Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:29:05 -0400
Reply-To: Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
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From: Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
Subject: Re: Code Red Air? (NVC)
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Code Red means, it is not safe to be outside for long periods of
time. Especially if you are not a healthy young adult. It doesn't
mean that the air is bad, per se, but it can mean that the heat
humidity levels will cause you to get overheated extremely quickly.
I can sweat out a pint of water an hour (or more) in this weather
(97F in DC, dewpoints in the 70s). You lose enough water and you get
light headed, or worse (if you stop sweating you end up going to the
hospital.)
This is not great weather for working on Vanagons. It's much better
for camping (i.e. leave the area and head for the mountains,
seashore, or northern reaches of Canada.)
On Jul 18, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:
> Man... I don't think I'd want to live in a place that has 'code red
> air
> days'.
> The worst thing in the air here is the low levels of various
> chemicals that
> come off the now-dry Owens Lake bed... including arsenic. Not
> enough to
> really make anybody sick per se but sinus problems here are
> chronic, even in
> people like me that never had them before moving here. Another
> thing for
> which to thank Mulholland, may the bastard rot in hell.
>
> On the other hand, it's currently 109 with 22% humidity, better
> than double
> the average, and both figure to go up in the next few hours.
> Probably hit
> around 114 and at least 30%. Completely kills the swamp coolers.
> Some people
> just drive their cars around so they can have some A/C- or at least
> they did
> when gas was cheaper. Still, I think I'd rather deal with that than
> 'code
> red air', whatever that is.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Walters" <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:05 PM
> Subject: Re: ---------
>
>
>> I was indeed incorrect. It is Eric Zeno.
>>
>> Got my "list banishees" mixed up by replying too fast after working
>> outside on the Syncro during a code red air day.
>>
>> It is really nasty here today. After about 4 hours out there 8-12:15
>> during which I drank lots of water, the chemical composition of
>> the air
>> has me really wiped out.
>>
>> I'll try to clear my head and avoid confusion.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sam Walters
>> Baltimore, MD
>>
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