Yeah I'm pretty sure I've heard about water poisoning several times in the past. Definitely politically motivated.

100 degrees in Chicago is far worse then 100 in TX-OK-AR-LA as the humidity is significantly higher in Chicago.

But we don't abandon cars on the street or need the city to pull out trucks over a mild inconvenience.

Haha, it's cute of you to think that it doesn't get hot up here and it's even more adorable that you think none of us have central air.

Older people and children have a harder time regulating their body temperature.

Fine, it gets over 100 a few times a year, and the city doesn't shut down.

It goes over 90 regularly in most Northern cities, even up in Chicago. We have ACs and check on our neighbors who don't have them to make sure they're doing okay.

I hate to be the one to tell you, but those are meth labs.

I mean, I would imagine it increases the property value of nearby homes to some degree. If it was just a big, ugly, noisy pumping station, I'd imagine the homes nearby would suffer in value. Perhaps it isn't that much, but perhaps the added value of the few nearby properties would be worth at least part of the cost of…

California: "to serve a warning with fries"

What the hell, NC?

That's really misleading. The search results are about the upper peninsula seceding from the lower, and becoming the 51st state, not about all of Michigan seceding from the U.S.

yeah...I went there

With the right encryption, it doesn't matter how many people receive the broadcast because only the intended recipient will be able to make any meaning of it. This is how real encryption works. Hiding a broadcast channel is only security through obscurity.

If you need a last ditch method to communicate with someone in a way that they can easily obtain then this is a pretty damn good way of doing it. Just make sure it broadcasts random crap all the time and no one will notice when the message actually does mean something.