Folks in the southwest, be careful!!!

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100 degree heat index! I honestly dont know how or why you guys do that! Be careful! Heat is deadly, I know you guys have ways of making it livable, remember them! If your grand dad ALWAYS said "Work at night when its this hot" then sleep late and enjoy your evenings......what the heck did your grand dads say that would help in heat like that!?!?!?

Who knows I may find myself dealing with an inferno someday....or caught in a forest fire!

I thought it rained like hell a few days ago?
 
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you get used to it. i think the heat index was 104 today. and i think the actual temp last year at it's peak was 109, forgot what the heat index was.
 
100° pfft! It is currently 101° F here at my house according to my Davis Vantage View weather system with a heat index of 107° F. Today was the hottest day of the year so far but yesterday's heat index was higher at 111.5° F!

Here are the records for this year so far:

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BTW...Notice the lowest temp for the year too! This was since Feb 26 when I installed my system. It may have been a little colder in January!
 
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Rick P said:
100 degree heat index! I honestly dont know how or why you guys do that! Be careful! Heat is deadly, I know you guys have ways of making it livable, remember them! If your grand dad ALWAYS said "Work at night when its this hot" then sleep late and enjoy your evenings......what the heck did your grand dads say that would help in heat like that!?!?!?

Who knows I may find myself dealing with an inferno someday....or caught in a forest fire!

I thought it rained like hell a few days ago?
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Rick I deal it it 2 ways, number 1 is I start to work with my saw at 4 AM when there is enough light to see what I'm doing and I can get 6 hours in, in the shade on the west side of the house and by then it's about 100 or more and the rest of the work day is spent either under the Palapa with my butt in the pool and a cold beer in my hand or behind the waterfall in the pool, with a cold beer in my hand.

The only other way to deal with this kind of heat when you get a little older like I am, is to just stay out of the heat and in the AC! Others may differ in how to beat the heat but these are my prefered ways. And they work well enough for these old bones!

Joe and Linda
 
MesquiteMan said:
BTW...Notice the lowest temp for the year too! This was since Feb 26 when I installed my system. It may have been a little colder in January!
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Couple of years ago we had a bad thaw and I got to 50 in march......it was -50 in fairbanks that day! They do get 90 degree days in the summer! so -60ish for the coldest day and say 95 for the hotest isnt unussual for them.

The oncean moderates our temps and unfortunately often keeps us in heavy cloud cover. Its been in the hig 50's, I think it hit 62 once so far this year here near Plamer.
 
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Rick P said:
100 degree heat index! I honestly dont know how or why you guys do that! Be careful! Heat is deadly, I know you guys have ways of making it livable, remember them! If your grand dad ALWAYS said "Work at night when its this hot" then sleep late and enjoy your evenings......what the heck did your grand dads say that would help in heat like that!?!?!?

Who knows I may find myself dealing with an inferno someday....or caught in a forest fire!

I thought it rained like hell a few days ago?
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Rick I deal it it 2 ways, number 1 is I start to work with my saw at 4 AM when there is enough light to see what I'm doing and I can get 6 hours in, in the shade on the west side of the house and by then it's about 100 or more and the rest of the work day is spent either under the Palapa with my butt in the pool and a cold beer in my hand or behind the waterfall in the pool, with a cold beer in my hand.

Joe and Linda
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Now that sounds like a great plan!
 
I spent a month working outside in the heat in the Utah desert near Dugway Proving Grounds when I was in the Army.

when they say "it's a dry heat" - they mean it. Big difference between those dry, high temps and our hot humid days here in TX.

when it's that hot and dry, I didn't really feel it...except for the sunburn. :)
 
Well I sincerely hope the temps improve for you guys and more importantly everyone is able to cool off somehow.......feel a bit guilty for thinking getting away from the heat of July would be a bonus of my trip north now.

Stay safe! And think cool thoughts...........
 

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I spent a month working outside in the heat in the Utah desert near Dugway Proving Grounds when I was in the Army.

when they say "it's a dry heat" - they mean it. Big difference between those dry, high temps and our hot humid days here in TX.

when it's that hot and dry, I didn't really feel it...except for the sunburn. :)
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Only time I was in a place that dry was in winter.......amazing how fast the air can suck the moisture outa ya even at 40 degrees! I swear I could smell water from miles away on the way out.

My little brother has had to work in Singapore a lot lately......He siad the same thing about heat and humidity "95 in a rain forest sucks! There is no such thing as dry and even the pool is to hot!"
 
well it was 93 here today. Heat index of 101 and it's very humid. The humidity knocks you down as soon as you walk outside. The best is yet to come. Man do I hate the Ohio Valley Weather.
 
Rick I deal it it 2 ways, number 1 is I start to work with my saw at 4 AM when there is enough light to see what I'm doing and I can get 6 hours in, in the shade on the west side of the house and by then it's about 100 or more and the rest of the work day is spent either under the Palapa with my butt in the pool and a cold beer in my hand or behind the waterfall in the pool, with a cold beer in my hand.

The only other way to deal with this kind of heat when you get a little older like I am, is to just stay out of the heat and in the AC! Others may differ in how to beat the heat but these are my prefered ways. And they work well enough for these old bones!

Joe and Linda[/quote]

That's a good way to get water in your beer....:mad::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

There's an old adage.... "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun."... At 70 I can handle the heat a little better than the cold, but also know that when it's too hot, I stay in the shade, where there's a breeze or in the house with the A/C on.
 
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the rest of the work day is spent either under the Palapa with my butt in the pool and a cold beer in my hand or behind the waterfall in the pool, with a cold beer in my hand.
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Joe; Hmmmmm; I see a pattern emerging there! :biggrin::biggrin:

Be careful, You'll get water in your beer!

Had a sweatshirt once, said, "I have a drinking problem, Two Hands, One mouth"!
 
Heat stroke aint no fun. I got a good case of it in Vietnam back in "72". Now I am here in hot and humid north Mississippi. I have to really watch myself. You can't take enough clothes off to get cool...but you can sure dress accordingly for the cold and stay warm. Been there...done that.
 
When it gets really hot, the way we deal with it is to simply not spend much time outside. The inside of our home is 66 degrees year round.
 
Ya learn to live with it when it comes, about another month or two we will have the usal 100-110 degree stuff hit where I live, it last for a few days then cools down to 90, then comes back.
We have about two to four cycles like that every year.

Ya just grabb the raft, an ice chest full of beer, lots of sun screen, and camp out in the pool.
Here's what I use. :biggrin:
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And I use this so I got my beer handy.
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Im thinkin I need to hang out with Joe and Danny when it gets hot out!

50 and raining here guys! I am so ready for snow!!!!
 
When people say "but it is a dry heat." Remember, so is your oven and you don't go hang out in it. Holding steady at 90ish. Supposed to be in the high nineties this week. Not bad.

It is the humidity I can't stand. I know we need the rain bad right now, but the humidity is painful. When it gets to 15% I start griping.

Hey danny something is not right. Your avatar and the picture of you on the raft don't jive.
 
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When people say "but it is a dry heat." Remember, so is your oven and you don't go hang out in it. Holding steady at 90ish. Supposed to be in the high nineties this week. Not bad.

It is the humidity I can't stand. I know we need the rain bad right now, but the humidity is painful. When it gets to 15% I start griping.

Hey danny something is not right. Your avatar and the picture of you on the raft don't jive.
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I'd love 15% humidity. It gets in the 80% mark here.
 
I got conned into putting down some sod here yesterday. Fortunately, here in the Dallas area we must have had some kind of cold front as I don't think it got above 85. Still got too hot in the direct sun, though.


-Matt
 
try it with no air fire ant got my upper unit home warranty say
I should have stopped them but they went up from below had no idea they were there until they got the compresses now AHS denies the claim so we dont have air dont have 5k for a new one they companies will do anything not to pay
 
Insurance is a business. Keep pushing them. We used to work with claims a lot as a repair business and I found that while one adjuster would deny a claim a little pushing got a different adjuster out and they were a lot easier to work with. Start of nice and then get mad but keep everything in writing and ask them for everything in writing.
 
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I have an old (1910's) adobe work shop that stays cool especially if I start early and dont run the forge. Most import LOTS AND LOTS of cool water.
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There is no way I'd do black smithing at those temps! I'm wet as hell from sweat pounding metal at 0!
 
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