I move to...oh...I dunno...Missery!
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If I wanted to put up with this...stuff
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I move to...oh...I dunno...Missery!
And trust me, Maildude, it ain't a DRY heat! 
I hear you @Downeaster... in the Northeast myself and suffering the heat and humidity like you. I spent my day sanding and repairing drywall in an apartment that is very definitely not airconditioned...and yesterday which was much like today, I spent the morning digging holes planting fruit trees. Yeah, it was hot but we'll survive, right?
FB71
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we hit 102 @ 65% humidity today. Friday is supposed to be 105...
Lol, where are all the guys joking about global warming during the extrem cold weather events last winter, now
Yes, thanks to the genius that invented air conditioning and a nice, cool basement.
As a kid growing up in mid-Michigan, baling and stacking hay in July was "fun" because I got to drive the tractor sometimes.
As an (alleged) adult living in South Carolina and Florida, getting out and doing stuff in the heat was just part of life. Think dirt-biking in the piney woods of Florida...
One might almost be inclined to think that my unwillingness to deal with heat and humidity now is due to age...
Yup, I hear you...did the stacking of hay bales in the barn loft as the fun followed; going down to the farm's swimming hole with the village girls in our '56 Beetle field car.
And later in life, rebuilding hurricane-damaged dwellings outside in the Florida sun, inside without airco, because the heat is just part of life.
Baled and stacked hay in Wisconsin for 2 yrs. Same reason as DE... sometimes I got to drive the tractor.
Somewhere in the Saudi Arabian desert.... half our jets were in (pass thru) shelters and the other half on revetments with blast walls. 24 hrs a day there would be at least 2-4 jets taxiing in or out at any given time.... so 4-8 jet engines warming us as well as the sun.
We had a big 120° thermometer hung on our line shack (such as it was) in the shade. At night it would drop into the low 90's/ high 80's. By 10 in the morning it would be pegged. Here's the funny part, we became so acclimated that when it got down into the 80's we'd break out our field jackets 'cause we were freezing.
Multiple deployment totaling over 2 yrs worth of that life. Did that as a strapping 30something and it almost killed me. I can't imagine doing it now. I'm having a heat stroke just thinking about it..
Somewhere in the Saudi Arabian desert.... half our jets were in (pass thru) shelters and the other half on revetments with blast walls. 24 hrs a day there would be at least 2-4 jets taxiing in or out at any given time.... so 4-8 jet engines warming us as well as the sun.
We had a big 120° thermometer hung on our line shack (such as it was) in the shade. At night it would drop into the low 90's/ high 80's. By 10 in the morning it would be pegged. Here's the funny part, we became so acclimated that when it got down into the 80's we'd break out our field jackets 'cause we were freezing.
Multiple deployment totaling over 2 yrs worth of that life. Did that as a strapping 30something and it almost killed me. I can't imagine doing it now. I'm having a heat stroke just thinking about it..
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I can't even imagine, Jim.
I spent my career in air conditioned buildings, but the ride between my quarters and the site could be brutal...
I spent my career in air conditioned buildings, but the ride between my quarters and the site could be brutal...
FB71
Expert Turd Polisher
I feel ya... Spent many years as an auto tech. No ac in the shop. When the outside temp hit 90+, the inside would be at least 10* higher. Average daytime shop temp in the summer was 105*-115*, at typical high humidity for the mid Atlantic. Also spent several deployments for Desert Success and Bosnia. Interior temp of the L100s, 130s, and 141s was 110*+.Baled and stacked hay in Wisconsin for 2 yrs. Same reason as DE... sometimes I got to drive the tractor.
Somewhere in the Saudi Arabian desert.... half our jets were in (pass thru) shelters and the other half on revetments with blast walls. 24 hrs a day there would be at least 2-4 jets taxiing in or out at any given time.... so 4-8 jet engines warming us as well as the sun.
We had a big 120° thermometer hung on our line shack (such as it was) in the shade. At night it would drop into the low 90's/ high 80's. By 10 in the morning it would be pegged. Here's the funny part, we became so acclimated that when it got down into the 80's we'd break out our field jackets 'cause we were freezing.
Multiple deployment totaling over 2 yrs worth of that life. Did that as a strapping 30something and it almost killed me. I can't imagine doing it now. I'm having a heat stroke just thinking about it..
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More tall tales from the desert...I can't even imagine, Jim.
I spent my career in air conditioned buildings, but the ride between my quarters and the site could be brutal...
We were (390th Tac Fighter Wing) attached to what was then called the RDF... Rapid Deployment Force. Our mission was to deploy anywhere in the world on 48 hrs notice. And we did. In an armada of 9 KC-10's with 28 F-111's in tow. 300 troops and spare parts for our jets. Notice anything missing from that (short) list?
The first 3 weeks in-country, we had nothing. Our fabulous military, in it's infinite wisdom neglected sending the chow hall tent and attendant equipment/supplies along with us. So... 3 fucking weeks of MRI's.
Our first hot meal was the best meal of my life.They also forget to send the shower and laundry tents along. Was about 300 of us, took sponge baths with drinking water bottles. That also took 3 weeks to make right. I'll leave to your imagination what 300 guys (and gals) who spent their time working on aircraft smell like in the 100°+ desert heat with only sponge baths and no laundry facilities.
Almost to a man, we dropped our desert camies in the dump when fresh ones arrived... they were pretty much beyond hope.We learned that our Boy Scout training paid off after all. We'd take a water bottle, wrap shop rags around it and hang it from a weapons pylon. Soak it with another water bottle, repeat when it dried and after an hour you had nice cold water on tap. There ya go, real life evaporative cooling, learned at a Boy Scout camp.
Alcohol was strictly verboten in Saudi. Getting caught with it meant serious jail time. Even so, some wives *cough*Sue*cough* learned to fit beers inside a pringles can. Ever tasted 100° beer in 100° heat? Yeah... me neither. For crew breathing, our jets used liquid oxygen. For those that don't know, LOX boils off at about minus 300° F. We'd take a lox servicing cart, lay a 6 pack in the drip pan and pour LOX all over the beers. About a minute later you'd have ice cold beer. It was heavenly.
Extreme hot weather sucks, but I look back on things and heat becomes relative. It hit 93° today. I looked at mother nature and said "that all you got?"
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102* here today as hot as S. Arizona..and as dry..SE is under extreme drought...lakes are drying up...we're not supposed to be this dry...yeah Thank God for real AC...
When the cable guy crawled out of the 126 degree attic the world was air conditioned.
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