posted on May 8, 2001 02:21:07 AM
Hey wait a minute, that thermometer only goes up to 100! That's not high enough for here. And it's not sniveling, that's called sweat dear.
But, during 4 days of too-strenuous work in the yard last week at an average of 7 hours/day, I was no lady, as evidenced by the words coming from my mouth ; therefore, I was sweating.
I will have to start hiring younger backs for that work, so that I can sit on the patio and just glisten.
After seeing the weather report this morning, I'm glad I don't live in So. Cal. and Phoenix.
posted on May 8, 2001 05:03:39 AM
After I started this thread I went off to see what our forecast was for the next couple of days, 105 & 106! I knew it was gonna be hot, but not that hot!
I thought about that Femme! When I went outside, there was water dripping from the roof. I would think that's not a good thing. So we shut it down for a few hours, opened up the doors (it finally got cooler outside than in) and turned on all the ceiling fans. I was still miserable. So I prayed, and then turned it back on. It's sort of cooling now, but I have no doubt that won't last. I already put in a repair call.
We have a home warranty and it breaks down just about every summer. One of the technicians told us it will die soon and to keep up the warranty at least until then. Then we can get a new a/c for the $35 deductible. I'm just glad that Dad is in the nursing home right now because the heat is very hard on him. Of course if he were here, they'd put it down as a medical emergency. The summer I had my shoulder operated on, the a/c died about 3 days later. Not only was I in excruciating pain, but hot and grumpy too! After they told me they wouldn't be out for like 3 days (this was July), I told them I'd just had surgery and couldn't wait that long. They were here the next day.
Why on earth people settled here and keep coming here is beyond me...I will move someday!
posted on May 8, 2001 05:06:48 AM
In direct contrast, we had snow that actually stuck (central WA) on April 30. And Sunday, we had snow flurries for about 5 minutes.
posted on May 8, 2001 05:31:46 AM
LOL Sadie! My husband tried to get me to move to Seattle a couple of years ago. I asked him if it snowed there, he told me no. I did noticed it snowed at least a couple of times over the winter. (The weather was not the decided factor in not moving there though...)
posted on May 8, 2001 05:54:50 AM
This summer the heat will kill people due to the rolling black outs and perhaps people will get feed up with state and federal governments enough to do something about it.
posted on May 8, 2001 08:23:02 AM
Around here you can't go anywhere without hearing It's not the heat - it's the humidity I hate getting out of the shower and trying to dry off and ya can't!
bracket malfunction
[ edited by bobbi355 on May 8, 2001 08:24 AM ]
posted on May 8, 2001 03:57:18 PM
It was actually warmer in Seattle yesterday then here in Northeast Florida. Not by much, just a degree or two. We have been lucky so far. Yesterday felt like the second week in October instead of the second week in May. But, I know the heat is coming. The humidity is climbing up slowly but surely.
posted on May 8, 2001 04:59:00 PM
I used to live in northern California, at the foot of the Shasta mountains. A city called Redding. Not unusual there to hit 114 degrees in the summer, below freezing in the winter, with occasional snow. Redding must have been Arizona's second cousin in the summer.
posted on May 8, 2001 05:05:57 PM
Great poem bnwilk! I'm gonna have to print that one out. Speaking of lizards, we have a ton of geckos roaming around our house. The previous owner got them to get rid of the crickets. It worked, we have never seen one! Plus we haven't had the exterminator come once in almost 4 years and rarely see any bugs. I like those little guys. Anyway, I recued one of them last night from one of the cats. Poor thing I took it outside but have my doubts as to how long it was gonna last considering it was missing an eye!
Speaking of dry heat, I really learned the meaning of that one summer when I spent almost 2 weeks in the deep south, in July no less. I swear I was never dry the whole time I was there! The day I got back, I was sitting outside waiting to be picked up. It was 108 that day if I remember right. I didn't even break a glisten. When the monsoons hit that year, I was already acclimated. So while everyone else was suffering, I was as cool as a cucumber, LOL!
NearTheSea, I am sending you a big raspberry! There are days when I do wish we had moved there, sigh. Maybe we'll have the chance again someday! (Soon!?)
posted on May 8, 2001 06:51:19 PM
They had a report on TV a couple days ago about a fellow in Arizona who built his house with a 2000 gallon water tank in the roof (or attic?) and at night it pumps the water out along the ridge and lets it run down the roof and cool by both radiation and evaporation in the night air. Usually it will get down to about 55 degrees F. In the morning the pump sends it down into the house where it is run through a radiator to chill the air in the house. It keeps it quite comfortable for about $5 a month to run the pump. With this crisis I suppose his bill will rocket up to $10 a month.
posted on May 9, 2001 09:04:39 AM
Mouseslayer-I love it here, mainly because I was born and raised here, and with webbed feet
Seriously, it does have a lot of overcast days, I don't think it rains as much as most people think, but it does rain!
Summers are mild, and so are most winters, we usually get a few days of snow in winter, and every few years get a big snow and cold. But mostly its mild
I've been thinking a long time of moving. My one place I look all the time is North Carolina on the beach area, but then I one time put a bid in on a place in Taos NM
I think I like the desert too..... I think!
posted on May 9, 2001 06:51:26 PMNearTheSea, I had a feeling the rain was overrated up there. The 2 times I went up to visit hubby, it only rained half the time I was there. Even then the rain wasn't more than a drizzle. The rains we get here are short, but very heavy. Hubby says the people up there can't drive when it's not raining, and it's a known fact here that people can't drive when it is raining. LOL
(I can't seem to decide which smiley is best here, all of the above?)
Hippy wannabe 
~^~
And it's not sniveling, that's called sweat dear. 