Ko0K on 19/7/2006 at 06:42
I guess Northern California isn't doing any better than us. It's nearly unbearable at 9 am down here. I have to wear jeans (as opposed to shorts as I would prefer) as safety precaution when I work outside, and I hate those f-ing heat tubes. I wouldn't mind being a desk jockey for a while if this is going to keep up.
Gingerbread Man on 19/7/2006 at 06:43
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
lies
it doesn't smell like poo here sir. we are in east davis and the poo is in vacaville and dixon and most likely thousand oaks because that looked like the sort of place that would harbour poo factories SIR
okay sometimes it smells like poo in the outskirts or near the university poo classes
edit: and at least we don't smell like FIRE
Strangeblue on 19/7/2006 at 06:51
It is all for you, Geebs! They wanted you to feel sooooo welcome in Davis, that they unboxed their extra-special weather thingummies. Just for you! You ungrateful swine.
Seriously, every time I've been in Davis, it's been hot, I mean DAMN hot, hot like Hades on a Sunday. None of this Seattelites-moaning-in-the-85F-and-throwing-themselves-on-the-sidewalk-like-lizards-dancing-from-foot-to-foot-and-panting. More like, "Is this your car? Mind if I cook my breakfast on your hood? Just a couple of three-minute eggs, but it shouldn't take more than one, really. Got my own Pam and everything."
Put Blue Ice packs in your hat and shoes and got to a movie. Mmmm... air conditioning....
Raven on 19/7/2006 at 07:32
Hey, in britain yesterday they were gritting the roads. BECAUSE THEY WERE MELTING!
Lifting heavy parcels in a hot weather is not all that fun, though is cheaper than the gym - and you get paid to do it! Then again, inverness is stuck in a cloud filled valley so this heat wave will come and go and we will hardly notice we are forecast temperatures of only 30C!!!
What really is going to suck is that next week we will probably finally get those expected thunderstorms - just as I set out walking the west highland way. :rolleyes:
Gingerbread Man on 19/7/2006 at 07:34
Yeah, I heard about the grit-trucks, that's crazy.
Also I do take into account the fact that 85 degrees Fahrenheit is mind-altering for a Glaswegian. Not an eye-bat to me today, but I understand.
Shug on 19/7/2006 at 08:02
End of winter here and it's about 70F :cool:
quinch on 19/7/2006 at 08:04
living in England i wouldn't normally moan, especially since i spent the last 5 years in Edinburgh and one of those years i was wearing a jumper in August.
The problem here is that there's no escape. There's no decent air conditioning anywhere. Here at work i'm almost almost sat on top of a crappy portable air conditioner but it's not good enough! The air it emits is warm and i am therefore a lethargic soggy mess.
Being such a sweaty git ( i can feel the beads form already just typing this ) i have clogged up more than a few sweat glands causing horrible spotty lumps to form all over my dial, and the gay technician sitting next to me says i need to exfoliate :erm: Hurr hurr, you can bet i googled THAT word pretty sharpish.. ( being a northerner how would i know what that means ?)
Can't complain though, musn't grumble and all that. The heat is nothing like it is south of England in the Northern Hemisphere and you have my sympathy. They tell me other countries have modern things like PROPER air conditioning where you can plug it into an electrical socket rather than have to rely on a hamster in a wheel atop hot coals. I'm praying you all make it in time before you melt. Just spare a thought for those poor saps in suits stuck on the London tube today :erg:
Fingernail on 19/7/2006 at 08:15
Thank fuck I don't have to do anything these days but if I had to go to school or work in this heat I would moan a lot more.
I wandered into town for an opticians appointment and over 15,000 pensioners lay dead, draped across the multiplicity of public benches. It would have been shocking, but fortunately I cast high-functioning autism on myself and was able to disconnect myself from empathising too much.
Gingerbread Man on 19/7/2006 at 08:24
In random defense of anyone anywhere near San Bernadino right now...
How hot do things have to get before they BURST INTO FLAME?!
Shit, that even makes me feel a little better about things here.
theBlackman on 19/7/2006 at 08:29
An even simpler "swamp cooler" is a box *wood crate type, a wine case or some such* with the bottom and top removed. IE the 'long' dimension of the crate.
Put a deep baking pan of the appropriate size, filled with water, on top. Hang a piece of burlap (sacking or such that is wide enough to "cover" the length and width of the box), from the pan on the "outside" of the box with the top edge of the cloth in the pan. Osmosis and cohesion will suck the water down.
Put a fan in the box, face it into the room and turn it on. The deep pan will give you hours of use, and the burlap will give you better air flow and cooling.
Just top off the pan when the water gets low.
