Climate Change? Nahhh ...

A friend of mine in London just posted a photo of her indoor thermostat. It’s 93 degrees in her flat. That’s damn miserable.

 

I used to giggle at British people in hot weather — until I was informed that people actually started dying in the streets at 90ºF. They aren't accustomed to that.

 

Bottom line is, Luton isn't London. The official name is London Luton Airport, but both the city and airport are in Bedfordshire, outside the so-called Home Counties (but no doubt commutable, which to some defines a Home County).

 

It was 107 here with a heat index of 112. If it wasn’t for AC, I’d have set a pop-up tent alongside a creek and stayed neck deep in it all damn day.

 

The Death Valley Century tips it's bike helmet to no one.

 

It’s that the British version of OAN?

 

A quandary:
I hope I am on record here as being as environmentally mindful as anyone. I avoid single-use plastics. I am the state head of a civic organization this year, and my theme is an anti litter campaign. Anyway...
I'm cleaning out a shed and come across two 55-gallon drums of oil-based paint that my grandfather brought in probably in the 70s or maybe the 60s.
One is mostly empty and has essentially a huge hockey puck in the bottom. The other is mostly full, and it's more or less like rancid pudding.
I try to do the right thing disposing of them, and it's about a half a mortgage payment for hazard waste disposal.
Uhhhh, no.

 

Find a GOP HQ in a neighboring state and drop the barrels off at their front door. And leave your cell phone at home and take all back roads lest you be traced.

 

Hell, I don't have to drive to a neighboring state. I have the literal tools, talent, and experience to drop it off on a neighbor. In my gut I don't want to be that guy (although I have done it before in my youth), but the county trying to extort people wanting to do the right thing is why more people do the wrong thing.

 

A look at Driftwood tonight

 

Does your county ever do one time, or once a year hazardous waste disposal?