It's Hot

[Boatwrench]

This was on I-280 at Woodside coming home from the beach .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/boatwrench/DSCN0387.jpg

and I didn't go to Bald because it was going to be hot.:bawl:

Feel sorry for my valley brethren.

[MENEZES]

yea its bad. I was outside today and i nearly passed out. hopefully this wave ends soon cause i wana go to hollister and the San Jose GP is this weekend too!!

[SeanP]

you bay area guys are XXXXXXs. What is it, 96? Try 113 up here in Rocklin. Never left the house today at all. My pool water is 96*

SeanP

[SeanP]

wow, posted before your pic loaded. Was that an accurate temp? I know mine reads high when I first get into the car.

SeanP

[Boatwrench]

Yep, we were in Santa Cruz and had been driving home for about an hour. Photo was taken about 5PM, it was the third, the 1st read 110, the second read 112 and we couldn't believe it would get much warmer. I was doing 75mph and the a/c was on full tilt. It read 72*F when we parked in front of the house in SF..

[Matt S.]

We all live in the DIRTY ARM PIT! OH NO!!

seriously freakin hot here. The mountains are hot! Now they are having flash floods...sheesh.. mother nature needs to make her damn mind up.

[ZPD]

113* in Modesto yesterday; I didn't even check what it was today. :hang:

[5-90]

Topped 100* in town - yech.

You know, I prefer cold. You can always put on another layer, but you can only strip down so far before you get arrested. All in all, I'd sooner be a McMurdo Sound...

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[Ben H]

I drank a 44oz suicide slurpy today in about 10 minutes. I dont think you can get brain freeze when the bank's thermomoter reads 114.

[iscout62]

My house is still at 100, and that's downstairs.
:)
I had an ac/ac transformer grenade in my HVAC, and nobody in town was open today that could sell me a replacement.

GAH!

[crazy4mopar]

It was NICE up at Fordyce today! upper 80's

[Ivan]

It was in the mid 60's yesterday and in the upper 60's to low 70's today in Eureka... What heat? :wave1:

[Capt. Nemo]

Our power has been out since Saturday night at around 7:45pm. I left this morning for work and it was still out. :( PG&E is really dropping the ball. Central A/C is nice, but with no power, our thermostat was pegged at 90 in our place. I'm sure it got around 100 inside last night.

[5-90]

Our power has been out since Saturday night at around 7:45pm. I left this morning for work and it was still out. :( PG&E is really dropping the ball. Central A/C is nice, but with no power, our thermostat was pegged at 90 in our place. I'm sure it got around 100 inside last night.

Yurf. At least our power's stayed on, but we don't have central aircon (And why not? Why weren't more houses built with central air out here?!?)

As far as dropping the ball - what do you expect from Professional Gouging and Embezzlement? California suffers from infrastructure problems - all generally attributed to an incredible lack of foresight. It's a common issue out here - generally speaking, most people out here can't seem to be able to think anywhere past the ends of their noses... You can see it in the way they drive!

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[Letterman]

Our power has been out since Saturday night at around 7:45pm. I left this morning for work and it was still out. :( PG&E is really dropping the ball. Central A/C is nice, but with no power, our thermostat was pegged at 90 in our place. I'm sure it got around 100 inside last night.

I work with someone that lives near your new place, she said the power will be out at her place and not be back on untill Tusday!!!

[Gary E]

It totally sucks, can't do anything outside or in the garage. And I get 10 times as many phone calls for work in the heat. Can't wait for it to end

[jeepboy_90]

It nice to see some people can stay inside in the heat. I was out in it the past few days. Fires like this kind of weather.

[XJedi23]

I stoped in Moab on the way home from a wheelin trip in Colorado and it was 107. What a relief to get home to Stockton and 115.:skull1:

[rightseatsis]

Boatwrench and I just got back from a trip to Tuolumne where it was 106. It was 115 coming back through Tracy. Sure glad Tom decide to take the green XJ since it has AC. Thanks for playing hooky with me Tom.

[Capt. Nemo]

We just got our power back tonight. Three days without it was a little rough on the baby, but we managed. Turns out the transformer blew across the street. The PG&E crew working on the transformer was from Calistoga, and I guess they have crews up here all the way from Bakersfield.

The first transformer they put in was bad, and when they went back to the yard to get another, they said that they took the last one. They said that there were over 500 transformers that went out in San Jose, and that they only had 300 in stock.

So if I could retract my statement in my other post, PG&E didn't drop the ball and the crew they had working on our transformer was a great group of guys. The equipment just couldn't take the heat.

Our thermostat is now down to 80 degrees. 80 never felt so good...

[Matt S.]

Thats good to hear Eric! Your baby doing good?

The heat here has been pretty bad, luckly my new 2nd job is in a air conditioned laboratory! First mechanic job I ever had that MAKES me where slacks and a button up shirt! They keep it 75 degrees in there... cold!

[Joe]

It's about 90 to 100 degrees here in Fillmore.

[0313]

I am in Sacramento tonight and I dont envy you guys here with the heat PLUS the humidity.

[Ivan]

We just got our power back tonight. Three days without it was a little rough on the baby, but we managed. Turns out the transformer blew across the street. The PG&E crew working on the transformer was from Calistoga, and I guess they have crews up here all the way from Bakersfield.

The first transformer they put in was bad, and when they went back to the yard to get another, they said that they took the last one. They said that there were over 500 transformers that went out in San Jose, and that they only had 300 in stock.

So if I could retract my statement in my other post, PG&E didn't drop the ball and the crew they had working on our transformer was a great group of guys. The equipment just couldn't take the heat.

Our thermostat is now down to 80 degrees. 80 never felt so good...

Overall, there were about 1800 transformers that failed throughout the PG&E system due to the heat. They just overloaded from the demand on them, and from the extreme heat. One of the problems was getting more transformers from suppliers, because of the high demands for transformer from the rest of the heat stricken country. This problem was just not a California problem...

A one point, PG&E was also taking transformers recently installed in subdivisions (though not yet occupied) to be able to replace the ones that failed. They will be replaced once the replacement transformers come in...

BTW... I been working for PG&E for over 27 years. Thank you for understanding our situation. :peace:

[5-90]

Overall, there were about 1800 transformers that failed throughout the PG&E system due to the heat. They just overloaded from the demand on them, and from the extreme heat. One of the problems was getting more transformers from suppliers, because of the high demands for transformer from the rest of the heat stricken country. This problem was just not a California problem...

A one point, PG&E was also taking transformers recently installed in subdivisions (though not yet occupied) to be able to replace the ones that failed. They will be replaced once the replacement transformers come in...

BTW... I been working for PG&E for over 27 years. Thank you for understanding our situation. :peace:

Yugh - I don't envy you!

It's not the line-animals I have issue with - y'all are the ones actually doing the work. It's the decision-makers up the chain with whom I have issues. They don't seem to think ahead, they certainly don't seem to plan ahead, and the rates keep going up! Probably the biggest issue I have with PG&E is that the rates keep climbing, there's no real end in sight, and I'm just not making any more money to make up for it (granted, it's not just PG&E's rates going up, but that's what we're talking about now. Don't get me started on the gasoline companies, rent increases, and other fun stuff - it just about all comes back to "everything goes up but the money I make," and "why are we paying more for less?")

Upper management, in just about any endeavour, should probably be the lowest-paid members of any outfit, unless and until they start actually thinking farther forward than the ends of their noses...

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[Ivan]

Yugh - I don't envy you!

It's not the line-animals I have issue with - y'all are the ones actually doing the work. It's the decision-makers up the chain with whom I have issues. They don't seem to think ahead, they certainly don't seem to plan ahead, and the rates keep going up! Probably the biggest issue I have with PG&E is that the rates keep climbing, there's no real end in sight, and I'm just not making any more money to make up for it (granted, it's not just PG&E's rates going up, but that's what we're talking about now. Don't get me started on the gasoline companies, rent increases, and other fun stuff - it just about all comes back to "everything goes up but the money I make," and "why are we paying more for less?")

Upper management, in just about any endeavour, should probably be the lowest-paid members of any outfit, unless and until they start actually thinking farther forward than the ends of their noses...

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Thanks for the compliment...sort of :roflmao: , but I'm not a line-animal. I'm mid upper management myself. But yeah, electric rates are a whole separate thread in itself.

But in a nutshell, todays rates are a result of the failure in electric deregulation in California. You (rate payers) are still paying for the Enron, Mirant, Duke, etc fiasco. To put things in perspective, from 1991 until 1998, PG&E electric rates remained flat. Rates actually dropped in 1993, and remained flat until deregulation took effect in 1998. Name one other energy commodity that can claim that....

As mentioned, Deregulation went into effect in 1998 and was actually working quite well by bringing electric cost down further for the first couple of years. It was working much like the deregulated natural gas market of today works.

Now enter Enron and company, that found a way to "game" the system, created artificial "markets", and all hell broke loose. But because of the "price freeze" on energy during the 5 year deregulation transition period, PG&E had to purchase power on the open market for more than it could legally sell it. Yes, legally as spelled out in AB 1890 (Electric Deregulation Bill). At one point we were loosing a $1 million an hour, and after a $12 billion tailspin, bankruptcy was declared by PG&E. Edison was "this close" to declaring bankruptcy as well....

Todays rates are a result of that debacle, and we can expect to pay for it for at least the next 10 years or so. At least some settlements were reached with some of the generators, so that 10 year projection is less than what it could have been...