[PRCo] Re: Feeling a little too hot and humid?

[Jim Holland]

Fred Schneider wrote:
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> I feel sorry for Holland knowing how unseasonably hot its been in San 
> Francisco.     (I remember the story by, I think originally, Samuel 
> Clemens, that the "coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San 
> Francisco."     So when I saw those 90 degree readings in the city, I 
> knew Jim had to be suffering.     Do they even have air-conditioned 
> buses in the city?       I would imagine not because it seldom gets 
> above the 70s.
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> I went to Newark yesterday to photograph the downtown portion of the 
> new Broad Street extension of the "Newark City Railway" ... walked a 
> mile in 95 degree heat and my wife said I looked terrible when I got 
> home. Felt dizzy this morning. But I did get the pitchurs.

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Not really suffering.       Only Muni equipment with AC is Breda lrvs  
--  And Cable Cars!!!       90-degrees in SF may be like 75 - 80 in 
Pittsburgh!       But tis one of the reasons I work nights  --  just get 
bright sun for several hours in the evening, then the sun disappears and 
it is Very Pleasant  --  people are closing the windows on the bus by 
10-PM and even earlier!!!       On a  **-Normal-**  day in SF people are 
closing the windows even at 4-PM!!        This recent Heat Wave was very 
unusual for San Francisco  --  in the 30 years I have been here we might 
get one day in the Fall when it is possible to step outdoors without a 
jacket at Mudnight!       Here we had a couple weeks in the middle of 
summer!       Understand that the High that has brought us this Hot 
weather is moving your direction, and it hasn't been exactly  Cool  in 
the rest of the country anyhow.       From weather reports I have seen 
everyone in the midwest and east was hovering very close to a  Humid  
100  every day.
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Normally a subway is very temperate weather wise, at least it was in 
Chicago   ---   Cool in summer and pleasant in winter.       But Very 
hot in Muni subway at all times and Boeing cars were Very Unpleasant   
((either Boston cars came thus equipped or it was retrofitted to a 
number of vehicles as slide to open windows were cut into the upper part 
of each picture window))  --  I tell everyone that the SF subway is so 
hot because SF is much closer to Hell  --  No One has challenged me on 
that!!
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Passengers get on bus:   """Isn't it really nice today?!?!"""       Dead 
Silence.       """Ohhh!       That's right!"""   they will exclaim:   
"""You Like The Fog And Rain."""       But not for any reasons that they 
would guess!!!
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I live on the Judah Car Line in the Sunset at the top of the hill from 
the Ocean  --  we Normally have Fog until noon or later which is nice 
for me so I can sleep  (4-AM til about Noon.)       But I felt somewhat 
better with all the sun and warmth  --  something to do with age 
probably!!!       Sun was up rather early today  (first time in about a 
week)  and it is 80 inside my apartment now  --  Very Pleasant.       
Wearing a long sleeve shirt but Not At All Uncomfortable.       Get good 
cross ventilation here.
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I am told that Mark said that about Many Places  --  even Seattle!!
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Jim___Holland