Gorgeous sunset from Mt Tabor park. Lots of big, downed trees on the north and east side of the park from our ARCTIC WINDS three weeks ago. But honestly the damage wasn’t quite as bad as I feared. I guess the historic shelter took a pretty good hit but that part of the park was cordoned off.
I was intrigued so I looked up the average high and low temperatures across WA for August of 1899. Olga's average low of 45F is pretty impressive as it's about 4 degrees colder than anything we've seen in the last 50 years. The fact it's so much colder than every other location on the west side does make me wonder if there was an error with the thermometer at that time or maybe it was just incredible cold winds blowing off the straight.
The Seattle average high for the month was almost 10 d
My father is 72 and still working full time running a library district. It’s not a physical job, but he commutes and hour each way and manages a staff and a multimillion dollar budget. He’s retired twice only to back out at the last minute. He has high blood pressure and cholesterol and takes medications for that and Afib, but he’s in pretty good physical shape overall. He’s at an age where he could go at any time, but at the same time could easily have another good 15 years.
Thats quite a task.
High blood pressure, cholesterol/triglycerides, numerous other issues that Americans battle - like diabetes, dementia, kidney or lung issues all hanging around our doors waiting to jump us. We’ll all have something in our 70’s.
I’ve only known 1 person with none of these and lung cancer hit them at about 82.
I don’t think they want us to live that long. Too much of a strain on their actuarial tables! And social security.
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