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Kathleen in WI · #1 07/03/09, 03:14 PM

Okay, I'm going to grumble a little before I get back to work. I know I'm supposedly living in "paradise" here in the Keys, but I can't wait to get out of here!

For the last two weeks the heat index has been well over 100. We run our central AC and a window unit and it's still too hot to function. My stomach is turning and my head is ready to explode--and I have work to get done. Today the heat index is 111!

I can't take much more. Wondering how my computer would do if I took it into the bathtub.

To top it off, they keep saying rain but it just goes around us.

I may melt before moving day.

Alice In TX/MO · #2 07/03/09, 03:30 PM

Are you in Arkansas or Florida?

Kathleen in WI · #3 07/03/09, 03:35 PM

We're in the Florida Keys getting ready to move to Colorado (thank goodness). When I first registered with this site, I lived in Arkansas.

Guess I should consider getting my user name changed.

gina kay · #4 07/03/09, 03:44 PM

The rain has missed us so much that I see a couple of gray clouds and just tell them to quit teasing us. We haven't had rain since the first week of May! The heat index has been around 106 for the past 3 weeks with the exception of Tuesday and Wednesday when it dropped down to 96!! Keep cool as much as possible and DRINK, DRINK and drink some more (noncaffeinated drinks). Dh and I go through about 3 gallons of koolaid and noncaffeinated tea a day! Also make sure animals have plenty of cool water. Our pond has dried up so we keep barrels and tubs of water for horses, cattle, goats, dogs and cats. Waterers in coops for chickens stay full for drinking and standing in. Just refilled hogs water and a mud place for laying in. Our water bill is crazy.

Kathleen in WI · #5 07/03/09, 04:49 PM

Sounds like you are just as miserable as we are.

My husband just realized that our central AC was froze up--literally. The was a three-inch layer of ice on it. He just melted it with a blow dryer and it seems to be cooling better now--thank goodness!

mnn2501 · #6 07/03/09, 05:09 PM

103 in the N Dallas area today -- just starting to get warm here. The only time I mind it is if I have to be in a parking lot with no shade -- simply miserable, but the back yard is nice with shade tree's. My wife and I were talking coming back from Lowes (the parking lot I was thinking of) -- I think Texas without AC is do-able if you were in the country with a number of shade tree's on a large enough piece of property to have a breeze when the wind was blowing (which it does constantly here- lightly at least). It's all the concrete and asphalt and buildings that hold the heat that make it miserable.
Here's the funny thing - they have the air conditioner on so low at work, I've had a sweater on for the last 3 weeks and if I could work a computer with gloves I'd be wearing them too -- over 100F outside and I have to have a sweater on at work (and I'm a guy, and a well insulated one at that)

nathan104 · #7 07/03/09, 05:44 PM

Thermometer on my back porch in the shad reads 105. We had an entire week of 103+. Had a few days of mid nineties and its back up over 104 yesterday and 105 today. No idea what the heat index is. Its just nasty out there.

hillbillly · #8 07/03/09, 06:58 PM

midwestern missouri last week
we had heat indexes over 125*F
2 days in a row,
with several more in upper 90s/low 100s.
hiding from the sun,
me and my critters, too.

Yvonne's hubby · #9 07/03/09, 07:07 PM

There is no place south of the famed Manson/Nixon line that is fit for human habitation between the months of June and November. Florida is a great place for WINTER, it was not designed for summer use by anything other than gators and skeeters.

Yvonne's hubby · #10 07/03/09, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gina kay

The rain has missed us so much that I see a couple of gray clouds and just tell them to quit teasing us. We haven't had rain since the first week of May! The heat index has been around 106 for the past 3 weeks with the exception of Tuesday and Wednesday when it dropped down to 96!! Keep cool as much as possible and DRINK, DRINK and drink some more (noncaffeinated drinks). Dh and I go through about 3 gallons of koolaid and noncaffeinated tea a day! Also make sure animals have plenty of cool water. Our pond has dried up so we keep barrels and tubs of water for horses, cattle, goats, dogs and cats. Waterers in coops for chickens stay full for drinking and standing in. Just refilled hogs water and a mud place for laying in. Our water bill is crazy.

I'll drink to that! (hic), bartender! bring another round!

Old Vet · #11 07/03/09, 07:12 PM

So I guess paradise is hot. You will get over that when you move to Colorado. Especially in December.

DW · #12 07/03/09, 08:38 PM

It's 80 degrees...had rain the last two days...this is unusual (rain). It has been the 2nd wetest June in history. I have not watered much at all.

Kathleen in WI · #13 07/03/09, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yvonne's hubby

Florida is a great place for WINTER, it was not designed for summer use by anything other than gators and skeeters.

I agree. That's why I'm moving!

I've lived in Colorado before. I can deal with winter if I have to. I grew up in Wisconsin. I don't especially like being cold but this heat makes me physically ill.

Now that the AC is functioning again I'm feeling better though.

Sorry y'all are miserable too.

Is it just me or is this an especially bad year for heat?

ET1 SS · #14 07/03/09, 09:21 PM

It has been in the 80s so far, but no higher.

Lots of rain. Everything is saturated with water.

hillbillly · #15 07/03/09, 09:29 PM

my water bill over doubled in june-
almost $110

Sheripoms · #16 07/03/09, 11:56 PM

104 here today and no rain for over a month! I am so sick of watering garden if it don't rain soon I may just let her go.

Old Vet · #17 07/03/09, 11:59 PM

In northern Arkansas(near Harrison) it has been in the 80 for high but tomorrow it will get up to 90.

Ken Scharabok · #18 07/04/09, 01:21 AM

"There is no place south of the famed Manson/Nixon line that is fit for human habitation between the months of June and November."

I'll beg to differ. I am in West-central Tennessee where we have a quite temperate climate. Did have one week of mid-90s with heat index slightly above 100, but are now back down to our typical mid-80s for this time of year. Could use a nice soaking rain though.

Live in the north cold winters and fairly short summers. Live in the south and hot summers and fairly short winters. I'll settle for in-between.

jd belager (former Countryside editor) lives in the North Woods of WI. He once told me there is something nice about stepping outside when it is -30. "No moquitoes. No black flies."

fellini123 · #19 07/04/09, 01:37 AM

Central Virginia here, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, It is 59 degrees right now, and got up to about mid to low 80s during the hottest part of the day.
So far the weather this year had been wonderful. I'm sure I just jinxed it though!!!!

Alice in virginia

SpaceCadet12364 · #20 07/04/09, 06:57 AM

Been pretty nice here in south central KY lately. Almost getting downright nippy at night (dipping as low as 56 the other night), high 70's-low 80's for the last week or so. Actually shut off the air, and opened the house back up with some window fans. I love it when the humidity levels stay fairly low! A bit before this, we did have the upper 90's with nasty humidity and heat indexes. Loads of rain too, but during this nicer weather, it hasnt rained so much so that way stuff is getting unwaterlogged somewhat. Does make for nice green grass though.

Of course, I think the weather guessers are saying that next week it is supposed to get back into that for a little while again.