Hot!

[mjarrels]

I had to cook steaks, sliders and rollers on charcoal grills for a steel beach picnic (USS Ranger and USS Carl Vinson) while in the Gulf... Must have been 130 degrees... Had to rotate cooks every five minutes because it was so hot!

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[jimg]

Im kind of enjoying the heat/humidity. I used to like winter pretty good but anymore being warm is much better. One things for sure this heat is helping my garden pop right on up. LOL...OTOH Im glad I got my hay in Memorial Day w/e when the dew points temps were low.

 

[N80]

My wife loves the heat. Says the humidity feels good on her skin. I always claimed it was because she never had to WORK in it!

There is a big difference between sitting in the shade with a glass of tea and busting your behind when its 90+.

On the serious side, you folks be careful out there. This heat can sneak up on you and hurt you. Drink lots of fluids (beer and liquor don't count, they make things worse....I know it doesn't seem fair, but that's the way it is), take frequent breaks. Make like our friends south of the border and knock off during the middle of the day.

I have always been extremely tolerant of the heat. I hate it but my body handles it well...or it used to anyway. I think I let it slip up on me this weekend. By the time we finished getting the roof on the shed I was feeling a little nauseated. I think in the rush to finish up I got a little too hot and a little behind on fluids. After fluids and a little rest I was back to normal but it surprised me that it caught up with me. Never had before. But then again, I wasn't 45 before. And working on that metal roof is rough; you got the sun from above and reflecting from below.

 

[WTA]

We were rarely able to go to the steel beach picnics because someone had to keep the lights on and if we weren't doing that we were either fixing something or in our rack. We had our own in the hole though. Everytime one of our guys was mess cooking he was expected to be sneaking steaks down to us and grill them on one of the steam manifolds. It was pretty good too. I fried eggs once on a piece of aluminum foil on the deckplates too.

 

[scott_vt]

That IS hot for up there. You got AC in the house?

And they just changed the forecast here, for the next 5 days 99,99,98,96,95.

Good Evenin George,
Nahh. we just open the windows amd stand under the garden hose for a spell !

Its that darn humidity that gets you !

 

[Redbug]

I'm an outside type of person, too. And I would much prefer to be working outside most days and am pretty much acclimated to the heat. But, mostly my work is inside, and they keep the AC turned down and I freeze. Pretty ironic having to wear a long sleeve shirt to stay comfortable when it's 97 degrees outside. Any of you have AC wars at work? (Yeah, yeah, I know you're thinking, "what a whiner to have it so good")...But I also think, "those guys aren't paying the AC bill out of their pockets". It makes you wonder what our forefathers did. Back in those days they did not even have screening over the windows...and the trees provided most of the relief during the heat of the southern day. Except for the ones that had the wealth and means to go north to the mountains during the heat of the summer. Never mind me and the random thoughts...it's just heat exhaustion and I'm blathering again...

 

[Bird]

I'm an outside type of person, too. And I would much prefer to be working outside most days and am pretty much acclimated to the heat. But, mostly my work is inside, and they keep the AC turned down and I freeze. Pretty ironic having to wear a long sleeve shirt to stay comfortable when it's 97 degrees outside. Any of you have AC wars at work? (Yeah, yeah, I know you're thinking, "what a whiner to have it so good")...But I also think, "those guys aren't paying the AC bill out of their pockets". It makes you wonder what our forefathers did. Back in those days they did not even have screening over the windows...and the trees provided most of the relief during the heat of the southern day. Except for the ones that had the wealth and means to go north to the mountains during the heat of the summer. Never mind me and the random thoughts...it's just heat exhaustion and I'm blathering again...

Dave, there was a time when I had about 20 women answering phones in the same room. There was no way in the world to regulate the temperature to satisfy all of them. We always had some who thought it was too hot while others thought it was too cold. As for what our forefathers did, well . . . mine worked in spite of the heat usually. They were all in central and south central Oklahoma. But my Dad took a job in the Social Security offices in Baltimore when I was a baby. He said they told him that they shut down the office and sent everyone home when the temperature hit 90. He thought that was silly because he'd always worked on the farm even when it was over 100. But he said he learned his lesson. The humidity was so bad that when the temperature went over 90, he and mother did the same thing hundreds of other people did; went to the park and looked for a place to sit in the shade. And after a couple of years, he quit that job and we moved back to Oklahoma. But even I never lived, worked, or went to school in an air-conditioned home, school, or workplace until I was 19.

 

[N80]

It makes you wonder what our forefathers did.

They got hot. They also got yellow fever.

But, I will admit that you do get used to it. For my 4 years of college I lived in Charleston, SC with no AC. We weren't there most of the summer but we did start back in August, and September is no picnic around here. Where I went to school we also had a strange fetish for wool cloths. (Don't ask.) And during the summers I lived here in Rock Hill with my grandmother and her (80 year old) house had no AC. And I was working out doors on a telephone line crew. The pole truck had no AC. And the second summer was one of the hottest on record here. And it was hot but like I say, you get used to it. You get used to going to bed late, sleeping on top of the sheets and having a fan blowing directly on you too. You also come to appreciate the benefits of an attic fan.

There are lots of 'Fergit Hayul' southerners that claim that AC and window screens ruined the south more than the Civil War. During the war the Yankees came, made a mess and went home. When they invented central air and window screens, they came down here and stayed!

 

[Sigarms]

Who could ever forget sleeping in the barracks with the hum of that large fan for "air conditioning"?

Hit 98.6 today when I measured it.

Tonight, it's a "nice" evening pushing 80% RH.

 

[Skyco]

Calling for 103 in Columbia today which will break the record. Way too early in the summer for that.
Worked outside much of yesterday and it wasn't fun. Luckily I was in one spot and I used my large portable squirrel cage blower. My Ryobi 18v cordless system portable fan has become a cherished possession when away from house current. I always tell people I don't mind being HOT near as much as I hate being SWEATY. My headband to keep it out of my eyes and my -ahem- synthetic wicking underwear- are also necessities. Hate the cotton brief "soggies" in hot weather. Saw where a lot of outdoor workers have started wearing KILTS to keep "things" ventilated and cool