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wookiewookie Posts: 128 Member
How in the world do you guys live down here!!!!!!! I'm in Mobile Al it is 11 pm. I had to replace an airline on the truck. No big job 10 minutes. I look and feel like I ran a marathon.

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  • jbohiojbohio Posts: 5,618 Senior Member
    Meh. The heat index was 105-115 here week before last, and the week before that. I work outside. You get used to it.
  • centermass556centermass556 Posts: 3,618 Senior Member
    Have to do something to make the Yankees leave....heat and humidity work
    "To have really lived, you must have almost died. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
  • coolgunguycoolgunguy Posts: 6,637 Senior Member
    jbohio wrote: »
    Meh. The heat index was 105-115 here week before last, and the week before that. I work outside. You don't get used to it, but you learn to deal with it.

    Fixed it. Well, at least that's how it is for me. There is no getting used to the heat. I hate heat. Cool is mo' betta!
    "Bipartisan" usually means that a bigger than normal deception is happening.
    George Carlin
  • Vic's ViewpointVic's Viewpoint Posts: 1,221 Senior Member
    Wait. It gets humid in OR too, no? I passed through the SE corner of OR en route to ID the other day, and the temp was a long,
    long way from cold. In NV the temp hit 104 degrees before crossing into OR, and the temp did NOT fall through the floor at the OR
    line. I will concede that AL is more humid than most of OR most of the time, but AL doesn't see temps in the hundreds often,
    either. So you pays your money, and you takes yer choice.....
    Member formerly known as "vlafrank."
  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Posts: 2,725 Senior Member
    I've been here in north Fladah for years now, and the summertime heat hurts me more and more every year as I age. I can't be productive in my farming business once the temperatures go over 90 degrees. My gristmill operation is all inside in an air conditioned facility, so the grits and cornmeal still flows!
  • TeachTeach Posts: 18,428 Senior Member
    I was welding pipe in the central California sunshine, at 106 degrees. The humidity was in the mid-20's, however. We had to keep our hand tools in a bucket of water to keep from getting burned when picking up a wrench, though!
    Jerry
  • JLDickmonJLDickmon Posts: 1,726 Senior Member
    couple of years ago, I visited some family in West Texas. In August.
    117* when we got out of the car at 2:00 in the afternoon.
    Midnight, still 110*
    never got below 100* overnight.

    And the local HS football team was running two-a-days.
    Never laugh at your wife's choices.
    You are one of them.
  • RazorbackerRazorbacker Posts: 4,646 Senior Member
    I know of no other state that takes high school football more seriously than TX.

    Meanwhile there's a big fat doe and a button buck working out front. They officially have 49 days and a wake up before the game changes.
    Teach your children to love guns, they'll never be able to afford drugs
  • Big Al1Big Al1 Posts: 8,813 Senior Member
    That's why I'm in Wisconsin until Sept.
  • CaliFFLCaliFFL Posts: 5,486 Senior Member
    We get the hot days, (highs pushing 95°) but the hi-lo temp swing is about 40°.
    When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.

    Adam J. McCleod


  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,359 Senior Member
    Year before last we were installing a temporary traffic signal in southern KS, not far from Buffalo, OK....117 during the heat of the day...the poles and the diamond plate on the trucks were so hot they would blister an ungloved hand...bad enough that we were splicing wire in the cab of the truck...
    Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
  • Pelagic KayakerPelagic Kayaker Posts: 1,503 Senior Member
    Try being on a C-130, middle of August, AC just took a dump, hundred pounds of gear hangin off those "D" rings and your makin yer third pass over Burma DZ with barf bags full. ...but it's a "dry" heat!
  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,281 Senior Member
    Jayhawker wrote: »
    Year before last we were installing a temporary traffic signal in southern KS, not far from Buffalo, OK....
    No such thing as a "temporary" traffic signal. Once its in, it stays.
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • centermass556centermass556 Posts: 3,618 Senior Member
    Try being on a C-130, middle of August, AC just took a dump, hundred pounds of gear hangin off those "D" rings and your makin yer third pass over Burma DZ with barf bags full. ...but it's a "dry" heat!

    What...hold on...C-130s have AC? Why haven't I been on one of those?
    "To have really lived, you must have almost died. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
  • centermass556centermass556 Posts: 3,618 Senior Member
    I would love to be stationed at Hulburt....or Eglin...But, I am past that point for the units there. If you go see her, have her take you over to McGuire's Pub in P'cola.
    "To have really lived, you must have almost died. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
  • RazorbackerRazorbacker Posts: 4,646 Senior Member
    cpj wrote: »
    Fixed it for you.


    Lol, we'll see I guess. But that was funny. The guy we bought this house from commented that he didn't think it was right to shoot deer off your own porch. I just let it go. Between the wife and I we can take 6 deer total. But I told her one a piece should probably be our limit off the place. Once we get our meat supply we can still hunt more but just be very selective. There's this one doe that is by far the biggest I ever recall seeing. I'd love to tag her. Not like Buffco tags animals but you get my drift.
    Teach your children to love guns, they'll never be able to afford drugs
  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,103 Senior Member
    Getting back to the OP: how do we deal with it? We're men. Dealing with it is what we do.
    Meh.
  • wookiewookie Posts: 128 Member
    I'm in lake city now and it is a little better. Yea I used to live in Fresno ca. I have seen it 115 in the shade and Oregon does have a few hot spots.
  • horselipshorselips Posts: 3,628 Senior Member
    Plenty hot and humid here in Tucson now - the monsoon season. Whew. Saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking.
  • JLDickmonJLDickmon Posts: 1,726 Senior Member
    I would love to be stationed at Hulburt....or Eglin...But, I am past that point for the units there. If you go see her, have her take you over to McGuire's Pub in P'cola.
    Never laugh at your wife's choices.
    You are one of them.
  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,359 Senior Member
    zorba wrote: »
    No such thing as a "temporary" traffic signal. Once its in, it stays.

    Does this mean I have to go back and put up all those signals I tore down?
    Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
  • gatorgator Posts: 1,746 Senior Member
    Teach wrote: »
    We had to keep our hand tools in a bucket of water to keep from getting burned when picking up a wrench, though!
    Jerry

    I used to use that trick when working on the rock crusher here in AZ.
    USMC 80-84
    -96 lbs
  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,281 Senior Member
    Jayhawker wrote: »
    Does this mean I have to go back and put up all those signals I tore down?

    Around here, they'd never get torn down! I don't remember how many times "they" have said a signal was "temporary" - but once it was up, it stayed. Oh, they'd put up a "temporary" signal all right, but after the need was gone, they'd replace it with a permanent one. Its the California way! Rather than educate drivers on proper technique and the rules of the road, they just put in yet another red light. :roll::driving:
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • TeachTeach Posts: 18,428 Senior Member
    zorba wrote: »
    Rather than educate drivers on proper technique and the rules of the road, they just put in yet another red light. :roll::driving:

    Doesn't matter- - - - - -Jose' and Manuel are either drunk and/or high on weed, and they don't even see the light. Back in the mid-1970's they used to come across 3 lanes of freeway traffic in their lowriders at 20 MPH to get right in front of my 18-wheeler at 70. Of course, I was driving 70 to keep from getting run over by the folks doing the "double nickel"!
    Jerry
  • FisheadgibFisheadgib Posts: 5,797 Senior Member
    As we say around here, it's not the heat, it's the humidity.:tooth:
    snake284 wrote: »
    For my point of view, cpj is a lot like me
    .
  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,281 Senior Member
    Teach wrote: »
    Doesn't matter- - - - - -Jose' and Manuel are either drunk and/or high on weed, and they don't even see the light. Back in the mid-1970's they used to come across 3 lanes of freeway traffic in their lowriders at 20 MPH to get right in front of my 18-wheeler at 70. Of course, I was driving 70 to keep from getting run over by the folks doing the "double nickel"!
    Jerry
    Snort! Ain't that the truth!
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • centermass556centermass556 Posts: 3,618 Senior Member
    JL...That was funny!!!! I was crying from laughing so hard...

    We have a couple of Army Installations like that....
    "To have really lived, you must have almost died. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
  • FisheadgibFisheadgib Posts: 5,797 Senior Member
    There's been a McGuire's in Destin for about 15 years now. It's a little closer to hurlburt than the one in P'cola and the scenery is a little better. There's actually quite a few good restaurants in the Destin/Fort Walton area.
    snake284 wrote: »
    For my point of view, cpj is a lot like me
    .
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