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Shout out to our friends in the Carolinas. Be safe.

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I'm being told the sustained winds are not teetering on hurricane and it will be a cat1 when the eye hits around 6am tomorrow morning. 

It snuck right up on us.  The governor is issuing SoE orders now... its expected to make landfall at western carteret or eastern Onslow counties... wanna guess where I live?

This is taken in Washington, NC - 60 miles INLAND!

Well, it IS a marina after all. 

It was a little puffer that tried its best to be a hurricane, but just missed it.  

Those pics- "little" Washington, as it's called, is on the nuese River right before it dumps into the pamlico sound... by boat you can get from Washington to the outer banks in an hour and a half... it does get some tides even being that far from the ocean.

Not much to report here... winds blew, rain fell, everything is wet.  There are maybe half a dozen trees down total in my lil neighborhood- during Florence, as reference, there was that in just my yard.  Most the "damage" was because lack of prep- such as boats left on lifts and collapsing, or the likes.  And that, only because this one snuck up on us.  

I hear there is another one playing around PR right now?  

I suppose living in this area isn't much different than living in tornado alley.... its only a threat when it is.  

Sobering recent New Yorker article on just how unlivable Phoenix summers are becoming; the numbers of heat related deaths across Maricopa County are increasing at much higher Summer totals.

Having recently spent two separate summer weeks in Phoenix – early July and early September – and having beforehand lived in Arizona off and on for years at a time, I caught myself sensing how much more relentlessly sweltering the sun-charged heat felt across the city.

And yes, as the article observes, the streets in central Phoenix appeared nearly empty throughout the July mid-day – "The streets seem abandoned" – something I hadn't really seen before giving the sheer population of Phoenix metro keeping the streets busy with traffic.

“Across the U.S. each year, significantly more people die from heat than from any other weather-related event, including hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and even rip currents. Many of these deaths are concentrated in and around Phoenix. In 2022, there were four hundred and twenty-five heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County—a twenty-five-per-cent increase from the previous year.”

“Still, this summer, which included the hottest July ever recorded on the planet, has been different. Not only were the days scorching but there was a stretch of sixteen days when the nighttime low was ninety degrees or above, including one night when the low was ninety-seven degrees.”

“So far, the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner has confirmed a hundred and eighty heat-associated deaths this year, with three hundred and thirty still under investigation. Both numbers are much higher than those at the same time last year, despite a lag in the data, since it takes about six weeks for the O.M.E. to conclude a death investigation. The O.M.E.—already one of the busiest medical examiner’s offices in the U.S.—has been overwhelmed.”




https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1699435716223127969

Meeting climate change goals is still possible with renewable energy and EVs : NPR

Hope?  Sounds like dreaming to me.

For example, the world is on track to spend $1.8 trillion on clean energy this year. To meet the target outlined in the 2015 Paris climate agreement among the world's nations, the IEA finds annual spending would have to more than double to $4.5 trillion by the early 2030s.

Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers

The company just doesn't want to have to rely on the nearby energy grid to run its cloud services.

https://www.extremetech.com/energy/microsoft-looking-to-use-nuclear-reactors-to-power-its-data-centers

News of Microsoft's plans comes from a job listing for a "Principal Program Manager Nuclear Technology." The listing states the company is looking for someone to examine how to integrate a small modular reactor (SMR) into its data centers' power plans, so there's not much ambiguity here. It's specifically looking for this person to perform a "technical assessment for the integration of SMR and microreactors to power the data centers that the Microsoft Cloud and AI reside on." Amazingly, the position is "up to" 100% work from home, which is pretty sweet.