in high-rise buildings along the north side lakefront because they could not walk up and down 10, 20, and 30 flights of stairs. To put it into perspective, the entire city of Atlanta has 2/3 the population of Chicago's south side (498K vs 750K, respectively).

     

    That said, I don't think naming heat waves is necessary.

    I don't know how it works in the USA. Is that situation in Chicago one that would be declared a federal disaster with federal aid being made available? Climate change isn't a locally caused occurrence, and it hits different places in different ways. Do you think tropical storms shouldn't be named as well?

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