HOT AND COLD ~ A Historical Remembrance

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

This was published in the Fresno Morning Republican on July 9, 1905, the day after the temperature reached 115 degrees:  

 

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HOT AND COLD

 

There is great satisfaction in breaking a record.  When the thermometer began to climb yesterday, it was watched with growing horror and profanity until it reached 114, but as it passed that point, disgust was transformed to triumphant joy, and we eagerly watched it climb to 115, hoping almost for another degree.  For we were “breaking a record” and the pride of our sporting blood was up. 

 

A mere 114 is simply hot—blistering, scorching, withering hot, a foretaste of the retribution hereafter, and a temptation to earn that retribution by falling into the cardinal sin of intemperance.  But 115—ah, that is different!  It is a triumphant race against the past and a new mark for all the future.  It is the consciousness of a new experience and a memorable event.  It is the profound knowledge of absolute supremacy in one thing. 

 

The hot wind may still blister, but we turn our cheek to catch its scorching breath, and luxuriate in the ecstasy of knowing that we are one degree nearer our final home than we have been before.  As the joyous news spreads, drooping forms revive, woe-be-gone countenances begin to smile, the dragging step becomes quick and firm.  For are we not “breaking a record?”  Are we not making (or suffering) history?  In anticipation of a whole life-time of retrospection, we become oblivious to the discomfort of the present.

 

 

Interesting that this was published over 116 years ago.  Makes one wonder... folks used to say "Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it!"  

 

Now that folks supposedly are trying to do something about it, are we any better off?   

 

And I wonder what caused that record to be broken in Fresno in 1905, when there may have been two dozen automobiles in the county.  

 

[Singin' Sue 71615]

2 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

This was published in the Fresno Morning Republican on July 9, 1905, the day after the temperature reached 115 degrees:  

 

 

Interesting that this was published over 116 years ago.  Makes one wonder... folks used to say "Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it!"  

 

Now that folks supposedly are trying to do something about it, are we any better off?   

 

And I wonder what caused that record to be broken in Fresno in 1905, when there may have been two dozen automobiles in the county.  

 

Ebb and flow...cycles of life...

There is a reason areas are called 100 Year Flood Plains

[Singin' Sue 71615]

2 days ago, the land around us was as brown as the driveway.

After one good rain...we are greening up.

[Pat Riot]

Apparently that record high temp in 1905 has not been broken. 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

Maybe it was the sun.  

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

I have always been of the firm belief that climate change happens 4 times each year.   

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[irish ike, SASS #43615]

The Greenies can''t accept the fact that the big yellow, bright disc in the sky, is what really controls the weather. Who knew?

[Sedalia Dave]

On 7/14/2021 at 4:53 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

I have always been of the firm belief that climate change happens 4 times each year.   

 

Here in East TX is sometimes occurs a couple times a day.

[watab kid]

On 7/14/2021 at 11:15 AM, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

".....Now that folks supposedly are trying to do something about it, are we any better off?   ...."

 

taxing us wont change a dang thing - just sayin , 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

And we hear all about it from the useful idiots:

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

While the ones garnering the benefits of an industrial society......