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Edward Aycock
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Posted: 03 July 2026 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
A particularly nasty one on the East Coast, not sure how far it's stretching.  

Know where you could not pay me to be this weekend?  On the shadeless National Mall.  

I really have wished for Storm or her powers during bad weather.  (Another time, was that severe cold snap and wind in early February.)
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Posted: 03 July 2026 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
For some weird reason, at times like this I find myself remembering an episode of I DREAM OF JEANNIE, where Tony finds himself possessing Jeannie’s powers, and contemplates all the good he can do. Irrigating the Sahara, for instance.

Jeannie cautions him that there is a balance in Nature. Bringing water to one place would almost certainly cause a drought somewhere else.

I suspect Storm would need to be careful about such things too!

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That's a really interesting point I've never thought about. 

I also wondered how far of an area Storm could control. 

As a teen, I wanted Kitty and the Invisible Woman's powers combined (I'm sure you all can figure out why), but what I wouldn't give for some cool rain right now.  

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Ok, I cheated a bit when I pointed a meat thermometer at the sun yesterday.

But in the shade it was still reading 103!!!
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This reminds me of a bit from (post-JB) Chris Claremont...
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Here's a similar quote from a 1984 episode of "Dungeon's and Dragons".  This was the episode where DM gives all of his powers to Eric the Cavelier:

"Dungeon Master: You must realize that everything touches everything else. Every action has its own consequence. There is a universal balance. If you bring water here to quench your thirst, you may be turning farmland into desert elsewhere." 
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Edward Aycock
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Ok, maybe Ice Man as well.   

I could use either the elevator in my building has been broken for four weeks now and I am on 5.  And you know how it was funny on "The Big Bang Theory"?

It's really not.  Phew.  
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Had similar in England a couple of weeks ago, it was the
equivalent of your 93f (We use Centigrade here) we kept the
shutters and blinds closed and i recently bought a couple
of 42" tall tower fans with brushless DC motors that are
very quiet and cheap to run, one for the lounge and one for
the bedroom so we coped quite well.
Apparently we're having another heatwave this coming week.
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Posted: 04 July 2026 at 9:50am | IP Logged | 9 post reply
It was nasty here yesterday.  I only have a window unit in my bedroom, but have a corner apartment with great airflow, no matter how hot it gets.

But I live on the 5th floor in a Brooklyn building, and our elevator has broken 8 times in six weeks.  This time, it's been out three weeks.  I had to make two trips up the stairs from the lobby yesterday with heavy groceries.  Inconvenient enough on regular days, but yesterday? Geez.   And that was AFTER I started this post.  

Then around 7- 8pm, the skies got dark in about five minutes, and a ferocious storm came barreling in from Jersey (it's always Jersey!), then twenty minutes later - clear skies again.

Maybe I actually did summon Ororo. 
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