It is 1000 degrees F in the Pacific NW right now.

a reply to: DBCowboy
Hey DB down here in South Oregon we are burnin up. It was 113.5/17% humidity in the back yard at 6pm.

We have central air and one other item that is a life saver that I mostly just repaired and cleaned, but never use...an in ground 25'× 15' kidney shaped pool with an 8ft deep end.

All the pool noodles you can use, to float around in 85 degree water if ya wanna drive the 4+ hours down the I5 my friend.

Seriously, bring the family ( know the wife's out of town, my best wishes to your father inlaw).

Some of y'all are such sissy's!! LOL!!

100F isn't uncommon here at all in the dog days of summer out in August and September. We've even been having them here in June already. Had one 105F day, and a string of about a week of 100+ days.

I don't like the heat, but as I've noted previously; the heat here is nothing compared to the heat in SE Asia. There, you feel like you're zipped up in a Ziplock bag laying on an asphalt road in the blazing sun! It's unbearable! And, it's inescapable. And that's only in the high 90's...but the issue is the humidity which usually hovers around 97%, so sweating doesn't help. Worse, there's zero breeze, or wind.

I used to scoff when people said...'yeah, but it's a dry heat'...but it's true!

a reply to: BlueJacket

Thank you for the invite, much appreciated!

Its about 95 in my upstairs, so drug out the campin mat and will hunker down in the 70 degree basement tonight. Seattle is plenty hot right now

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I'm a huge sissy,

It's frickin' hot and miserable.

a reply to: DBCowboy

LOL...I was just ribbin' ya, man!!

a reply to: DBCowboy
Dude.

Floridians can commiserate. This was literally a July afternoon one year:



I had to screenshot it because friends out of state didn't believe the 119* heat index, or the 13 on the UV index. So I sent them the proof, lol.

But yep, I feel ya, I'd #ing die of heat stroke before I got the second foot clear of the plane door threshold if I ever went back to that kind of 24/7/356 ( < -- not a typo, giving credit for the week and a half-ish of blissful 60's weather peace FL gets in Jan/Feb) hell sauna bull# again.

a reply to: DBCowboy

My son moved to Seattle yesterday, from Chicago. Thankfully, the heatwave won't last long.

a reply to: DBCowboy

Fill your empty gallon milk jugs or plastic water bottles with tap
water and freeze them. Then set them in front of a fan. You won't
even know it's hot outside. Till you log off and go out there

ETA Set the bottles on a towel or you might piss off the little lady.

a reply to: vonclod

We lost our HVAC a year or so ago on the hottest day of the year (no joke). The basement we have now does stay about 20 degrees cooler A/C or no.

I spent a good chunk of that day down in the basement.

One of the things you can try is to soak down the back/front of your t-shirt with water and then direct a fan on it. It's sort of like using a swamp cooler.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

sissy's? there are people going through heat that they have never expearianced before, people that dont have a/c. people that very well could die. i am so glad you are a he-man of the heat department..many are not, and who cares about east asia right now? people could very well be dying in their homes....well played

Put water out for the critters

a reply to: autopat51

No one cared when all of Texas froze.

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: autopat51

No one cared when all of Texas froze.

I drove thru Texas at that time. I cared a little.

a reply to: ketsuko

really? i did

originally posted by: DBCowboy


How are the other PNW folks dealing?

Literally this...



Like actually literally this.

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I'm a huge sissy,

It's frickin' hot and miserable.

I kid with the heated gifs and all. Sorry you have to deal with the heat. I live in Pittsburgh where it's always very hot and humid around now. Our local weather guy (a bit of a comedian) posted this a couple years back

It gets miserably sticky hot. No point in taking a cool shower as you won't get dried off and trying to dress after just leads to a fight with your clothes.

But this year has been different, yes temps are up... but we've been getting breezes daily that's helping keep it easy to bare with. Hasn't been bad at all.

I usually keep a spray bottle and or a damp rag around along with the fan blowing on me. I stay down in the basement bedroom during the summers with the fans going and the AC on 70°F or 69°. Dogs love it too.

July and August are still coming.

Thankfully I don't have to don bunker gear anymore 😥😥






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a reply to: DBCowboy
wow and now power just went out in Jackson County!

a reply to: DBCowboy

Interesting. I live about 25 min from Graceland. It gets SO humid here. It’s crazy sticky pants. I don’t usually go outside during these times. Thank you, central air!

What’s wild tho, is that it hasn’t been crazy crazy hot yet. That usually hits in mid July and August into September. Lately the nights here have been my dream weather.

Hope you stay cool and cool