More goddamn bullshit. IT’S SUMMERTIME, PEOPLE. Why do we act surprised?
Heat Wave Settles on Plains, Midwest
DETROIT – Scorching heat again built up over the Plains and Upper Midwest early Monday as the furnace-like air that blistered California last week settled over the nation’s midsection.
The hyperbole! The hyperbole!
Numerous heat warnings were in place from Michigan to Oklahoma, with high temperatures expected to climb into the 90s or 100s, and sparking thunderstorms along its eastern edge.
The heat wave was keeping thousands huddled in their air-conditioned homes as many poor and homeless people sweat it out or head for cooling centers.
It got up to 90 here with humidity you could cut with a knife, and everybody and their brother was out doing something. Traffic was awful.
And note the kicker — gotta get those poor and homeless people into the story somehow. As James Taranto often notes in his “Homeless Discovery Watch” section,
“If George W. Bush becomes president, the armies of the homeless, hundreds of thousands strong, will once again be used to illustrate the opposition’s arguments about welfare, the economy, and taxation.”–Mark Helprin, Oct. 31, 2000
Same song, different day. Anyway:
The combination of temperatures in the mid to upper 90s and high humidity threatened to make it feel like 100 degrees to 105 degrees in the Lower Peninsula.
Oh, boo hoo for you.
I’d quote the rest but it’s more of the same. What a bunch of pansies. You’d think it never got that hot in the Midwest. When I was a kid I remember it getting that hot plenty of times.
You’d think we lived in France, for chrissake.