IT'S TOO HOT!!!!
 

Did as much yard work as I could last night between 7:30 and sundown, finished the rest this morning before 9:30am. It's been mid to high 90's the last couple days, and will be there again today through at least Tuesday. I just work till I get tired, then I quit. My sister wound up in the ER in St. Louis yesterday with dehydration. She passed out after doing yard work for an hour. Everybody be careful out there. What are YOU doing to stay cool this weekend?

Im working today. This time of year the fans just blow hot air

Back in the late 1970s my summer job was working on an assembly line for Allis-Chalmers building Gleaner Combines. The building was a huge sheet metal building with no AC, concrete floors. They had fans but it just made the inside like a blast furnace in July and August. My first year there I worked 7am to 3:30 pm and it was hotter than a mother. My second year I got on the night shift and worked 3:30pm to midnight. Much better duty, it would usually cool off around 8pm, and the pay was better too.

I work outside in it all day long in Florida so I'm used to it. It definitely gets old sweating all day long.

When you're young you can do that. Now that I'm an old fart, some of the meds I take have warnings not to be outside in sunshine for extended periods of time. I have to be careful when doing yard work or going to a sporting event not to sit in direct sunlight for too long. Sucks getting old, man. I try to work my mowing pattern to mow the parts of my yard that are shady while they're in the shade, and stay away from the ones that are not. Between morning and evening, I can mow about 80% of the whole yard in shade if it's done at the right time.

I started at a younger age but now I'm in my 40's and it's a little harder. The main way I stacy cool at my job is to stay hydrated, find or create shade whenever possible and let the trucks and equipment do the work.

I wear a bulletproof vest 10 hours a day. I try to do a majority of my ticket writing in the morning before it gets too hot. Once it hits lunch time I’m usually dripping sweat in and out of my car.

:shrug:

How many tickets do you have to write?

However many I want. We don’t have a quota. But I’m in the traffic division so we write more tickets than the patrol division. We work all the accidents. They patrol the neighborhoods.

Watching it rain non-stop. :shake:

sounds like my shop, add in hot cars being pulled in over and over

Ah, gotcha. Since you are you are in a traffic division does your pay increases and promotions have any bearing on the tickets you write?

I'm wondering how you can get promoted out of traffic enforcement if there is not a qualifier to separate yourself from your coworkers.

So speeding in OK. is O.K. on hot afternoons??

The last ticket I go was for sliding through a yellow on my Bicycle and yes it was the morning of a hot day with ozone warnings....

Judge dismissed it. I was saving the earth....

I’m in Paxson, Alaska, trying to fish. It’s been too windy to drive the boat and it’s been raining but it got to about 34 degrees last night. Staying cool is not a problem this weekend.

Don't you write tickets based on when people do bad things?

Please send some of it here.:drool: We have had less than a 1/4 inch in the last month and crazy hot weather.
Thursday I drove home from golf in a monsoon, only a short slight drizzle here though.
My big shop is too hot to work in, so I am back in the woodshop that stays cool, around 75, getting some stuff done.

Yesterday in KC though it was hot there was a breeze that helped. I did mow the backyard when I got home and trimmed around everything. Ill get the front when I feel like today but I plan to watch as much of the open as I can stand. Joe Buck will make that sooner than later.

Not when its this hotROFL

No, we don’t make extra money depending on the amount of tickets we write.

If you’re working your ass off it can help get you in the right step as far as promotions go. We work a lot of hit and runs and if we can solve them that helps as well.

I give everyone 10mph. Anything over that I will usually stop them. 10mph over is fairly generous on my end.

Working in the elements my whole life I always liked winter over summer. You can always put more clothes on if your cold but when its hot you just stay hot.

I always felt for those folks who worked at Owens Corning Fiberglass in Fairfax Ks. I used to have to go in the once a month to monitor elevations on fan motor bases and column pads supporting the ovens. It was always hot in there summer and winter Think glass blowers shop in branson or a blacksmith shop. We would have one location under the main oven we would have to get readings on 12 columns. It took about 10 minutes it was so hot your heart raced and you could feel every pump. It was actually hard to think straight and if you touch the steel on the column it would burn. They actually had a rule that work under the oven could only go for 10 minute interval then you had to come out and into an air conditioned hut on the outside. We would come out pouring sweat and shirt and jeans soaked hitting the ac actually made you feel worse as you got sluggish and cold shivers. It was double overtime so we volunteered but that was the worst.

I would love to Ed.

i put a steering gear on a one ton duramax yesterday afternoon about ten minutes after it got off the highway running 70 for over a hundred miles.

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Now days I would imagine there is no shortage of people exceeding the posted mileage 10 mph plus.

It was 110 here in Phoenix the other day. Yesterday it was 90. I needed a light jacket.

i put a steering gear on a one ton duramax yesterday afternoon about ten minutes after it got off the highway running 70 for over a hundred miles.

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I just finished mowing, weed eating, adding mulch to the landscaping, and power washing the deck and patio. Started at 6:30 this morning.

Hike up your skirt, gblowfish. It’s not that bad out there.

My ****ing corn is dying.

**** this bullshit ass ****ing weather. Less than 2 inches in 9 months.

You’re probably humid enough that swamp coolers won’t help?

Supply of bad people apparently outstrips demand. On a positive note, I have learned that I can speed in hot weather if I do it only in the afternoon.

I'm in Arkansas today and ran a 10K this morning since it was kind of near my hotel. I was dripping sweat at 7:30 in the morning at the starting line. That's just not right.

I like the traffic guys who pop on the lights and give you the I'm looking at you move.

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Yep I could imagine.

I think you missed the part where he stated medications he takes are heat sensitive.

Also everyone's heat and cold tolerances are different.

I understand it is hot every where. We hit 100 this week. The humidity has been in the 90% area to go along with the temps.
The bright side is summer doesn't start for almost another week........

80 in Phoenix today, hope you have a scarf. :eek:

Back during college, I worked summers at Johns Manville fiberglass insulation plant in McPherson, KS. It was 12hr shift work, which sucked. But the pay was incredible and I lived in my parent's basement at the time so I made tons of money for a college kid.

They would take glass balls about the size of a golf ball, and melt them in a giant oven and blow string sized threads of glass into a big 16 foot wide mat, which would then be cut into whichever insulation was being made. Every six months, we had to do what's called an oven cleanout. Where we had to get inside the ovens and scrape off the layer of baked insulation from the sides of the oven walls and ducts with a little pneumatic hand chisel. They couldn't completely shut down the entire oven, so it was still very hot. We had to get bundled up in what was basically a hazmat suit, and duct tape around our hands and feet, and wear a respirator and crawl inside this thing and chisel the walls. The worst was cleaning out the ducts that ran to the filtration units, because the ducts were about the dimensions of a coffin, and they'd shove you in and you'd be working with your arms out in front of you and you couldn't turn around. And they'd occasionally pull you out and make sure you were ok, and shove you back in by your feet. It was easily the most physically demanding thing I've ever done. They only let us stay inside for 15 minutes at a time, and you got out and stripped down and you were just drenched in sweat. They'd make you drink a specific amount of water before you could work again. It was hell.

Working in the heat is one thing. Trying to sleep in it - that's a different animal.

When I was stationed at Great Lakes, the staff barracks I lived in didn't have air conditioning. The rooms had one window, and there was no way to get any air flow. It was miserably hot during the summer of '88, and at night, the temperature in that room would be in the 90s. I had a fan on either side of my bed, but like George said earlier it just seemed to make the hot air hotter. It was horrible. And I was young and thin then, too. The shit would kill me now.

A couple of nights it was so bad that I slept in the backseat of my car in the parking lot with the A/C running.

As for today, it is absolutely vile outside. Just went out to check the mail, which will pretty much be the extent of my outdoor activity today. **** I hate summer. 4321

Yeah, this drought out here is the worst. I've been here since 1998. It's ****ing horrible!

Praying you get some rain Buehler.

It’s 95 degrees here. Heat index of 108. I’m sweating like a whore in church.

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/92130:4:US :p

Yikes sounds awful. The smell in those glass plants linger also plus at Owens Corning everything had the reddish die on it with glass strands stuck to it. You itched like hell till you got home and got a shower. Noise level was intolerable to. It screams where it shoots out those glass strands along with the constant cutter punch.

In central IN (INDY) it's just now getting warm. 93 degrees Saturday and Sunday

Lots of rain this month but about 1/2 in May.
Grass is green, garden is coming on.

:eek:

81° with a nice breeze the last several days here. I've been hanging out on the porch letting the pups have at it

Ever had a job you would rather have heat stroke then go to work?

Thanks man.

I just walked 11 miles in that shit.

I literally shoved a wet towel into my anus just now.

^ Pics?

Wtf is that even?

working outside as loader cart wrangler so i got out for a hourcome in cool off 20 mins and go out again.

Keep hitting the water keg. Everyone enjoy ya a cone of water. Thats what I always told the crew. We kept a ice cold Gott cooler with those solo cone cup like a snow cone comes in.

I feel for you friend. We have the same problem after the hail beat the crap out of the wheat.

But, since all the foreign countries have quit buying grain from us it will just sit in a pile until the cows need it for feed anyway. :cuss:

Oh and **** all the gluten free cucks.

What the duck..

I just finished front yard and at lease KC North is breezy and pleasant enough. We will wish for this in those dog days of August.

I was in and out of the house all day long. Doing a bathroom remodel and cutting paneling and trim and shit out front. It was brutal early this afternoon, but I was just sitting in my backyard with a cold beer and a nice breeze 30 minutes ago in NKC. Not too shabby at all. Now that I'm showered and prettied up I'll just sit inside the rest of the night though. Need to find the ambition to mow and weed eat tomorrow at some point so I'm guessing I'll get on that early in the morning.

Came in sweating out a pool worth of sweat just from doing the yard work.

**** Summer

It's currently 77 in my house.

The thermostat has been at 74 since before dawn.

**** my landlord.

You need to move.

In March I'm getting my own place and it will have the best ****ing AC known to man.

That is shit.

I wish it was hotter, all the better to Tamba’s armpits Juice.

Have you called to request a service?

62 degrees in my combine cab today, really pleasant!😎

Yep, hot for sure.

Yard work all day.

Mow.....empty grass catcher, pour cool water over myself, repeat, repeat, repeat........

What in the actual **** is going on?

They replaced the old shitty AC last year with a brand new shitty AC.

This one works 15% better, but when it gets above 90 it just runs all day, keeping the house 3 degrees hotter than whatever I set the thermo at.

As soon as it happened again this year I called them out to come look at it. No clue what they did. Nothing apparently.

I bought a window unit to put in my office because their A/C is such garbage.

^ just normal everyday type stuff.

Your wheat worth a shit? I'd take some decent wheat off your hands.

Set your thermostat at 60.

And rack up a $400 electric bill? ROFL

Meh.

I've been working long hours in extreme heat for most of my life.

Plus my refrigerator and A/C busted within a day of each other.

So it's about 86 in my house right now and I'm too busy on Monday to wait around for a repairman.

Lucky for me I routinely spent my youth sleeping in a room that was anywhere from 85-95 degrees all summer long.

So I can deal with it for another few days.

It's running 24/7 anyway if it's not able to keep up.

I mean setting it on 60 won't make the air that comes out of the vents colder.

I know that. He just said it was 3 degrees hotter than the thermostat. I had to flip him some shit.

My A/C is fairly recent, butnis clearly undersized for this house and it was placed in a stupid location.

Ended up getting a portable A/C to help compensate during the day and its made a heck of a difference.

Honestly, I'd do it. I work outside all the ****ing time and I HATE coming inside where there is no air movement and sweating my ****ing tits off. I'll pay that bill every day of the week. Especially if you can afford 1500 rent.

It's not in the morning when it's cooler, or when it finally cools off at night.

Whoever made the decision on the replacement A/C is a ****ing cheap bastard.

If they try to **** me on move out on ANYTHING in the spring I'm lawyering up.

Yeah they went cheap as **** and I'm sure that's what the people that had this house before me did too.

Whenever you move out, video record an entire walk through of the place and honestly I'd demand a leasing agent walk with me.

It helped make sure I got my entire deposit back from my old apartment, because they absolutely tried to **** me.