Good Word it's fucking hot

[techchick68]

I don't know about other parts of the country but this heat has certainly taken it's toll on my brain.

Cranky, annoyed and frustrated is the best to explain how I feel.

Normally we get monsoon rains to cool our city of Colorado Springs to down around 55-60 degrees in the afternoon this time of year. Tonight is not the case. It's still 82 HOT degrees in my office and I am annoyed by this. We "might" see some relief on Sunday or Monday but we keep hearing that and it's just becoming a farce.

All we need is some rain, just a short shower every afternoon. Crap, I watered the pine tree in my backyard today. I have been watering it for a couple of weeks now and I am just saddened by this heat. One pine tree in my yard has already died.

Water is a big issue here. A small town just southwest of us is about to run out of water this weekend. I have never, in my 33-34 years seen anything like this before. Yep, imagine taking a pee in the morning and there's no water to flush your toilet.

It's just miserable. I know that temps in the low 90s aren't a big deal for many but as a native to Colorado, this is a big deal when it is consistant and we don't have air conditioners as a normal household appliance.

Yes, there are more horrible problems in this world but I have seen normally calm people become annoying assholes in this heat. This pattern of heat and no rain needs to stop. I am tired of it and I am tired of bitching about it but it's a part of our lives at the moment. I have to bitch where I can when I can.

Oh and if you think that I shouldn't be complaining about this, fuck you because I am a Colorado Native and this is just BEYOND normal for us. 1:30 at night or so, my house shouldn't be this fucking hot.

I want snow, I want snow, I want snow.

[Sublight]

Sorry, when I saw the title I thought this was going to be a rant about people who swear like Andrew Dice Clay but write 'G-d' all the time.

Yeah, these miserable summers suck, don't they? In my first summer in a place that regularly got humid, 95^o+ weather, I made a promise: "I will never complain about cold weather again." Since then, memory of that first summer has kept me content no matter how cold the winter weather has gotten.

[belladonna]

The best part is how your sweat collects under your tits, drips into your bra and leaves you itching horribly. There's just something about having someone walk up to your desk when you're elbow deep in a good boobage scratch that can really ruin your day.

bella--where it's 7am and already 87^o

[Summers_Son]

and i thought this was a mircosoft word appriciation thread... damn

[Neidhart]

Never move to Washington.

[peedin]

Bella the worst is when your crotch sweats, the stink is still there even after you take a shower, and your underpants are so wet you have to roll them off. I agree with everyone about the heat. Here in Chicago it's been hot and humid (upper 80s, lower 90s) with no appreciable rain since June 21, the grass is brown and crunchy, I'm fucking sick of seeing the sun, my a/c has not turned off in days, and I'm tired of going to the barn every night to make sure the Wonder Pony hasn't melted. I'm cranky, constantly tired, sick to my stomach and I don't want to eat. (Which is really sad because one of my greatest pleasures in life is eating junk food.) I will never complain about winter again (although winter really doesn't bother me). For the life of me, I cannot understand why people voluntarily move where it's hot year round. And damn those morons who say "I like it hot." Assholes go from their a/c house to their a/c car to their a/c jobs.

[belladonna]

peedin, I just have to say that your username, in conjunction with this quote

and your underpants are so wet you have to roll them off

just has me rolling. ::snort, snicker::

And I totally agree about the grass thing. I busted my ass this spring tearing up my dirt yard and planting grass, fertilizing, watering, etc., and now the damn thing looks like a sandlot. Ugh.
I heard on the radio this morning that the "drought" conditions around here haven't been this severe in over a decade. I know all the farmers are hoping it rains soon. My rosebushes wouldn't mind either, for that matter.

bella--planning a raindance for later this evening

[Honey]

techchick68, being from the mountains as well I can understand how you feel. This summer has been brutal. It's been 90 or over almost every day for the past 2 weeks.

Whenever I get the urge to complain about the heat, I just think about how horrid the winters are here and how happy I am that it's summer.

[Feynn]

We're in the third year of drought here.

We have received less than a third of our average rainfall this year and things are looking grim as hell with crops failing and plagues of grasshoppers eating everything that has managed to grow.

The forecast for the next week shows that there's a slim chance of rain, we desperatly need it.

Oh yeah, it's fucking hot.

[LurkMeister]

I finally broke down and bought an a/c for the bedroom this year. When we'd bought the house the previous owners had left two a/c units which lasted a few years but were never replaced. We'd been managing with fans, but the last few years the heat/humidity has been getting worse.

I've actually been considering getting estimates for having central a/c installed.

[Wabbit]

Be glad you're not in the South 'cause then you'd get humidity too. Nothing like showering, stepping outside into 90+ degrees weather and instantly being soaking wet again. I hate that.

[vivalostwages]

The summers here in So Cal are hot, but not usually this dry.
We're about 11 inches below normal for the past season. The only thing giving us any relief these days is the morning marine layer and the cool nights. But I'm sure this will all change in August, when it'll be hotter n' blazes.
I run the a/c at 78, but the inside of the house gets up to 84 by the late afternoon anyway.
Still, it's downright comfy compared to my recent trip to Lost Wages. Baker, CA, rated 111 degrees on the World's Tallest Thermometer in the center of town. Vegas was a mite cooler, being at a higher altitude, but it still felt like a death march if you actually ventured outside.
On our way back, Baker's thermo read 114 at 7pm, and all the chocolates and stuff inside the convenience store had melted.
Lovely.

[ScoobyTX]

I guess Central Texas has been getting all of y'all's rain (30 inches in one week- plenty of flooding) and mild weather. I don't think it's even hit 100 yet all year.

I did miss out on most of the heavy rain by going to Chicago for a week (people there were not comforted by my observation that their low to mid 90's reminded me of a nice April morning in Texas).

Originally posted by peedin
For the life of me, I cannot understand why people voluntarily move where it's hot year round. And damn those morons who say "I like it hot." Assholes go from their a/c house to their a/c car to their a/c jobs.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why people voluntarily move where ice is regularly seen in the environment, as opposed to only in beverages, where it belongs. These people go from their heated house to their heated cars to their heated jobs.

[techchick68]

Believe me, I am glad I don't live in the south or even east of here in Kansas.

Humidity and heat, blech, fucking blech.

But understand that I have lived all but 1 1/2 months of my life in Colorado so 33 years of being used to a certain climate is figured into this equation.

Luckily it's cooler tonight, about 79ºF in my office at the moment. I assume that by 2:00am I will be comfortable.

But damn this heat sucks. I even went to the mall today to escape it, I am not much of a shopper. I did enjoy a gyro and watched a little of a hockey practice (we have an ice rink in the mall close to me) and watched the funny antics of teens and the large families dining on junk food.

[kiz]

Oh, techchick68, I may live at the other end of the country, but I know what you speak of only too well...*wiping sweat from her forehead, neck, and some other places which have already been mentioned...*

We finally had a couple of torrential downpours within the last week or so. Silly me, I thought they'd continue...you know, that nice, cool, fresh air with a smidgen of breeze that almost always accompanies the aftermath?

HA! All we got was that same slimy, humid stuff that just...hangs...there...

What's worse is the damned heat lightning and thunder -- without any rain! It's been like this for the past 2-3 days! GRRRR!!!!

[Muffin]

Earlier in the week, we hit an all time record in Thunder Bay, Ontario, of over 95F. The nice thing about it was a few women not wearing tops.

Fortunately, for the first couple of days of the heat wave, I was on a road trip across the North Shore of Huron's Georgian Bay, the North Shore of Superior, and the heavily laked shield country, so I'd drive for a while, then hop in a lake, then drive for a while, then hop in a lake, and on and on and on.

[FairyChatMom]

Northeast Florida has been having heat indices of 105-109 this past week, continuing thru this weekend. I have to get out and mow my grass. It was too dewy earlier, and once it dries, it'll be hotter 'n Hades or the afternoon t-storms will roll thru and soak it all again.

I'm heading out there right after lunch. Fully hydrated. Water at the ready. Cussing the whole time because we sold our riding mower. We've just got a little lawn - less than an hour to mow it, but dang, in the humidity, it's torture. I'm too old for this. I need a well-oiled, scantily clad young stud to do my yardwork. Seriously. Volunteers? PLEASE???

[LurkMeister]

Originally posted by FairyChatMom
I need a well-oiled, scantily clad young stud to do my yardwork. Seriously. Volunteers? PLEASE???

My wife's been asking me to get one of these for years. I've been trying to convince her we need a matching scantily clad maid to help with the housework. So far, no luck.

[Corrvin]

Care to vacation in sunny (flat, boring) Oklahoma for a while?

It's 85 outside right now, but my apartment is chilled to 72 with our central air. We've had some rain this summer so the grass hasn't even turned that scorched golden-brown yet. We have lots of pools, too, if you like that kind of thing.

This is the first nice summer we've had in a long time. A couple years back we had that 108 days without rain...

Corr

[galen ubal]

Oh, Corrvin, that sounds sooo nice. 85 is just about the perfect summertime temp...

[techchick68]

75, to me, is the perfect summer temp. Once you start hitting 79 I am a big whiney wuss.

[dwc1970]

It was 110° here in Boise a week ago and for almost a week straight we had highs above 100°. Boise's all-time recorded high is 111°, so we came close. At these temperatures what difference does a degree or two make anyway? I hated every minute of the oppressive heat wave we suffered through last week. It never got cool enough at night to sleep comfortably. I woke up tired, grouchy and sweaty every morning. Last Sunday morning I was sick to my stomach because the heat was taking its toll on me. I hate the summer anyway and I can't stand the hot, sunny days. I long for cold, snowy winters. I can handle cold over heat any day. At least when it's too cold and there's not enough heat you can always bundle up or sleep with more covers. When it is too hot there is no escaping the heat if you don't have air conditioning (and I don't ). I envy the people in Seattle who call 90° a heat wave and seldom see such temperatures. A friend of mine actually likes hot weather. He likes to go out on his boat on hot days so he can then cool off in the water. I just don't understand what the point is in going out in the heat in the first place just so you can cool yourself off again. The first day each fall that I have to close my windows because it's getting too cold to leave them open is a day I often celebrate.

[Lodrain]

Ontario? Is no part of the world untouched by the angry sun? First, the Alaskan glaciers are melting, now it's really freaking hot in central *Canada*?

As FairyChatMom said, Florida is horrible. First, the summer starts out as one long drought. Humidity is bearable, and the heat's not too terribly bad as a result. Grass and stuff dies, ponds dry up and brush fires are commonplace. Then the rains start. Humidity goes off the charts, and it feels icky. Puddles everywhere, so mosquitoes the size of thumbnails of full-grown elephants swarm, and they're hungry. Pure hell. Dante must have taken a summer trip here for inspiration.

Non-US Dopers? How 'bout you guys? I bet it's hot over there too, unless you live in the farthest stretches of Ultima Thule where the ice caps never melt and the sun shines for only ten seconds of the year.

[techchick68]

This has been an unbelievable summer for sure, from the east coast to the west coast, this has sucked bug fucking time.

We can get 90º temps here but it's not a normal aspect of our lives here. The afternoon rains usually come to relieve us of the hot temps. This year, not.

It's still 81º in my office and I can't go to bed with temps like this, this is ridiculous. If I could prevent the onset of ants I would sleep out on the patio but there are so many of those fuckers (as I witnessed today) that there's no way in hell I will attempt it.

I just want some fucking rain in the afternoons to offset the heat in the day. But NO, the monsoons have to by-pass us and leave us to swelter.

Again, if you are born and raised in a moderate climate, temps like this are bothersome. Everyone I know that has lived here for a long time is grouchy and snotty.

I know a lot of my fellow westerners are in the same boat so I am not poopooing them but those that are used to hot summers and the A/C is a standard appliance, go away. You have no value in this thread. Many places like I live do not have A/C or even swamp coolers because it just normally doesn't get this hot.

And for my house to be registering in the 80s at 1:45 am should be a clue as to why this sucks. If you are sitting happy and shitting coins because you have temps of 76º in your home because of A/C, screw you. We normally don't see these temps and your telling me that your living in a place that has 95% humidity and 95º doesn't help me any because you have fucking A/C. We don't.....so if you can't be sympathetic to that, kiss my big fat butt.

That and the A/C broke in my fucking car.

I am not in the happy-go-lucky mood that I might be if the daytime temps were in the low 80s. This is ridiculous. I have lived here most of my life and it's fucking annoying. When you are used to a certain climate, you are used to it. Many of our Canadian friends are going through a similar issue. The heat is oppressive (sp) this year and it's getting old.

So don't tell me what it might be like in a humid and hot place, you expect that, I don't if you have lived there for a while. This is not the world I am used to, I was born and raised here, this plain sucks. This is not what my life and my body are used to.

Face it, after 33-34 years of living in a similar climate, your body becomes adjusted to it. For this heat, as minor as it seems to some, it sucks and it is none-the-less but something to rip out the hearts of your fellow human beings when they piss you off.

Fuck this, I wish for this drought to be over, for us to get some rain (desparately) and this winter to get a shit load of snow. God my skin cracks and this time of year is usually the highest in terms of relative humidity. The relative humidity in my house has been an average of 22%.

Damnit.

[tolyri]

Here in Ohio it has been very hot. While we locals are proud of our "reason for all seasons" we generally don't like extremes. This summer has caused crunchy brown grass which will not be greened by three afternoons of thunderstorms. We can't even really complain. A month ago we had rain to the point of flooding. Take it or leave it. As we like to say, "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."

[techchick68]

I am going to bed and it's 79.6º in my damn house.

FUCK.

I can only hope that I actually fall alseep and get a good night's sleep.

This sucks.

[Neidhart]

originally posted by Muffin

Earlier in the week, we hit an all time record in Thunder Bay, Ontario, of over 95F. The nice thing about it was a few women not wearing tops.

Why doesn't women around here ever go topless in 95-degree weather? That'd at least provide a reason to look forward to summer

It's still nice in London, also in Northern Maine.

[Neidhart]

. . . and someplace to stay away from.

[OpalCat]

Tucson, me 8 months pregnant, August, cooler on:

111 outside
103 inside

I'm soooo glad I don't live there anymore.

(and if you start with that dry heat bullshit I'll hit you. It was August. That is monsoon season. it WAS humid. Top that off with an evaporative cooler that blows damp air into the house all the time, and you have Hell in a Can.)

[ScoobyTX]

Maybe a window A/C unit for the bedroom is in order? You can get a new one for under $200 that should work wonders.

If your house is under 80 F without A/C, you'll probably be able to get your bedroom down to meat-locker temps with even the smallest of units.

(Ahh... 79.6 F without A/C- must be nice. My A/C runs about 50% of the time just to keep my house a frigid 78 F. Any cooler and I'd have to put on a sweater.)

[Hamish]

A few weeks ago, it hit about about 42ºC (107ºF) here with the humidity factored in. I didn't think temperatures like that were possible. I was actually happy to be working extra days, because we had an A/C unit.

I'm going to smack the next person who jokes that global warming is a good thing.

[raz]

It has been in the high 90's-low 100's here in Kansas this past week or two...It's miserable. Just walking from my house to my car gets me sweating. Kansas is usually pretty mild in the summer but this is the hottest it's been all summer. On the other hand, it's just now getting hot so we've been pretty lucky in that aspect.

[Wildcatz]

Chicago checking in. At 1050 AM it's 90 degrees with a heat index of 100. I have no AC and can't get one as it would blow multiple fuses. (old building...a neighbor got one and we all went without power for several hours after she turned it on.)

IOW, techchick, I feel your pain.

'catz

[Odesio]

Originally posted by techchick68

Normally we get monsoon rains to cool our city of Colorado Springs to down around 55-60 degrees in the afternoon this time of year.

I don't remember it getting that cool one a June afternoon when I lived in Colorado Springs. Of course I moved from there to Dallas in 1987 so I have no real concept of the temperature being in the 60's in June. And yes I about died during my first summer in Dallas.


Marc

[Siddhartha Vicious]

I feel for you, techchick. I'm a recent transplant to AZ from Wyoming. When it got above 80 in Laramie, the Walmart would sell out of fans. I was used to pretty cool weather.

Now, I endure 106 degree days. (Actually, it has cooled down quite a bit. For a while there, it was over 100 every day. I think we had a few days last week when the monsoons finally hit that only reached 98.)

And I'm a guy that really, really sweats. I mean gallons. But I love the heat. It gets monotonous at times, and fairly uncomfortable at nights, but I am thriving in the hot temperatures. You don't get used to it, you just learn to ignore it.

[OpalCat]

After 15 years of it, I never got used to it. I hated every minute of it, too. I HATE HEAT!

[techchick68]

Originally posted by MGibson

I don't remember it getting that cool one a June afternoon when I lived in Colorado Springs. Of course I moved from there to Dallas in 1987 so I have no real concept of the temperature being in the 60's in June. And yes I about died during my first summer in Dallas.


Marc

The showers cool it to that low but after they pass it warms up again. But yeah, typically as the thunderstorms pass over the temps are 50-65 degrees. That's why you rarely see people playing in the rain here.

[aleksia]

Ultima Thule lurker checking in. Well, more or less - Europe, Estonia. We've been having temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius constantly. Don't really know what it makes in Fahrenheit, but it's a bloody pain. You dizzy and wanna throw up, and all this sun makes the skin itch.
Summers used to be so much colder, when I was young. The world is changing, I tells ya.

[aleksia]

Darn engrish attack. Last post is missing ARE. Oh well, back to lurking.

[Siege]

It's 6:00 am, 69 degrees Farenheit, and 100% humidity. I'm going to need a shower the minute I step out of the door. Yes, it's too damn hot, which is why I've also quit complaining about cold weather. Now to figure out what I can wear to work which I won't swelter in.

A beseiged CJ

[Neidhart]

Something loose-fitting, of white cotton? Works for me.

[matt_mcl]

I was astonished to discover, during my time in Madrid, that it was actually hotter in Montreal than in Spain at that point.