h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Amazing what boredom can lead you to find out...

I am subscribed to 10,396 threads. Well, 10,397 once this posts That's *without* being subscribed to Ask, Misc. Chat, or PR, BTW.

Traveller in Time lost count again
" You know how to post is it not "

Being here for 6.5 years and never unsubscribing helps And I *am* subscribed to the Thingite Manifesto and to United Friends, so that puffs the total a bit...

A little light reading?

*whispers--Actually, I skip over a lot of stuff, like the 'I want to be a Thingite' threads, though I will drop by some of those occasionally...*

*offers mufflewhumps to TiT and HN*

Thank you for the lovely mufflewhump. We'll probably need one tonight, it's supposed to get pretty cold.

Yeah, the sky's pretty clear here (at least the last time I looked) so it might get frosty. I know my ankles are pretty chilly! I do miss real winter, though. Not that I've lived anywhere with one since 1993 (Well, not counting Redding that one year, but there wasn't any *real* snow, and a week of 110+ temps when I had no choice about standing in a shadeless spot on blacktop at 3pm every day made up for it)

Traveller in Time observing the 'mufflewhump'
"Thank you, on last count I had more the 20 000 with sometimes over 100 incoming postings every hour I am afraid I miss some sometimes as well.

I will use the mufflewhump to keep some more track "

wonder how much you would have learned if you read it all!?
wonder how much of it is trivia!!?

Indeed , the Lady does get around, eh? That must be nearly the equivalent of 25 world-trips ... without leaving a keyboard.

"I skip over a lot of stuff, like the 'I want to be a Thingite' threads" [Amy]

You shouldn't have to skip over them, Amy. If there's even one
of them, that's one too many.



I guess parts of Northern California get a real winter, maybe even a Boston-style winter. Of course, those who live in the Midwest think that it is they who endure the *real* winters, with huge lake-effect snowstorms, and temps below 20 degrees F.

As warm as 20F? When is good for me to visit?

Sorry, it didn't occur to me that 20 below would seem like the sun belt to some people.

Sorry, mate. I didn't read the "temps below 20 degrees F" as you probably intended. Indeed, anything below zero F (-18C) starts to become a serious bother. So another 20 degrees is serious ouch-time.

I have *never* had to go outdoors in temps of minus 20 degrees.

There's real winter at this latitude--you just have to head inland and uphill a bit. Since the ocean's 6 blocks away, it's safe to say that it affects our climate just a little

Last winter, there were reports of snow in the Malibu Hills.
But a few flurries do not a winter make. The day after tomorrow, it will probably be so cold that the tempertaure won't even get up to 20. I can remember cold snaps in previous winters when it barely got up to 10 degrees.

Still, a lot of things come together to moderate the climate in Boston. It's as gentle a climate as I'd find within 200 or 300 miles. Tornadoes? We only ever had one that came this far East, and it stopped at a golf course in Brookline. Hurricanes? When we get them at all, they are usually so weakened by having had to traipse over Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts that most of their wind power has been worn down. Every 135 years or so, we get hurricane so powerful that we can get gusts of 100 miles per hour or more. I've seen trees blown horizontal in Boston in the Hurricane of 1938.
Boston has never had summer temperatures higher than 104 degrees, thanks to the cooling sea breezes. 17 below zero is the coldest we've had, but zero is normally the coldest we get in the average winter. (Chicago is at the same approximate latitude, and they had temps of 30 below for a solid week one year.)

The three things we get are wind, rain, and snow. I can deal with those.