Billowy breezes met me as I walked into the lobby of my office. A blast of cool air pummeled my near-sunburnt scalp during my ride up to the 5th floor.
Then the doors of the elevator open to hell.
The AC konked out some time over the weekend and baby, it’s hot in my cube right now, on this, the hottest day of the year so far. The fax and graphics server are running (so far) and are creating a nice pocket of heat that the 4 of us have to bathe in. Thank god for Costco’s sale on Right Guard. Four fans are pushing air around like Britney Spears shuffling a baby in her lap, driving away from the paparazzi. I can hear the chips in my computer getting crispy around the edges. I am Shvitzing. Like I’ve never shvitzed before.
Oh yes. Mark my word here for all to see. There will be another power outage to this fair city of ours. I predict it!!
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Well you could always insert Mr. Freezie if eating it would mess up your blood sugar levels.
Room mate just called. He says the fridge is registering 17C (proper fridge levels are around 5C to 10C for you American readers).
Looks like we’re going to be making a huge stew tonight.
At work, they just passed around Mr Freezies for us diabetics to enjoy. Foo!
Everybody back up everything!
Current temperature in Toronto as of 1:09 p.m. is 32 degrees (90 American degrees) and a humidex rating of 42 degrees (108 American degrees) – humidex is heat index – that’s American too, eh?
Blackout by 5pm I predict:
24,835 MW
12:00 p.m. EDT Jul 17, 2006
TODAY’S PROJECTED PEAK AT
5:00 PM
GENERATOR CAPABILITY AT PEAK
26,296 MW
I was at home when the power went out and called my roomate to yell at him for not paying the bills…he explained that it was a bigger issue than our Hydro Bill…we then met and found a patio seat on Church. Sorry that you are working in a sauna 🙁
I was actually just trying to Google this nifty website I’ve lost track of… a site that shows Ontario’s current megawatt consumption, and how close we are to rolling blackouts.
It’s not a sustainable situation. We’re hanging by a thread.
What is it, like a balmy 10 celcius ?
I wish I was your cat, Dickson.
I was with my niece at Canada’s Wonderland when the last outage hit. Teen pandamonium took over when the word got out that they were shutting the park.
Where were you people?
ahhh, the comforting hummm of a cranked central A/C…Landlord’s away and its cranked to 65…Is that a frozen steak or the cat!!!!!
I will be responsible for the grid going poof!