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Have we been in the Purple Tier before? I thought we were in Red when the tier system was set up, though I could be misremembering...
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The state also announced today (based on cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCD…) that tier updates can happen any day of the week now, and that counties can jump more than one tier at once. Perhaps they expected Red because of the old rule that said a county only moved one tier at a time.
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Well, now it's time to find out what the Purple Tier is like...
(It's about time things are more restricted... although I thought we were expecting Red rather than Purple.)
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On the other hand, a Category 5 in mid-November is unusual ("the latest category 5 on record for the Atlantic basin"). Also two major hurricanes in the same place, two weeks apart, is likely to be disastrous.
#Iota has become a category 5 hurricane and is forecast to bring catastrophic winds, life-threatening storm surge, and torrential rainfall to Central America. hurricanes.gov
There's been outdoor dining in California for a while. It's getting a tad cold for it. Yesterday was probably the warmest evening of the week; Palo Alto was 14°C at 19:00 (but intermittent light rain); on Sunday (8 November) was about 10°C at 19:00, 3°C at 22:00.
Is 72 hours notice a new state requirement? (I don't recall that existing back in March.) Seems like a bad idea, given exponential growth and delayed measurement...
Plus, when they opened indoor dining a month (?) ago, I think it was already clear things were turning bad in other places as the weather got colder and people closed windows. It seemed like a clearly bad idea when it started.
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Also, when you're on an exponential growth curve, slowing it down four days earlier is a big deal, probably worth throwing out some food if it can't be put to other uses (which most probably can).
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Seems like more than an Iota of a chance we'll have a Tropical Storm Iota today or tomorrow. Perhaps a fitting cap to the season would be a Tropical Storm Kappa?
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And no, the 18th wasn't competitive either, and the things I heard Kumar's campaign seemed to focus on state issues (NIMBY!) rather than federal ones. So Eshoo was an easy choice, even though she doesn't appear to be particularly effective.
By rousing you mean all the Republicans voted for the more left-wing Democrat (who was the one endorsed by the state party!) because he was somebody other than the Democrat they knew, but the incumbent not endorsed by the state party won anyway?
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Most of the safe districts in California still have R-D general elections. Some of them end up with D-D or R-R general elections, but it's not the majority.
e.g., this year, the Bay Area only had 2 congressional districts with D-D generals (12 Pelosi-Buttar, 18 Eshoo-Kumar)
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And the record falls:
Subtropical Storm #Theta has developed tonight in the Northeast Atlantic, the 29th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
This breaks the single season record for the most named storms previously held by the 2005 Hurricane Season.
Details: nhc.noaa.gov/#Theta
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Somehow it seems like trapping a skunk in a humane trap might lead to... undesired olfactory side-effects?
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What species of lawyer are you expecting a raccoon to get... and what would its arrival do to the overall noise level?
(I mean, just imagine if the lawyer is a dog!)
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nitter.vloup.ch/apoorva_nyc/stat… seems to say otherwise, at least for younger children.
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