Hot temps, don't know how southerners do it

[EastTexFrank]

These blazing hot days are good for one thing though. If you need to apply herbicide, do it in the sweltering heat and the plants start dying almost immediately. You don't have to wait two weeks for them to start turning brown.

I hope you're right. I spent 5 hours spraying at the farm on Sunday. Carolina/Horsenettle seem to have taken the place over this year. My S-I-L and I have almost got the whole place covered in the last week. It's so hot, the spray almost evaporates before hitting the ground. OK, that's a slight exaggeration but I'm really getting tired of this heat. I was on the borderline of heat exhaustion on Saturday after spending 6 hours working on the yard sprinklers. How come those things never malfunction when the weather is nice????

 

[EddieWalker]

I sprayed on Saturday. It was pretty warm out, but I figured it was overdue and I had the time to get it done. I've already noticed a few areas turning brown, so that makes sense that it happens faster on warm days.

It's interesting to hear how much you guys have lost in a day from working outside all day, plus how much you drank to stay hydrated, and still lost allot of weight.

I finished that deck job on Saturday and will be working on a bathroom remodel for the next three weeks before going on vacation. This is all indoor work, so the heat isn't going to be an issue. Heck, I'm not even adding ice to my water jug!!!

Eddie

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

102 out again today, this is awful even for Texas

 

[J35]

Jim, I was 6 or 7 years old when a scorpion got in bed with me one night; stung me 3 times before I could get out of that bed. I don't think anything that's ever stung me hurt quite as bad as that scorpion. When we moved into a new house in September, 1972, on what was then the north side of Carrollton, I killed two scorpions in the house the first day or two we were there, and I promptly got professional exterminators to come stop that problem. I've never seen one in the house since, and in fact, haven't seen one anywhere in a lot of years.
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Speaking of scorpions, the worst infestations of houses I have ever seen is in the PHY area.

Alot of the properties have ditch water that they use to flood irrigate their property once a month.

The house pad is about the only thing out of water when they irrigate, so you can guess the rest.

South of Tucson I have killed a lot of the large scorpions 4-5 inches long, but they don't pack much of a wallop in their stinger.

It's the little bark scorpion that can lay you out and a monster would be 2 inches.

When I was 15 I got stung by a bark scorpion on my left ring finger, with in thirty minutes my whole left side was Parellized, lasted about six hours.

WE always called scorpions Stout Bugs.

Have fun

 

[Bird]

102 out again today, this is awful even for Texas

103 here, and the Dallas newspaper this morning said they'd had 7 days in a row on triple digit temperatures; seems even long than that.

 

[Alan L.]

Saturday it was at least 102 and I was on the ZTR (no canopy) for about 5 hours. I soaked (several times) a towel, draped it over my head down to my shoulders, and put my gimme hat over it (had to make it a little bigger). I tolerated the heat pretty well, and I drank a full quart of water and gatorade several times during the day. I'm 55, and the heat is starting to really get to me.

We run A/C in the bedroom year round, unless it gets below 40 or so outside in which case we open the windows. If it gets really cold we close the windows and don't use a/c. We turn on the heat in the morning to get the temp up to 65 or so. We set the bedroom a/c on 60 at night, then use a couple of quilts. The minisplit we built in to the new house master bedroom will only go down to 64. I drilled a small hole in one of those big white pencil erasers, and made an insulated caddy for the eraser. Every night before going to bed I heat the eraser 42 seconds in the microwave, place in the insulated caddy, insert the end of the thermostat sensor into the hole in the eraser, and go to bed. I think it gets the temp down to 62 or so for most of the night, but by eliminating one layer of cover I make it though OK.

Part of the reason is my acute allergies, the a/c dries out the air and allergies bother me much less. This is why we'll run it even when the low gets in the 40s, because sometimes the outside air is muggy and will plug me up pretty fast.

I hate summer in this area. Can't wait to go to New Mexico next month.

 

[Bird]

I'm 55, and the heat is starting to really get to me.

If you think it's bad now, Alan, wait until you get to be 69.

I never heard of your trick to get the temperature down, but I like it cool in the house (outside, too, for that matter), so we just don't change the thermostat setting, but sleep under the ceiling fan. I cover up with just a sheet and my wife doubles a quilt or blanket to add to her side of the bed.

We keep the A/C set for 72, but lately in the afternoon, it will run continuously and the temperature in the house will still rise 3 or 4 degrees. It'll catch up just about dark and go back to cycling occasionally. I had a couple of the wind turbine roof vents added to the house last week and that seems to help a little.