Sunsaver, Livining Off-Grid In Suburbia- Happy Taconight America!

[sunsaver]

Ha! 95* is cool and comfy compared with this! I hope you have a/c, DL. I heard it was 115* just north and west of you. Ironic to think we actually dodged a bullet! Humidity has a big role in the actual comfort level. I think tomorrow i will have to go on an air-conditioned siesta. I'm still too hot to sleep at 2 am!

 

[dragonlaurel]

We have AC, but I haven't wanted to step outside. The garden is not happy either. Everything starts to wilt by 10 am. I usually love summer but this is too much.





Doing a rain dance for a break from this heat.

 

[sunsaver]

Ha! I hope you got some real Indian blood in you, DL! If the Great Spirit would open the sky and let the waters fall, i'd be a happy man. I spent the entire day watering the garden, but i was just fine. Now i feel miserable. I hate to leave my cats locked in the house with no air. I also worry about leaving food outside for them because of stray Toms that might fight with The Fat Man. I don't worry so much about Monkeygirl, because she hides all day, and never goes near the road. I guess after loosing Count Catula, i'm nervous about letting my cats out at night. I just don't think i can sleep here tomorrow, so i guess i'll take a chance and go stay with my relatives. I wish i could take my fatcats with me!

 

[dragonlaurel]

I'm not Indian but it's still worth a try.

I would let them out if the house gets that hot. Then sorta hide the food bowl near the hole your cats like to lay in. I always made sure Ashley saw where I put her dish. (If I used the same spot too often- ants would invade it.)
Crunchy food seems better than cans, for leaving outside. The roaming cats don't follow the smell as easy and crunchies don't spoil fast in the heat.

 

[Farmfresh]

As for me and my house, it was actual temperature 111 Tuesday with (I think) 120 heat index. Today it is currently 79! High today predicted to be 81 with some rain.

Hang in there maybe it is headed your way!

 

[savingdogs]

Can someone explain what heat index means and why this year everyone is using that term? I've never heard about anything besides "windchill factor".
Heat index is the humidity count added to the temp? But doesn't it cool down when there is 100 percent humidity? I realize that it gets more uncomfortable when it is muggy, but this is a new term for me and I don't quite understand it. It means it FEELS like the higher number? On our local news, we don't get "heat index", just the projected temperature. 80 here feels hot though, maybe it is really a higher heat index?

When we visit our nieces in Phoenix they say the heat there is more tolerable because it is DRY heat. Personally, I thought the heat in Arizona was not tolerable. But remember I was raised in Lost Angeles.

 

[dragonlaurel]

The humidity, air pressure, and wind speed or lack of it can make it feel more (or less) miserable. I don't know how the weather people do the math part .

 

[abifae]

Can someone explain what heat index means and why this year everyone is using that term? I've never heard about anything besides "windchill factor".

It's the summer version of windchill.

In Colorado, our heat index is almost always cooler than the temperature because our humidity is so low, I think.

 

[sunsaver]

The heat index is what it "feels" like. The high humidity makes it feel hotter than normal, because your sweat can not evaporate to cool you down. 107* in the desert can dehydrate you quickly but it doesn't feel nearly as hot as 107* in a swamp. I finally got to sleep about 3 am last night. I think im going to take that vacation today.

 

[sunsaver]

Just popped back home to check on the fatcats and water some more of the garden. My relatives have been very generous, giving my oun guest room with cable tv. There's no internet there, but the cold air feels so nice. I slept like a teenager.
In other news, i got invited to a 25 year reunion by one of the smoking hot cheerleeders who was part of the "in" crowd. I'm surprised she even remembered me. I was a bad boy rebel, long-haired, tree hugging environmentalist back in those days. These days all i care about is my own personal liberty, being self-sufficient, and having some sense of freedom from our corporate slave owners. I guess they remember me because i am so weird. Hope i live up to their expectations, being bald and still weird.
Well, time to go back to the cooling center. It's 107* again today, and even a tough guy like me can't take that much heat. See y'all later.