*headscratch*

[conuly]

Tomorrow is this thing on Bessie Coleman.

To remind everybody, back when I went on a biographies kick (which I'm still sorta on! Picture book biographies, send them my way) I discovered Bessie Coleman, who was the first American of any race or gender to get an international pilot's license, and she did it before Earhart, too!

I'm a great admirer of the woman, so yes, we're gonna be there. Oh, yes, we are.

It occurred to me just now to check and make sure they're still doing that, y'know, because of the heat.

They ARE still having this outdoor reading at 3pm, in the full heat of day... but they are NOT holding the evening campfire, because of the "extreme weather conditions". No argument here, but wouldn't you expect them to cancel the even that's in the sunlight rather than the one that's after the temperatures have theoretically dropped?

Comments

[kyrielle]

I don't know - on a hot night, a campfire could be unbearable - and I wonder if they might also be worried about the fire risk?

It is an interesting choice, though.

[leora.livejournal.com]

Perhaps people need parasols or some other source of shade. Maybe they figure, well, we can't fix the heat, but making more of it with fire seems like a bad idea?

[conuly]

That's the only thing that makes sense to me.

Actually, I'm wondering if each event was determined by the organizers of THAT event.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

With heatwaves often come fire bans. Having a bonfire might be considered dangerous in hot and dry weather conditions.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Even if the temperatures have dropped in the evening, it'll probably still be too dry to safely have a campfire because you might end up with a forest fire or the like!
Assuming, of course, that your heatwave is of the hot-and-dry sort, not of the hot-and-humid sort...

[conuly]

Extremely humid.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, especially unpleasant, then! (Well, in my opinion. If I have to cope with heat, I'd rather have it dry than humid...) You have my sympathies. I'm really glad we're having a very cool summer this year.
But there might still be fire bans in effect. I don't know what the corresponding laws are like in your area.

[conuly]

There might be. It genuinely never occurred to me, I don't make fires (no need) so I don't... know.

But no, not only is NYC almost always humid (muggy) due to being on islands, but this is a particularly damp heatwave all over this part of the country.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Somewhere, we have a Bessie Coleman stamp.