Posted On: Friday - July 3rd 2026 4:03PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Humor Global Climate Stupidity
Alt-title: Heat domes, air conditioning, and Urban Adaptation Experts
The "heat dome" is a term for area under the daily max temperature curve, I think. It's an integral, not an actual dome of hot air. The journalists might even learn some math from this story, so there's that ...
Commenter "The Alarmist", who spends most of his time in Europe, brought up this story under a recent post.
I forget the official stat, but the number of deaths attributable to very cold winter is an obscene multiple of summer heat deaths. Like 60,000 for winter versus 800 for summer in the UK. The last two winters were mild, so there’s a lot of dry tinder for the Grim Reaper if the Super El Niño delivers a cold dry February in 2027.Ha! The deaths due to freezing would generally have the same root cause, the recent influence and taking control of the energy sector of Western European economies by the "Greens". They aren't the old timey California whacko types that may have been humoured* a bit, but didn't seriously influence the economy. Germany shut down all nuclear power based on the - stupid and/or evil, take your pick - plans of these Greenies. (Some of them are the "Watermelons", with lots of red on the inside.)
I don’t know the stat for the Continent as a whole, but France is 8 to 1. USA is 2 to 1 … must be all the guns.
It may be somewhat due to some big futeball cup going on around this country, with the accompanying stories of Europeans getting their first personal views of what America is really like, that the story of a big lack of air conditioning "over there" has come to the forefront. It's said to be from 20% to 30%, roughly, of the residences in the main countries** in the region that have A/C.
I've been there once in the Summer as a young man. At that age, and because I spent most of the time outside, I didn't notice a problem. The next time I spent much time there, almost all in Germany, it was winter. Luckily I didn't freeze to death, I guess...
As a ZeroHedge commenter pointed out, these death numbers might be similar to the problem with the stats - death WITH the Kung Flu vs death FROM the Kung Flu. I guess some of them, death by heat stroke or the converse, a frozen corpse accidentally locked out of the house, are easy enough to determine. Comparisons to the US are unfair TOWARD the US, as we've got more regions that get this type of heat regularly than at least the main Western Euro countries, and, in the other direction, with the extremely cold winters of the Continental Climate zone of the upper MidWest. A good analysis would have to integrate dangerous cold/hot periods over population numbers - fun stuff!
That's not what I am here to do today anyway though. The stupidity that we see here is the REASON that many Western European residents are without air conditioning. Their governments still take the Climate Calamity stupidity very seriously. Europe's Climate-First Policies Fuel Resistance To Air Conditioning As More Than 1,300 Die In Heat Waves. ZH bolding here:
Europe continues to rely on alternatives to air conditioning even as deadly heat waves claim lives across the continent. Officials argue that expanding air conditioning is not a long-term solution.What the ...? Short of terra-forming the planet, or maybe launching the Earth into an orbit 10 or 20 million miles farther from the Sun, air conditioning will suffice for the short, medium, and long-term for those who like to be comfortable.
According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Europe has recorded more than 1,300 excess heat-related deaths since June 21.I'm just wondering why ANY White Westerner should have to ever take a lick of advice from anyone named Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The guy's Ethi-freaking-opian. If I want advice from a spokesman from The Who, I'll listen to lead singer Roger Daltrey. He's NOT from Ethiopia.
What these Eurofools are trying to tell the people is that it's better that they die now from the stifling heat inside their homes than later from a projected couple of degrees C temperature rise, ANY DECADE NOW, from Global Warming. I'd like to see a survey asking the people when they would rather die. They might not agree with their Government officials or Mr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (I'm still partial to Butros Butros Golly!)
But, as the weather gets hotter this summer, the stupidity increases. Remember it's not the heat - it's the stupidity. One Ine Vandecasteele, an urban adaptation expert with the European Environment Agency explains proper use of air conditioning
“It is an immediate response, which can support essentially those who may be vulnerable in hospitals, or in very short term can help. But in the longer term, what happens is, installing more air conditioning actually emits more heat into our environment, so it will actually increase the speed of warming.”Holy cow! Mr. Vandecasteele, who's not even from Ethiopia, doesn't even know or bother with the long-term Climate Crisis theory that at least starts with something real, the radiative absorption characteristics of Carbon Dioxide. The models that purport to use that and EVERYTHING ELSE POSSIBLY AFFECTING THE CLIMATE are garbage, but still, there's a lot of fun Climatology to learn.
This guy says that it's the heat convected off A/C condenser coil fins, and I reckon the compressor waste heat, that is "increasing the speed of warming"... the whole outside.
Well, I might do that simple calculation next week, but the "whole outside" business has me smiling. Long ago, at the dollar fifty movies on a hot summer day like today, one of our friends held one of the outside doors open for a while talking to my brother and me. That can be wasteful when it's 92 outside and you want to keep the theater full of people (emitting 100 W apiece at rest) at 70.
"Hey, close the door, you guys", he cracked, "I can't air condition the whole outside." At that age and time, I thought that was the funniest line ever. I still smile when I think of this, and I use this line whenever I have the chance. It even works in the winter!
Common sense from that urban adaptation expert at the movies in olde America vs. modern European Government stupidity - it's no contest.
* If I'm gonna write about Europe, I guess I've got to write LIKE them.
** We shouldn't count the Scandanavian countries. Like the Pacific Northwest here (where quite a few Scandanavians immigrated to long ago), there is only a serious need for A/C a few days a year. Those people bitch & moan when it's 82F outside with DRY AIR. (That region is like coastal California for 4 months, but with more daylight and... unfortunately, too many Californians.)
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[UPDATED Quarter-Millennium:] I was tired. Not "heat bomb", "heat dome" is the big new thing...
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Comments:
Moderator
Wednesday - July 8th 2026 7:21PM MST
PS: Sorry for the very late reply, Mr. Floyd.
"Americans are often the same way, but it is surprising in people as thoughtful and addicted to planning as Scandinavians tend to be."
I think evolutionary theory and natural selection would predict that. It probably also predicts that these same people might make some wrong assumptions about other people who've unfortunately evolved differently and should not be among them. I speak of both the oft-Scandinavian-descended people of the upper MidWest and the Pacific Northwest, but also in the home countries, especially Sweden. "What were they thinking?!" you got to wonder.
I've been to all of the Scandinavian countries but Finland and Iceland, but only for a short while. I too, was traveling all around (only hitchhiking in Ireland, for the most part) long ago, and I was, of course, glad to be Back in the USA.
"Americans are often the same way, but it is surprising in people as thoughtful and addicted to planning as Scandinavians tend to be."
I think evolutionary theory and natural selection would predict that. It probably also predicts that these same people might make some wrong assumptions about other people who've unfortunately evolved differently and should not be among them. I speak of both the oft-Scandinavian-descended people of the upper MidWest and the Pacific Northwest, but also in the home countries, especially Sweden. "What were they thinking?!" you got to wonder.
I've been to all of the Scandinavian countries but Finland and Iceland, but only for a short while. I too, was traveling all around (only hitchhiking in Ireland, for the most part) long ago, and I was, of course, glad to be Back in the USA.
OilcanFloyd
Tuesday - July 7th 2026 7:35AM MST
PS
Thanks for the platform, Mr. Newman.
Scandinavians buy into environmental issues in a big way, which isn't a bad thing when it isn't taken to extremes. The Scandinavian countries are beautiful, and the people do strike a good balance between living in a modern society and living the traditional lifestyle, even if you don't care for their modern architecture. The problem with Scandinavians is that they are naive, too trusting of their rulers, rigid, and prone to extremes in thinking. Immigration and environmentalism are areas that are causing the most damage, but it really comes down to trusting their rulers and institutions who run the propaganda for both issues.
I know Scandinavians who take great pride in their traditional culture to the point where I could see them going Luddite, while others take great pride in their modernity, modern architecture and technological sophistication. Both groups are determined to ignore the threats that immigration and environmentalism pose to their values. Americans are often the same way, but it is surprising in people as thoughtful and addicted to planning as Scandinavians tend to be.
As far as ac in homes goes, I don't see a huge need for it. They complain when it gets warm, but it doesn't last long. It would be like building homes in the southern U.S. to Minnesota standards because we have a blizzard every 40 years. And Scandinavians spend lots of time outdoors in the summer. The real problem from a heatwave is that it convinces them that a global climate catastrophe is on the way, and they typically overestimate their effect on things. Scandinavians can quit using plastics and automobiles, and it would do nothing to offset the pollution of China, India, or any other large industrial nation. They buy their own propaganda as morally superior superpower. A Swedish friend once told me that Swden would rule the world if it had a few more people. He was drunk, but I think he was serious. Another told me that he was so happy to return to Sweden after hitchhiking through Europe that he went to a church, got on his knees, and thanked God for being Swedish upon return to Sweden. His Marxist (their term) friends only laughed because he mentioned God and Church.
Thanks for the platform, Mr. Newman.
Scandinavians buy into environmental issues in a big way, which isn't a bad thing when it isn't taken to extremes. The Scandinavian countries are beautiful, and the people do strike a good balance between living in a modern society and living the traditional lifestyle, even if you don't care for their modern architecture. The problem with Scandinavians is that they are naive, too trusting of their rulers, rigid, and prone to extremes in thinking. Immigration and environmentalism are areas that are causing the most damage, but it really comes down to trusting their rulers and institutions who run the propaganda for both issues.
I know Scandinavians who take great pride in their traditional culture to the point where I could see them going Luddite, while others take great pride in their modernity, modern architecture and technological sophistication. Both groups are determined to ignore the threats that immigration and environmentalism pose to their values. Americans are often the same way, but it is surprising in people as thoughtful and addicted to planning as Scandinavians tend to be.
As far as ac in homes goes, I don't see a huge need for it. They complain when it gets warm, but it doesn't last long. It would be like building homes in the southern U.S. to Minnesota standards because we have a blizzard every 40 years. And Scandinavians spend lots of time outdoors in the summer. The real problem from a heatwave is that it convinces them that a global climate catastrophe is on the way, and they typically overestimate their effect on things. Scandinavians can quit using plastics and automobiles, and it would do nothing to offset the pollution of China, India, or any other large industrial nation. They buy their own propaganda as morally superior superpower. A Swedish friend once told me that Swden would rule the world if it had a few more people. He was drunk, but I think he was serious. Another told me that he was so happy to return to Sweden after hitchhiking through Europe that he went to a church, got on his knees, and thanked God for being Swedish upon return to Sweden. His Marxist (their term) friends only laughed because he mentioned God and Church.
Moderator
Sunday - July 5th 2026 8:27AM MST
PS: Hello, Mr. Floyd.
"The problem for them is that homes in Scandinavia (and probably everywhere else in northern or central Europe) are built to conserve heat, which makes their homes very uncomfortable if the temperature rises much above 80'F."
If you've got great insulation then why not put in one of those mini-split systems. You've got to run some lines through those thick walls, but one of those could probably keep a house down in the 70s on an 80-something degree day with all that insulation. But, no, that's killing the planet. Scandinavians seem like the first that would fall of that scam, seeing as what they've done in the mass immigration realm.
Nice to see you on here, Oilcan.
"The problem for them is that homes in Scandinavia (and probably everywhere else in northern or central Europe) are built to conserve heat, which makes their homes very uncomfortable if the temperature rises much above 80'F."
If you've got great insulation then why not put in one of those mini-split systems. You've got to run some lines through those thick walls, but one of those could probably keep a house down in the 70s on an 80-something degree day with all that insulation. But, no, that's killing the planet. Scandinavians seem like the first that would fall of that scam, seeing as what they've done in the mass immigration realm.
Nice to see you on here, Oilcan.
OilcanFloyd
Sunday - July 5th 2026 5:49AM MST
PS
I've spent time in Scandinavia during what they would call a heatwave, which was not that hot or humid, especially when compared to the Ametican South. I think the highest temperature that I experienced was around 90' F and comfortable outside. The problem for them is that homes in Scandinavia (and probably everywhere else in northern or central Europe) are built to conserve heat, which makes their homes very uncomfortable if the temperature rises much above 80'F. The same homes are very comfortable in cold winters. If they are worried about global warming, they should modify or change the way they build.
I've spent time in Scandinavia during what they would call a heatwave, which was not that hot or humid, especially when compared to the Ametican South. I think the highest temperature that I experienced was around 90' F and comfortable outside. The problem for them is that homes in Scandinavia (and probably everywhere else in northern or central Europe) are built to conserve heat, which makes their homes very uncomfortable if the temperature rises much above 80'F. The same homes are very comfortable in cold winters. If they are worried about global warming, they should modify or change the way they build.
Adam Smith
Saturday - July 4th 2026 10:57AM MST
PS: Thank you, Achmed,
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 (𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑘), 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒.
Understandably. This is a very sad story.
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑖𝑠 𝑆𝑇𝑅𝑂𝑁𝐺, 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐴 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘, 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜.
Yeah, we are usually pretty careful with the stuff. And, this is not the first time we've treated her with it. She's never had any problems before. (None of the cats have.) Being an orange cat, she was (maybe?) more prone to fleas than our Baby Girl. (Perhaps this is just anecdotal, but it is my experience that black cats get fewer fleas than brighter color cats out here in the woods. Perhaps I am mistaken? Maybe I should have just given her a bath and skipped the cat poison.)
We generally hit Baby Girl once a year with this stuff, in early summer. (Sometimes we've hit her twice a season, like the beginning of summer and again in late August if it is an especially buggy year.) We also treat the yard. (Because there are chiggers and stuff out there.)
This was the second time we treated the cats this year. (We tagged both of them a couple months back.) Partly because Miss Kitty is orange (and perhaps more prone to fleas, mites, etc.) but also because there are five dogs next door, a couple semi-feral cats living in our back yard (plus dozens of feral cats in the holler) and we had that rooster up in here a couple weeks back. (The rooster definitely had mites.)
Also, we have the donkey preserve down the street and they sometimes take the donkeys for their Healing Hikes with the autistic clients in need of healing in what is effectively the back yard. (Donkeys often bring tapeworms and such and sometimes the dogs interact with them. I know at least one of the neighbor's dogs eats poop. Does he eat donkey poop? I don't know.) The cats go pretty much where ever they want to. (I've never seen a cat eat poop, donkey, dog or otherwise.)
It's been hot all week, so perhaps she was a little dehydrated and this stuff hit harder than usual? (I do have a couple extra watering spots around the yard for the cats, because they love finding water in new places. It seemed as though she was drinking plenty of water.) or... Perhaps, thanks to the competence crisis and the usual failures of quality control, maybe this vial was stronger than average?
She was also on the small side. We didn't weigh her recently, but I'd guess she was not even 7 lbs. (So small. So cute. So sweet.) But the "medicine" says for cats over 1.5 lbs.
Maybe she got her paws on some of it and ingested it? Maybe it was just too much? Maybe it is just a coincidence? (Maybe it's not.)
I don't know. It just sucks. I'm a bit heartbroken.
I feel bad that she likely had a seizure or something and was feeling very bad, and scared and alone out there in the dirt for her final minutes. I really think we poisoned and killed our sweet little kitten.
😢
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 (𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑘), 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒.
Understandably. This is a very sad story.
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑖𝑠 𝑆𝑇𝑅𝑂𝑁𝐺, 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐴 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘, 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜.
Yeah, we are usually pretty careful with the stuff. And, this is not the first time we've treated her with it. She's never had any problems before. (None of the cats have.) Being an orange cat, she was (maybe?) more prone to fleas than our Baby Girl. (Perhaps this is just anecdotal, but it is my experience that black cats get fewer fleas than brighter color cats out here in the woods. Perhaps I am mistaken? Maybe I should have just given her a bath and skipped the cat poison.)
We generally hit Baby Girl once a year with this stuff, in early summer. (Sometimes we've hit her twice a season, like the beginning of summer and again in late August if it is an especially buggy year.) We also treat the yard. (Because there are chiggers and stuff out there.)
This was the second time we treated the cats this year. (We tagged both of them a couple months back.) Partly because Miss Kitty is orange (and perhaps more prone to fleas, mites, etc.) but also because there are five dogs next door, a couple semi-feral cats living in our back yard (plus dozens of feral cats in the holler) and we had that rooster up in here a couple weeks back. (The rooster definitely had mites.)
Also, we have the donkey preserve down the street and they sometimes take the donkeys for their Healing Hikes with the autistic clients in need of healing in what is effectively the back yard. (Donkeys often bring tapeworms and such and sometimes the dogs interact with them. I know at least one of the neighbor's dogs eats poop. Does he eat donkey poop? I don't know.) The cats go pretty much where ever they want to. (I've never seen a cat eat poop, donkey, dog or otherwise.)
It's been hot all week, so perhaps she was a little dehydrated and this stuff hit harder than usual? (I do have a couple extra watering spots around the yard for the cats, because they love finding water in new places. It seemed as though she was drinking plenty of water.) or... Perhaps, thanks to the competence crisis and the usual failures of quality control, maybe this vial was stronger than average?
She was also on the small side. We didn't weigh her recently, but I'd guess she was not even 7 lbs. (So small. So cute. So sweet.) But the "medicine" says for cats over 1.5 lbs.
Maybe she got her paws on some of it and ingested it? Maybe it was just too much? Maybe it is just a coincidence? (Maybe it's not.)
I don't know. It just sucks. I'm a bit heartbroken.
I feel bad that she likely had a seizure or something and was feeling very bad, and scared and alone out there in the dirt for her final minutes. I really think we poisoned and killed our sweet little kitten.
😢
Moderator
Saturday - July 4th 2026 10:10AM MST
PS: Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about this, Adam.
Moderator
Saturday - July 4th 2026 10:10AM MST
PS: Adam, that kitten was able to get water (from a dripping sink), so it starved. This was haunting me for quite.a while. These kittens - there were 2 - had run into the woods scared of me, but one must have gotten inside while I was bringing out a bowl of water. Yes, it's very sad.
About the flea medicine, we put some of that on our cat a few weeks back - for some reason, the fleas don't get to me, but my wife gets bitten (plus the cat, of course - I used to pick them off my old cat with tweezers - he was pretty mellow about it.) That stuff is STRONG, is all I know. A few years back, after that treatment, the cat had slept on one leather couch, and this poison nearly made a hole in the leather. I try to make sure it's in only the one spot that he can't get to.
About the flea medicine, we put some of that on our cat a few weeks back - for some reason, the fleas don't get to me, but my wife gets bitten (plus the cat, of course - I used to pick them off my old cat with tweezers - he was pretty mellow about it.) That stuff is STRONG, is all I know. A few years back, after that treatment, the cat had slept on one leather couch, and this poison nearly made a hole in the leather. I try to make sure it's in only the one spot that he can't get to.
Adam Smith
Saturday - July 4th 2026 9:25AM MST
PS: I don't have many pictures...
Mostly because she's only been here a year.
And also because I don't take a lot of pictures...
https://i.ibb.co/BKf0b4bj/Miss-Kitty.jpg
Really wishing we didn't give her that flea treatment yesterday.
😢
Mostly because she's only been here a year.
And also because I don't take a lot of pictures...
https://i.ibb.co/BKf0b4bj/Miss-Kitty.jpg
Really wishing we didn't give her that flea treatment yesterday.
😢
Adam Smith
Saturday - July 4th 2026 9:06AM MST
PS: 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔.
Even without knowing the details, this story already sounds sad.
Slowly dying of dehydration is a horrible way to go.
Anyway... I'm going to hug my Baby Girl and Mrs. Smith a little tighter tonight.
Everything else is good though. Still a little hot out there and Baby Girl is shedding something fierce. I've been getting about three brush fulls of fur out of her each day. But, as you know, it is a process and we still have some way to go.
So Happy Saturday, fellow peakers.
I hope you all have a great weekend!
☮️
Even without knowing the details, this story already sounds sad.
Slowly dying of dehydration is a horrible way to go.
Anyway... I'm going to hug my Baby Girl and Mrs. Smith a little tighter tonight.
Everything else is good though. Still a little hot out there and Baby Girl is shedding something fierce. I've been getting about three brush fulls of fur out of her each day. But, as you know, it is a process and we still have some way to go.
So Happy Saturday, fellow peakers.
I hope you all have a great weekend!
☮️
Adam Smith
Saturday - July 4th 2026 8:49AM MST
PS: Good morning, Achmed,
I'm very sad to say, I think she had an adverse reaction to the flea treatment we gave her yesterday. She was fine last night and all seemed well. (She was such a good girl letting me clean her ears really well and all that.) She sat with us on the porch last night. She was her happy, cuddly, usual self...
This morning, I went out to check on and feed the cats. Baby Girl was in her chair on the porch, happy as a clam. Miss Kitty, was, apparently, out for her morning walk. So I went looking to let her know breakfast was ready...
I found her out back, laying next to the tire of my truck.
I suppose we will never truly know. (Obviously, we are not taking her for a necropsy.) But she didn't show any signs of being attacked by any pack dogs or coyotes or anything.
It is quite possible that she had an underlying heart condition or something.(?) (She was very malnourished when she arrived about a year ago.) But it really seems as though the frontline plus for cats killed her.
😢
I'm very sad to say, I think she had an adverse reaction to the flea treatment we gave her yesterday. She was fine last night and all seemed well. (She was such a good girl letting me clean her ears really well and all that.) She sat with us on the porch last night. She was her happy, cuddly, usual self...
This morning, I went out to check on and feed the cats. Baby Girl was in her chair on the porch, happy as a clam. Miss Kitty, was, apparently, out for her morning walk. So I went looking to let her know breakfast was ready...
I found her out back, laying next to the tire of my truck.
I suppose we will never truly know. (Obviously, we are not taking her for a necropsy.) But she didn't show any signs of being attacked by any pack dogs or coyotes or anything.
It is quite possible that she had an underlying heart condition or something.(?) (She was very malnourished when she arrived about a year ago.) But it really seems as though the frontline plus for cats killed her.
😢
Moderator
Saturday - July 4th 2026 8:37AM MST
PS: What happened to her, Adam? I have a sad story about one who wasn't ours but got locked inside for too long.
Adam Smith
Saturday - July 4th 2026 8:14AM MST
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Moderator
Saturday - July 4th 2026 7:42AM MST
PS: Happy Quad-Millennium, Alarmist. I'll write a post in a while.
I'm glad you are presently far from the 3rd World.
I agree with Mike Ditka.
I'm glad you are presently far from the 3rd World.
I agree with Mike Ditka.
Moderator
Saturday - July 4th 2026 7:41AM MST
PS: Yes, Alarmist, but they were drownings WITH heat... the people tested positive for heat stroke... or something.
That sounds like a castle that you live in, Alarmist. Yes, there's lots of "thermal mass". Before the family, during a couple of months each year, on a daily basis, I used to leave windows open at night to cool the thermal mass of the house (its NOT a castle) down such that it wouldn't get over the low 70s until noon. Then, the A/C would come on.
I will put a 2nd window unit up, because the house has gotten into the mid-80s again during a big part of the day right now. The heat dome is also hard on the roof structure... wait, what??
That sounds like a castle that you live in, Alarmist. Yes, there's lots of "thermal mass". Before the family, during a couple of months each year, on a daily basis, I used to leave windows open at night to cool the thermal mass of the house (its NOT a castle) down such that it wouldn't get over the low 70s until noon. Then, the A/C would come on.
I will put a 2nd window unit up, because the house has gotten into the mid-80s again during a big part of the day right now. The heat dome is also hard on the roof structure... wait, what??
The Alarmist
Saturday - July 4th 2026 3:34AM MST
PS
The real story is that European and YooKay weather is relatively mild in both seasons. A “severe” cold snap in the YooKay migh see temps in the mid-teens or low twenties fahrenheit. It was a six day snap like that in January of 2025 that accounted for roughly 1,600 of the 2,500 deaths that winter. By contrast, the “heat waves” of May & June 2026 seem to only have a body count of 21, and at least 13 are drownings.
Whatever you do to stay cool, don’t use an air conditioner, and don’t go swimming!!!
Château Alarmist is not the best insulated place, though 24 inch stone walls do help to keep things, so I do have a few portable A/C units in a few rooms. I use them perhaps ten days a year in a really hot year. So far, I’ve used them three days. But after a week of 40°C temps, the walls keep my bedroom above 25°C even though the nights are back into the mid teens. Bummer, but not the end of the world.
It’s kind of funny, though, to see pics of the North Africans at the Hypermarché fighting over fans. I can’t wait to see what they do when food prices go through the roof later this year. Fortunately, there aren’t too many third-worlders in our corner of the Continent.
Stay cool, y’all. Enjoy the “football.” As Mike Ditka said, if God intended man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us hands.
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The real story is that European and YooKay weather is relatively mild in both seasons. A “severe” cold snap in the YooKay migh see temps in the mid-teens or low twenties fahrenheit. It was a six day snap like that in January of 2025 that accounted for roughly 1,600 of the 2,500 deaths that winter. By contrast, the “heat waves” of May & June 2026 seem to only have a body count of 21, and at least 13 are drownings.
Whatever you do to stay cool, don’t use an air conditioner, and don’t go swimming!!!
Château Alarmist is not the best insulated place, though 24 inch stone walls do help to keep things, so I do have a few portable A/C units in a few rooms. I use them perhaps ten days a year in a really hot year. So far, I’ve used them three days. But after a week of 40°C temps, the walls keep my bedroom above 25°C even though the nights are back into the mid teens. Bummer, but not the end of the world.
It’s kind of funny, though, to see pics of the North Africans at the Hypermarché fighting over fans. I can’t wait to see what they do when food prices go through the roof later this year. Fortunately, there aren’t too many third-worlders in our corner of the Continent.
Stay cool, y’all. Enjoy the “football.” As Mike Ditka said, if God intended man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us hands.
🕉
I just posted a rely to you recent post. Did it go through?