A bam-bam firehose of a storm has entered the KDX Operational Area and per security policy we have shut it down and disconnected from the gritty grid. It's black-dark out the window and flash-bangs are proving that nature has bigger and better fireworks than any 4th of July Festival. Even our website has been set to a distant 'Parking page" until morning. We do not play the game of pretending to alert the public of a storm raging over a far greater region than our few-hundred-feet of range. At times like this we wonder if our grounding system could be improved, and it probably can, but of course not during the storm.
It's 24-hours later and a different storm will be spending all day up until midnight delivering the very wet remnant of Hurricane Beryl. As there is no lightning nor dangerous wind KDX remains in full operation delivering news of what the humans are doing around the world. My main interest amid all of this is the question of what there is to eat.
@carl-blare We're having a heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest. It isn't as bad on the coast as it is in the interior, but temperatures are still reaching 33 degrees Centigrade plus. Luckily the air conditioning is keeping the computers cool and running.
Things are due to start getting back to normal tomorrow, although temperatures will still be elevated somewhat for a few days.
Glad to hear it's only for a few days. Tail end of the hurricane from Texas hitting Southern Ontario Wednesday.
Tropical storm Beryl has left the area, our area being the Mid-Mississippi River Valley in the U.S. It was scheduled to stop raining at midnight last night, but it came up a little short and stopped raining a bit earlier. Today is sunny, high in the mid 80's(F), all-in-all a 'normal summer day'.
It will be interesting to hear how the storm is doing when it reaches Mark's territory in Southern Ontario, which might be happening as we speak.
@carl-blare Just a rainy day here with a bit of lightning and thunder and warnings of flooding in some places. Should be out of here tonight.
Didn't get much of it here in West Virginia. Few clouds and some wrap around wind.
A furious morning electric storm has chased us into cowering underneath the furniture and our morning newscasts are given over to crackle and static. I am speaking to you from one lone isolated back-room computer in the hopes that the next lightning discharge will not notice us slinking among the coats in this closet.
Once this violence is fully expressed we will be subjected to excess heat for a few days but we have thus far avoided total annihilation by staying well above sea level and obeying local lawn ordinances.
There needs to be a way of moving our entire radio operation to a remote server farm in northern Canada as a way of staying out of these midwestern storms. Maybe we could rent some server time from Mark or Artisan Radio to beam KDX from afar.
It seems quieter all of a sudden, maybe time to re-start the machine.
@carl-blare There's storms in Northern Canada too. They start all, well most, of the fires you have probably heard about. You get the smoke down there. Jasper, a town in northern Alberta just had a fire sweep through and destroy the town and displacing 1000s of people and many businesses. Such a disaster that all that beautiful wilderness and the town that is known all over the world was destroyed.
Sometimes I think there's only two ways this ends.
The fast way, via nuclear armageddon.
Or the slow(er) way with climate change.
There's a quote in a book I recently finished by Simon R. Green. An alien states to a human that when a race's technological intelligence outpaces it's emotional intelligence, it doesn't last long.
@ Artisan-Radio Right. It would take an alien to tell us something smarter than we know on our own. The emotional intelligence of humans hasn't changed much in thousands of years and isn't helped much by 'higher education'. But our technological intelligence is already getting us trapped in outer space.