WEATHER Trapped in my bedroom. Heat index 103°

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summerthyme

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Millwright said:
Crawled out of a 142 degree attic, was working on the A/C, homeowner asked me if I was done yet...

"You just don't know how hot it is down here!"
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LOL! I'll bet you grit your teeth a lot!
When we bought our farm, the only improvement we added to an already onerous mortgage (and this was back in the days of 21 1/2% Prime Rate) was a hay elevator and mow conveyor. Even in our early 20's, we did NOT enjoy carrying and stacking hay in that big old haymow... I once had a thermometer read 152 degrees! You lost 10# during 4 hours of haying...

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Millwright

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summerthyme said:
LOL! I'll bet you grit your teeth a lot!
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She immediately bought a $200 inverted flux capacitor.

Most customers will drag fans up the scuttle and chase you down with cold water.

Had one yesterday, would have been a freebie...dude insisted I take a little cash and the neighbor (who called me to help this guy) brought cold beer over, when I was done. :D
 
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summerthyme

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Millwright said:
She immediately bought a $200 inverted flux capacitor.

Most customers will drag fans up the scuttle and chase you down with cold water.

Had one yesterday, would have been a freebie...dude insisted I take a little cash and the neighbor (who called me to help this guy) brought cold beer over, when I was done. :D
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Treat tradesmen right, and they'll usually return the favor. We don't hire much out, but if we do, we make it as easy as possible, and that includes hot coffee or cold drinks, depending on weather.

Summerthyme
 
Milkweed Host

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Dennis Olson said:
I wasn't thinking about evaporational cooling. I was thinking of direct cooling of the coils and fins. Do I just not understand how it works?
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I'm sure you've got a handle on it.

I mentioned more cooling options, just in case it would meet a need for others reading this thread.

TB is an excellent source of info. Some responses are specific to the exact topic, while others are
all-encompassing, or try to be. Hope that makes sense.
 
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Wildwood

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Kris Gandillon said:
Possibly 1980. It was terrible. Born and raised in Texas. Lived there 1956 to 1993. The heat never really bothered me until that summer of 1980. We thought is was hilarious that folks in Missouri would complain how hot is was when it was only the upper 80s to mid 90s.
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I will never forget the summer of 1980. I was seven months pregnant when the inferno started with a ten month old to care for and living in Mississippi. You could not escape the heat...it seemed to be stuck on 108. People would spray water on their roof trying to cool their homes down but nothing really helped until it got dark. On a brighter note, DH caught the biggest bass he's ever caught just days before the heat set in.
 
hunybee

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Millwright said:
She immediately bought a $200 inverted flux capacitor.

Most customers will drag fans up the scuttle and chase you down with cold water.

Had one yesterday, would have been a freebie...dude insisted I take a little cash and the neighbor (who called me to help this guy) brought cold beer over, when I was done. :D
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that's me lol

any time i have a workman come over to fix something, i am making them cookies and giving them cold drink (or hot drinks if winter), and asking if they have had lunch yet, and what would they like. we try to tip them, but lots of companies won't allow their employees to take the tips anymore. we still try and i still offer all manner of nice things to make it better hahaha
 
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It's 45 degrees this morning (MN)...taking advantage by fans all over in windows to cool down the core.

Still impressed with the little R2-D2 (12000BTU?) type portable air conditioner. I ordered it's twin which should be in this week. Think two of them will pretty much cover the house, because of 6 inch walls and mega-insulated.

I'm very happy to keep it at 78-79 inside when it's 95-100 outside. No telling what the electric bill will be though..har har.
 
cyberiot

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hunybee said:
that's me lol

any time i have a workman come over to fix something, i am making them cookies and giving them cold drink (or hot drinks if winter), and asking if they have had lunch yet, and what would they like. we try to tip them, but lots of companies won't allow their employees to take the tips anymore. we still try and i still offer all manner of nice things to make it better hahaha
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+100.

If you're at my house, you're a guest--and all guests are extended hospitality.

Except for that one creepy delivery guy many years ago when DD was a baby. He followed me around, leering. For him, I slipped a knife into my pocket.
 
Meemur

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Yes, I usually run down to Dunkin' Donuts and get a box for my workers when they are laboring outside. The guys who trimmed my trees were especially pleased.
 
SouthernBreeze

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Wildwood said:
I will never forget the summer of 1980. I was seven months pregnant when the inferno started with a ten month old to care for and living in Mississippi. You could not escape the heat...it seemed to be stuck on 108. People would spray water on their roof trying to cool their homes down but nothing really helped until it got dark. On a brighter note, DH caught the biggest bass he's ever caught just days before the heat set in.
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If I'm not mistaken, that was the year/summer that Cary put a new roof on our house. It was 106 the day he started. Did it all by himself, too. The 106 temp was the air temp, not the heat index.
 
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CaryC

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texkat72 said:
My guys work outside 365, Dennis.
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ANNNNND that doesn't have to be outside either.

I worked in a factory and the floor temp, was 135. The air temp around the presses was in the low 100's, and the molds that we put in and took out (changed) was 395 degrees. Instant 2nd and 3rd degree burns if you touched it. So we wore long sleeves shirts, and gloves.

If it was a single mold change it took about 20-30 minutes, if it was a double it took 40-50 minutes. Would get back to the mold shop, pour the sweat out of our boots (yes boots steel toe and knee high socks) drink a whole bottle of Gatoraid, and go back to work. There was money to be made. O and this was at 7:30 in the morning. We did that for 12 hours, and made big bucks.

Only did that for the last 5 years, before I retired.

For the other 23 years I laid the tires around those presses and ran a mixer and would break out in a sweat as I walk up the stairs to my work station.

There were times the sweat was running off my face so fast and onto my glasses, I could not wipe fast enough. So ended up taking them off. Even on night shift. The company gave us bandanas that had cold packs in them (small ones) and others that would absorb the sweat, and water, and as it evaporated it would cool. Didn't work much. Good idea, but they weren't big enough. So they worked as an absorbent to keep the sweat out of our eyes.

We all looked like a bunch of Hell's Angels who just got out of the shower with their clothes on. people would come out of the front office and just stare. You could tell they didn't know what to make of us. Did those guys take a shower with their clothes on. No sir're bob, this is what a 1300.00 bonus check looks like every week. They were all prim and prissy and only made a plant bonus every week 150.00.

So if you want to talk about heat I'm your man. It's not for everyone.
 
EMICT

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SouthernBreeze said:
Can we all just agree that it's hot and humid in the South during the Summer? We all just have to deal with it. Or move.
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Yep, all except for the 'South' part. Just came in from mowing 3 of my 5 acres and pulled up the weather station at my house that is broadcast on Weather Underground... 'Oh the humanity...'

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Millwright

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I worked in a factory and the floor temp, was 135. The air temp around the presses was in the low 100's, and the molds that we put in and took out (changed) was 395 degrees. Instant 2nd and 3rd degree burns if you touched it. So we wore long sleeves shirts, and gloves.

If it was a single mold change it took about 20-30 minutes, if it was a double it took 40-50 minutes. Would get back to the mold shop, pour the sweat out of our boots (yes boots steel toe and knee high socks) drink a whole bottle of Gatoraid, and go back to work.
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Working rubber molding shop.

Wearing long sleeve flannel shirts.

Be careful about bumping your arm against a mold while it's out on the table...instant steam burn.

Being covered in carbon black was not an added bonus.
 
Dennis Olson

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Much cooler here today. Only 93 right now and much lower humidity. I’m still in the living room, and the humidifier is off. I’m very happy.
 
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SouthernBreeze said:
If I'm not mistaken, that was the year/summer that Cary put a new roof on our house. It was 106 the day he started. Did it all by himself, too. The 106 temp was the air temp, not the heat index.
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That sounds just like something my DH would do. He started a huge porch across the front of our house when we had the coldest week we've had in the thirty plus years we've been back in Arkansas...it was the late eighties. For the first five days he worked on it, it never got above -5 but he was off that week because of the weather and he wanted it done. Men are tough like that and we were a little younger then too.
 
SouthernBreeze

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Wildwood said:
That sounds just like something my DH would do. He started a huge porch across the front of our house when we had the coldest week we've had in the thirty plus years we've been back in Arkansas...it was the late eighties. For the first five days he worked on it, it never got above -5 but he was off that week because of the weather and he wanted it done. Men are tough like that and we were a little younger then too.
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Yeah. Lots younger, but he and I, both, have always tolerated the heat of summer better than the cold damp winters we have here. The intolerance of cold has gotten worse over the years. Now, we practically hibernate, once it turns cold and damp. If it weren't for bringing in firewood every day, we wouldn't go out much.
 
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Millwright said:
Working rubber molding shop.

Wearing long sleeve flannel shirts.

Be careful about bumping your arm against a mold while it's out on the table...instant steam burn.

Being covered in carbon black was not an added bonus.
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LOL speaking from experience?

Well it was sort of a bonus. You got all the material/ink to make tattoo's, just not the design, and needle. LOL

Also where I worked they did not give you the Cold Cream to get the carbon black offen your eyes. Showers- yes. Soap - yes. But until you got that Cold Cream out and scrubbed those eyes you had raccoon eyes. Sometimes I would scrub and scrub, and still look like I had mascara on.

And good Lord, make sure you had the AC on when you got home, or you'd sweat that stuff out in the bad.

Mostly what SB had trouble with was the Sulfur smell. But she didn't have any trouble at all helping me spend that bonus. LOL.
 
Dennis Olson

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SouthernBreeze said:
he and I, both, have always tolerated the heat of summer better than the cold damp winters we have here.
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Except for the very cold time (mid-January through the end of February) winter was great up in Wisconsin. Winters up there are VERY dry, with humidity in the teens. When it snowed, it was a dry crystalline powder that blew around like sand. When a snow event (most were too weak to be called storms) came through, the next day it would be sunny. The air was easy to breathe.

In the cold time, temps would be -5 for a high, and -20 for a low. That time wasn’t much fun, but it was only for 6 weeks of so. On either side of that was a month of around 32 for a high and 25 for a low. Cold but tolerable. So about 3 months of true winter. Not bad overall. The summers down here are 8-9 MONTHS long. During that time, the heat and humidity are awful.

I desperately want to see other parts of Texas, but I can never seem to find the time, nor do I know what I should see. I used to jump on the bike and just drive for a whole day. Living alone I can’t do that either. I know that this is a beautiful state, and as my adopted home, I’d love to learn about it.
 
SouthernBreeze

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Dennis Olson said:
Except for the very cold time (mid-January through the end of February) winter was great up in Wisconsin. Winters up there are VERY dry, with humidity in the teens. When it snowed, it was a dry crystalline powder that blew around like sand. When a snow event (most were too weak to be called storms) came through, the next day it would be sunny. The air was easy to breathe.

In the cold time, temps would be -5 for a high, and -20 for a low. That time wasn’t much fun, but it was only for 6 weeks of so. On either side of that was a month of around 32 for a high and 25 for a low. Cold but tolerable. So about 3 months of true winter. Not bad overall. The summers down here are 8-9 MONTHS long. During that time, the heat and humidity are awful.

I desperately want to see other parts of Texas, but I can never seem to find the time, nor do I know what I should see. I used to jump on the bike and just drive for a whole day. Living alone I can’t do that either. I know that this is a beautiful state, and as my adopted home, I’d love to learn about it.
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Here in Mississippi, our winters are much like our summer's, except for the heat. It is damp and cold. Makes it's bone chilling through and through, even if the temp is in the 40's-50's for daytime highs. No matter how many layers I put on, I can't seem to get warm.

Our youngest DS lives in Texas (Killeen. Been there 6 yrs.), and has traveled all over the state. Yes, he says it's beautiful, but he can't handle the heat there any longer. He's moving back home next week.
 
CaryC

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Millwright said:
Another thing that I didn't want to do to make a living.

No Banbury.

Everything was mixed on a manual mill.

Made for great hand/eye coordination tho.
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NO KIDDING? Dude gluten for punishment, much.

The old Banburies sometimes would just drop a batch for no reason, and then we would have to mix them on the mill. No fun at all.

The new Banburies would do the opposite. The drop gate would lock, and not drop out. So we would have to stop them and wait for maintenance to open the thing. 'Course everyone knew what that would mean, when it hit the mill - fire.

I was running one of the old Banburies mixing the rubber for the steel cord belt, and ya know it is all natural rubber, and lots of carbon black to stiffen it up, it would drop out on the mill and my mill man would back up. When it hit, it would go puff, and carbon black would go everywhere. Then he would have to mill mix it to finish it off.

He would tell me I was going to have to do something about that. I told him I couldn't that's the way the spec. was set up.

In all my time we only had one guy get his hand caught in the mill. He was going to start taking it off the mill and went just a little to high to caught the end, and a big piece of hot rubber flopped over and caught his hand. Burned it really bad, and he lost part of it, due to infection.

It wasn't on my shift, but they had to break open the mill, to release some of the pressure so they could lift the rubber up with pry bars. Breaking the mill open meant the batch would pivot backwards, instead of forwards. 800 lbs of rubber is still 800 lbs.

And while working in the mold shop wasn't as dangerous as that, I've got scars all over my arms from barely touching molds. Use to keep a bottle of pure aloe vera in my cooler for when I got burned. That stuff saved me even more scars. That when laying tires and changing the bags. When I worked in the shop yes wore long sleeves. Some of the guys wore t-shirts and those thick kaki (ya now I can't spell so ) shirts.

And gloves. Would wear those and sweat in 'em, and get 'em soaking wet, then grab something hot and it would turn to steam and sling them things off. LOL I was a good slinger. Would go through a whole pack of gloves 12 pair, in a days time and the company would get on to me, and I'd give 'em my bad eyes, and walk off. Or I'd say if you don't want me wearing 12 pair of gloves a day, then you won't get 12 mold changes a day, so which is it? They would give me the gloves.
 
Maryh

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I remember when my son loaded & unloaded UPS trucks. When I would pick him up he could wring his shirt out and so much sweat poured down it looked like I just took it out of the washer. I had towels to cover my seats! That was a miserable job for him
Also, when daughter was in Iraq in her full uniform she talked about the heat and how hot the bottled water was just to drink.
When I lived in Ok City as a child on the second floor of a duplex with no trees around, our thermometer registered 120 inside. As a kid, we were outside in the morning and then played board games inside until evening and then went out. We would wait til sunset and sometimes walk down to the local cafeteria just to cool off with the ac and not heat up our kitchen any more. It was very hot but I loved it since I moved there from Chicago and it was ccold!
 
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