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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 06 Oct 11 - 02:48 PM 20k people are affected. They can be easily compensated and can easily be relocated along the same river and still have their lifestyle and culture... perhaps better than before for generations to come. Check out the overall usage of flood against the land available. Check out the improvements water retained year round can bring.... seriously... why do think there are only 20k along the system to be flooded... it's BECAUSE the river won't support MORE than that. Simply... beavers build dams and the environment thrives. The FIRST ENGINEERS knew what they were doing. That's why I worship the beaver. Oh, one more thing... donate as much money as you can to the STOP THE BEAVERS FOUNDATION... yeah, that's right... yer gettin sucked in. Now... back to the weather eh? There is another thread about the dam for posts about the damn dam damnit... >;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 06 Oct 11 - 09:17 AM Well, start looking at the environmental damage we're doing around the planet, particularly the amount of Mega-Dams now being built...China used 18 MILLION tonnes of concrete to build The Three Gorges, the biggest damn dam in the world..and they've finally admitted, in May this year, to having major environmental problems because of it, including vast and severe droughts. Brazil is at this moment fighting, yet again, to overturn an injunction over The Belo Monte Dam (3rd biggest in the world if it's built) brought in last week..and they will then build SIXTY *more* dams in The Amazon Rainforest... Chile and Peru have recently pulled out of their Mega Dams, although this may be only temporary.... It's the new 'black'....to have your own Damn Dam and make it BIGGER than anyone else... Total fucking insanity! And we will ALL suffer because of it... I truly feel that the people making these decisions are completely out of their brains on Cocaine...so fuelled with Cocaine Confidence that they can not only convince themselves it's a GREAT idea, but convince others likewise... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Becca72 Date: 06 Oct 11 - 09:08 AM Supposed to be in the 70s this weekend in Southern Maine... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Oct 11 - 12:29 AM We finally have fall temperatures, though we don't have any measurable precipitation. I have a couple of windows open in the house. SRs |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 05 Oct 11 - 01:43 PM Not! 6.8C, RAAAAIN, and gusting to 80kph. A week or so ago, I had the ACs running full tilt. My furnace is on and I still feel cold when I hear the wind in the trees. Talk of snow in northern NB tonight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: GUEST,999 Date: 13 Sep 11 - 11:18 AM This post is for Maggie (SRS): The weather here has been horrible, getting to a high of 75 degrees during the day and plummeting to 54 degrees at night. The weather just can't make up its mind. I figured I'd get that in while you still have a sense of humour. Found this on the www (while looking for jokes to cheer you up). HOW HOT IS IT? - ODE TO TEXAS The devil wanted a place on earth Sort of a summer home A place to spend his vacation Whenever he wanted to roam. So he picked out Texas A place both wretched and rough Where the climate was to his liking And the cowboys hardened and tough. He dried up the streams in the canyons And ordered no rain to fall He dried up the lakes in the valleys Then baked and scorched it all. Then over his barren country He transplanted shrubs from hell. The cactus, thistle and prickly pear The climate suited them well. Now the home was much to his liking But animal life, he had none. So he created crawling creatures That all mankind would shun. First he made the rattlesnake With it's forked poisonous tongue. Taught it to strike and rattle And how to swallow it's young. Then he made scorpions and lizards And the ugly old horned toad. He placed spiders of every description Under rocks by the side of the road. Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter, Hotter and hotter still. Until even the cactus wilted And the old horned lizard took ill. Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom As any creator would He chuckled a little up his sleeve And admitted that it was good. 'Twas summer now and Satan lay By a prickly pear to rest. The sweat rolled off his swarthy brow So he took off his coat and vest. "By Golly," he finally panted, "I did my job too well, I'm going back to where I came from, Texas is hotter than Hell. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 13 Sep 11 - 11:02 AM Wishing you much cooler temperatures and rain, Maggie. I am looking forward to fall's cool weather, had a taste last weekend, I even had to put on a chamois shirt on Sat. evening while doing rounds in the campground. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Sep 11 - 09:50 AM I've done the drive from California to Arizona through Blythe. There is no argument, that is one of the hottest places on the planet at times. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: frogprince Date: 12 Sep 11 - 09:36 PM Just got back from a long vacation run. I didn't get around to posting on here from the laptop the day we drove across southern Arizona to El Centro CA. at 118 degrees. Thank Yahweh the air conditioner in our car was adequate to keep us cooled down. Getting out of the car reminded me of the months I spent in a foundry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Sep 11 - 09:30 PM Well, after about 10 days of lovely cool mornings (into the 50s and low 60s), it spiked up again and tomorrow is supposed to break a record (like we need another one of those) at 105o. Sept. 13 has never been so hot in North Texas, apparently. We are not thrilled with this news. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 30 Aug 11 - 02:29 PM Yet again, I almost feel guilty. IMO, this has been the best summer in years. Even last summer, which I found almost unbearable was no where near as hot as you have had SRS. What's the RH? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Aug 11 - 09:55 AM Too much water, cool weather, etc, appears to be just as hard on the tomatoes as too much sunshine and heat! We're in the 103o range this week, though it has spiked up and may again. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 30 Aug 11 - 09:31 AM Never had reason to opem this thread. Maximum temp in the west of Ireland today will be 14 C (what that, 58 F I suppose) and not a remote sign of summer has been seen this year. Tomatoes, even in the polytunnel, just stood there, fruitless, until the blight killed them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Aug 11 - 09:25 PM It was good, only about 101 today, but tomorrow is up to 108 so I have to have someone come over to let my dogs in at about 1pm so they don't fry out there. My next door neighbor did this for me while I was away last week, so I have to see if she can do it again tomorrow. This weather is such a pain in the ass! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: pdq Date: 29 Aug 11 - 04:20 PM Texas is still roasting. Yesterday's national high was in San Antonio, Texas, where it was 113 F. Usually the high temperatures this time of year are in the low desert such as Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Blythe, Needles or Phoenix area. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 29 Aug 11 - 04:10 PM Any break at all, SRS? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 28 Aug 11 - 05:34 PM "hanging laundry"... just shake it a few times and fold it in that heat! I really couldn't handle that kinda heat. I would wilt as I am such a delicate flower. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Aug 11 - 05:25 PM Aaahhhh. Groan. Sounds of misery. I was out hanging laundry, the air hurts it is so hot and dry. It's up to 109o this afternoon. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Aug 11 - 11:33 AM Yesterday and today the highs were/are predicted at 106o, tomorrow is 107o, and then it is supposed to subside to 100o by the end of the week. Damn, it's almost friggin' Labor Day and it's still this hot. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Aug 11 - 07:00 PM You know, that one day of rain was enough to encourage the tomatoes and I have several small fruits coming along out there. I won't have enough for more than a few salads, but they're a welcome change from dry shrubs in the vegetable garden! Once they're pollinated they can stand some heat, so they may not be very large, but they are tomatoes. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 22 Aug 11 - 06:53 PM Oh, SRS. My heart goes out to you. We just had three hot and humid days in a row but nothing even CLOSE to your suffering. Our summer has been, to me, the best in years. I DO hope you get some relief soon. Did the tomatoes get a chance in hell? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Aug 11 - 05:08 PM The last post was August 10 and it was hot but we hoped it would end soon. We had one day of blissful gentle rain (on Saturday, Aug. 13) and then several days of hot humid days. Now it's just hot again. Our 100+ temp days streak stopped at 40, but we've had many more 100+ degrees than that this summer. Forecast highs for this week range from 104 to 101. The lowest low at night is 78, but usually in the low to mid-80s. So yes, it is still Too Effing Hot! At least, it is in Texas. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 10 Aug 11 - 02:37 PM Everywhere I go our wet cool weather is being bitched and moaned about. Last summer, the heat was oppresive (not near as hot as down south) from May to October and the "same" comments could be heard everywhere I went. People have short memories. Or they just need sommat to complain about. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 10 Aug 11 - 01:53 PM That's kinda drastic innit? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Aug 11 - 09:23 AM The seven day forecast yesterday offered a glimpse next week of a day that stopped at 100, but they've revised the forecast and now the lowest high is 102. We need a hurricane. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Aug 11 - 10:24 PM Truckee, CA is beautiful, on the way to Tahoe. Kingman, Bullhead City, they are in the Mojave Desert and expect to be the hot spots. Chandler is Sonoran Desert, between Phoenix and Tucson and all of them expect to be hot. I had to rewrite this because IE froze up since I stopped writing to go look at Google maps. Got sucked in to visiting my old stomping grounds around Organ Pipe Cactus Natl. Mon. Amazing what you can see from these satellite photos. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: pdq Date: 09 Aug 11 - 07:43 PM Keep On Truckee'n, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 09 Aug 11 - 07:39 PM Truckee's In Love? Chill with some good tunes? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: pdq Date: 09 Aug 11 - 06:42 PM Last week I was looking at the daily national tempertures and saw Chandler was the national high. Not Chandler, Arizona as might be expected, but Chandler, Oklahoma. It had a new local record yesterday again with 109o F, but was bested by Needles with 112o F. Truckee had the national low at 34o F. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Aug 11 - 05:55 PM The call went out for donations to the Red Cross so they can resupply on bottled water and Gatorade for their first responders. They need $21,000. I imagine they'll have a lot of folks donate cases of water and Gatorade. 105o here today. Dogs all over the tile floors again. Sleeping on the cool tiles. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 09 Aug 11 - 11:22 AM I know what is going on. It's a chemical imbalance : Observed at: Greater Moncton Int'l Airport 12:00 PM ADT Tuesday 9 August 2011 Condition:Cloudy with occasional drizzle Temperature:16.7°C Pressure / Tendency:100.5 kPa / rising Visibility:24 km Humidity:85% Dew Point:14.1°C Wind Speed:N 18 km/h gust 35 km/h If I was going for a walk, I'd put on a hoody to keep me ears warm. I just walked 100m across a parking lot and I had to put my hands in my pockets. It's a nipply day!... mine are rocks. Still better'n last summer tho. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Aug 11 - 10:35 PM It was a good day today, only hit 105o. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Aug 11 - 10:52 AM This week it looks like we're set to break a number of over 100o days in a row record. Too bad, I wouldn't mind loosing that title. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Jeri Date: 08 Aug 11 - 10:47 AM Temperature-wise, it's not THAT hot yet, but the air is dead and it feels like I'm breathing Jello. There's a great big dark cloud that is just looking menacing and I wish it would get off it's big cloud ass and rain on me. I'm going to the gym because there's air conditioning there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: PatrickRose Date: 08 Aug 11 - 10:31 AM As Paul and Storm sang: We were gonna write another verse here But it's too friggin' hot! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Wesley S Date: 08 Aug 11 - 07:55 AM I feel for ya out there Stilly. I've been watching your temps since my mother in law and brother in law still live there. Just brutal. And no relief in sight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Aug 11 - 07:48 PM Don't feel guilty. And if you want to imagine this, think about what happens when it finally rains a good steady rain on a very dry landscape where a huge amount of vegetation is now dead. Yup. It stinks like a composting barnyard for days as the water sinks in and dead stuff rots, and it is as sticky and humid as you can imagine. That first big rain will be welcome, but it won't be pretty. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Bill D Date: 07 Aug 11 - 06:06 PM Now I do feel almost guilty.... more gentle rain today! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Bill D Date: 07 Aug 11 - 12:42 PM We actually got a nice rain in DC/Maryland yesterday! It's gone down to the high 80s, and we are 'merely' hot, not baking. Wishing commensurate relief to others..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Aug 11 - 10:05 AM There are snakes in the garden, yes, most of the ones I see are the rough earth snake. There are also Texas rat snakes and such. It was mid-80s when I walked the dogs at 7am. There is no time of day you don't break into a sweat if you go outside now. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 06 Aug 11 - 08:31 PM I'll bet the garden snakes in Texas are 3.5' long! Yeah... I know. Minds me a **** the ninth. He was close to 4' long. I had a lotta pet snakes. I used ta walk him on a string. Used ta feed him frogs from down at the culvert. Tethered him to the oil fill pipe one day. And, when I was coming home from school, my old man came home early and saw him (her?) for the first time and pulled an RCAF with death from above by leaping over the step railing as I was shouting NOOOOOO! I never kept another snake as a pet. Dad was upset on accounta he didn't know it was a pet but I was inconsolable. The day that Mrs. Cole from two houses over stopped by the tree in the front yard and asked what I was doing with the string in the tree was priceless. Did I mention **** was about four feet long? I got my ass kicked for that! She skinned her knees when she fell running down the driveway. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Aug 11 - 07:40 PM The same here John, with the exception for birds. Lots of birds out there, and I did see a mouse in the garden. I'm not going to turn the dogs loose on it because they'd destroy the garden to get the rodent. I keep water in the bird bath and there are lots of seeds from my sunflowers (the wild kind with small seeds). Only 106 today, we're getting a cool patch here. It's all what you're acclimated to - I grew up in a mild climate so I know that summer can be a delightful season. I've had to adjust down here, I don't like it, but the natives are just as miserable. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: JohnInKansas Date: 06 Aug 11 - 05:39 PM We actually got a small amount of rain a couple of days ago, although not enough to produce a noticeable growth spurt in the "forbes" (My euhemism for what's supposed to be grass). It did, however, seem to cause an "emergence" of June Bugs that were all over the front patio around the outside light. I've seen somewhat higher "densities" lots of times before, but none that I recall that had such an abrupt appearance. We've seen fairly regular appearances of one cottentail in the yard. (At least we think it's the same one each time.) The "ditch bank" out behind where it hides is shaded by trees and overgrown with "scrub" junk (sumac and poison ivy mostly) so there's not much grass or anything else edible for bunnies, and our minor bit of mowing provides "more succulent weeds" for it. We're also about the only house in a block or two with no noisy dogs so we're getting preferential treatment. With the exception of one enormous garter snake (about 3.5" long) wildlife activity has been generally (and abnormally) absent, although that may be partly due to the neighboring truck drivers' penchant for enormous loud dumb dogs. (There are some fairly intelligent large breeds, but apparently not here.) The son (also a wheeler) leaves his dog(?) with us some when he's in town, but it's a weiner and I'll forgo comment on the intelligence factor, although I'll concede a whole lot of "personality." "Weird" comes to mind. We've had a couple of days within the last week when the high temp was (barely) below 100 F, and there have been some very widely scattered T-storms passing through the general area, but there's been much more concern about the 60 to 70 mph winds in them than about any other effects. Few of them have dropped measurable moisture, and thus far they still are avoiding the SW Kansas and NW Texas/Oklahoma area where the drought is most severe (and prolonged). No possibility of any breaks there in the forecasts. Most in the region here would welcome a decent (but hopefully not incredibly extreme) hurricane to get some water up. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 06 Aug 11 - 04:51 PM Me an my big mouth. I just mowed and I am drenched with sweat. Not Texas sweat of course but I am not used to heat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Janie Date: 05 Aug 11 - 11:40 PM We haven't had it nearly as bad as you Stilly, but I had to laugh and ponder the realitivity of "things" as I listened to weathercasts this week talking seriously and with relief about a "cold front" that will bring the temps down to the low 90's for a few days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 05 Aug 11 - 10:30 PM Ebbie? I am losing it! SRS is who I meant to address. Why did I mix youse up? Perhaps because youse two are my fav lasses herein? Hey, it sounded like a good suck-up when I started to explain... nevermind... I'll crawl off to me bunk now.... gnightgnu... sigh |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Aug 11 - 09:12 PM I started to write a few minutes ago but the power flickered - again - and I've given up on the desktop computer for the evening, I'll use the laptop. I have a battery speaker to use with my mp3 player and I've been listening to a recorded Agatha Christie murder mystery as I sort papers in my office. It hit 110o again today. This is so old, there is no letup in sight. What good is it to have a weekend when there is so little that can be done with the time? Right now at 8pm it is still 102o. The 7-day forecast is pretty grim, though a little better, hovering around 105-106. I heard rumor there was a little bitty heat wave back east a couple of weeks ago. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 05 Aug 11 - 06:50 PM Ohhhhh Ebbie. That really sucks. I'd tell you about the weather here but it is even better than it usually is and that would be just cruel. I hope you get some relief soon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Aug 11 - 10:08 PM It has been up to 110o every day this month so far. In case you were wondering, it is indeed too effing hot! 7 day forecast. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: pdq Date: 30 Jul 11 - 03:10 PM The much-anticipated tropical storm that was supposed to dump buckets of rain on southern Texas as come and gone. Less than one inch. Oh well. The Lower Rio Grande Valley is the most precious ecological area in the whole country and it is endangered by out-of-control population growth. The drought is not helping the unique plants and animals there one bit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Jul 11 - 02:49 PM The pond in the creek is full of fish, turtles, snakes, birds - I suspect mosquito nymphs are not left undisturbed if they breed back there. Today we may have a break in the heat, not quite 100 so far, but it starts up again tomorrow. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: JohnInKansas Date: 30 Jul 11 - 12:11 PM A little way up above: John, you live in flat-as-a-pancake Kansas, right? Are you actually telling us that the reputation for flatness is a myth We don't really have "hills" in Wichita, but we do have "lumps." Our house is next to the road down to the old "Sewer Plant" (now used for a maintenance facility) and theres a "drainage ditch" directly behind. The access road down to the "facility" descends about 28 feet, level with the front street but about 8 ft down at the back of the lot. There are drainage problems in the area of the flash flood kind, so the lots are mostly filled to a foot or two above the street, The "easement" that I have to mow along the side is about 12 feet wide but descends into the access road anywhere from 3 feet to about 9 feet depending on how far back into the lot you go. (A 9 ft rise in 12 ft is a 75% grade. The specification for "hill climbing capability" for US military tracked vehicles (tanks etc) is probably still 60% like it was when I was testing them in the desert.) Of course the driveway up to the garage door "ascends" about 7.5 ft, and the level at the top is just barely long enough to get both sets of wheels on, so if I park straight in, the bed is almost at my armpits and the tailgate is a little above my eyebrows when I get behind to unload. I usely "cut it" at the top to about 30 degrees from parallel to the door, to get the gate where I can reach the latch to drop it. We're actually in a suburb a couple of miles north of the Wichita city limits. (It's where Wichita keeps all its truckers and bikers, although they tell me there are some "real people" a few blocks over.) The main street through Wichita, Douglas Avenue, starts at "river level" and I believe the number quoted is that it rises a little short of 180 feet at the "peak" about 3 miles east of there in what's called the "Hillside District." It doesn't really look that steep, but it's pretty visible if you really look with a critical eye, especially looking downhill. That's about the biggest "lump" in the area, but it's a fairly gentle rise and few of the homes, there or even in my slum, have anything like my rather special site. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 30 Jul 11 - 11:03 AM That just brought something to mind... it rained until about 8:30 and then it POURED until 10:15 and now it's light showers and 17C. there are close to 80,000 people either at Magnetic Hill, Moncton, New Brunswick or making their way there. I can just imagine what the fields look like with vehicles driving around the campsites! The forecast says rain until 7:00 to 8:00. Thank goodness Bono and The Edge won't get wet! I was just at Sobeys and the store manager is one sharp lady... 2l pop for $0.69, bags of ice $2.50, styrofoam coolers $3.99, and so on. One of the pickup/dropoff points for the buses is in the same parking lot. I assume a lot more people will take a bus rather than walk today. SRS... does the pool fill up with skeeters? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: olddude Date: 30 Jul 11 - 11:03 AM 92 today and high humid ... guy is on my roof working laying a new roof on my house... It has to be hell up there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Jul 11 - 10:44 AM Our year round creek isn't flowing, but the pool behind my house is very popular with the wildlife. We don't go in it, it's urban, probably polluted (and very muddy on the bottom if stirred up). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Crowhugger Date: 30 Jul 11 - 10:19 AM I would surely crawl into a hole (with a big bag of ice) and pull the hole in after me if I had to endure the kind of heat there in Tx, Ks etc. As it is, the dogs and I are now headed for a couple of hours excercise IN the creek. There are a number of spots where the current has dug out nice, deep pools good for a (very small) swim. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Bobert Date: 29 Jul 11 - 10:21 PM and 100 (degrees)... lol... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Bobert Date: 29 Jul 11 - 10:21 PM Hey, it's only heat... Right??? B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 29 Jul 11 - 10:17 PM Our lovely summer continues... Evironment Canada...Saturday:Cloudy. Showers beginning in the morning. Amount 10 to 20 mm. Fog patches. High 19. UV index 3 or moderate. Saturday night:Showers ending in the evening then mainly cloudy. Low 15. Showers??? 15mm is showers? Who is paying them to say that? Donald K. Donald productions which is putting on the U2 concert tomorrow? How in the hell is 15mm just "showers"??? Then again, I am not gonna be at the U2 concert so I don't REALLY care but that seems odd to me. 15mm is RAIN... not showers. And, no "Risk of thundershowers" warning, which we have had about 30 times so far this summer, some of which were "severe thunderstorm watches", scaring me mum every time they have said it. (We had four thunderstorms... one was close and sustained for less than an hour). Sorry if that all sounds paranoid but I get so very upset that these assholes sensationalize the weather and scare me mum on a daily basis but when U2 comes to town they say 15mm is just gonna be "showers" and no mention of a risk of thundershowers. I should tell Bono about this but he hasn't called me yet. I suppose he's busy doing his voice exercises and trying to keep an edge eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Jul 11 - 08:45 PM Next week is supposed to be in the 103 - 107 range. It hurts just to look at that forecast. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 29 Jul 11 - 06:13 PM SRS... I like that site better than the US National Hurricane Center because I find the graphics better and they can spell "centre" properly... even tho they don't... and it's in SI rather than Imperial... >;-) Anyway, 95kph is a stiff breeze so not a worry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:33 PM Great site, gnu! Alas, it show Don heading even further south than initially forecast. On a bright note, my friends in West Texas will enjoy the rain. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:08 PM 25C with 67%RH and a 20kph breeze here. UNREAL for this time of year. This summer just gets better. Again, I feel sorry for all of you suffering in the heat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Donuel Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:54 PM 101 + humidity again today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 29 Jul 11 - 11:57 AM I like this site for storms along The Right Coast (of NA). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Jul 11 - 10:33 AM Texas is in line for a tropical storm this weekend, but the trajectory looks to be far south of my house. John, you live in flat-as-a-pancake Kansas, right? Are you actually telling us that the reputation for flatness is a myth, at least at your house? (I do know better - I've driven across the state, it tilts up a little on the east side, as I recall). :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: JohnInKansas Date: 28 Jul 11 - 08:21 PM Stilly - I think the proper maintenance solution for my yard would probably be a couple of (mountain) goats, but the city's been giving me lots of static about my proposed rezoning to "junkyard." I've offered substantial and convincing evidence from several aspects other than lawn maintenance. Fortunately, during my energetic youth I saved up a substantial reserve of "lazy" and "IDGAS," which I now use (cautiously and judiciously) at every opportunity. Point is, if you forget about the thermometer and just "be reasonable" the weather is less important than other things, like friends and family (even if all that are left is mostly the cats). John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 28 Jul 11 - 07:52 PM 48H? I hope you take some iced lemonade with you on your mower! Oh.... H here is humidex... kinda like your "heat index" but more sophisticated as we are Canadian eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Jul 11 - 07:45 PM So you could leave the AC on and wait it out. The air conditioning is on. It has been since late May. Yes, we're waiting it out, we're stuck with it. Every day but 1 in July has been over 100o, and on that July 1 it was probably 99o. John, don't become a statistic of one of those old farts who gets rolled over by his own tractor. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: JohnInKansas Date: 28 Jul 11 - 06:39 PM Yesterday I had my normal morning coffee (about noon) and went out and mowed the lawn. The yard is small, but some of it's steep enough to require a technique in which I launch the mower off the top and "hope the blades hit some grass" before it hits bottom**, but since it's a riding mower the only real exertion is "holding on." I didn't actually notice that the weather was "unusual" although we've had (as of today) 33 consecutive days of "over 100F." It was a bit of a surprise when I came in to see the TV reporting a current temp of 111F (43.9C) with an equivalent "heat index" of 118F (47.8C). Maybe there's an advantage to being so old and slow I can't work up much of a sweat. I'd take a walk when it cools off a little, say down to 95F; but in my condition it'd be more of a "limp" and my arms get tired hanging on my quarter-staff. ** There are only a few places where my mower has enough traction to go up, so all the cutting has to be "going downhill." The traction is also poor enough that even with the wheels locked, it keeps goin' on down once I tip off the top. But it never goes down fast enough to make a decent breeze. Current local weather report is that we might see one day at "only 98F" but the forecast is back up (to a peak late in the week at 107). There are currently three "warnings" in the state for thunderstorms with up to half-dollar sized hail and winds to 60 mph, but none of them have enough water in them to be considered a "break in the drought" and they're all very "localized." If we'd get some decent rain, the 100F temperatures wouldn't be a real bother here for most of us. But the crops are dead (50% of US corn considered gone, according to the Ag report 2 days ago) and the cattle are dying. The drought area extends across half of Texas, a third of Oklahoma, and about a quarter of SW Kansas where no measureable rain has been seen in at least a couple of months. Several nearby towns are on "water rationing" although as yet it's considered "precautionary" for most of the more populated ones. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 28 Jul 11 - 11:28 AM "eat corn on the cob... eat watermelon...play in the sprinkler..." In that heat, I expect you would be "playing" in the bathroom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Jack the Sailor Date: 28 Jul 11 - 09:42 AM I've spent a few days in Texas. It isn't always that hot. So you could leave the AC on and wait it out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Jul 11 - 09:30 AM The cost of living in North Texas is much lower than many other parts of the country. I own a house on a half acre that in Seattle would make me wealthy, should I sell it. Down here, it won't. And to sell down here and try to establish something similar elsewhere won't work either, so I must plan for a while and save a lot. It was 103 yesterday. There may be a hurricane or tropical depression headed this way over the weekend, though the projections so far show that it will miss North Texas entirely. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Crowhugger Date: 27 Jul 11 - 10:40 PM Or move north... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 27 Jul 11 - 06:55 PM What can you do about? You: eat corn on the cob eat watermelon play in the sprinkler wear summer dresses. (But not Olddude, John and Charley.) These are time-honored techniques. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Jul 11 - 04:43 PM Wichita Falls, TX is a couple of hours north of the Dallas/Fort Worth area, on the beautiful Red River, and it is a real hot spot. If a temperature spike shows up in the weather report, I'd say 80% of the time they're the hottest temperature in the area. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: pdq Date: 27 Jul 11 - 04:17 PM I went to WeatheReport.com and looked up Wichita Falls, Texas. Prediction of 104-109o F for at least another week. The whole area of Oklahoma, Arkansas and northern Texas is getting baked worse than another part of the country. Dry also. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 27 Jul 11 - 03:35 PM Hark, is that the sound of a HAARP I hear? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 27 Jul 11 - 03:32 PM Well, Brazil's in the process of building the Belo Monte Dam in the Rainforest...which will open the gates to them building 60 more dams. China's 'Three Gorges' Dam, the largest in the world, is causing serious environmental problems, so they just admitted, finally, in May this year...but China wants other countries to dam, dam, and dam again, so they can take the power... Cool, huh? Well, hot..to be honest, but........ Meanwhile, the frackers are blasting 3 to 4 million gallons of water into each well...and most of that water is never seen again. We're in Hot Shite, basically..so order up the air conditioners, plant the trees and find your own water supply pretty darn fast... Failing that, contact the Brazilian Embassy in your neck of the woods and ask them what the hell they're doing to The Rainforest and the climate... I hope it rains for all your folks, really soon, buckets and buckets of the wondrous stuff, with many cool breezes thrown in. I'm with gnu, I can't even imagine that kind of heat. It's dry here, ground is very hard, but it's bearable..in fact, it's been pretty cold for the time of year these past weeks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 27 Jul 11 - 03:09 PM SRS... my heart goes out to you. I can't imagine those temps. WAY TOOOO effing hot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Jul 11 - 01:17 PM Tucson can hit 110o easily in the summer and it goes higher west of there on the Colorado River. I've been through Blythe, near the California border, when it was 115o. We've had 26 days of 100 or higher in a row (that's all of July except the first) and we've had something like 32 days over 100 total. We are really really tired of this. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: pdq Date: 26 Jul 11 - 05:25 PM People in New England get to brag about their green wooded countryside with a high of 76 o in mid July. They also get to complain about 6' of snow and -20o in the winter. Folks in Tucson get to brag about their high of 76o on Christmas. They also have to suffer through highs of 104o in July, and that can be while it's raining! A strip on land from San Diego to Seattle is temperate all year do to the proximity of the Pacific Ocean. However, land values there can be more painful than bad weather. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 26 Jul 11 - 04:39 PM "only 101"... ouch!!!! Any chance of getting any maters this year SRS? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 26 Jul 11 - 04:18 PM Perhaps I should clarify that 11 degrees Centigrade is about 51 degrees Fahrenheit! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Jul 11 - 04:14 PM Your animals will be fine in warm weather if you have concrete or tile floors. The floor, especially where there is a slab underneath, warms slowly during any season to reflect the average temperature of that season, so a few days of heat isn't a problem if the animals are on the ground. My dogs sleep on the concrete floor in the garage when it's way over 100o out there because the floor is so much cooler than the air. I try to bring them in when the air gets over 102 (the upper "typical" body temperature of a dog), but if I can't get home, they are okay. If you animals aren't accustomed to heat, the best thing is to keep them off of the furniture and down on the concrete. It's overcast here today, so it's cooler, only 101o SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 26 Jul 11 - 04:08 PM Well, I'm in a thick jumper and my velour trousers, it's too chilly for me! About 11 degrees. (It's 9pm) Just put my little fan heater on for a bit. Brrr! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: olddude Date: 26 Jul 11 - 04:08 PM Much better here but all the hot weather brought out the annual pests that I hate so much ... namely fleas and ticks I treat all my dogs with that proban or whatever they call it. The stuff works great but when I walk around the woods or yard they jump on me and bite. It is an always occurrence here when the weather gets hot. Some people treat their lawn with pesticides, I won't do that, It just kills everything including bees .. anyone got some calamine lotion. I should not have walked in the woods with just sandals |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 26 Jul 11 - 03:59 PM Becca, the ziplock baggie with ice in it was how I kept my little ninja kitty cool. Damp towel is out of the question, I like my skin in an unshredded state. Today is wonderful, cool and rainy and I got to wear my new Seadogs hoodie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 26 Jul 11 - 02:40 PM Unreal! 17 here and I have the windows open and I am cooking a roast of beef and I'm gonna boil a big pot of veggies. By early eve I expect I shall be wearing a hoody. A low of 14 tonight. Now, if this could just last until next July... hahahahaaaa! I have a feeling we are gonna have one of those old fashioned COLD winters without much snow. We had enough snow last year for this year too. I can't predict winters any more like I used to because I don't get up in the woods to observe all the signs and now have to go solely by what I see in the city so it's a crap shoot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Becca72 Date: 26 Jul 11 - 09:10 AM Ranger1 - when the temps were miserable a couple days ago I tried a some different things to keep my cats cool (I, too, have no air conditioner). First, I filled a gallon-sized Ziploc freezer bag half way and then froze it overnight (lying flat) then wrapped it in a dish towel and let the cats lounge on it - BIG hit. I also soaked dish towels in cold water and wiped them down. Now, Sheldon and Mikey actually like water so this was easy. Kaylee may not agree. I also put a bowel full of ice in front of the fan. Cools off the air as it passes over and also provides a nice cool drink as it melts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Crowhugger Date: 25 Jul 11 - 08:58 PM Pretty nice around Toronto today, a bit hot in the afternoon but quite liveable for July. Two years ago when everyone was complaining about the cold rainy summer I was secretly grinning inside! Actually there WAS record rainfall that year but I was lucky, I kept missing the rainfall when I took the dogs out. Or maybe that was the summer I had Environment Canada's weather radar website as browser home. You folks in Texas and environs gotta have a lo-o-o-ng chat with the Divine Scorekeeper, he owes you some cool, big time! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 25 Jul 11 - 07:13 PM I just walked a fast few klicks. No wind but not even one bead of sweat. I swear... it's true... I haven't seen a July this nice in YEARS! Again, I truly feel sorry for the heat oppressed. I can take -30... as said above. I can put a sweater on but I can't take my skin off. I hope you guys in the heat get some relief SOON! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 25 Jul 11 - 06:50 PM Meanwhile, OTSC, we're having a slightly below normal temped Summer. July has been more like June. But never fear, as the rest of the country cools in mid-September, I expect we'll get a case of the hots. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 25 Jul 11 - 06:09 PM It's delightfully cool at the moment, no idea what the temperature is, though. I'm hoping it gets cool enough so I can wear my new Seadogs hoodie that I bought last week when my nephew and I went to a game. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jul 11 - 05:59 PM Gnu, you could seer it on the pavement outside my front door. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 25 Jul 11 - 05:57 PM "Will you all visit this thread once your heat passes?" Yeah, I'll be here when it's -20C and there's over 1.5m of snow blowing up me arse at 100kph in less than 24h. Just like when it's near 50H for days like last summer. People here are weening about the cold and wet summer and THEY were the ones who were suffering the heat and humidity last summer. Forecast tomorrow... showers and 17C. I LOVE IT! I have a beef roast on the thaw. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jul 11 - 05:00 PM 106o today in North Texas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jul 11 - 12:04 AM It's 95o at 11pm here in North Texas. Count yourselves lucky that it is cooling where you are. It hit 106 this afternoon and the next three days look about the same. Will you all visit this thread once your heat passes? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Crowhugger Date: 24 Jul 11 - 10:23 PM It's been a lovely evening east of Toronto, 26C shortly before sundown. Now 23.5 (74F) with humidex 29C (84F). Downright comfortable compared to recent days, though I prefer even cooler temperatures. Due to humidity our windows will probably still be closed tonight, but it looks as if tomorrow night fresh air may be possible. Someone remind me how I survived before we got a/c?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Jul 11 - 08:45 PM Back to a cool 80F in Midcoast Maine. Lovely! Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: katlaughing Date: 24 Jul 11 - 06:39 PM ranger1, that's good to hear. Still hot here, but nothing like Texas and lower humidity than the rest of you. Plus, not to crow or anything, but it's actually been chilly at night.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Jul 11 - 05:57 PM I got sidetracked at about 2:30 when I should have done it. Just to conclude the day I put an egg in a skillet on the ground at ~ 4:30 and I'll go see if there is anything other than something for my dogs to enjoy in a few minutes. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 24 Jul 11 - 05:55 PM It's much better today. Not as hot, not as humid, and the sea breeze is back in Portland. Kaylee is racing through the house once again, tormenting the dogs. And I didn't burn my hands on my steering wheel for the first time in three days when it was time to leave work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 24 Jul 11 - 02:05 PM 31 and humid yesterday. 21 and a dry breeze here... 11 tonight! 11 at night in July!! Rain and 18 on Tuesday and nothin over 25 all week. VERY odd but I am LOVIN IT! And, of course, feeling sorry for youse guys down south and in central and western Canada. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: maeve Date: 24 Jul 11 - 02:00 PM Dan, can you add some stones/bricks to your fountain? Something broad and rough will give the birds safer footing while you hunt up an alternative, and will continue to keep them safer even after you've added something just for the birds. SRS, one of our local weather reporters did fry an egg on a skillet set on his wife's (!) car. We saw it happen. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Jul 11 - 01:22 PM Dan, something shallow in shape like the lid of a traditional metal trash can is perfect. Or those big shallow dishes that you put under potted plants. It doesn't have to be a bird bath, but you do need to give some time for discovery. Bill D's site says you can't fry an egg, so I guess I'm going to have to see if I can prove those attempts wrong. The skillet is going out on the pavement now. Pics to follow. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: olddude Date: 24 Jul 11 - 01:14 PM I found something that really disturbed me. Since it has been so hot I never thought about the birds. I found one in my fountain near my flower garden. Apparently he drowned trying to get a drink. I now have a big bowl of water next to it. I never thought of that, birds gotta drink but if they try to drink out of that big plastic fountain they fall in and it is all over for them. Maybe I need to get a bird bath or something. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: maeve Date: 24 Jul 11 - 01:00 PM Fiction, SRS? Surely you jest! We aren't mowing anymore; the grass has pretty much gone dormant. We are trying to catch up with the overgrowth of weeds and brush at the edge of the woods, around the gardens, etc., but even that has to stop for now due to way too many yellow jackets in bad moods. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Bill D Date: 24 Jul 11 - 12:11 PM SRS...that's why I put a few small, shallow pans around so I can move them to a shady spot. (I also have a fairly shady patio in back) The sidewalk thing is borderline 'possible' http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/friedegg.html My son agreed to take over mowing the lawn, and I warned him yesterday to just do part of it. He thought he was ok...for about 15 minutes... then he saw the point and stopped at about ¼ done. More today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Jul 11 - 11:10 AM Today the forecast is 103 to 106 (depending on which source I use). Over 103 it's pretty miserable around here. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Jul 11 - 11:45 PM My bird bath evaporates fast but the birds do use it. I guess maeve picked up on a few spots of fiction in my account of how hot it is. :) Bill, instead of trying to cook an egg on bare concrete, put your skilled down on the concrete and let it get hot along with the sidewalk. Right before you try to cook your egg, move the skillet over to another hot area that wasn't shaded by the skillet to boost the heat and I bet you can cook an egg. Don't forget the oil! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Beer Date: 23 Jul 11 - 10:21 PM Just spent 6 and 1/2 hours in a dried up swamp picking blueberries. Got a great tan and slept for a good half hour when I got home. Going back tomorrow with a friend. lots of water is a priority. today it was about 36c. ad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Bill D Date: 23 Jul 11 - 09:41 PM So far I have NOT seen any TV flacs trying to fry an egg on a sidewalk.... but there's still time. 'Only' 98 here today. Have you all put out water for birds in a shady spot? In my back yeard, it took about 2 minutes for a Cardinal to find it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Jul 11 - 08:41 PM If you're walking a dog on hot concrete in the middle of day it can kill small dogs if they get too hot. My vet told me about a couple who had two small dogs that they walked at noon one day; the dogs were clearly in distress so they iced them down - first, walking in the heat was a bad idea, and cooling them with ice put them into shock and caused fatal kidney failure. If a dog is too hot, stand them in shallow cool water or put wet compresses on their feet, but don't use ice. They will lose a lot of the excess heat through their feet (in addition to panting) and moist rags or cool water are best. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: maeve Date: 23 Jul 11 - 08:29 PM Good whinge, Charley! olddude, we use a gentle spray setting with the garden hose to cool the chickens and their run, too. My little broody hen has come to enjoy a quick cool down in the water bowls. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jul 11 - 08:22 PM It's so hot here in Maine that there was no need to put the bread slices into the toaster. We just placed them on the plates for about a minute, and then poured the butter over them. Whining, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: olddude Date: 23 Jul 11 - 08:13 PM Just hosed down my fat lab/newfie dog with the garden hose. He doesn't like it much but afterwords he thanks me for it ... If I had two more arms, the pits on them would be sweating also ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: maeve Date: 23 Jul 11 - 07:55 PM Funny how competitive folks are regarding weather. Kind of cute. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Rapparee Date: 23 Jul 11 - 07:33 PM It's 76F on the porch and warmer still in the backyard -- probably 80F or so. I have to go out there and do some stuff. I hope that I don't collapse from the heat, at least before I have dinner. (Fear not, it'll be 90F tomorrow, which is why I want to get it done today.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Crowhugger Date: 23 Jul 11 - 07:28 PM Lately been taking my water gun to the dog park. Dogs don't much like the feel & sound of the squirt but their humans are thankful for it. In this heat it's a dreadful walk from parking to creek. Thank goodness for clouds rolling in this aft, making this early evening time more bearable. As I always say to one of my friends: You call it cloudy, I call it shade. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Jul 11 - 06:45 PM The turf is tinder dry and it is impossible to step anywhere outside barefoot. My attic doubles as a roaster oven. The trees are losing their foliage in a bizarre summer leafstorm, and those that aren't dropping leaves are turning brown. Cracks opened up in the back yard soil that are so large that I'm afraid my dogs will fall in and get lost. The year-round creek isn't running and the few deep standing pools are so hot even the mosquitoes won't go there to breed. Bicyclists and motorcyclists fear afternoon or evening accidents in which they might cook to death if they have to lie injured on the pavement. You guys back east are just getting started. Think about how it would feel for seven weeks straight, like we've had down here already in Texas and Oklahoma. We've been in the high-90s since the first of June, the 100s for all of July. At least the odds are against your having to live with the heat for that long, or even a sizable fraction of this amount of time. We face the possibility of at least six to eight weeks more of it, based on our typical weather patterns. August and September can be the miserable months of the year down here, and we're not there yet. The desert southwest has been even hotter than this, but the charm of true desert is that it tends to cool down nicely at night. We haven't been below 80 at night in weeks. U.S. Drought Monitor Map Relax and feel lucky that it probably won't last as long up there in the east. Drink lots of fluid, don't be stupid and exercise hard in the heat, take it easy. Enjoy the shade, carry an umbrella to keep some of the worst of it off of the back of your head and neck. You should carry a filled water bottle everywhere you go. I carry one of these BPA-free bottles at work and in the truck and if I have to work in the yard I do it at 7am and I take a full 64oz bottle with me into the yard. A small squirt of water on your shirt, back and front will cool you off rapidly and very efficiently. And because it's so hot, no one will think you're a dork if they see you with a wet shirt. It goes with the territory. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Amergin Date: 23 Jul 11 - 06:12 PM Not sure what you all are complaining about....it's 78 degrees here in Oregon... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 23 Jul 11 - 06:09 PM SINSULL beat me to that comment. I wuld love to be able to breathe easily. My rarely bothersome, usually mild, mostly exercise-induced asthma has kicked in majorly over the past couple of days. It's not in any way life-threatening, but it is extremely uncomfortable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 23 Jul 11 - 05:47 PM "hot, sticky and cranky" Soooo, what are you not wearing? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: SINSULL Date: 23 Jul 11 - 05:33 PM Great! Now I have this visual of a hairy gnu with silky white thighs stuck to his balls. That could put me off sex for life. WTF gnu! Keep that crap to yourself. SINS, hot, sticky and cranky |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: olddude Date: 23 Jul 11 - 03:51 PM It has been total hell in western NY, I don't think I have ever been so hot ... and not in a good way either ... gosh .. punishing heat. I went for a walk at 2 in the morning and it was still 88 with 100% humidity ... my server shut down from being overheated ... brutal for sure. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnomad Date: 23 Jul 11 - 03:12 PM Lucky Will, we are being offered drizzle all morning, with northerly winds gusting to 44mph. (Whitby, NE England) Top temperature to be around 4pm, 15deg Celsius. The wind will make it feel a lot lower. We are supposed to be a seaside holiday resort, but our beach will have those same northerlies straight off the sea, which is predicted to have 11.5 ft swells to encourage paddling. Maybe we could swap some of ours for some of what those on the west side of the pond are having? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 23 Jul 11 - 02:53 PM Oh I'd love to be there in that heat, truly! I'm sitting here (Norfolk, UK) in a jumper and thick trousers, with my little fan heater on. Ridiculous for July! I'm trying to persuade my Ivory Coast hubbie to take me to visit his mum & dad in Abidjan, but he's not looking too enthusiastic. The poor children, all last term they sweltered in their classrooms during the drought, and now, the first day of the hols., it's rotten. Wish I has a nice hot sauna to sit in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Will Fly Date: 23 Jul 11 - 02:09 PM Forecast here (Sussex, UK) for tomorrow is 23C - that's promising... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Crowhugger Date: 23 Jul 11 - 02:01 PM Oh I would PAY for 14C right now! Once the temp gets above 28 or 30C I become a little unhinged. I really don't deal well with heat and will do almost anything to get and stay cool. By the time June rolled around I was already looking forward to next winter. Don't get me wrong, I make the best of summer and take advantage of what it offers, such as water play without freezing to death. Part of the attraction of winter when one has 3 large dogs: snowy playtime means coming home with 12 clean feet! A girlfriend and I are usually the only ones at the dog park when the wind chill hits 35C below. I don't own a winter coat--just layer some wool over a couple of under-layers of cashmere...if it's good enough for Himalayan goats, it's good enough for me. Add a woven layer to shed snow and cut the wind and off we go. The dogs well know how to cope: they run & wrestle more when it's that cold. Ahh, it's been nice to revisit those winter memories... Sorry, UK-ers. I'd send you the heat if I could, HONEST!! Side benefit of the heat, though: It's a big reason I have time to post here lately instead of my usual read 'n' run. Too hot to step outside if at all avoidable. Is it fall yet? Gosh, this complaining is kind of fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Jul 11 - 01:30 PM It barely made 14C here today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 23 Jul 11 - 01:21 PM Yeah? Well my nuts were stickin to my thighs (my silky smooth white thighs) after watering the greenery for only twenty minutes. I am NOT acclimated fer that and I shant get acclimated fer that on accounta I got 25kBtus a frosty cranked full tilt and I ain't goin back outside unless the power cuts out. And, if it does cut out I am gonna get hosed reeeeal good. And it ain't even REAL hot here. I feel sorry for youse what got real hot weather. Kendall... get Jac to bring you iced lemonade and fan you with a frond. Hmmm... is it cool in the cellar? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: maeve Date: 23 Jul 11 - 07:53 AM Speaking for my family in Maine, we have high temperatures and humidity every summer, and often in spring and autumn as well. We may or may not enjoy the heat, but it's a normal occurrence in our experience and we know quite well how to manage. We feel fortunate to live in an area with dramatic contrasts in severe weather; we accommodate to whatever weather we encounter... weeks of punishing heat or weeks of punishing cold. Some of us have lived/traveled in Texas, California, Florida, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, England, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa as well as Maine, so we have experienced different climates. It's all too easy to assume that other people can't handle what we ourselves survive. :) May we each manage well enough with current weather conditions to be able to help those who are in need. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: GUEST,kendall Date: 23 Jul 11 - 07:07 AM ...I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking. (Utah Phillips) I have lost 5 pounds this past week. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: MikeL2 Date: 23 Jul 11 - 07:00 AM hi Phew.....over here in UK probably the worst July we have experienced. Went to North Wales last week-end to watch one of my son's take part in the Welsh Triathlon. On the worst day possible we all stood there on the beach as the contestants pined up in their wet suits for the start of the race. Just as they got set to race in the sea the race-director called off the swimming leg - too dangerous !!! Winds of 60 - 70 gusting higher. So we had a "duathlon". The winds increased and the rain came down in torrents. The plucky contestants fought against the elements and they did actually finish the event. We were lucky. We had a hotel on the beach and our room overlooked the route that the contestants took. So we sat warm and cosy in the window and I shot some great video. Never seen so many umbrellas blown inside out and up into the sky. This is mid-summer in the UK. !!!!!!! We have been promised some "good weather" imminently but I'm holding my breath. The forecasts this year have been so bad that we just don't believe them any more. cheers MikeL2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 23 Jul 11 - 05:53 AM 10/08/03 we had 100.6F in the south of England - highest ever in the UK "since records began". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 23 Jul 11 - 05:20 AM Will, you can have it! I'll take cool, grey, windy and damp! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Will Fly Date: 23 Jul 11 - 04:19 AM Bring it on, damn you! We've had cool, grey, windy damp days in the UK for the past few days or so, and I'm itching for some sun. Just send a little bit of yours this way - perleese! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 23 Jul 11 - 03:41 AM EBarnacle, I revel in the cold. I'm usually the one pointing out that one can always put another sweater on in the winter, but there's only so much one can take off in the summer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: JohnInKansas Date: 23 Jul 11 - 01:56 AM Fun to see the update to that angry machine! But kat - did you check out the one above the angry: the Spaw Controller? John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Janie Date: 23 Jul 11 - 12:01 AM What we are acclimated to makes all the difference. In my adult life have suffered heat stroke when visiting summer Florida while living and being acclimated to cooler and less humid climes. Then moved south and without AC for several years. Suffered hypothermia on a very hot July day at a beach in Delaware after playing in the ocean for an hour due to cooler water temps. These past couple days, and the weekend to come are gonna be hard on many of us - but I can tolerate 100 degree temps much better than you Maniacs can, just because I'm more acclimated to higher temps and humidity. The body bears the burden..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: katlaughing Date: 22 Jul 11 - 11:26 PM JohninKS, thanks! Fun to see the update to that angry machine! ranger1, my daughter's cats in CT have been having the same trouble. Two to them favour the dining table as it is metal and stays more cool. It has been miserable there with the "Three Aitches: Hot, Hazy, & Humid." I well remember those days and do NOT miss them. I hate high heat and, like you, do not tolerate it well, but dry heat is easier to deal with, imo, plus the high desert cools off, usually, at night. Here's something I would recommend you get. It REALLY does work: MISTY MATE. That is like one I bought years ago, which still works. You strap it around your waist, clip the end of the hose to a cap or whatever you want and the mist it sprays before you cools the air significantly, making it more tolerable to be out as you are. There are larger ones like that. They don't show it in their new, "Improved" models which are hand held, but if you search for "strap on," it shows up. They also have other cooling accessories including the Arctic Tie. Those really help a lot, too! Please be careful, everyone! kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Mrrzy Date: 22 Jul 11 - 11:23 PM It was 103F at 10 am here... I have central air and I'm setting at minimum bearable expenditure, if the kids complain they can go outside. I thank the people who are calling Mom and telling her to stay inside, which she would anyway. I've kept my unhappy cats in. Mother Nature ain't to be disrespected. It occurs to me to ask her (Mom, not Mother Nature, upon rereasing) tomorrow, which is supposed to be both hotter and the last really hot day, if she has a get-to-AC-now plan if the elec in DC goes out with the demand, since there is no limit to the # of people who are buying, and plugging in, fans and pocket ACs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: MarkS Date: 22 Jul 11 - 11:11 PM So hot today I saw two trees fighting over a dog. Yeah, its old, but so am I. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 22 Jul 11 - 09:55 PM Dan... hahahahahaaa. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: olddude Date: 22 Jul 11 - 09:52 PM hey its just practice we are all going to hell anyway :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: DebC Date: 22 Jul 11 - 09:36 PM I did 20 years in the Northern Sacramento Valley in California where temps climb into the triple digits frequently. Our heat here in new England (I am in Massachusetts) has been bearable for me as the humidity has been low (24%!!). This summer and last year's were hot and dry. Weird. It's a dry heat so far. Deb Cowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: JohnInKansas Date: 22 Jul 11 - 09:21 PM When it gets too hot to do much of anything, perhaps there is reason to look at things like: 10 completely useless homemade machines Special attention should be given to the next to last item at the bottom, that for certain of our regulars could provide relief from the onerous job of changing TV channels. The last item shown likely is one many have seen; but it is worth watching the fairly brief video if you haven't. (Don't make your machinery angry!) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: EBarnacle Date: 22 Jul 11 - 09:15 PM Could these be the same people who complain it is too cold or too snowy in the winter? What is, is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 22 Jul 11 - 08:49 PM Bobert... how could the heat affect you ya skinny thing? Gee whiz, just wet yer shirt and ya'd catch cold. Now, fer us fat folks, heat is not good. It takes a lot of cold beer and a lot of laziness to battle hot weather. I know ye loikes yer beer but with all that movin and plantin and such, yer just not lazy enough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Bobert Date: 22 Jul 11 - 08:23 PM 99 here in "win-git" north Carolina today... I was gonna jump in the swimming pool but the water temp was in the 80s... forget it... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Greg F. Date: 22 Jul 11 - 08:17 PM You'll feel a lot better if you'll just remember that there's no such thing as global warming or global climate change & most importantly, vote Republican. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: gnu Date: 22 Jul 11 - 08:13 PM Gee... here we are just to the north of you and just to the north of the jet stream it appears. We are having a great summer so far... maybe a dozen days of kinda hot and only several of too hot, unlike last summer which was a scorcher. Down south and out west have had it bad. I feel for youse as I am also one who does not like heat. I hope things ease up on youse. When yer maters won't even set, like SRS's, that's just way too HOT! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 22 Jul 11 - 08:04 PM Yeah, we got one of those. We've got window fans that will do both intake and exhaust, too. I'm just whinging. It's uncomfortable, but we'll survive. It's better for J-boy, myself and the dog, we can go to the neighbor's house and take advantage of the AC. Poor Kaylee's an indoor cat, no options other than our fans and the ice pack. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Jul 11 - 07:48 PM Do you have an oscillating fan? That would help. SRS |
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Subject: BS: Too Effing Hot!!! From: ranger1 Date: 22 Jul 11 - 07:45 PM I'm a northern New Englander of mainly Quebecois and Irish ancestry. I do not deal well with the heat. Today, Portland, Maine hit a record for July with 100 degrees. I work mainly outside, with my only indoor refuge a maintenance shop in an old barn, with no air conditioning. By the end of the day, all I could think of was stopping somewhere and buying some tiny, little AC unit to combat the heat in our tiny, south-facing apartment. Normally, I would never shop at Walmart, but that was my first stop. No joy. Then I went to the Mall. I tried Best Buy. No dice. I went into Sears, where the nice gentleman in Appliances told the guy in front of me that there are no air conditioners to be had anywhere in the area. I thanked him and headed home. I found poor little black Kaylee Kitty looking like an oil spill on the floor, mewing at me piteously. After rummaging in the freezer, I found an ice pack that I wrapped in a towel and put on the lino in the kitchen. She hasn't moved off it since I put it there. Kaylee and I agree: we've had enough. |
