Posted on 07/20/2019 10:49:51 AM PDT by SamAdams76
Well it's 95 degrees out there here in Southern Connecticut and expected to top out around 98 degrees. Tomorrow will be another hot day with a projected high of 99 degrees here in Newtown. Really hoping it hits 100 to tell you the truth - in the same manner that on a cold winter night, I'm rooting for the temperature to hit zero as I sit by a roaring fireplace. Not sure why I think this way but I get sort of bummed when it only gets down to one degree or up to only 99 degrees. Feels like I got slightly ripped off.
Anyway, I'm so glad that I tune the media out because from what I'm hearing, they are in full apocalypse mode and it's all getting blamed on global warming and President Trump.
So far, I've gone about my normal business, dry cleaning, library, supermarket and there are definitely less people out there - no doubt "hunkering down" with their AC going full throttle and gallons of cold spring water at the ready. I even went for a walk this morning and while it was a bit stickier and warmer than usual, I got through the walk just fine and did not have to call an ambulance. I even stopped at the Dunkin Donuts and ordered my usual large black coffee. "Hot?" retorted the polite woman at the drive-through window. "Yes, hot" I replied.
I'm a black coffee drinker and I don't really like my coffee iced. Back in the day when I put sugar and cream in my coffee, I could take it iced but black coffee on ice does nothing for me. Give it to me piping hot and black as a coal mine and that is fine by me.
As I was leaving the house this morning, my wife was shaking her head at my insistence on sticking to my Saturday morning routine. "Don't you know it's supposed to get near 100 degrees?"
Yep. I know. I might have cut my cable but I do have the Dark Sky app on my phone.
Now, errands done, I'm sitting outside on my patio and listening to some country music typing this little post out. Yes, outside. Even though it is supposedly the Apocalypse and the proof that Al Gore was correct all along. But for some reason, I'm thinking we are going to survive this and that I'm going to have to go back to work on Monday morning just like always.
I've spend considerable time in the Deep South and what we are having today in Connecticut would just be another day down there - from May to October and we'd all be just sitting on the porch. Only thing missing as I look out on the woods from my deck are the June bugs, the building thunderheads off to the west and my grandmother's iced tea - damn she made some great iced tea back in the day. She'd make the tea and have it sit in the sun in a big glass jar and then pour it over some ice. So good and no matter how much they try to recreate that iced tea up here in the Northeast, they never come close.
Now I live in the Northeast and of course, any extreme weather at all is portrayed as the result of bad policy by some Republican president and sure signs that we are destroying our planet with man-made carbons. They say this of course while cocooned inside their frigid air-conditioned homes, making the occasional foray to Whole Foods or Starbucks (for iced lattes) in their gas guzzling BMWs.
So even though people in the Deep South, Texas and the South West have hot weather all the time, it is especially offensive when it occurs in the Northeast for some reason. The news media is no doubt portraying us poor Northeasterners as sweltering in this man-made heat - made even intolerable by the presidency of Donald Trump.
I'm just saying to the rest of you people, don't feel sorry for us. It's a hot day. It's summer. It's the middle of July. Nobody is dying, except for those who were due to die anyhow.
Speaking of heat waves, I was living up in Boston on August 2, 1975 and on that day, the mercury hit 102 degrees in Boston proper. That was another hot day and I only remember it so vividly because I had just returned from northern Alabama, where I spent a few weeks with my grandmother (my father sent me there every summer as a boy) and I remember how everybody was saying what a hot day it was and there I was walking around outside in bare feet and saying it's not so hot - I just came back from a month in Alabama. It's like this every day down there. My mother wanted to slap me. "Get inside and put some shoes on you darn fool - why it's 100 degrees out there."
So, that is basically my thoughts on this hot day as I sit on the deck outside my condo, looking out into the woods and looking forward to a peaceful afternoon reading some books and listening to music. I'm the only one out here as everybody else is hunkered down and watching the 24/7 news coverage of this brutal, Trump-driven heat wave.
Maybe I will see some fireflies tonight.
Some summers are hot.
Well, we only have 12 more years of life on Earth where the summer temps are warmer than the winter temps.
96 here in central Long Island. Lots of humidity. The power went off for 10 minutes my son was about to fire up the generator when the power came back. Watching the Yankees who are beating the Rockies 6-0.
Too hot to do anything else.
That’s about what we have here in northwest Indiana, and I got the same reaction from the girl at the coffee shop yesterday. My wife and I walked a block to get her cold peanut better concoction, and I ordered a 20 ounce black. “Hot?” the girl asked, with a look on her face. Yes. I told her I’m old-fashioned.
Summers like this remind me of quite a few summers we had before we knew the world was going to end, or anyone had heard of Donald Trump.
My personal weather station here in VA shows a temp of 94 with a “feels like” of 106.3. I’m finishing up lunch after having spent the last three hours chopping up and carrying away a couple of huge branches that came down during a recent storm. I’m heading back out in a couple of minutes, though according to the local media I should be dead by now.
We are ending our cooling streak of weather today. Starting tomorrow we’ll start heading up again. Today 89 fah. Tomorrow we will be in the nineties, and within a week back up to our usual triple digits.
Besides geographical location the only real difference between us, and Alabama would be the humidity. We have it here, but nothing like in the South. Been there.
Thank you for the tip. Just checked it out on Good Reads and will add it to my reading stack. Looks like a very decent book.
Cry me a river
It hit 100 in Anchorage Ak - any AC seems to be in just a few stores.
Oddly we (DW and me) and everyone else lived thru it.
Same here in central NJ. Inside enjoying the Open Championship (go Rickie Fowler!) but about to go to Home Depot and do some small patch work on my driveway with my teenage son and cut off a large limb off a tree because of the past storms.
Always enjoy your posts SA76!
Yankees are red hot this year as well. My Red Sox...not so hot.
Very good vanity. You write well.
A crisp 80 degrees here in East TN with occasional downpours to keep the garden happy...God is good.
Yep, we invented humidity here in Bama. Just got back from a big horse show in Mississippi. The people from up north really had a rough time. However, I don’t know how they deal with the cold and snow. It’s all in what you are used to. When someone I know says something about the heat, I just remind them that we won’t be covered in snow and ice in January.
You just get used to the heat. When I was growing up, we also had no AC (but that was in Boston) for most of my childhood. Eventually my father bought two of those window mounted units, once for the kitchen and one for his bedroom (my mother insisted). But my bedroom never had the AC. Now I'm married and my wife demands the AC. But I used to like hot nights with the windows open and just listening to the crickets. I'd take a cold shower before going to bed and sometimes another in the middle of the night if it was especially hot - that felt just so good, crawling under the sheets on a hot night after taking a cold shower.
To me, modern air conditioning is just so COLD! That's why I'm sitting how here on the deck. Too cold inside.
Most of my vanities here are purely stream-of-consciousness writing. Which is why there are some typos and grammar mistakes. I just let my fingers fly on the keyboard, select a bumper image and smack the post button without even proof-reading. So apologies for any errors.
It’s a superb book if you like English literature. It has been made into a movie, twice.
95 currently, 106 heat index. It’s supposed to hit 100 today & tomorrow (that’s temp ... index 110-115). I have grass to mow, but will wait until about 7 and then mow until dark. Until then, I’m working on some pleasant projects inside. When I was growing up, the first house we lived in had no AC (not even window units) so there were fans, cold drinks, staying in the shade & moderating activity. We survived nicely if a bit sweaty in the process and we all grew up just fine.
Fireflies .... after having none for I don’t know how many years, they’re back and in great quantity - more than I’ve ever seen before. They are ‘twinkling’ everywhere as soon as dusk falls. It’s a most lovely scene to behold.
A 128 degree temp difference where I live over the past 6 months. Yay climate! Don’t go changin’...we love you just the way you are.
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