Ahh, lovely summer weather.

[Zerbie]

I have not stepped outside even once today, not even to fetch the mail.
It is 111F here today. And tomorrow it will be 113.

[Rick336]

I have not stepped outside even once today, not even to fetch the mail.
It is 111F here today. And tomorrow it will be 113.

The hottest weather I've ever experienced was last summer here in North Carolina. It got up to 106 degrees in mid August 2007. I can't even imagine what 113 F would feel like.

Rick

[Zerbie]

The hottest weather I've ever experienced was last summer here in North Carolina. It got up to 106 degrees in mid August 2007. I can't even imagine what 113 F would feel like.

Rick

:lol:
You don't want to!
The worst I've experienced here was 118F. Thankfully, we were in Europe the summer when it went to 120.

[Emproph]

If you like them like I do.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p49/nicnuggetj/Thunderstorm.jpg

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x269/Emproph/rain.gif

And then this for posterity...

[Rick336]

If you like them like I do.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p49/nicnuggetj/Thunderstorm.jpg

There's nothing like sitting in my rocking chair on my front porch and listening to an approaching summer storm. I like it when the rumble gets louder as the storm gets closer and the breeze picks up.

But last week we had a terrible storm here. The wind got up to 70 mph like a hurricane. I lost my favorite maple tree in the back yard that me and my partner Jimmy planted nineteen years ago.

I loved that tree.

Rick

[Zerbie]

(and btw, Emp, yes, I LOVE thunderstorms! :love: don't like losing trees tho.:()

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080731/ap_on_re_us/heat_deaths_2

[BruceChris]

I could go for a walk, or a swim, or a bicycle ride, or on my motorcycle, except that it isn't running. There are no mosquitoes, and no threatening storms. They are holding a memorial for the bridge that fell a year ago today, and it's replacement will open any day now.

Life is good. :agree: :weee: :wave: :agree: :aparty:

Peace and Love, Bruce Chris

[prairielesbian]

I could go for a walk, or a swim, or a bicycle ride, or on my motorcycle, except that it isn't running. There are no mosquitoes, and no threatening storms. They are holding a memorial for the bridge that fell a year ago today, and it's replacement will open any day now.

Life is good. :agree: :weee: :wave: :agree: :aparty:

Peace and Love, Bruce Chris


Same in my home state of N.D. - o.k. well next door to you. :D

I drove past that bridge a week later after it's colapse. This was enroute to PA - again, if only I knew my 8 week future.... :mad:

[RaymondCharlesWoollcombe]

I live in Malaysia we dont have seasons, It's basically hot or raining all the time and its humid so you never stop sweating. :( But its a lovely country other than the weather. Dont get me wrong you get blue skys and nice beaches but you do get the haze and alot of poloution which isnt so nice.

Anyways its a pretty good place to live. :D :D

[Rick336]

I could go for a walk, or a swim, or a bicycle ride, or on my motorcycle, except that it isn't running. There are no mosquitoes, and no threatening storms. They are holding a memorial for the bridge that fell a year ago today, and it's replacement will open any day now.

Life is good. :agree: :weee: :wave: :agree: :aparty:

Peace and Love, Bruce Chris

When I lived in Minneapolis in the Seventies, one of my favorite things to do was to ride my bike around Lake of the Isles or Lake Calhoun. Minneapolis is such a beautiful city. I really miss it.


Rick

[tdogg]

Ah, yes, I remember well. An audit I planned in Scottsdale (Arizona). July of 2005. Record heat and 11 people died of it the week I was there. Drug some of the company's folks out from Minnesota, and they did not let me live it down.

Never again.

However, I am looking forward to my Phoenix visit in November. It should be much much cooler than the current temps. Zerb, I feel for you. It's horrid. Don't go outside if you can help it. We aren't too bad in CA, upper 80's and lower 90's, lower temps than usual. And we almost always get that coolish Delta breeze in the evenings.

[Zerbie]

:p:rolleyes:

We live in an oven.
Really. All we're missing is the rack and the baking pan.

Went out to fetch the mail today around 7pm. It felt like walking into the steam room, or the sauna, but without the steam and humidity. By the time I was back to the front door, I felt like gasping. But it was only about 111 today, so I dunno what the problem was.

You know you live in a warm climate when you hear the weather forecaster announce that tomorrow's high will be 106F and you clap and exclaime, "Oh thank God! Finally, some cooler weather!"

We must all be just a little odd for living here. :disagree::rolleyes:

[Rick336]

:p:rolleyes:

We live in an oven.
Really. All we're missing is the rack and the baking pan.


A good friend of mine lives in Phoenix. The other day I was talking to him on the phone at 11:00 am in the morning and he was sitting out on his patio having coffee. He told me it was 107 degrees. Now that's what I call a hardcore coffee drinker that loves the outdoors.

Rick

[Zerbie]

A good friend of mine lives in Phoenix. The other day I was talking to him on the phone at 11:00 am in the morning and he was sitting out on his patio having coffee. He told me it was 107 degrees. Now that's what I call a hardcore coffee drinker that loves the outdoors.

Rick

Yep!

That's why we close all doors and windows by 8am, if we were weird enough to open them to the 90-plus weather overnight. Sometimes, I get so tired of indoor air, I open the windows at 5am for a while, til 7 or 8 when it gets too hot.

It's been cool lately. It was only 107 or so yesterday. I only felt nauseous for about a half an hour.

[pnggrad79]

I know I have probably told this story at least 100 times, but don't know if I have told it here. One summer I was on my way from Gallup, NM to see my sister, who lived in Yuma, AZ at the time. I spent the night in Flagstaff after messing around there the whole day. I woke up that next morning and it was 76 degrees. I got in my car, filled it up and went down the mountain toward Phoenix, through Sedona. I love Sedona, so I stopped and did some shopping. When I got to Phoenix, I looked at my gas guage, I noticed it was nearing empty and I knew I would have to fill up to get all the way to Yuma. So I stopped, got out and literally the heat sucked the air out of my lungs and I thought I was going to die. It was 108 degrees. By the time I got to Yuma, it was 113.

It isn't Texas kind of heat-humid and sticky. It is dry hot. It definitely is an experience. We are kind of odd, too, Zerbie, we live where there is constant sweat. You live in an oven.

[Rick336]

I know I have probably told this story at least 100 times, but don't know if I have told it here. One summer I was on my way from Gallup, NM to see my sister, who lived in Yuma, AZ at the time. I spent the night in Flagstaff after messing around there the whole day. I woke up that next morning and it was 76 degrees. I got in my car, filled it up and went down the mountain toward Phoenix, through Sedona. I love Sedona, so I stopped and did some shopping. When I got to Phoenix, I looked at my gas guage, I noticed it was nearing empty and I knew I would have to fill up to get all the way to Yuma. So I stopped, got out and literally the heat sucked the air out of my lungs and I thought I was going to die. It was 108 degrees. By the time I got to Yuma, it was 113.

It isn't Texas kind of heat-humid and sticky. It is dry hot. It definitely is an experience. We are kind of odd, too, Zerbie, we live where there is constant sweat. You live in an oven.

That's hot!!

My friend in Phoenix wants me to come visit him this summer. But after the temperature reports I've seen coming from Arizona since June, I'll think I'll wait until after Thanksgiving. Or, New Years.

Rick

[Zerbie]

That's hot!!

My friend in Phoenix wants me to come visit him this summer. But after the temperature reports I've seen coming from Arizona since June, I'll think I'll wait until after Thanksgiving. Or, New Years.

Rick

Rick: A good time would be sometime between October and March.

Hubby said the weather report for tomorrow or Fri is 117. Yikes! I've noticed that when it stays about 105 I get a bit nauseated. It was 111 yesterday. I must be adapting though, because I had the AC in the house set for 83, and I felt perfectly comfortable. Actually, it felt very very cool. :p

Yes, PNG: From a sauna to an oven. I was in Houston for 7 years before moving here. The only thing I didn't like about Houston summers was the semi-permanent heat rash from never being able to effectively dry the skin.

[Jennifer5]

We've had a pretty crappy summer here... we had a couple really nice weeks in the where we went from high 70s up to like 90, which was a really nice change. So we spent everyday painting the deck or swimming in the lake. Other then that... this summer has been horrible, it doesn't feel like summer at all. It's been rainy and in the 60s, more like our spring.

Sounds like Bruce Chris got the nicest weather this summer.:cool: