Comments on: It’s hot here in New England

By: MikeGiles

MikeGiles — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 22:33:58 +0000

When I was young, I live in an apartment building with no AC. Now I lived in Bed-Stuy, but this was before crime became epidemic and there were bars on all the windows. We used to sleep on the fire escapes

By: om

om — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 22:08:36 +0000

Living in eastern WA, July and August high temps are often 105, but low humidity, and being a runner I thought summer in the Mojave (Victorville) wouldn’t be that much different. Wrong. 110 – 115 was a lot (exponentially?) harder to deal with. Step outside of the AC for a noon run on a Victorville work day and, “wow, this is seriously dangerous, don’t get too far away from shade and water” or so I remember.

By: Fractal Rabbit

Fractal Rabbit — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:00:34 +0000

I don’t mind heat and I don’t complain about it.

Because I hate winter. Absolutely hate it. I don’t mind snow in and of itself though I hate shoveling and snow-blowing. I hate subzero temperatures and wind chills and having to wear layers. I hate leaving for work in the dark and coming home in the dark.

As hot as it gets, I can still sit on my porch with an iced tea or a beer. I can wear a t-shirt and shorts. I can go swimming in the lake. I can start a hike at 5am in the sun and finish at 9pm while the sun is setting.

By: Jon baket

Jon baket — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 19:23:36 +0000

This summer in North East Texas has been relatively mild compared to most summers. A lot more rain than normal. Trust me, I am aware of the weather as most of my work is outside doing things like painting and repairing houses, fences, and occasionally assisting my father in his farmer’s
market garden, etc. And the ac in my 1994 truck has not worked since the 90s….

By: Bob From Virginia

Bob From Virginia — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 18:47:48 +0000

A few years ago I watched a drilling crew work 14+hours a day in west Texas. It was around 115+. I am still in awe.

It’s a measly 102 right now in Fredericksburg.

Funny when it was 100 in Scottsbluff, NE it was comfortable-no humidity, one just remembered to walk slow as a precaution against heat stroke.

And I was advised to always have survival gear, especially extra water, in the car just in case one hit a deer at night somewhere between Chugwater and LaGrange. No cell phone coverage you see.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 17:30:44 +0000

Ahh, Neo, the commentators, of which I am one, are pretty uniform in what summers in really hot places were like before A/C.

TX falls and winters can have ugly episodes, like the so-called “Blue Northers”.
The top of the TX panhandle is only 100 miles from the CO border. One forgets that.

Never hit the road in the desert SW without agua. Too many wide open spaces. Or a huge traffic stall on an Interstate that lasts for hours

By: neo

neo — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 17:05:02 +0000

I was in Phoenix in July once for about 5 days. It was something like 113 degrees; don’t remember exactly. But they had a wonderful thing on the sidewalks in the main part of the city—every so many feet the pedestrian would receive a wonderful cold spray of water. It dried almost instantaneously, though. But it felt so good for a moment!

By: Sarah Rolph

Sarah Rolph — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 14:14:57 +0000

I was in Sacramento in the summertime, two years ago, and I noticed that a lot of the parking lots had shade trees. You learn immediately to seek them out!

By: CaptDMO

CaptDMO — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 14:02:20 +0000

Oh yeah sure…Air conditioning, so great.
(Also in New England) So instead of saying &^%# THIS, going down the the river, (pond/ ocean) jumping in, and gawking at all the scantily clad women jumping around…OR just hopping in an inner tube, with another “stocked” one in tow, and crashing the BBQs along the river beaches with “barter”, OR loitering around the beer garden/ ice cream shop, and harassing my fellow vote eligible peers abut pending local and State legislation….I can sit here in comfort at my desk and pay bills with checks (I’m old school).

Far cry from lower east side of the concrete and asphalt of Manhattan, in an unconditioned “brick shoebox” , welding, wearing leather protective gear and a fume mask, in July,
while visions of quitin’ time- and ICE COLD BEER in the AC of the corner bar- danced in my head
Actually, I felt bad for the auto body repair guys across the street. THEY had clouds of paint solvent fumes, and bondo dust, to contend with as well.

City hydrant “sprinkler heads” ……for the children?
For the kids LIKE HELL, I had NO problem pushing a kid or two out of the way for a walk by.

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:41:08 +0000

A little advice for any who are not familiar with driving across the desert southwest in the heat of the summer.

If your car fails you, stay in it. Do not attempt to walk in the heat of the day without protective clothing and plenty of water — even if you see a gas station on the horizon. You will not make it. You dehydrate swiftly and heat stroke strikes suddenly. You will die.

Stay in the car in the shade. It will be painful, but shielding from the direct sun will save your life.

Years ago, before engine cooling systems and coolent were improved, the wise traveled at night and had a bag of water strapped to the car to replace that which was lost when the radiator boiled over.