Posted on 07/07/2012 6:54:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Edited on 07/07/2012 7:17:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Triple-digit temperatures expected to feel as hot as 110 degrees have prompted excessive heat warnings across the D.C. area on Saturday and could threaten all-time highs.
The day continued a trend in the area that hasn
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Except during monsoon aeason Jul - Oct. It can come on quickly and make all outdoors look like drownnd rats, then go away as fast as it came.
Welcome to my world. Memphis has been going through this for the past 2 weeks. But it has been mostly ignored nationally.
Yes they are, but it seems it is only important when it happens in Washington or some other elite city. In Memphis, it has been over 100 degrees for the past 2 weeks. Many days at 106 and we have some of the worst humidity you can ever experience.
It sucks but they aren’t the only ones that have it hot.
Anything under 100 during a Texas summer is down right chilly.
GLOBAL WARMING AND WE ALL GONNA DIE!
Just look at this weather temp chart for DC!
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/fitness/wxclimatology/daily/USDC0001:1?climoMonth=7
Well, what the heck do you expect the temp to be in the House of Satan?
Me too. I will often cut the grass in the hot part of the day. My wife thinks I’m nuts. I seal off my office so its not air conditioned. When I go into the house, it feels like an ice box.
Jefferson had high hopes the weather in July and August in that dismal would force the federal government to shut down for half the year, and it worked, probably longer than he dared hope.
Bush’s Fault!
You mean even more hot air is coming out of DC?
I’m always wary of exertion in the heat and going into a well air-conditioned building.
I once rode my bike from home to a music shop to set up guitar lessons. The ride was a little less than 2.5 miles, and I was wearing jeans and a black T-shirt at the time (bad idea in the summer).
So I lock up my bike and walk in. Pretty small place, and very cool inside. Walk up to the counter feeling fine, but only for about a minute. I notice my vision start to slowly close and go black. I’m grabbing onto the counter trying to keep myself up, leaning down and forward seeing my vision become a small circle, trying to give the guy my address.
Next thing I remember, I wake up on the floor and someone asked me if I wanted an ambulance. With the luck I had (fairly poor luck, and I still have it), I fell on a pedal display on the floor, and had a small cut on my eye socket. If I fell just one inch the wrong way, I probably would’ve lost the eye; I didn’t weigh much but it’s still body weight falling on something extremely important but soft.
I definitely feel for people that need extra care when it’s pretty hot out, as I didn’t know I should’ve cooled down outside before walking in. Heat exhaustion is a terrible thing, and you can also screw yourself up pretty bad if you go down. I think I was around 16 or so, so it would be almost 10 years ago.
I think what people miss here....is that in the 1700s...folks survived the heat spells, without fans, ice, or air conditioning. Guys got up at the crack of dawn, and worked until noon. They sat around a tree in the yard with a bucket of spring water in the afternoon, and maybe did an hour or two of work before the sun went down. They weren’t stupid.
Dear Next-Door Neighbor:
When there’s a 110- to 115-degree heat index for 8 consecutive days and you leave the lid of your 2 trash bins open (while full of trash bags all the way to the top, and you keep filling them up), then FLIES WILL COME!!
I hate my next-door neighbors.
Hi ED!
It’s HOT, huh?
Can’t wait for the Fall breeze....
Best to you & yours!
Except if you are elderly, then it can quickly kill you. Remember in 2003 when nearly 15,000 elderly died from the heat?
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-09-25-france-heat_x.htm
LOL! They don’t have a clue, do they? :D
hey, Silvie
Danke! Never loved being cooped up indoors quite so much! Can’t imagine what the folks whose power hasn’t been restored are doing. At least by tonight we should see a break in this ... without, hopefully, causing more loss of power, etc. It’s awfully early in the season for this kinda heat.
Stay cool!
Here here...well said!
I do indeed...it was sobering. I would joke about natural selection and all, since that is my nature, but I will let that go.
BTW, I understood natural selection very well...when I had my first child and wondered why my father, who had five kids, allowed us to stand up in the back of his pickup truck, leaning against the cab, as he drove the highways and bi-ways of the DC suburbs at 70 mph when I was a kid....If I made it through that, I am here to stay!!!
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