Heat Problems: Cement Buckling, Trees Dropping (A hugh 20 foot oak) CA is being freeped!

[Kadie]

Jun 29, 2009 7:53 am US/Pacific
Heat Problems: Cement Buckling, Trees Dropping

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― With another day of triple-digit heat predicted for much of Northern California, more heat related problems are popping up.

At least one lane of Interstate 5 in downtown Sacramento was closed for emergency repairs after the heat caused the roadway to buckle this morning.

The CHP incident reports there is a 6 foot by 2 foot section of roadway that is causing the problem. Extreme heat has been known to buckle cement roadways. Caltrans quickly made an emergency repair and will be watching the roadway today.

The high heat is being blamed for bringing down trees. A hugh 20 foot oak tree branched snapped off in the median near the intersection of Walerga and Shandwick in the Antelope area. That is just north of Elverta.
It's not blocking traffic.

The triple digit temps really stress trees causing the branches to 'drop'.

Heat is also being blamed on knocking out some Light Rail train service in downtown Sacramento over the weekend.


more...
http://cbs13.com/breakingnews/heat.cement.buckling.2.1063937.html


Man it is hot here. Blah....

[babylonsister]

1. Houston checking in. Our electricity just came back on

after shutting off for a few hours. Don't know why, but man, is it hot here. Yuck! I don't know how people lived w/o A/C.

[maxsolomon]

3. in the energy-starved future, you may find out.

i think the answer is they sweated a lot, and lived in different types of buildings - i.e. not skyscrapers surrounded by acres of asphalt.

[babylonsister]

15. I live in a ranch in the 'burbs, but I get your point.

I was just telling my husband that there is no way! I'd be cut out as a pioneer woman. I must have had a shitty existence in a former life. And as I get older I can endure the heat less (or just like to complain more?).

[maxsolomon]

19. there is a way to live in concert with the earth in humid climates

solar shading, thickly insulated roofs, maximized breezes through the home.

my solution was to move to seattle, though.

[Kadie]

7. Glad you got your power back.

High heat and no electricity is tough. If I didn't have the fans and/or A/c I think I would have to be laying down. We finally have a breeze starting up, suppose to cool a bit over the next couple of days. Currently it is 106 here.

:hi:

[babylonsister]

10. Hi, Kadie. My nephew just moved there. I think he's in for

a shock! He was living in NC, where it also gets hot, but buckling highways?! :wow:

Our thermometer was reading 120, but the sun beats on it in the p.m. Maybe 100+, not counting the humidity?

:hi:

[tridim]

2. We need help with the hugh amount of hail we're getting in Denver.

It keeps ruining my pepper plants. :(

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. 78 here in Big Bear Lake

Nice cool breeze, big puffy clouds... couldn't ask for a better day!

[Kadie]

9. 106 here. Probably will be up to 108 later this afternoon.

Cooking!

[Flaneur]

5. Well over a hundred in the Central Valley today

Here in Sebastopol, the heat broke today after two scorching days.

Meanwhile, just 20 miles from on the Pacific Coast at Bodega Bay, it's in the 60s. Aah, cool luxury.

[Webster Green]

8. Hey neighbor!

I'm in Guerneville. :hi:

[FirstLight]

20. coolness!

My folks have property near Mt. Jackson...I LOVE it up there!

...maybe one day we'll be neighbors too!
But for now I am in Tahoe, mid 80s, can't swim in the Lake or anywhere, cuz there's pine pollen all over everything. ack!

[wtbymark]

12. Heya Sebastopol, was just there last weekend

at my friends wedding where he had the David Nelson Band play - effing awesome i might add
100 here in Reno today (bout average)

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. One blessing is your nights cool off. Our nights are 75-and humid.

Here in SW Al. we went from a very rainy and coolish May directly into 90's in June. Heat index gets up to 107.
I keep wondering how the woman of the 1800s managed to make it thru one day, with all the clothes they had to wear, no A/C, etc.

[madokie]

6. It worries me

I don't remember ever having a june like this one here. We've already had several 100 plus degree days and there is many years we don't ever get to 100 the whole summer long.

[RandySF]

11. It's hot in the Bay Area

I hate it. San Francisco is supposed to have nice, cool summers, but there is no escaping the heat. 2009 is shaping up to be a lousy year all-around.

[G_j]

13. is 20 ft. really huge for an oak in Cali?

that would be pretty small here in NC.

Sorry about the heat though, we had temps in the 90s here in the mountains, but no triple digits..yet.

[Luminous Animal]

17. I believe it is just the branch that is 20ft. (n/t)

[ContinentalOp]

23. Totally different species of oak btw, but yeah that was just a branch -nt-

[kestrel91316]

14. Yeah, we had 100F+ here in the San Fernando Valley yesterday and

probably close again today. It's been a nice spring though, other than that 104F back in frickin' APRIL, lol. A year ago this time we were coming off 9 days over 110F including two in a row of 117F.

[rucky]

16. Are you SERIES???

[stevedeshazer]

21. 74F, clear with a steady breeze from the north at 2 mph.

Not to cast asparagus your way.

:)

Seriously, that's rough. It sure gets hot in Sac.

[theophilus]

22. Well, we had a really big limb break off our large pine tree in the back yard

for no apparent reason. It could be heat related. We are in central Arkansas and have just had a heat wave. If we had been under it we would have died. It killed our clothesline.