[rescue] Re: SGI Fuel

[Julius Sridhar]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Robert Novak wrote:

> > If you were in central Wisconsin now or over the last few weeks you
> > could bike and not come back with frost bite...  50 degrees F isn't too
> > bad for Mt. Biking imho.
>
> and if you were in sfbay.ca.us over the last week or so, you could walk
> from the house to the car and get frostbite. It's apparently 38 out at
> Moffett Field on the peninsula, clear skies and not much wind. (40.8
> degrees on my porch, with widely scattered darkness).

Frostbite in 38-degree weather?  You've got to be kidding.  When it's 40
out, I still wear sandals.  I barely wear a jacket at 38.

> And eeek: This is on the weather wire right now for the SF bay area (see
> http://www.weather.com/weather/local/94538)
>
> 	Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service
>
> 	 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN
> 	FRANCISCO CA 244 PM PST WED JAN 30 2002 ...WIDESPREAD FREEZING
> 	TEMPERATURES FORECAST AGAIN TONIGHT...
>
> 	TEMPERATURES WILL ONCE AGAIN LOWER TO FREEZING OR SUB-FREEZING
> 	READINGS OVER THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY REGIONS TONIGHT.
> 	LOW HUMIDITY...CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS ALLOWED TEMPERATURES
> 	TUESDAY NIGHT TO LOWER INTO THE 20S ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. EVEN
> 	AT THE WATER FRONT...TEMPERATURES WERE NEAR OR JUST BELOW
> 	FREEZING. SIMILAR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AND FROST
> 	ADVISORIES AND FREEZE WARNINGS CONTINUE TO BE POSTED FOR THE AREA.
> 	FOR DETAILS ON ADVISORIES AND WARNINGS PLEASE SEE
> 	SFONPWSFO...WWUS45 KSFO. PROTECT VEGETATION...PLANTS AND ANIMALS
> 	THAT ARE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES.
>
> To think I moved here to get AWAY from this weather. Well, that and to get
> cheap computers. Don't ask why I'm probably picking up another 40 PCs
> tomorrow. Sigh.

Wussies.  8-)

Peace...  Sridhar