Republic -- "If you can keep it." [Democracy]
Accountability for Jan. 6th insurrection.
U.S. Select House Committee on Jan. 6th Hearings continue in the fall.
U.S. Dept. of Justice and FBI deserve respect for doing their jobs.
QUESTION: Were any of those classified documents missing from empty folders found at Mar-a-Largo and other security information in boxes like those confiscated by government authorities transported by the ex-President to his Bedminster, N.J. residence as theorized by ex-FBI agent and seen in Daily Mail, U.K. video in Washington Post article questioned in Newsweek HERE?
Note: "Trump and the Mar-a-Largo documents: A timeline -- Washington Post HERE.
9/11 A date embedded in our memories as are those whose lives ended that day.
SO-CAL
Updating Southern California weather effects where I live should any who might want to know what climate changes on this planet may bring to some in the future. Refer to my previous post describing the situation.
Given our extreme heat wave, we managed to avoid any rolling blackouts with our power grid withstanding day-after-day heavy demands. Residents voluntarily cut back further on power usage including during our flex alert prime time usage expanded by one hour on each end of the five hour block for a total of seven hours (3 - 10 p.m.)
Hurricane Kay formed in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico's coast moving north toward our Los Angeles area fortunately only becoming a tropical storm breaking heat and rain records. A California hurricane is a tropical cyclone with usually only the remnants affecting us though they are rare. The last hurricane was 25 years ago.
Periodic rain bursts from Hurricane Kay came to various locales across the Southland, finally even a couple very light rains to my own neighborhood. Some beach communities built up sand dunes along the shore to contend with high surf and possible flooding. People living inland in areas where forest fires had burned away soil-holding vegetation filled sandbags for placement against possible excess water causing damaging mud slides to homes and businesses.
East of where I live one forest fire only 5% minimally controlled day-after-day kept spreading causing several occasions of thousands being told to evacuate their homes. Two people died in their car apparently trying to escape the flames. Finally, though only a small amount, enough rain came to curtail the fire's expansion which is now 50% contained.
I was delighted to see dampened pavement on my driveway one morning and a bit more the next day. This light rain almost invisible to the eye was hardly sufficient to impact our drought but was enough to give vegetation a brief refresher.
Let It Rain -- Diana Krall en live sur RTL
Equally, or maybe even more importantly, our temperatures have cooled down now. In fact, our temperatures are in the 80's, a bit below our previous years usual numbers. In a few more days our humidity will lessen to the drier level we usually have that is more comfortable, especially if the heat increases as is expected.
My week brought me water in a way I did not welcome with the discovery of a leak when a patch of water which hadn't dried up in the heat I observed coming from underneath my garage door. The week before I had noticed water but couldn't detect an active specific leak though I had my suspicions as to the source. Now, with this obvious water it was time for the plumber.
A new hot water heater was the order of the day as I expected. The plumber thought my heater was probably about fifteen years old -- quite a long life well beyond the usually expected ten years or less longevity. I vaguely recalled reading these heaters operated best if drained periodically but realized I had never done that. Maybe it would have lasted even longer if I had.
I could recall only that my husband had taken care of the last purchase sometime before his 2006 death. I didn't have the old purchase receipt to make a cost comparison with the quote I was given for a new hot water heater. I was really surprised to learn how expensive installation of a new one would be.
I did check the internet verifying what they said was the cost of the unit, the quality of the brand as the highest rated one, so I decided not to delay installation in order to get other price quotes. Additional copper piping and connections were needed since the old ones were long since beyond being workable.
They said they could install the new hot water heater for me right then, that Friday afternoon, so perhaps it was best not to delay. The two young men (most service workers are young to me any more) worked steadily and hard for several hours and labor isn't cheap. Hopefully, there are no more appliances or other items needing replacement anytime soon.
I expect others of you living in individual residences have had to go through the hot water heater experience but I'd never had to give much thought to one -- we just always had hot water wherever we lived, but then my husband probably always looked after this essential I just took for granted.
