IT"S SO HOT!!!!!!

• IT"S SO HOT!!!!!! magilacudy Posted : 7/30/2006 9:31:00 AM I'm just dying at home. It's like 105. Hot  and sticky. I can't even clean the house. It's so bad, I havn't been able to eat or sleep. It really does make you sick. I really can't take it anymore. LIKE 48 REPLIES 820 VIEWS LAST POST ROXIE865 Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 7/30/2006 9:48:53 AM Here too.  Fortunately this morning it's really cloudy so doesn't feel quite as bad, but sticky, sticky sticky!   I'm trying to keep this all in perspective.  Yesterdays paper had an article about all the deaths in CA....the small town where we lived, Merced, the coroner is soooo backed up that they don't even know how many bodies they have...they *think* 39.  Cattle are dying all over the Central Valley.....and I think about the horrible horrible stench along 101 from the mile after mile of cattle and just shudder to think how it must smell in this heat....Phoenix hit 122 the other day....and seems like a HUGE swath of the country is suffering in this horrible heat.  Tommorow and Tuesday our heat index is supposed to be 107, but, gosh, it could be worse.  This has been an absolutely HORRIBE summer for almost everyone. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Julitza Posted : 7/30/2006 10:01:35 AM Wow while you guys are dying from the heat we are actually having a cooler period here. Its hurricane season and there is rain like mad, so its not as hot as it usually is. I hope you all make it alright through the heat, and take care of your pups, that heat can be killer for them! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• magilacudy Posted : 7/30/2006 10:06:11 AM Thats the worse part is trying to keep the pets cool. The hampster is spread out, he's hot. The ducks are panting, the rabbits are laying on bottles of ice. The cat is okay, Sara is hott. I keep cooling her down but she is restless.   My MIL has bad bad hot flashes, the worse I have ever seen. Everyone says I am going to be just like her, because I get soooo miserable now. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• LovinMyLife Posted : 7/30/2006 10:17:52 AM ORIGINAL: glenmar Here too.  Fortunately this morning it's really cloudy so doesn't feel quite as bad, but sticky, sticky sticky! I'm trying to keep this all in perspective.  Yesterdays paper had an article about all the deaths in CA....the small town where we lived, Merced, the coroner is soooo backed up that they don't even know how many bodies they have...they *think* 39.  Cattle are dying all over the Central Valley.....and I think about the horrible horrible stench along 101 from the mile after mile of cattle and just shudder to think how it must smell in this heat....Phoenix hit 122 the other day....and seems like a HUGE swath of the country is suffering in this horrible heat.  Tommorow and Tuesday our heat index is supposed to be 107, but, gosh, it could be worse.  This has been an absolutely HORRIBE summer for almost everyone. I live in the Central Valley! Yes it has been horribly hot! Though it is starting to cool off! Yesterday I was outside and noticed that it was actually pretty nice so I looked at the themometer and it was 102! LOL I'll take that over 120 like it was a few days ago ANY day! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• ron2 Posted : 7/30/2006 10:56:08 AM A week or so ago, when it was 108 to 113, my ac was going out and I estimate that it was close to 100 F in the house. We were cooling down the pets with wet ice packs and towels to lay on, ice cubes in the water. We didn't go for a walk for a couple of days. It was all Shadow could do to survive the heat. We've still got August to get through, with another two weeks or so of temps hovering around 100 F. The heat usually cracks in September, as jet stream and trade winds shift. Right now, we could use about 16 F with a 20 mph north wind and snow.   I think I'm going to have to watch "8 Below" for some contrast.   0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• fuzzy_dogs_mom Posted : 7/30/2006 12:51:34 PM Central Valley of CA here, too.  In our particular little corner of the world the heat wave broke and we're back to cool mornings, warm to hot afternoons and chilly nights. I actually needed to pull up the blanket last night, even though it was a very lightweight cotton one.[] I'm hoping we don't see another one like that for a loooong time.  My sister lives in San Diego and said it got to 102 and they were just about to die.  That close to the ocean, 102 is a killer. Apparently, both the oldest person (95) and the youngest (20) to die from the heat in CA lived in the San Diego area. Joyce 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 7/30/2006 12:59:35 PM See, that's what I'm saying.  Gotta keep it in perspective.  It's miserable here today, but last nite was a bit cooler....cool enough to shut the AC off.....and today is stifling, BUT not as bad as it would be if the sun weren't hidden behind clouds, so a little bit of a break before we hit a 107 heat index...... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• willowchow Posted : 7/30/2006 1:01:47 PM I don't know, to me this people dying thing doesn't make sense.  Maybe it's my mood today or something.  But, aren't there places people can go, like a mall or something like that where it's cooler??  And, why are the cattle out in this at all?? Isn't there a barn or something for shelter?    We only get about 3 months of nice weather a year so I'm not complaining.  I'd pack right now if DH would move to Florida with me.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 7/30/2006 1:26:38 PM Lori, I don't suppose it would be any cooler IN a barn.  The stretch I'm thinking of, along the 101 is 2 or 3 miles a cattle packed flank to flank in barren fields with absolute MOUNTAINS of manueer and no barns in evidence. There may well BE barns, but not that are visable from the road.  The conditions in which beef and dairy cattle are kept in California are disguisting and should be illegal. It's NOTHING like those Happy Cows commercials.  Far, far from it.  Just barren fields with huge piles of crap in them. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• thirdday82 Posted : 7/30/2006 1:37:29 PM its been ok here in kentucky. its more humid than anything. nothing like showering and walking outside to sweat instantly...yuck 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Roxie865 Posted : 7/30/2006 1:38:57 PM I hate summer, especially in Tennessee.  Cannot wait for September ... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• karin Posted : 7/30/2006 2:31:10 PM It's 106' right now. Humid too. The heat is pretty normal for us this summer, but I am not used to the humidity. People don't realize that South Dakota gets this hot in the summer. It's been between 102 to 113 almost every afternoon this month. I am really glad that our central AC was installed a few weeks ago. The window AC was just not cutting it this July!   I have been driving to the next town so I can swim this summer. It's kinda a long drive, but I prefer a public pool to our nasty lake [:'(] The days I don't go swimming I run through our sprinkler in the backyard, then lay in the shade and drink margaritas. Even with this hot weather it's been a pretty great summer. [] I can't make the heat go away, so I might as well enjoy these hot days before our snow, ice and 40 below zero weather starts this winter!! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• fuzzy_dogs_mom Posted : 7/30/2006 2:37:31 PM I think it's the combination of heat AND humidity that does people in. In the valley we usually get the high temps but not the humidity.  Along the coast where the humidity is high, they don't usually get the high temps. But you're right, Lori. I can understand a 95 year old not being able to get somewhere cool (or maybe not being able to afford an air conditioner) but it seems like a 20 year old would have the sense to hop in a cool bathtub or soak a towel or go sit in the sprinklers.  Maybe that person had severe respiratory problems to begin with. I remember that Godawful heat wave in the midwest a few years back where cattle were literally dying in barns and in the field and I couldn't figure out why because we usually had temps here much higher than they were having ... but it was the humidity in addition to the heat. Joyce 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jones Posted : 7/30/2006 2:43:48 PM It's been terrible here too. We can only AC the bedroom due to a totally open floor plan in the rest of the house, and the dog has been sitting in the bedroom for days on end - he does not want to leave it, and only leaves to potty on super short walks. Today it's actually nice for a change, in the 80s and nice and dry.   I think usually the people who die in these heat waves are elderly and not really able to get themselves to an air conditioned area. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login