...Al's been dealing with a social problem that has developed....VD
Posted on 07/07/2010 7:46:43 AM PDT by Biggirl
NEW YORK (AP) - It's just no fun in the sun. That was the conclusion in the streets of the Bronx as 14-year-old Miguel Pena and 13-year-old Vincent Quiles walked their bicycles up a hill on one of the hottest days in the past decade in the Northeast. "Man, this stinks," said Miguel, who, like his friend, was wearing a white handkerchief to keep the sweat out of his eyes. "We just got out of school, and this is supposed to be when we have fun, but this is too much. We thought it would be cooler on the bike, but now we're going home. It's just too hot." Vincent, feeling punished by the unrelenting sun and record-breaking 103-degree heat on Tuesday, chimed in: "You can't breathe out here."
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Isn’t it about time for Al Gore and his boys to get out there and warn us about global warming? Why aren’t they out there in this heat wave?
it’s July,July,July.
Al’s too busy trying to get his second chakra released.
Pansies...
It regularly gets over 100 in the midwest.
All those kids have to do is send their lunch money to Al Gore and he’ll lower the temps for them using his magical weather machine.
Little do they know that there is actually a giant space alien with a magnifying glass focusing the sun on New York until it catches fire.
Just wait for the hot months like July...oh, wait.
...Al's been dealing with a social problem that has developed....VD
Well, Al Gore wants us all to buy carbon credits. The liberal view is that we all buy carbon credits to fight global warming. Of course Mother Nature doesn’t change weather patterns based on who has bought carbon credits. But the liberals have their faith that they are saving a planet and all that. Nancy Pelosi said she has a planet to save. She didn’t say which planet though.
I think the east coast got all the hot weather from the west coast TX.
Well duh it’s called summer in New England!
I use to live in New York so I know how hot the summers get.
They are scorchers.
No real news there.
On the Florida coast its in the low 90s. It’s funny how the snow birds come down in the winter to escape the cold and ignore they could come down here in the summer and escape the heat. The Gulf and Atlantic keep the area from the scorching heat waves. Instead we have the afternoon thunderstorms that break the heat.
I have to say it is really, really hot (not to mention humid) here in Chesapeake country. Being outside wears you down really quickly.
I have to say it is really, really hot (not to mention humid) here in Chesapeake country. Being outside wears you down really quickly.
Just like in CT where I live.
I live in an area that gets over 100 several days a year so I can sympathize with these people. (It is not that humid though.) But any parent who would take a two-year-old and three-year-old to the zoo in that temperature is balmy. It makes about as much sense as taking them when it’s 20 degrees outside.
While I feel sorry for the kids on the bikes, might NYC have some nice air-conditioned libraries or museums or other indoor places these kids could use? Who says they need to be outside riding bikes?
Most people make their plans based on weather conditions. You don’t go about regular outdoor activities in extreme weather. You adjust. (That said, we accidentally laid paving stones for our patio a few years back in 116 degrees. We knew it was hot but didn’t realize how hot until we were done.)
Sorry, guys. I’ve lived in New England all of my life and this is not normal temps for summer or July. Something that has always bugged me is when people who are not used to a particular weather get made fun of when they find themselves in it. It’s like when north easterners make fun of people in the south who can’t handle snow when they get it. Or my husband used to make fun of New Englanders (when he first moved here) when they got several feet of snow. He went to school in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and they got so much snow that the stop signs stuck out of the ground about two feet all winter long. They drove around on densely packed snow all winter.
So, it’s abnormally hot here and it’s tough. I went out on Tuesday and was shaky and kept feeling like I was going to black out. I think I might have been dehydrated. I still don’t know. But, I do know that temps this high are NOT normal. They are rare around here.
While it gets hotter in the midwest, we have more humidity and more pavement in the many parts of the northeast.
i opened the fire hydrant i have a sprinkler cap. It’s funny how the Asian’s and Russian’s complain when it’s open. Just if i could keep the muslim kids away. yesterday my kids waited all day for to come home from work. It was open all weekend for the kids on the block to enjoy.
Entitlement mentality?
Yes, that’s likely dehydration. I know the symptoms well.
You need to stay hydrated — anticipate and drink water even if you’re not thirsty, rather than trying to treat an an episode with liquids after getting too hot. Takes a while to feel right again.
Temps over 100 are normal here in summer. I’m a Texan who has also lived through winters in the frozen north — you just have to adapt, whatever the climate.
We’re having a cool wet July so far, very unusual and delightful.
It is in the 80s here in Placerville Ca. Usually it is about 100.
It bugs me too. This heat wave is nothing to make fun of and it will likely kill some people. I do sympathise with you, even as I deal with the Florida heat. OBTW, my dad grew up in the UP, Ironwood. He and my mom are up there now for the summer. Never have I seen more snow than what they get in the UP. Stay cool.
Bad as it is, I’m less concerned about the heat than I am about the lack of rain.
Years past, a couple of rainbarrels allowed me to water my garden all season long. I’ve been forced to use municipal water now for over a week. We really need a good thunderstorm.
It’s gonna hit 100 here today. Cranked the AC down to 65 this morning to get a head start.
I remember those oppressive summer San Antonio days when I was assigned there at Randolph AFB from 1984-88. Felt like I was under a hot, wet blanket thrown over, with dragon breath thrown in just for good measure. I'm OK with high levels of dry heat, but humidity kicks my a**.
It is hot, hot, hot. I fantasized about this when I was shoveling feet of snow this last winter. I plan on taking the kids to the pool and remembering just how cold it was not that long ago. SPF 30... here I come.
It regularly gets over 100 in the midwest.
True...but one has to consider that the midwest is not as congested, has more open, green spaces that provide some relief. Provide a 'buffer' against heat build up. Wherein the east coast dense cities, with their 'heat islands', the paved/stone environments do not allow much relief, not much breeze.
Consider an Arizona native calling you a pansy as they do experience temps >115-120.
I've expereinced temps over 110' in the West, over 102' in the midwest and 99' in the east/south. Believe me, I'm much more exhausted/beat/irritable/worn out/dragging in the eastern/southern high humidity areas.
Of course one, in time, can get acclimated to most areas.
You should spend a summer in Houston. ;-/
I grew up without air conditioning, as has most of the known world throughout history.
Suck it up, folks. This, too, will pass. Seasons come and go, and they’ll change again. Soon we’ll be griping about ice and snow.
Complaining about the weather can be a welcome relief from the more permanent problems this Administration is trying to put upon us.
There was a heat wave in New England a few years ago when the temperatures ran well above 100 for nearly a week...glad I was down south where it was cooler. The temps in the low-mid 90’s doesn’t bother me as much as the complete lack of rain...not so much as a thunderstorm the past few weeks to provide any relief.
Lightweights!!! I’d like for them to come down to where I live in south Louisiana, and soak up a little bit of 100% humidity to go with the 100 degree weather, and how about for MONTHS! :)
...and southern girls don’t sweat, we GLOW!
Amen! I’ve lived in Louisiana, and loved it, but that humidity was killer! My brother lives in N.O., and it just confirms that he ain’t right in the head ;)
Now, I live on the AR/OK border near the river, and it’s still too hot and humid, but you just learn to live with it and adjust your lifestyle accordingly.
I grew up in the midwest, so I’ve dealt with the snow and cold thing too. I prefer my warm to cold anytime :)
When I was younger and I would complain about the heat, my mom would say, “what are you going to do when it’s August?”
Did not begrudge ball players their salary those days.... ;)
We had been working outside this past week digging dirt out, and mixing and pouring concrete for a supporting post and slab to go under a new deck. We decided to take yesterday off because it was just too dang HOT! We had put up a tarp over the work area to keep the direct sun off of us, and that helped, but even in that shade it was blistering! We’re gonna go back out for an hour or so this afternoon, but most of our remodel work will be done INSIDE, in the A/C, today, and likely tomorrow, as well.
My just younger sister and I developed a love for reading, growing up in South MS, because we'd spend hot summer afternoons at our public library. We lived about a mile from the library, and on really hot days, we'd ride our bikes there, and spend the hottest part of the day in the cool, reading books.
I remember reading about 40 years ago, of a massive heat wave in NY around the 1900s. It was so hot Rudyard Kipling, who was in NY, said it was hard to find a place in India that could match it.
“i opened the fire hydrant i have a sprinkler cap. It’s funny how the Asian’s and Russian’s complain when it’s open. Just if i could keep the muslim kids away. yesterday my kids waited all day for to come home from work. It was open all weekend for the kids on the block to enjoy.”
Um, okay. So you broke the law, enjoyed PO’ing the Russian and Asian neighbors and want to make sure Muslim kids don’t share the fun? Whatever.
Very odd. In Southern California it is usually HOT right now it feels like a typical fall. Overcast cool looks like it might rain.
No i did not brake the law. I received the sprinkler cap and wrench from the fire dept. It must be closed by nine.
Old Russian lady’s just like to complain. They don’t even need to be neighbors they drive in cars and say things.
as for the pakistani kids they are thugs with no discipline bound to end up in prision one day.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press_releases/09-07pr.shtml
My apology then. I assumed you opened the hydrant on your own iniative and you are entitled to try to keep thugs away from other kids. Being a denizen of exurbia, I don’t know city culture without some additional background.
A record setting heat wave had been taking place all that week.
Full flight and we were slightly overweight.
They pushed us back from the gate and we had to wait for about 15 minutes facing outward toward the taxiway.
The pilot ran the engines up to start the taxi and then backed off the throttle. Then he did it again.....and again....and again.
We had sunk in the pavement to the extent that we could not move. The pilot informed us that he could throttle up and get us moving but would blow out windows in the terminal so he had called for a ground vehicle to tow us to the taxiway.
I used to count down the seconds from the start of the plane's roll until rotation and that day got pretty damned scared heading for the bay when my count reached twice the number I was accustomed to before we finally got into the air.
Absolutely ZERO lift in that hot air!
Thanks. I will try to be careful for the rest of the week. The other thing that's probably playing into this is that I take a diuretic for high blood pressure. That's new in the last few years, so that may be another reason why this feels so unbearable to me.
Unbelievable, huh? He describes driving down the road in the winter with walls of snow towering up on each side of the road. One of these days we're going to go there for a visit. He surely talks about that place enough that it makes me want to see it for myself.
Please make sure it is a potassium sparing diuretic. Drink all the water you can possibly hold and never let yourself ever feel thirsty!
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