33 Replies to “To The Good Citizens of Toronto Sweltering Through This Heat Wave”
Maybe you can airbrush that picture on the hood of Dalton’s Prius, just to remind him of the beauty of “fans”!!
Between this weather whining and the G20 whining …. my TO disdain is being firmly reenforced.
This time it was a transformer that blew, next time it may be a Mother Nature caused outage and hopefully for them the wind will blow in the middle of a heat wave. Maybe Ontario won’t freeze to death in the dark after all.
Are the Armed Forces on their way yet?
One of your ancestors in the portrait, Kate?
They don’t need no stinking giant fans….just 2.5 million little ones.
Syncro
It is one of Kate’s ancestors, it’s the Duchess of Delisle. She’s using the fan to hide her holster.
Etobicoke was/is fine. (Although our lights flickered for literally a second or less at, I assume, the same time as the major blowout downtown.) And, to be fair, it wasn’t caused by a lack of electricity and/or the increased demand.
Still, McGuinty and his fans blow.
Somehow,some way,this will be Harper’s fault.BTW,cbc Winnipeg did a segment after 3pm with Margeaux (that’s Margo for you non-cbc fans)Watt about how the high heat/humidity can affect the crime rate.Wpg has just had a spell of stabbings,a random shooting and death at a bus shelter,and a body found in the river.Nice linkage to Global Warming cbc..fix that and all the senseless killing will stop.
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andycanuck says… it wasn’t caused by a lack of electricity
and/or the increased demand.”
apparently a transformer caught fire and exploded during
a period of higher than anticipated demand.
now andy, i’m no engineer… but what causes that… magic fairy dust?
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John @ 10:07
Just playing off Kate’s stuff.
I checked out the link you provided and noticed Mc Slippery is all about solar panels (subject to local building codes/regulations) but no mention of tiny fans.
Odd that.
Syncro
July 05-1937, Midale and Yellow Grass Saskatchewan. 113°F (45°C)
I experienced 48° C in Australia.
I harvested barley with a Massey Ferguson Super 92 (no cab) at 104° F.
My best friend operated a 510 Massey Combine (no cab) near Dallas in 1965, 110°F.
Do I feel sorry for the folks of Ontario?? No!
Let those eastern bastards boil in the dark!
Somebody had to say it!
Syncro
Speaking of Toronto, I wonder what the carbon footprint was with all those diesel dykes in one place over the weekend. Small wonder the Weather Network was freaking out with the smog alerts this morning! But then again, they probably all drive Toyota Prius’s so I’m sure it was carbon nuetral!
BTW, what IS the correct plural of Prius?
I believe it’s PriI.
Syncro
Or perhaps sanctimonious a-holes.
Strangely enough PriI roughly translates from Latin to “first hole” or “hole without stink”
Go figure.
Syncro
Air-conditioned cabs are for wimps.
Why they used to call me redneck.
(but still not as miserable as a sweltering hot day in Toronto)
1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a Massey/Binder War!
Syncro
I don’t know foobert, riding the bale stooker in rural Alberta 30+ degree heat, heaving heavy alfalfa bales, sweat rolling down your back and being itchy as hell might rival the yuppies in Toronto sipping Starbucks ice capacinnos whilst complaining that no one appreciates the hard work they do at thier government jobs. But then again, out here it’s a dry heat!
Again, people mistake generating capacity with distribution infrastructure efficiency.
Ont. has lots of electrical generating capacity but its distribution infrastructure is old and decayed and wastes much of the energy piped into it. From leaky old wiring to inefficient resistive transformers and shunts, honest engineering stats put line loss at almost 38%. Strangely, this seems to be the figure tossed around by Daltonites as the amount of energy “shortage” which justifies taxing the sin of being an electricity end user.
Another typical Orwellian political plot: waste through asset neglect is blamed on consumers and provides justification for more abusive energy gouging.
Somebody please rid us of these vile kleptocrats!
The price of being green is going to be harsh.
The wallet will be whacked, the body will be boiled or frozen.
Ontario . . . yours to enjoy.
Could the power outage have been caused by too many “personal” vibrator adapters being plugged in at one time? You know…with the “pride” thing goin’ on and all.
The greenies will scream “it was a transformer, not the wind power” until they are blue in the face, but they forget if billions wasn’t spent on building unneeded wind turbines they could have spent that money on the grid infrastructure so that a single transformer fire won’t leave a quarter million people without power.
Lefties in general never remember past spending when discussing future needs. It never occurs that past spending was a waste and that someone has to pay for it.
I dunno whether this is terribly relevant.
Here in balmy, sweltering Woodstock….Tillsonburg FM just reported 10 knots SW wind for lake Erie.
Then reported a big outage in the Port Burwell area.
They have about 80 giant fans over there……
I’m staying cool in Toronto …
… until I start thinking about who my “leaders” are: Moron Miller and Duh-lton McGuilty.
Now my blood pressure’s up and I’m BOILING.
“I harvested barley with a Massey Ferguson Super 92 (no cab) at 104° F.”
What an image! This conjures up unpleasant visions of my past. I got itchy just reading it. I can’t imagine anything worse than barley dust on a hot day. Although I’m told that canary seed is far worse.
Those Torontonians know nothing about true agony.
If Ontario wants to be so green, why is it such great news when the car industry is cranking out more gas guzzlers for the 401?
>>riding the bale stooker in rural Alberta 30+ degree heat, heaving heavy alfalfa bales, sweat rolling down your back and being itchy as hell
Sure. But do that on Bay St. between Dundas & Queen. Now *that’s* Chuck Norris tough!
Maybe you can airbrush that picture on the hood of Dalton’s Prius, just to remind him of the beauty of “fans”!!
Between this weather whining and the G20 whining …. my TO disdain is being firmly reenforced.
This time it was a transformer that blew, next time it may be a Mother Nature caused outage and hopefully for them the wind will blow in the middle of a heat wave. Maybe Ontario won’t freeze to death in the dark after all.
Are the Armed Forces on their way yet?
One of your ancestors in the portrait, Kate?
They don’t need no stinking giant fans….just 2.5 million little ones.
Syncro
It is one of Kate’s ancestors, it’s the Duchess of Delisle. She’s using the fan to hide her holster.
Synchro, you have no idea how close you are… LOL
“Honey, I shrunk the voltage!”
http://www.mei.gov.on.ca/en/energy/renewable/index.php?page=gea
Etobicoke was/is fine. (Although our lights flickered for literally a second or less at, I assume, the same time as the major blowout downtown.) And, to be fair, it wasn’t caused by a lack of electricity and/or the increased demand.
Still, McGuinty and his fans blow.
Somehow,some way,this will be Harper’s fault.BTW,cbc Winnipeg did a segment after 3pm with Margeaux (that’s Margo for you non-cbc fans)Watt about how the high heat/humidity can affect the crime rate.Wpg has just had a spell of stabbings,a random shooting and death at a bus shelter,and a body found in the river.Nice linkage to Global Warming cbc..fix that and all the senseless killing will stop.
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andycanuck says… it wasn’t caused by a lack of electricity
and/or the increased demand.”
apparently a transformer caught fire and exploded during
a period of higher than anticipated demand.
now andy, i’m no engineer… but what causes that…
magic fairy dust?
*
John @ 10:07
Just playing off Kate’s stuff.
I checked out the link you provided and noticed Mc Slippery is all about solar panels (subject to local building codes/regulations) but no mention of tiny fans.
Odd that.
Syncro
July 05-1937, Midale and Yellow Grass Saskatchewan. 113°F (45°C)
I experienced 48° C in Australia.
I harvested barley with a Massey Ferguson Super 92 (no cab) at 104° F.
My best friend operated a 510 Massey Combine (no cab) near Dallas in 1965, 110°F.
Do I feel sorry for the folks of Ontario?? No!
Let those eastern bastards boil in the dark!
Somebody had to say it!
Syncro
Speaking of Toronto, I wonder what the carbon footprint was with all those diesel dykes in one place over the weekend. Small wonder the Weather Network was freaking out with the smog alerts this morning! But then again, they probably all drive Toyota Prius’s so I’m sure it was carbon nuetral!
BTW, what IS the correct plural of Prius?
I believe it’s PriI.
Syncro
Or perhaps sanctimonious a-holes.
Strangely enough PriI roughly translates from Latin to “first hole” or “hole without stink”
Go figure.
Syncro
Air-conditioned cabs are for wimps.
Why they used to call me redneck.
(but still not as miserable as a sweltering hot day in Toronto)
1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a Massey/Binder War!
Syncro
I don’t know foobert, riding the bale stooker in rural Alberta 30+ degree heat, heaving heavy alfalfa bales, sweat rolling down your back and being itchy as hell might rival the yuppies in Toronto sipping Starbucks ice capacinnos whilst complaining that no one appreciates the hard work they do at thier government jobs. But then again, out here it’s a dry heat!
Combine demolition derby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68x6EOq3c3c&feature=player_embedded
Again, people mistake generating capacity with distribution infrastructure efficiency.
Ont. has lots of electrical generating capacity but its distribution infrastructure is old and decayed and wastes much of the energy piped into it. From leaky old wiring to inefficient resistive transformers and shunts, honest engineering stats put line loss at almost 38%. Strangely, this seems to be the figure tossed around by Daltonites as the amount of energy “shortage” which justifies taxing the sin of being an electricity end user.
Another typical Orwellian political plot: waste through asset neglect is blamed on consumers and provides justification for more abusive energy gouging.
Somebody please rid us of these vile kleptocrats!
The price of being green is going to be harsh.
The wallet will be whacked, the body will be boiled or frozen.
Ontario . . . yours to enjoy.
The island of Eigg has put its faith in green energy for its electicity, and now has power rationing, outages and relies on diesel backup. A glimpse, perhaps, of Ontario’s future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/hydro_electricenergy/7858960/Power-rationed-on-green-island-Eigg-after-mild-weather-causes-drought.html
Could the power outage have been caused by too many “personal” vibrator adapters being plugged in at one time? You know…with the “pride” thing goin’ on and all.
The greenies will scream “it was a transformer, not the wind power” until they are blue in the face, but they forget if billions wasn’t spent on building unneeded wind turbines they could have spent that money on the grid infrastructure so that a single transformer fire won’t leave a quarter million people without power.
Lefties in general never remember past spending when discussing future needs. It never occurs that past spending was a waste and that someone has to pay for it.
I dunno whether this is terribly relevant.
Here in balmy, sweltering Woodstock….Tillsonburg FM just reported 10 knots SW wind for lake Erie.
Then reported a big outage in the Port Burwell area.
They have about 80 giant fans over there……
I’m staying cool in Toronto …
… until I start thinking about who my “leaders” are: Moron Miller and Duh-lton McGuilty.
Now my blood pressure’s up and I’m BOILING.
“I harvested barley with a Massey Ferguson Super 92 (no cab) at 104° F.”
What an image! This conjures up unpleasant visions of my past. I got itchy just reading it. I can’t imagine anything worse than barley dust on a hot day. Although I’m told that canary seed is far worse.
Those Torontonians know nothing about true agony.
If Ontario wants to be so green, why is it such great news when the car industry is cranking out more gas guzzlers for the 401?
>>riding the bale stooker in rural Alberta 30+ degree heat, heaving heavy alfalfa bales, sweat rolling down your back and being itchy as hell
Sure. But do that on Bay St. between Dundas & Queen. Now *that’s* Chuck Norris tough!