[rhudeboye]

It looks as if the end is in sight. Hows everyone been doing?

Pat actually had an AC problem. I assume he begrudgingly coughed up the cash and got it fixed.

I came pretty close to having a heat stroke 2 weeks ago. I was working in my back yard and yes, I was keeping hydrated, when all of a sudden I got a pounding head ache. I worked a little longer then felt dizzy. I went in to the AC and had a drink. Head still spinning, stomach now very nauseous. After a shower I started to vomit. I then slept from 4:30 through the rest of the day. Had a head ache for 5 days afterward. This heat is brutal!

I think I'm ready to move.


<b>Stories from WTOP-</b>

Heat-Related Deaths

In Maryland, health officials say this week's heat has been linked to the death of a Baltimore resident. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said an adult resident was found in a home with air temperatures over 90 degrees.

That brings the total number of heat-related deaths in the state this year to eight. There were six heat-related deaths reported last year, and 17 reported in 2008.

Records set

It reached 102 degrees at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Wednesday, setting a new record for July 7. Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport also set a new record when the temperature reached 100 degrees.

Tuesday was a record-breaker at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, where the temperature reached 105 degrees.

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[flash]

i don't do heat - ever since i was a kid, i get sick just like you are talking about - it doesn't take much - humidity like you have there would just kill me

just as oddly, it has been abnormally cool, cloudy, and wet here - mostly in the 60s and low 70s - i'm not complaining, but the weather has definitely gone wonky this year - i'm just hoping we don't get a sudden indian summer - at least with a couple of months of summer, we get to acclimate to the heat - as cool as it has been, i think we will have a real problem if it suddenly jumps back up over 100 like usual

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[rhudeboye]

I know! A buddy of mine in SoCal was telling me about how cool its been as I'm telling him how abnormally hot it is over here. When you open your front door it feels like your opening an oven. The heat is causing neighborhoods to look empty as everyone stays inside. I go from home garage to AC car to work garage to AC building. And I stay in for lunch. It's the only way to keep my shirts fresh and dry [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

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[flash]

that's just wacky

i'm hoping that i don't run into that kind of weather in august in missouri, as i'll be outside for about 10 days

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[94SilverCab]

Oh yeah, no chance of heat and humidity in St. Louis in August... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

I spent a year there one month (August '88), I'm pretty sure Hell is more comfortable.

Jay

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[flash]

lol - yeah - good thing they are paying me buckets of money to be there

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[Johannvb]

We have been having insane heat as well.

Today it is 91 degrees Fahrenheit with 42% humidity. What makes this suck really badly is the fact that our homes don't have AC and the old building I am working in doesn't either. So the only slavation is the newly repaired AC in the 968 [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

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[Monstrous4Banger]

Heat wave huh? Gonna be 112 here today.

edit: Thats a normal summer day here.

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[rhudeboye]

"Gonna be 112 here today."

LOL... You are joking.. right?


Johannvb- No AC
OMG I don't know how I would ever get to sleep. Have you thought about getting a window unit?

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[Monstrous4Banger]

We dont joke about the heat in Phoenix. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

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[ebarone968]

We hit 106 degrees at the Meadowlands by Giant Stadium 2 days ago. The humidity here is the most difficult part. You can't even see Manhattan from 1/2 mile away in the morning. The air is extremely thick. We have not had weather like this in early July for at least 10 years. I am in the commercial air conditioning business. I can't keep up with the service calls anymore. Most systems are designed ( northeast ) for 95degrees. Systems that have not been maintained or in poor condition can't handle these temps and they crash. I can't even put the top down on my 968 !!

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[Johannvb]

Rhude, sleeping is an issue. AC in the house is just not something we have here in Europe, I have never seen a window unit over here either. The up side is that it is only like this for 2-3 weeks each year, so justifying an AC is quite hard.

We keep cool by eating tons of ice lollies!

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[flash]

i spoke too soon - i have been working on prepping the side of the house for concrete, in prep for a new AC system - in a conversation i was just having with the wife, i ran around with my laser thermometer to see how effective the new triple thick skylight is - the good news is that it is doing an excellent job, whereas the previous one let so much heat in that the floor below it would get over 100 degrees - the bad news is that to get a reference point, i checked the ground out on the side of the house, and it's already 105 and it's not noon yet - the air isn't that hot, at only about 75, but the sun is beaming hard - it won't take long to saturate the ground and it will be hot here

i need to schedule the new AC now before the rush

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[Monstrous4Banger]

Yeah 106 in NY is very hot, and unusual. Thats a low day in here in July. The "yeah, but its a dry heat" thing I swear is just what to tell people to get them to move here. Im from Peoria, Il Originally. You dont realize how much of a blessing humidity, and a cool breeze is til you live in an arid desert. Its so dry you dont even sweat really. Sweat is what cools you. Moisture, and a breeze creates evaporation, the evaporation has a cooling effect. Here, its literally like an oven. The humidity actually cools things off. People just dont like to sweat. Personally, Id rather sweat, and cool, than the sweat dry before it beads fully. People get bloody noses for a while when they first move here its so dry. Mucous membranes dry out, and crack.

Johann: You cant even buy a window unit there? Thats crazy. Order one online. Tons of used ones in my parts, but shipping would be crazy. Anything i can do let me know. AC units are a dime a dozen here used. New theyre not too much either. Few hundred bucks IIRC. Gotta be an online option, no?

Flash: I dont wanna hear it, just go to the beach. hahaha [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

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[rhudeboye]

I went AZ once. About 4 years ago we vacationed there. Nice people and beautiful homes. Then I noticed that no one had grass, just rocks in place of the lawn.

I spoke with a guy from MD who was going to school there. We were there in May. He mentioned you came at a good time because in about a month its gonna get really really hot! Odd thing about AZ. It was very cold in the mornings. So cold we wore pull overs every time we headed out. It got comfortable around 11:00 Then, not at noon but more like 4:00PM Temps shot up to the upper 80's and it stayed hot well after sun down.
Quite different then what Im used to. In MD its always hottest at high noon and as the sun sets things slowly get better.


PS- I Loved watching the sunset at Red Rock

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[Monstrous4Banger]

Yeah, it depends what part of town your in, in regards to it getting cool in the morning. Out in the desert, it gets real cool in the morning, right before the sun comes up. Downtown around lots of buildings, and sidewalks not so much. The asphalt, and concrete and stuff hold the heat in. Gotta say, AZ is paradise - a beach 8 months out of the year tho.

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[rhudeboye]

[quote name='Johannvb' Rhude, sleeping is an issue. AC in the house is just not something we have here in Europe, "

Get a big block of ice and place it behind a nice big box fan pointed across your bed.

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[Cloud9...68]

I know you guys on the East coast are suffering, and I do feel bad for you, but at least you can take solace in the fact that it won't last. In most of the country, brutal heat in the summer comes in waves, with refreshing breaks in between. Here in Texas (and in Arizona, which is where I lived before moving here), summer basically starts in May, and doesn't finish till October. The only break we get is the occasional rain, and then it's brutally humid when it's over.

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[Darryl]

I don't buy the "it's a dry heat" argument either. I've been to AZ more than once each spring, summer, and fall, and it's just HOT period. Texas is insanely hot as well and as Cloud put it, just goes on and on.

I remember one time traveling to Las Vegas on a charter flight and the plane came to a stop on the tarmac where we were to unload and get on our buses and when the door of the plane opened up, it was as if a giant hair dryer almost knocked you back into the aisle. It was hard to breathe. The air temp was 110 or something like that, so who knows what it was on that concrete tarmac. Dry heat my ass!

Usually here in VA/MD/DC, we don't get this combination of temperatures and humidity until late August, so that's what's got everybody in a tizzy...it's just a little too early. Hopefully relief is coming this weekend.

Hey Rico...the top is still down in my cab but it's been indoors for the last couple of weeks! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

- Darryl

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[williamoss]

hey move to Portalnd Oregon. While it has been about 98 degrees there is no humidity so it is just hot not life threating. And It is green al the time life is cheap to live out here. Great place to come to and we need more 968's out here.

William Moss

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