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Been ~105-degF for the past few days, here in NC.
No tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, mudslides, or wildfires, though.
A/C and laptop still work.
Moving sucks.
Wish somebody’d make me a roo’beer float.
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105 in that humidity?
Whoa.
I spent a few days in August 2006 in mid VA and about melted.
Thought I was gonna drown when I stepped outside at Dulles airport. And it was only in the low 90′s.
Sheesh.
Near 100 degrees in MN today. Might catch a break and get the thunderstorm later tonight. That’ll cool things off…and bring the humidity up to 99 percent or so for tomorrow when the heat comes back.
Cripes.
Around 90 today and through the week. No floods, no power outage, no tornadoes, no earthquakes, no hurricanes, no ice storms.
Everything is smoooooth.
Is there a Red Robin nearby. Unlimited re-fills on their root beer floats.
About 61° here… Might make it up to 82°…Humidity about 50% cuz the a.m. fog just left… Headed down to about 35% by late afternoon…
[Hey! gotta be some pay-offs for living here...]
I’ll bet that guy has another pair of shoes like that at home.
*poof*
Yur a rootbeer float!
Now quit bit’chin…I’d like a liitle warmth thank you.
I’m chilly here in Richmond today. Only 90 F in the shade at the moment. That’s a break from three days of 101-106 and 16 hours without power in the middle of it. Picked up all the storm debris all day yesterday, got a little woozy once and went inside and flopped in front of a fan in the AC.
Sheesh Doug. Moving’s a booger, even without doing it in a blast furnace. Throw the stuff in, shut the door and crank up the AC if you have power. Sorting and organizing can come later.
Like many others, who were young men between 1956 and 1975, I spent 2 years (66-67…) in a place where 100 degrees and 90% humidity were the annual norm (…save for the monsoon season, when it was a fucking *freezing* 75 degrees and 100% humidity…).
Not only did most of us never feel an air conditioner, we were obliged to wear long sleeve shirts, trousers, often carry over 50 lbs of equipment and wear a fucking metal helmet! [...tho, I confess, my 2nd year I was exposed to F4B cockpit airconditioning 191 times, it had its good and BAD features!...] The good is obvious, but the BAD? IF, a pilot *forgot* to set his cockpit airflow lever to full OFF on takeoff, when he released his brakes, lit 2 full afterburners on takeoff w a full load of bombs—–his cockpit *instantly* filled up with blinding FOG—from sucking the humidity-full air thru the aircraft`s air conditioning system!!!!! NOT a fun way to make a takeoff at 200 fucking knots of groundspeed! One time—-produced pilots who never fucking failed that exam again!!!!
My point? The East Coast has essentially temporarily reverted to the 1940s, when it was a swim in a lake or creek and wearing light clothes. Cars had their windows rolled down. Shade was a premium….. However, it is slightly worse now then then. Buildings and homes are constructed differently. Lots of windows will not open. Even fans won`t work. No streetlights make commuting a longer and more hazardous event!
My only suggestion if you are old and feel like you may die from the heat in a concrete jungle; go to the nearest YMCA, place where there is a fountain pool at a public place near you—-and—-jump the fuck in those pools, clothes and all!!!…….
And then, vote the fucking RATz out of office! Why? Because——-
Hey, let’s shut down some more coal-fired power plants!
Tough here in the outback. It’s 70 on my deck.
It’s summer and it’s hot — 90 on the back patio–but– when you live in the Upper Peninsula it could be snowing by Wed..– Not likely but it could– watched a few fortchuly prades with winter jackets on. This is the first time in the Mr.s and my life that we’ve had AC– it’s great but I fight having to turn it on. I hate having to close all the doors and windows because we have to live like that all winter. MN rain heading this way–
I played golf with a friend who didn’t realize she had two different golf shoes on. When we pointed it out she told up of going to church with two different shoes each heal being a different hight. She was a red head not a blond.
It’s about 60 degrees F here, and it is trying to rain. Got coffee and a donut to enjoy it with.
I live about 35 miles south of Chicago. We’re experiencing temps in the mid- to upper 90′s – not bad for a midwestern summer (had a much-needed rain yesterday). My two black lab mixes really dislike this heat, especially the smaller one who is (we think) a black lab/bull terrier mix. It’s all I can do to drag her out of the house during daylight hours.
Very dry here….can’t belive we haven’t had some moron set the woods on fire yet. Had a small windstorm Friday with all the usual downed trees and limbs and patio furniture blowing into the next county….but not one drop of rain.
Garden is about a 100% waste and no blackberries or blueberries for me this year. Farmers starting to sell off their cattle because of a possible hay shortage this winter and lots of stock ponds drying up.
No. Cali nice and cool, about 78-80.
As Claire said…… Weather… oh and our new high speed train!
*snark*
PS: this is raising some stink in the Halls of Powah…
http://thenewcaliforniabandits.com
“Moving sucks” ???
Surely your not changing abodes in this weather?
72F, sunny with scattered cloud, slight breeze, and it still feels hot.
(I really ought to reconsider my previously expressed desire to retire in Barbados …..)
Don’t go to Wal-Mart the day before full moon.
I must be REALLY off this week.
Newt has another one right.
dick (8)
A/C? Discovered my new digs’ heat pump was leaked-out empty of freon. Bein’ fixed as we speak. I turned on all five ceiling fans in the place, but I had to turn two of ‘em off, ’cause every time I stepped out onto the deck, the house would start to rise. (What? No, yeah, true story. Hey, would ol’ Uncle
RemusDoug pull your leg, kid?)At least the fridge’s ice maker works. Never had one’a ‘em contraptions ‘afore. I expect to wear it out. I mean, geeze, looks like I’ll have to use the ice cubes up pretty fast, so it doesn’t overflow. Still haven’t figgered out where I’m s’post’a pour the water in, though.
Cable gets transferred tomorrow, so I can move the recliner, desk, and bed.
Just moved the TR-6 and Harley into their half of the new garage/shop. Next, move the arsenal and ammo dump. Turning a walk-in closet into a major-league gun room.
Colonel Jerry, SIR!: I can, empthasize, sorta. I used to have this old Porsche 911S that had a small leak in the right valve cover. When going around a left-handed corner at about 90 knots it would spill oil onto the hot exhaust pipes on that side.
Due to the Volkswagen-inspired heating system, it would immediately spew copious amounts of thick blue smoke out of the defroster vents by the windshield, and render you, essentially, blind.
This was not what you wanted to see when you were trying to negotiate a fucking left-handed turn at about 90 motherfucking knots in a rear-engined car. The only thing you could do was keep your foot in it, because if you let-off, you were dead fer sure.
But at least I didn’t have a bunch of japs shooting at me at the same time.
Living in the heart of the derecho right now. Heat wave, no electricity. (Bethesda, MD)
Food: spoiled. All of it, right in the dumpster. Haven’t had power since Friday. Probably won’t until the weekend.
My zombie kit has me pretty well prepared. What I lack is a fan, and/or a mosquito net.
Hog,
I appreciate the aeronautical technical language in your fucking analogy…..at least from a Marine fucking technical specificity…………………..
Semper fucking Fi,
ColJ
Hey… Didn’t I hear somewhere that Capitol Hill has it’s own COAL FIRED power plant all its own?
just sayin….
Nice cool evening drizzle here in the great NW. Even got a space heater directed at my feets and legs. You never know when, if, it’s gonna heat up.
Very interesting life happening stories from everyone all over the U.S.. Even tho we’re all different we are the same.
Four frikken weeks with numbers in the mid to high 90′s, five straight days with highs’ over 100. *NO* humidity, drier that a popcorn fart! The skies have an eery orange cast from all the fires blazing in the foothills. Eyes burning, sinuses abso-fucking-lutely trashed out clogged and no relief…..The only saving grace is that it does tend to cool down in the wee hours….low 70′s if we are lucky. We have no central A/C.
Still not as bad as it was in Kingfisher, Oklahoma two summers ago. Stopped for lunch and stepped out of the Chevy Suburban that was loaded with GPR (ground penetrating radar) equipment into 107 degrees and 60+% humidity. My knees literally buckled.
Can only imagine what it was like in SE Asia….Lord-a-mercy!
*quoting myself* (sorry) But at least I didn’t have a bunch of japs shooting at me at the same time.
But I did have the cutest little barmaid in Newport, OR, that I’d just picked-up, and she was curled up in the fetal position in the passenger seat, with her feet braced on the dashboard, screaming WOOOOO!!! HOOOO!!! during the whole incident, SIR! All things considered, the blue smoke was a nice touch.
And, as I recall, she was screaming nothing else but WOOOOO!!! HOOOO!!! for the rest of the night.
And that’s my full report, SIR!
Private Hogpants
They’re making beer out of Roos now?
Those BASTARDS!
And now, back to the wildfires… Sven: It must be like hell. I always figgered that if I had me a log cabin up in them there woods, I’d also have to have a giant cistern underneath it that would catch all the rainwater for the whole year.
Then I’d have a sprinkler system that would turn itself on when things got too hot… powered by bio-diesel, of course. Not a totally bad idea, but one of the problems is: bio-diesel grows algae, if you give it half-a-chance.
Have you ever tried running a diesel engine on algae?
You can run a duck on algae, but very little else. So then you have to put an additive into the bio-diesel that kills the algae. Now you’re a murderer. Of algae. Okay, no big deal. I don’t think you even have to pray for forgiveness for that one.
I sure hope that you and your’s weather the storm in good shape.
Hog,
Depending on the wind speed and the tree density close to your log cabin, I don`t think a *sprinkler system* will save the log cabin. Forest fires can move faster than a 4-minute olympic class runner and if fire line has *fodder*, the combination can generate heat in the thousands of degrees! Purty much like standing on that bridge (…aim point…) in Hiroshima at 0805 AM on 6 August, 1945! Your cabin, all possesions and you would vaporize fastern The Second Law of Thermodynamics could *spell* Entropy—an yewr ashes prolly rise up into the Jet Stream n head East, clockin about 120 fuckin knots while spreadin your *ashes* mebbe on to the dirt of 4 are 5 downwind States. The Coroner`s job will be a fucking bitch —tryin to git alla you into that there fucking plastic bag—-even if he got access to a hunnert trained dogs (because when they barked at your smelly ash, why hit would jist launch agin totally pissing off the dog…………….)
Hog/Colonel & all’y'all,
Here’s the skinny on the wildfires. Most of them are in what is known as the “red” zone in the foothills of the eastern slope of the Rockies. It is the transition zone between the plains ecosystem and and what is called the “montane” ecosystem. Forestry experts have been warning folks for nearly 60 years now that this transition zone is historically *supposed* to burn every 7 to 15 years, clearing out the undergrowth, killing off the sick and dying trees, maintaining a open glade, park like setting.
Humans have suppressed this self-regulating cycle for nearly 100 years. Also, we humans have recently been building communities right in the midst of this transitional zone, with absolutely no thought given to fire management! (Can someone say California howling liberal wingnutcases?) The result is heavily overgrown forests, with overstressed trees, lots of deadfall and standing dead timber. Add to this the havoc created by the spruce bud moth and the Ponderosa pine bettle. Then add to it one of the dryest spring/early summer seasons on record And you have a recipe for the Perfect Firestorm.
Sadly, that is exactly what is happening with horrific results.
The idiotic NFS/BLM bureaucrat’s 50+ year old “Smokey the Bear” campaign has come home to roost, bringing these devastating conflagrations with it. *SPIT!*
Completely unrelated to any topic mentioned in this thread:
http://news.yahoo.com/n-c-lawmaker-fracks-her-vote-152255133–abc-news-politics.html
She pushed the wrong button, but cannot change her vote to what she intended, onnacounta it was the deciding vote.
Sven, I had a friend visit last weekend from Colorado Springs. Early spring a co-worker of his cleared brush and dead wood around his house per fire department advice. He still has a home. Most of his neighbors, who didn’t clear a defensable space, do not.
While the rabid enviro-left is saying that this summer is a “sample of global warming”, real scientists are having a look at solar max, ocean temperatures, jet stream patterns, and so forth, and saying that our weather runs in cycles.
Nature: trying to kill us 24/7.
(What? No, I don’t think that’s the hundredth time.)
Further to your Semper Fi at No 26 above, Colonel, I thought you’d appreciate this:
http://www.theospark.net/2012/07/few-good-men.html
Oh poop! I almost forgot I wrote a song about it! The Porsche 911S, that is…
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=11745316&q=hi&newref=1
(#34) Colonel Jerry, with all due respect, SIR!
I was merely using the phrase *sprinkler system* as a euphemism for “large amounts of water all over everything”, SIR! Therefore the gigantic-ass cistern.
And while your very cogent statements about windspeed, temperature, and the like, (not to mention Newton’s Second Law of Thermodynamics — which almost made me swoon {I recon the Headmissy is still recovering, if she ever reads this}) are all considerable, there’s still a way, a good way, to survive.
Wildfires are, by nature, wild. They run fast and hard till they run out of breath. And then they move on. Most of the people who died in Dresden back in ’45 weren’t burn victims. They, literally, had the air sucked out of their lungs and they died from suffocation. And then the firestorm burnt the holy shit out of them.
The simple addition of a few oxygen tanks and some masks (which you should have anyway) down in the Hunker Bunker™ will solve this. And a good VHS copy of Sea Hunt, with Lloyd “Mutherfucking” Bridges, wouldn’t hurt either.