Tuesday: A day to (try to) keep cool.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday: Crimson Quillfeather
Tuesday: ejoanna
Wednesday: Pam from Calif
Thursday: art ah zen
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday: Gwennedd
Sunday: loggersbrat
Aarrgghhhhhh. On top of all the other woes of 2020, now the SF Bay Area has been walloped over the last 3-4 days with a Very Serious Heat Wave. It’s been sickeningly hot. Now it does get hot at times in the Bay Area in the summer (but, actually, more commonly in September and October.) But this has been much worse.
And then there was this: real thunderstorms with thunder, lightning, even rain!! Overnight, 2 nights. That is really unusual for this part of the world. Now it didn’t yield much precipitation over all, but I was glad of any moisture for the landscape. But the lightning? That freaked us out because: FIRE. We are entering the scary fire season around here. And we dread its onset.
So, I’m not very cheerful, am I? Sorry. Just reporting. What’s to report from your neck of the woods?
Meanwhile, I am preparing for further disruptions, as best I can.
This is just as true this year as in 2019
