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LWolf

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3. I lived through a lot of heat waves like that in CA.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:26 PM

Jun 2013

Rolling blackouts. Ugh. The Mojave Desert is not a great place to be at that time.

It's hot enough up here north of CA that I'm sure power use will be high. Probably won't break the system here though, since so many of us don't have any power-hungry cooling system to crank.

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