105 degrees...

[Neal Clayton]

not gonna add fuel to the fire of global warming, but even this is too much for me.

growing up in new orleans i'm very tolerant of heat, we spent many a day fishing in the direct sun with 95+ degree temps and didn't care that much, but 105 was the tally here today in little rock, and i just sent my hired help home and told them to come back on wednesday, it's too much in a shop with only a couple of window units to blow on us.

[mark page]

I know what you mean. Was close to 110 w/heat index here, plus the "downtown" effect of no breeze and all asphalt effect. Then I get the news that an order of antifreeze got shipped to the wrong store location today. Three pallets of coolant, 36 cases each, at 6 gallons a case. I have to have my people drive 10 miles one way inner city to load, bring back, and unload, then move and stack these pallets by hand. I haven't weighed a gal of coolant, but since water is appx 8 lbs a gal I figure coolant is between 9-10 lbs a gal including the heavy boxing. This computes to appx 18,000 lbs of lumping this stuff in this heat index. I am not a happy camper. Plus "my people" include a woman that's barely 95 lbs sopping wet, a moderately overweight fella, my asst mgr, and me. And since someone has to mind the store and cover deliveries, that makes me & one of the two delivery people. Plus then I get the news that 1 1/2 pallets are for my store and I'm storing the other 1 1/2 for another store that I am not even going to make a red cent off of....... Then I am moving this stuff with a base model 4 cyl Chevy Colorado pickup. I don't know what the payload capacity is on one of these, but I would not feel comfortable with 36 cases at one time, which means at least six trips of driving. Sorry, I have to vent

[Neal Clayton]

both me and the guy i have working on my house are moderately overweight, lol. and we sweat like pigs out in that shop, it's old concrete style stucco so when it gets hot in there, the hot doesn't get out.

our helper is a 19 year old kid so he gets by alright, but we're suffering big time.

i can only imagine how bad it is in dallas and houston and other areas right now that are all built out of brand new heat-absorbing concrete.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

My sympathies on the heat and humidity.


We are supposed to hit 100 tomorrow and 103 on Wednesday.


At least we don't have the humidity to suffer. Our humidity has been running around 20-30%.

[Joe Pelonio]

Here we are expecting 85 today, yesterday the high was 76, and no humidity problems. Come on out for a vacation, it's our few days of summer after more than a week of 50s-60s and rain.

I grew up in Lafayette, CA where it was always 105 the first week of school,
in early September, and I still remember how miserable it was even without humidity.

[Mitchell Andrus]

It's lovely here today. The sun is shining, the humidity is low, the temperature is a mild 82 with a gentle breeze. Birds are singing a happy tune and it's T-Bones on the grill tonight for dinner.




YEA, RIGHT!
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[Belinda Barfield]

It's pretty toasty in Savannah, too. Last week we had a heat index in the 110 range almost daily. At 6 a.m. it's around 75 with 92% humidity. That humidity really sucks the life right out of you as soon as you walk the door. At 6:30 last night I was sweating through water aerobics! Those folks in Texas do have it much worse though.

Y'all stay well hydrated out there in the heat.

[Brian Elfert]

I was moving furniture out of an RV last night that I am remodeling and I was dying from the heat. It was only in the low 80s, but the dew point was around 70 or higher.

I moved furniture for an hour and then spent an hour inside the house recovering.

[David G Baker]

Joe,
I lived a few miles from Lafayette, CA and passed through it every work day for around 27 years either by car or BART. I don't remember it getting that hot in that area but I did travel through in an air conditioned car or train. I lived in Antioch where we got the delta breeze that cooled us off most of the time but when the breeze stopped it was unbearably hot. I could work outside in the high 90's with out any problem. We just returned from an 8 day stay in California, the only thing I miss is the cooling off in the evening. I now live in Mid Michigan and never work outside if the weather is in the low to mid 80's due to the humidity. In Michigan on many nights it is still in the upper 70's as late as midnight.
Our high today is supposed to be 79* but it is already 79* in the shade so I am thinking that we will see the mid to upper 80's.

[Joe Pelonio]

Joe,
I lived a few miles from Lafayette, CA and passed through it every work day for around 27 years either by car or BART. I don't remember it getting that hot in that area but I did travel through in an air conditioned car or train.

Very small world, isn't it? I remember when they first built BART. Lafayette is a low valley and the heat just stayed in it, so it could get hotter than nearby cities like Walnut Creek and Concord, and much hotter than Oakland, just through the tunnel.

[Clifford Mescher]

When I seen 105º I clicked on because I thought it was about hinges. I just ordered some. Clifford

[David G Baker]

I purchased my home in Antioch because the realtor promised that BART would be in Antioch by 1976. I don't think that it has reached that far yet. It was a 100 mile round trip daily door to door to my job in San Francisco. I did that for around 27 years.
I never spent much time in Lafayette and forgot about those little valleys that roasted the residents and accumulated smoke that stayed from all the fancy fireplaces. When it was green it was one beautiful place.

[Dennis Peacock]

I've been looking at and researching one of these cooling vests. It's been so hot here and even riding motorcycle to / from work each day is like riding in the LOML's blow-dryer.

I'd like to know if anybody here has any real life experience with one of these cooling vests????

[Belinda Barfield]

Since I have no personal experience I probably shouldn't even reply to this Dennis, but I am anyway. Long story short I ended up with a box of 100 "cool neck wraps". A couple of weeks ago when it was really getting hot I asked the guy who owns the welding shop next door if his guys had ever tried them, and if not, did they want some to use. He rides his bike to work every day and had just gotten there. He and his wife wear cooling vests during the summer, and he had his on at the time. He swears it is the best money he ever spent. So, not worth much to you, but as I said he and his wife say the vests really makes a difference. All I know is of the four people standing around, three of us were sweating like pigs and one was as cool as a cucumber.

[Dennis Peacock]

All I know is of the four people standing around, three of us were swetting like pigs and one was as cool as a cucumber.

LOL!!!!! I hear ya Belinda. It doesn't matter. I'm researching them and just trying to find someone with personal experience with them before I decide to spend the money on one. I sure could use done today while trying to clean up more of my very HOT shop.