93°

[In_The_Wind]

[olddots]

1. what a wimp

I don't melt till it gets around 140 degrees .

[In_The_Wind]

10. bless your heart

[MuseRider]

2. Don't you all have air conditioning? n/t

[olddots]

3. hair conditioning ??????????

certainly my hair gets a bit out of sorts when it gets this hot .

[In_The_Wind]

4. It isn't working.

[MuseRider]

5. Uncomfortable

for sure.

Wet rag on your neck. That helps me working outside in the big heat. We have been cool this summer, upper 90's only a few times and no 100's yet. Last 2 years were brutal but my wet rag kept me from passing out, that and lots of water.

[In_The_Wind]

7. The only thing that helps is wetting my skin and hanging out in front of the fan.

That temp is inside my house.

[MuseRider]

14. That works too.

It is 94 here right now. I just turned on my air as I just got inside and can stay in for several hours. Sweaty from getting all the chores done, now to relax a bit. Ahhhhhh.

I am sorry you are so hot. It is not comfortable at all.

[In_The_Wind]

16. I'm not very nice when I've been sweating for days on end.

If cools down tonight, I'll be in a better mood to face the heat tomorrow.

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=41.74049377&lon=-74.09350586&zoom=8&pin=New%20Paltz%2c%20NY


Enjoy the cool air while you can.

[MuseRider]

18. I HATE sweating

but I am the one that chose to have a farm and all these critters. There is no avoiding the weather. Knee deep snow that you have to walk 1/2 mile through or dealing with 110's for a month last year. I find the more I just accept it and do what I have to do I may get really sweaty and out of sorts but I do get so I can tolerate it better. If you are not used to it it can be horribly miserable.

Hope you can get your air fixed. It is getting so expensive that I fear as we get hotter we won't be able to afford to use anything like that for comfort.

[In_The_Wind]

19. It's bad for the house to be this hot and humid. Mold will start to grow.

Now it's up to 98°!


How may animals do you have?

[MuseRider]

20. I only have 5 horses now

and 2 goats now and 4 dogs and 3 cats and feed a bunch of other things that really don't take much time. The barn upkeep takes a bit of work. The crop is brome hay and is only labor intensive for others since I do not harvest it myself. No desire to buy those big, expensive haying machines or worry about fixing them. Made a good deal with a guy who does it for me.

[In_The_Wind]

26. That's a lot of love and a lot of work.

[RILib]

27. no AC

I was so flattened (and I'm no spring chicken) when my AC went out last year that I sought out ACed places. I even hung out in the reception room at our nice friendly police station until it got dark and the temperature dropped a little. I was seriously worried about survival.

[In_The_Wind]

28. The heat never bothered me before now.

I spent the month of June , 2006 in the Florida Keys with a DUer. In 2010 I was living in Muscle Shoals Alabama with very little AC. I guess this is part of getting older that I didn't know about.

[rug]

6. 92 degrees.

Nyah-nyah!

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[In_The_Wind]

8. You know it's too damn hot when the parrots are panting.

[AndyA]

9. Sorry your A/C isn't working

Use fans to circulate air in the room you're in. Fill a large bowl with ice and let a fan blow across it, drape a wet towel around your neck as Muse suggested--it really does help. Close blinds and draperies to keep the sun out of your house, and drink lots of cool water.

If you get really hot, take a cold shower to cool off, you'll feel better for a little while after.

[In_The_Wind]

11. Even worse the AC in my car isn't working either.

It malfunctioned last week. I paid over $900 for a partial repair just to get back home. Since I drive for a living, I'll be completing the repair sometime this month.

I do have one fan in my bedroom, one in Mr In The Wind's bedroom and a ceiling fan in the living room.

All of the birds are overheating.

[AndyA]

12. If you can't get the A/C fixed soon,

buy an inexpensive table top fan and direct it toward you (with the bowl of ice in between)--it will make you more comfortable.

I hope your birds will be OK. Haven't had birds since I was a kid--how do they handle the heat? I know they get by OK outside, but birds that are pets likely aren't used to the heat.

[In_The_Wind]

13. Doves seem to be ok. All 3 parrots are panting, 1 is holding her wings out.

We found a dead sparrow on top of my car earlier today.
I have two birdbaths outside. The water is clean. It's supposed to cool down to 69° tonight.

[In_The_Wind]

21. The bird that Jeff R found on top of my car was a Cedar Waxwing.

Poor thing

[AndyA]

23. That's a shame.

It's a beautiful bird!

I hope the parrots do OK, panting doesn't sound good. Sending good thoughts your way for cool air soon.

[In_The_Wind]

24. It's still hot, 96°. The sun is going down. All of the birds in the house seem fine.

I studied birds one semester at a local college. Thanks to my professor, my study of the North American Goldfinch is part of the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History. Love the featherheads.

[hobbit709]

15. 99° here and climbing.

[In_The_Wind]

17. I couldn't stand the heat when I was in Texas.

A few years ago I complained every time someone wanted to turn on the AC.

[fizzgig]

22. we broke 90 today

but just had a thunderstorm roll through and we're down to low 70s. i hope it stays cooled down.

[In_The_Wind]

25. I hope you can stay cool. Are you still on vacation?

[fizzgig]

36. still on vacation

just got back from a show in denver. a good friend and i went to see an old co-worker's band play. yeah, we were home by midnight even after an hour drive, but it was awesome.

i go back wedneday, so i still have a few days left to enjoy.

[EvilAL]

29. Hit 100.4 here today according to the humidex,

we don't get that very often, supposed to go on for a couple of days. I ain't complaining, there's ways to beat the heat..

[In_The_Wind]

30. It's easier for me to deal with excessive heat than cold.

All of my Golden Retrievers crossed the rainbow bridge in the hot summer months.
We usually get one week between 95° and 105°. The Chocolate Lab I have now was on the road with me. She seemed to tolerate it except one time in Memphis. Poor pup got sick cause we were so hot.

[EvilAL]

31. I had to shave my huskies in the summer,

but we have long, cold winters here, so when we get a little heat-wave everyone enjoys it.. I prefer 80-90s in the summer..

[In_The_Wind]

32. Daytime: 70 to 80. Nighttime: 55 to 65 is excellent for sleeping and snuggling.

I've been saying ... [img][/img] not tonight, it's way too hot.[img][/img]

[EvilAL]

33. That's what cool showers are for...

[In_The_Wind]

34. My water heater is only good for an 18 minute shower. I'll replace it when I can.

I hate cold water. 18 minutes isn't very long in the scheme of things. Ya know [img][/img]

[EvilAL]

35. It's better than a kick in the ass with a frozen boot.

[Aristus]

39. Damn!...

[In_The_Wind]

37. 96°

[romantico]

38. My

My heart goes out to you. I had to spend three summers with no AC and it was miserable. I have to buy an entire new AC, which will cost about $5,000 (or close to it) So, I bought a portable AC. Usually works okay but in this heat you can't go far from it. I have two of them and then fans in the garage and basement.

I hate this heat and humidity so much I wanted to know where on the planet I can go this time of year to cool off. Even in the Swiss Alps and Vienna it's around 80 something.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018427070

[Aristus]

40. It's 76-degrees here in The 2-5-3.

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