a tropical heat wave

[Guest guest]

I live across San Francisco Bay from San Francisco, in Oakland. We have had

the HOTTEST year on record. San Francisco is noted for its cold (relatively)

summers--the S.F. Bay area often has a few days of wild HEAT at the end

of August or the beginning of September--just totorture the school kids, but

THIS is outrageous.

AND we have nearly 3,000 miles of river dikes in this state which the federal

administration will not help us repair, despite frantic pleas from our State

Governor, Arnold Schwarzneger, a republican (not that that is bad).

Of course, the drier it gets, the more fires we have, and the more water that

is taken from the ground to fight them, the more likely we are to have earth

quakes--already having tons, relatively small, but many!

So, hear I am, with one of the most beautiful views in the world, a nice, safe

and responsible housing complex, my incomelette, Medicare and Medicaid

(Medi-Cal here), and I am just DROWNING in sweat! So far, no MAJOR MS

symptoms, a few mild ones, but this is the PITS.

I kind of envy the folks in Norway!

Love to all of you, and hoping that those hurricanes will spare the Gulf States,

or at least largely so, n, the truly Desperate MS patient~