SF BAY AREA Heat Wave - Page 12

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

Thanks @Moonchilde. I've missed a lot when it comes to ice cream, I have to look into the changes.

Safeway was almost empty of frozen treats but I did get the new Outshine pineapple bars. It really did help to cool down.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@truffle wrote:
Is the electricity in CA all on one grid or is it broken up by Northern and Southern CA? I wonder which counties use the most electricity during these hot days. I'm guessing it's not San Francisco. It just doesn't seem fair that the blackouts or brownouts occur in areas that don't use the most juice. Just thinking out loud but I hope someone can explain it. Thanks.

Hi @truffle

I have no idea. Maybe someone else knows.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

Salt and straw is a Portland ice creamery. It is small artisan stuff. They have one in san Francisco, and one in los angeles as well as the mother ship in Posrtland. They are wonderful. The pear and blue cheese isnt as weird as it sounds. Lol. The ice cream tastes slightly like ny cheesecake. The pear pieces are big and fresh tasting. Idk how they do it. There are tiny pices of blue cheese here and there. My favorite was their June flavor of the month. It was blueberry preserve with habanero pepper and goat cheese. Now that tasted like cheesecake with rivers of fresh Oregon blueberry preserves with a hint of habanero here and there. It was surprising!

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

jewel3 · ‎03-13-2010

When San Mateo and Burlingame are hotter than Palm Desert, it's terrible. Luckily tonight is a bit cooler than last night - 87 at 10 pm so we can open windows earlier as the house was 89 this afternoon. We usually live in weather paradise but this week are praying for the fog to come in. I always love to look over toward the beach and see it pouring over the hills. This is crazy weather.

truffle · ‎01-04-2016

@Noel7 wrote:
@truffle wrote:
Is the electricity in CA all on one grid or is it broken up by Northern and Southern CA? I wonder which counties use the most electricity during these hot days. I'm guessing it's not San Francisco. It just doesn't seem fair that the blackouts or brownouts occur in areas that don't use the most juice. Just thinking out loud but I hope someone can explain it. Thanks.

Hi @truffle

I have no idea. Maybe someone else knows.

@Noel7maybe the logic is, San Francisco is already suffering without a/c so it doesn't matter if they do so in the dark. Take away the juice in So Ca and I think there would be riots.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

@Moonchilde wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@shoekitty wrote:
I had ice water and Salt and STraw.,Roasted Strawberry and Coconut Cream ice cream. Then i washed it down with more Salt and Straw, but I switched the flavor to Pear and Blue Cheese ice cream. Yum

@shoekitty

I have to ask... what is salt and straw? I've never seen pear and blue cheese ice cream, but like my father, I love a fresh pear on a plate with a little blue cheese. I ate very little, no appetite.

@Noel7 It's one of the trendy "non-traditional flavors" ice cream chains. Mostly in Oregon but also in LA.

I can't say why, exactly, but I've never been a fan of what I think of as "savory" ice cream or dessert, as opposed to sweet. So, I skip those places. I lived a couple of blocks from one (not this chain) in LA and never went. I'm just trad when it comes to ice cream. Except that I love the Persian, Turkish and Indian ice cream flavors.

shoekitty said
They have many, many non weird, or as you say savory ice cream flavors
Some sound savory, but they arent when you taste them. They do it well. The weird sounding flavors like I mentioned, are monthly flavors. However, they do come up with one or two a year I wouldnt touch, like marrow bone .😬🙀. I order online, and have the ice cream delivered.

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

jewel3 · ‎03-13-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
@truffle wrote:
Is the electricity in CA all on one grid or is it broken up by Northern and Southern CA? I wonder which counties use the most electricity during these hot days. I'm guessing it's not San Francisco. It just doesn't seem fair that the blackouts or brownouts occur in areas that don't use the most juice. Just thinking out loud but I hope someone can explain it. Thanks.

Hi @truffle

I have no idea. Maybe someone else knows.

The grid is not totally broken up. Fresno and other valley and desert cities use the most as they are the hottest so to provide enough for those areas, sometimes there are small outages in cooler areas but right now those areas are sweltering, too. Transformers tend to blow sometimes in very hot weather, too.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@Noel7, I like those Outshine fruit bars - very thirst-quenching. Walmart's selection didn't blow me away. I came home with mini-sized drumsticks similar to the mini cones TJ'S has. And some other sweet things;-(

It was 98 degrees in Carmel Valley at 9 pm.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed the heat backs off after mid-week. The Capitola Art & Wine Festival is next weekend. It was 98-100 there today :-(

Life without Mexican food is no life at all

Poodlepet2 · ‎03-09-2010

I have a question for you West Coasters....I know places like Seattle-and usually San Francisco is on the cool side, but many areas of the West Coast have a great deal of sun....are you fighting the same fight we are to get solar power?

Here in Florida, there is no reason we should not have it....we could all be generating our own power and sell unused energy back where it could be channeled to places in need.

That's not the story however: we can have solar panels for pools or a water heater-but that's it. It is so incredibly stupid.

I don't want to be political, but it's not in the interest of any state-especially one the size of California to have a "dominant" power grid system-especially in this age of cyber wars.

I see it as only one of many simple ways we could strengthen our infrastructure.

There is one community here is Florida that is being allowed to be "green"- Babcock Ranch.

I am guessing this speaks for the power of oil companies, because ultimately, it does take fossil fuel to keep turbines running.

It's just in my mind that California is in the grips of a deadly heat wave, and no doubt, water consumption is probably up as well-not only households, but farms we here-all rely on.

I am curious....

Hugs and stay cool,

Poodlepet2

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@jewel3 wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@truffle wrote:
Is the electricity in CA all on one grid or is it broken up by Northern and Southern CA? I wonder which counties use the most electricity during these hot days. I'm guessing it's not San Francisco. It just doesn't seem fair that the blackouts or brownouts occur in areas that don't use the most juice. Just thinking out loud but I hope someone can explain it. Thanks.

Hi @truffle

I have no idea. Maybe someone else knows.
The grid is not totally broken up. Fresno and other valley and desert cities use the most as they are the hottest so to provide enough for those areas, sometimes there are small outages in cooler areas but right now those areas are sweltering, too. Transformers tend to blow sometimes in very hot weather, too.