Summer 2023 Fucking Blastfurnace Complaint Line

[Texzilla]

I am a pussified child of the New South.  Old enough to remember houses, cars, and schools without AC.  My mother was picking cotton gin east Texas heat at 5 years old.  My old man was sleeping in a west Texas ditch working in the oil fields.  I am wilting if it goes over 90.  I really liked the Denver high desert.


This summer sucks so far.  Fucking 105 today.  Tuesday will be 109.  I just pray for the integrity of the Texas power grid. 

[BASS]

It's hot. Boo hoo.

[Spiderham]

You are old like me.  
This ain't shit.
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[DirkPiggler]

This seems like the perfect place for my complaint. 

I hate the fucking heat index, and wish weather dorks would kill it off.   

Every time it gets a little bit warm outside someone says "it's 110 degrees today!  OMG!  Hottest day EVAR!"
   
No you stupid asshole, it's 92, otherwise known as a normal July day in the south for the last 250 years or so. 

The issue is that idiots like the weather potato conflate HI with actual temp when comparing to previous years.  We don't know what the heat index was on 7/15/1948, so compare what we could measure - the actual Fahrenheit temp - rather than mixing variables. 

[Hognrock]

This seems like the perfect place for my complaint. 

I hate the fucking heat index, and wish weather dorks would kill it off.   

Every time it gets a little bit warm outside someone says "it's 110 degrees today!  OMG!  Hottest day EVAR!"
   
No you stupid asshole, it's 92, otherwise known as a normal July day in the south for the last 250 years or so. 

The issue is that idiots like the weather potato conflate HI with actual temp when comparing to previous years.  We don't know what the heat index was on 7/15/1948, so compare what we could measure - the actual Fahrenheit temp - rather than mixing variables. 

Thank you for typing what I would. It's fucking July people. And guess what, August is next so suck it up buttercup. It's gonna be hot.

I do feel for the guys/gals working out in it. But it will be hot

[DirkPiggler]

Thank you for typing what I would. It's fucking July people. And guess what, August is next so suck it up buttercup. It's gonna be hot.

I do feel for the guys/gals working out in it. But it will be hot

I'm trying to keep this apolitical since we aren't on that board, but I'll add that many of the same people who scream "WE TOLD YOU SO!!!! CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!" on a 102 degree day in August are the same ones that will say "WEATHER ISN'T CLIMATE!" when we get a record snowfall in February.

[buff2.0]

Just imagine, farmers didn't always have closed-cab tractors with air conditioning.

[egregious]

Just imagine, farmers didn't always have closed-cab tractors with air conditioning.

gonna be awhile before someone markets an eV tractor that can do what it needs to do and provide AC

and man lower Alabama gets sticky

I have never flown back and forth to Dallas in summer midday to see which is worse, close to side-by-side - 15 more degrees vs less humidity

I don't think either is as bad as worst Memphis and environs.

My Dad spent time on the business end of a manual post hole digger for APL* when I was a toddler - I am soft and I do not care.


*in Phillips County

[Hogworth Ballington III]

gonna be awhile before someone markets an eV tractor that can do what it needs to do and provide AC

and man lower Alabama gets sticky

I have never flown back and forth to Dallas in summer midday to see which is worse, close to side-by-side - 15 more degrees vs less humidity

I don't think either is as bad as worst Memphis and environs.

My Dad spent time on the business end of a manual post hole digger for APL* when I was a toddler - I am soft and I do not care.


*in Phillips County

Wouldn't the "business end" of a post hole digger be the part that goes in the ground? So you're basically saying dad made money getting post holed? Need a woopig judgement on that one, but sounds like a rough life indeed.

[Son of Spam]

If you didn't grow up without air conditioning, and only had a box fan pulling air through your room and maybe a large ceiling fan pulling air through the house, you won't be able to handle these temps. If you did, like me, this is nothing.

[BleedinRed]

If you didn't grow up without air conditioning, and only had a box fan pulling air through your room and maybe a large ceiling fan pulling air through the house, you won't be able to handle these temps. If you did, like me, this is nothing.

Nothing beats a true attic fan.  I'm from the Hope area originally and neither sets of grand parents had AC or heat.   One had an attic fan that would damn near freeze you out on a hot July night.  I don't know the physics behind it but that is the truth. 

[buff2.0]

I have two of these in the garage and I'm thinking about installing one up in the attic.  5 HP shouldn't implode the roof. 

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[HOGSRUNWILD]

I'm down in Austin this week and have been walking around the pond at work during lunch and I can objectively tell it is hot I guess, but I'm not sweating or really feeling uncomfortable at all.

Either I have become immune to the weather or I'm having a stroke.  Save me SS, save me.

[Hognrock]

I'm down in Austin this week and have been walking around the pond at work during lunch and I can objectively tell it is hot I guess, but I'm not sweating or really feeling uncomfortable at all.

Either I have become immune to the weather or I'm having a stroke.  Save me SS, save me.

Pretty sure she's the one that gives strokes. I mean she killed a guy on the old Woopig.

[FNG]

You are old like me. 
This ain't shit.
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I remember that summer all too well.

Little Rock set a record of 15 consecutive days in July 1980 > 100 degrees (5 of which were 105 degrees or hotter) and a total of 42 days above 100 that summer. Total rainfall was about a half inch.

I spent six weeks that July and August doing an Internal Medicine rotation at the old VA Hospital on East Roosevelt. With the exception of a few Administration offices with window units, the building was not air conditioned. The combination of several hundred chain-smoking vets, the intoxicating miasma of urine, feces and death and the ambient room temps in the 90's made it a special place to work.

[HOGSRUNWILD]

Pretty sure she's the one that gives strokes. I mean she killed a guy on the old Woopig.

But if I'm already having one, maybe a double stroke will save me?

[DrMongoose]

It was humid as hell in Atlanta last week but we were on grass fields at least.
Turf fields this time of year are just brutal, I get it with rain and what not, but damn it is is so much hotter on the artificial grass.

If you hydrate ahead of time it is doable, but you have to do it 2-3 days ahead. Trying to catch up on hydration is not gonna work or happen and a losing proposition. Liquid IV has sugar free now, I picked up some liquid Labs hydration packets (to mix in bottles of water) at Walmart last week - worked great in Atlanta.

The mission cooling neck gaiter does work. It won't keep you ice cool but it does help though it will dry out in 20 minutes in big heat. I sweat like a Stuck pig and this reduced the sweat for me. Looks odd but effective, find the, at Walmart in then on tv section.


Still, I would rather be hot than cold,

[egregious]

Wouldn't the "business end" of a post hole digger be the part that goes in the ground? So you're basically saying dad made money getting post holed? Need a woopig judgement on that one, but sounds like a rough life indeed.

touche

I meant the driving end.

You don't want any part of it.  I wouldn't want to carry it from the truck to the guy.

[Guardrail]

My old grandpa died a few years ago at 92. Worked outside every day of his life and would sit on the front porch swing in 100° weather with overalls and long sleeve shirt and say "it's just right." Didn't use AC in his house - just an attic fan.
Said as a kid they would pull the sheets off the bed, get them wet and make a pallet on the front porch to sleep on during summer. Get up at daylight and hang them up on the line.
Those old timers, man.

[hit_that_line]

We had bad summers in 2011 and 2012, but since then it's been very mild. Looks like we'll hover around 90 through the end of July outside of a few days this week. Can't beat that.