too effing hot

ay yi yi, good luck

do it after 9

Hot weather things I have learned: there is a 30-minute window in the time a water bottle is in the freezer, freezing that when you remove it from the fridge, the water freezes into slush when you flip the top open.

Bus is an option if you don’t give a f about your time. Hey man I’ll be there whenever

guess what, more buses mean your timing becomes reliable

nb: trains >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> buses, dgmw

If what’s stopping you riding the bus is reliability and you’re somewhere like LA (big headways, no street infrastructure to make waiting non awful) then I highly recommend the app “transit” (bad name). It’s kind of like 4square in that it gamifies riding transit. But when you play the game you’re actually sharing your location with other users, which gives bus arrival times down to like 10 second accuracy. It’s also pretty good at coming up with hybrid routes (eg bus + train + scooter).

You don’t have to share your location to benefit from people who do btw. It’s just a source of more accurate arrival times for most users.

There's gotta be an app like that for any major transit system, right?

I use the one for my municipal line. My biggest complaint used to be getting to the bus stop and not knowing if I was ten minutes early or ten minutes late (the buses ain't exactly programmed by Mussolini.)

But with the app, I can watch them scoot along the route in real time. I've about got it timed just right where if I leave the house right as the little icon crests the top of the loop, I can be at the stop with about two minutes to spare.

right. LA metro has a real time app too, and google maps etc. inherits this data. transit is nicer though because most US municipal bus systems's idea of "real time" is pretty fuzzy and error prone (beacon at each bus stop, which can be 5-10 mins apart, and in between is guesswork).

obviously if you live in a developed country this is not an issue though.

I ignore the beacon.

I work between the bus shop and the main terminal, so the bus stop outside my door is always showing my bus to be <1min away.

You could be the mayor of your bus

If I was elected, I'd make transit drivers announce "Following Stop!" instead of "Next Stop!"

I lost power around 8 pm in my living room and most of the kitchen except for my fridge. I still have power in my bedroom and bathroom. I am considering this a win.

run an extension cord to the fridge?

Maybe check the fuse box too.

Not interested in being anywhere except literally in a body of water. Options include ocean; sparklingly clear mountain lake, inflatable kiddie pool in backyard.

https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E03/75258.jpg

Exactly. True facts though, I put cold hose water in the pool on Friday, and by Saturday evening it was hotter than the air. So not really much help.

Maybe check the fuse box too.

Yes, if you have power in some rooms and not others, you probably need to reset a breaker switch for the affected rooms.

hey the LA metro board read that article i posted (maybe they lurk here) and it's resulted in an actual policy change

Laura's story was excellent, and this is great news, but it's simply unacceptable that the Metro board had to read a newspaper article to understand how to prioritize basic, fundamental improvements for its bus riders. https://t.co/TqbMfzbZ1Q

— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) July 22, 2019

is there a transit thread?

here's one

I Love Mass Transit

thank you

Living in an always somewhat cooler northern part of a country where the national prediction/temperature is forever worse than it is up here, even I am bracing myself for the upcoming 35/37 degrees coming up on Wed/Thurs. Would be a record by quite some margin but it seems like it is really happening this time. :(

Everything's back to normal in Toronto; next few days 25-30°.

shorts on, fans on, I want a siesta

“If only someone could explain why LA’s bus ridership is going down” pic.twitter.com/bbZbnEucAO

— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) July 23, 2019

*considers going up to London on Thursday for demo*

*sees it may be pushing 40 degrees on thursday*

I just gave the building super $200 in an envelope for switching out my ancient AC for a newer model last week, which is the most New Yawk thing I've ever done as a tenant here.

here in the heart of the city the overnight low was 27
still on course for 42 tomorrow, "only" 39 today
this heat wave is really something historic I think

It was 62º/17º in freaking Arkansas this morning. In late July.

Not complaining, but something ain't right.

It's intense, but I like the dog days even more now that I've gotten acquainted with the sheer monotony of English weather.

xp

our forecast high for saturday is 22, so a 20 degree (celsius) drop in highs over 2 days.

sorta reminds me of spring in texas, ugh

An all-time record for Holland today (39º), and expected to be bettered tomorrow.

yeah I saw that our horror has leaked into the lowlands too, what an abomination
the air today is disgusting: it's unnaturally bright, with a greenish tint.
and our AQI isn't even that horrid today, 72 in my arrondissement (the most polluted in the city). but compared to like Santiago Chile (144 AQI right now), Sao Paolo (141) or Delhi (132) it's paradise here.

I just gave the building super $200 in an envelope for switching out my ancient AC for a newer model last week, which is the most New Yawk thing I've ever done as a tenant here.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 23, 2019 11:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

loooool this is totally how Christopher operates every day. Need something done? Give the guy a "crispy" and *poof* it's handled.

Red alert in 20 French departments, including l'Île-de-France. 41 tomorrow is going to be brutal…

42 in paname non ? C’est l’enfer

42, you're right. I'll try to spend the day at the library…

I'm just not leaving the apartment. as bad as it is inside (26 right now), just getting anywhere else, even the airconned ligne 2, would be worse.

Have to work in Soho (London) tomorrow, dreading getting the Cental Line *all* the way from Tottenham Ct Rd to Epping in scorching heat at the end of the day's rush, I think I might just wait until after 7pm and see, lived in London for 26 years and can't honestly recall it ever forecast as high.

probably gonna be a lot of breakdowns around this time tomorrow - trying to work out if I can rentabike all the way home in constant shade

Austin is bizarrely cool and dry, it feels like the end of the world in July

paris public trans holding up ok today but on the non airconned lines (most of them) it's no doubt infernal.

my uni sent out a mail saying we should be drinking a glass of water every 15 minutes to keep hydrated!

Getting the train down to Kent tomorrow...or am I?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/24/uk-commuters-warned-to-avoid-rail-travel-on-heatwave-thursday

I’m am so glad I take the bus and not the tube to work but even the bus is brutal right now. Ugh.

I know that Europe hasn’t needed AC historically blah blah blah but it does now and this is pretty ridiculous. I honestly can’t believe the tube isn’t air conditioned at this point.

lunchtime footy was very pleasant today

Two of my coworkers don’t have fans in their flats. I would die.

In Paris, it's aggravated by the "reduced" activity of most public transportation during the summer holiday (many lines are closed or with reduced service) + many of the streets under construction...
As a result public transportation is crowded and street traffic is heavy although half of the people have already left on holidays.

I’ve just experienced the bus... it’s hamman level !

if I wanted sauna I'd move to Finland
it's still gonna be 33 at midnight