Climate and Weather

Weather was pleasant today near the coast. Come to think of it, its almost always pleasant near the coast.
I think Ill take a nap in the back yard,....again.
 
The increased variable costs I can identify easily without looking at any particular hotel would be utilities (lights, ac, water), linens, possible overtime to the cleaning staff, and the cost of the free breakfast buffet if they offer one. If they are making profit on normal days, they will be making more profit when fully booked.
That's a big if. Especially "if" you haven't determined what a "normal" day is.
 
In the hotel where I worked, the manager would be pleased that his fixed costs were being divided among more customers, leading to higher profits per room for as long as the situation lasted, as well as the overall higher profits from the volume.

I apologize if that is too much math for you.
What hotel did you work at?
 
In the hotel where I worked, the manager would be pleased that his fixed costs were being divided among more customers, leading to higher profits per room for as long as the situation lasted, as well as the overall higher profits from the volume.

I apologize if that is too much math for you.
What were the fixed cost?
 
would be pleased that his fixed costs were being divided among more customers, leading to higher profits per room for as long as the situation lasted, as well as the overall higher profits from the volume.
What about competition from Air BNB?
 
What real Americans do in a disaster, as reported in the Press-Enterprise --

At least 60 Blue Cut fire evacuees slept on cots and rollaway beds in the Courtyard Marriott Hesperia ballroom and on couches in the lobby at no charge the first night after the blaze broke out, General Manager Amy Batista said.

“We were sold out. We couldn’t turn them away. It was quite tragic,” Batista said.
When we were evacuated in 2007 (from 2 neighborhoods!!) we spent the night on a cot (for free) in Qualcomm stadium and were treated to (free) breakfast the next morning, courtesy of businesses that sent food and supplies in by the truckload without thought of taking advantage of people already stressed by the situation. Before we got up from our cots in the morning, our family group received a dozen box of Krispy Kreme donuts from one of their employees who was just walking around handing them out.
krispy kreme? You call that a breakfast? More like taking the opportunity to increase the diabetes rate of Americans beyond 35%!! And we wonder why healthcare is so expensive.
 
In the hotel where I worked, the manager would be pleased that his fixed costs were being divided among more customers, leading to higher profits per room for as long as the situation lasted, as well as the overall higher profits from the volume.

I apologize if that is too much math for you.
Gruber apologized for calling Americans stupid too.
 
krispy kreme? You call that a breakfast? More like taking the opportunity to increase the diabetes rate of Americans beyond 35%!! And we wonder why healthcare is so expensive.

No, I called the granola bars, orange juice and bananas breakfast. The Krispy Kremes were a nice gesture. We shared them with other evacuees waking up around us. They appreciated the gesture also.
 
Are you denying that summers are hot?

I deny that you have any value to add here at all. You ignore everything that was in the article and make some asinine comment about summers being hot. That's as dumb and irrelevant as your "you pay a lot of interest on your mortgage" comment.
 
Here's an pretty good article about California droughts, couple years old but current when talking about California & droughts.

History shows California subject to extreme droughts
If you are reading this from anywhere in California, stop, look in the mirror and say, “I’m a champion.”

It’s an indisputable claim, because experts say Californians are the worldwide leaders at capturing water.

Our state has its own man-made circulation system — concrete canals and pipes that bring water from faraway mountains to farms and population centers. We’re the only place in the world with anything like it.

But, like a lot of champions, we might be getting complacent, cruising to victories over a bunch of easy-to-beat weather patterns.

Because as scientists slowly piece together clues unlocking the region’s ancient climate history, they are learning that California’s past is marked by stifling, soul-crushing droughts that lasted 30 years or longer and brought complex societies to their knees.

We may already be in what climatologists call a megadrought.

On average, Los Angeles gets about 15 inches of rain each year, according to the Western Regional Climate Center.

In 2011, we got 12 inches.

In 2012, we got 8.

In 2013, we got 2.

And halfway into the current rainy season, we’ve had less than 1 inch.

The weather has been so dry that state officials announced this month that they won’t send any water into the canals of the State Water Project unless rain comes soon.

No one can say for sure if we are in a megadrought. We only know that, at this rate, we’ll eventually run out of water.

“You crawl into these things, and you crawl out of them,” said Bill Patzert, a mathematician and oceanographer at Jet Propulsion Laboratories who is considered the foremost expert on the interaction between the ocean and weather patterns. “But I can guarantee that we’re eventually going to find ourselves in a bad one.”

And this is probably not due to human-created climate change, Patzert said. It’s just garden variety variation in a climate that is much more erratic than most of us realize, he said.

Just how bad can it get?

By aging old tree stumps in Lake Tahoe, climate researcher Susan Lindstrom found a dry period that lasted an estimated 1,300 years until it finally started getting wetter around 4000 B.C.

And, more recently, an extended dry period that began about 1,050 years ago likely helped cause the absolute collapse of intricate Southwest American-Indian societies.

What’s more, a flood in 1605 was so severe it turned the Central Valley into a lake.

The last 150 years of weather represent some of the most peaceful, reliable periods of rainfall in the region’s history, concluded
paleoclimatologists B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam, in their recent book “The West Without Water.”

Put succinctly, Ingram and Malamud-Roam concluded that we have drastically underestimated the severity of the West’s weather.

Using their own research and cross-referencing with other scientists and scientific disciplines, they say California’s water supply can turn seemingly on a dime, and then stay changed for long stretches of time.

Those turns are primarily determined by the Pacific Ocean.

Entire article:
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140215/history-shows-california-subject-to-extreme-droughts
 
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I deny that you have any value to add here at all. You ignore everything that was in the article and make some asinine comment about summers being hot. That's as dumb and irrelevant as your "you pay a lot of interest on your mortgage" comment.
Why the quotation marks? They are your own words, Mr. Ten Letters after my name.
 
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