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It is starting to look like Sunday through Tuesday will be the first official HEAT WAVE of 2021 !! 🏖 ☀

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It is starting to look like Sunday through Tuesday will be the first official HEAT WAVE of 2021 !! 🏖 ☀

Last heat wave in Albany was June 20-23, 2020. Had warm days in July and August but no heat waves. You need three 90 degrees consecutive days to have a heat wave.

July 2020 had five 90 plus degrees days but only two were consecutive. August had no 90 degrees days. So no heat waves since June of last year! Maybe it was the cold bias on the thermometer at the airport, or otherwise we would have at least two heat waves in July 2020.

People in Albany in 1963, really could have sung along Martha Reeves about Heat Wave. That was a very hot summer, with three heat waves, one lasting six days, every day in the 90s!

Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find – The New York Times

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Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find – The New York Times

Immunity to the coronavirus lasts at least a year, possibly a lifetime, improving over time especially after vaccination, according to two new studies. The findings may help put to rest lingering fears that protection against the virus will be short-lived.

Together, the studies suggest that most people who have recovered from Covid-19 and who were later immunized will not need boosters. Vaccinated people who were never infected most likely will need the shots, however, as will a minority who were infected but did not produce a robust immune response.

Tom McCall – Wikipedia

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Tom McCall – Wikipedia

In 1970 McCall was faced with a potential riot in Portland. In May of that year a week-long student protest at Portland State University over the Kent State shootings had ended with charges of excessive police violence. The American Legion had scheduled a convention in Portland later that summer; local antiwar groups were organizing a series of demonstrations at the same time under the name of the "People's Army Jamboree" and expected to draw up to 50,000 protesters.

After attempts to convince the People's Army Jamboree to either not carry out their plans or to move the date, McCall decided to hold a rock festival at Milo McIver State Park near Estacada, Oregon called "Vortex I: A Biodegradable Festival of Life," in imitation of the famous Woodstock Festival held the previous year.

"I think I just committed political suicide," McCall is reported to have remarked immediately after approving the event. Vortex was the first and so far only state-sponsored rock festival in U.S. history.

The festival, nicknamed "The Governor's Pot Party" by Oregonians, was a success, attracting between 50,000 and 100,000 people. Gold, The Portland Zoo, Osceola, Fox, and Chrome Cyrcus were among the bands that played. The media announced that Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead were on the way, but none of them appeared. The feared violent clash between the antiwar groups and the conservative American Legion was avoided, and the city of Portland passed the summer relatively uneventfully. McCall was re-elected in November, with 56% of the vote.