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Posted on 08/16/2023 3:08:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Ore — The triple-digit heat sent shoppers hunting for air conditioners in the Portland-metro area Tuesday.
“It's hot," said Richard Porter, who bought an air conditioner. "I need some air conditioning."
"Real hot," said Jamie Minkus, who also bought an air conditioner. "I was standing in my bedroom last night. I'm not doing anything but, just, like sweating. And then I tried to sleep, and there was just like it was sleepless, is insufferable. I have an older home, so I just need like a portable AC to kind of just help me through to the sleep."
"Oh, last night was terrible," said Frederick Pittman, buying parts to fix an air conditioner. "Our air conditioning went out. So what we did was we had ice bags -- just kind of passing them around just to stay cool."
“I drove to the closest Walmart that I can find, which was in Happy Valley," Porter said. "And they had, they had like one air conditioner, and that was really expensive. That wasn't in my budget. So I called around to Home Depot, and they suggested me another Home Depot, and I called them, and they didn't have any stock."
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Near Shelton, WA
102F there, today.
103 in San Antonio. Loving it.
You a lizard?
“ You a lizard?”
I walk my dog three times a day in it. Started hanging by the water in May. Back East, these were known as Hawaiian Tropic days. You need to prepare for the “dog days of August.”
It is currently 100F in Auburn, CA. Humidity is 19%. Low humidity makes it bearable with evaporation effect = no sweat. Does feel like a pizza oven though.
And ever winter when it snowed (usually once every winter) the same people were amazed that it snowed. "That never happens here!!!"
We moved back to Illinois in 1994 and haven't poured salt on a slug since then.
We made it to 62f today.
In a strange way I would think they’d be happy. After all it seems their dire Cassandra like warnings have come true, at least in their minds.
It’s summer. It gets hot. Welcome to the world. God some people are idiots.
I see that it was about 36% at noon, and it is 64% now at 2 am according to the barometer in my house. 95 degrees here is a lot more pleasant than when I grew up in the midwest where it was higher humidity.
I did some jobs in Florida and Washington D.C. when it was 100 degrees and high humidity. 2 minutes of getting stuff out of the truck and I was trenched in sweat. And then work all day in it. I’m too old for that nonsense now.
Same here. Like I say Jersey doesn’t always have triple digit heat in summer but humidity is the worst. I did the ‘’pick and shovel’’ routine until about six years ago. I had to get out.
I was tired of the heat, the cold and the work. With my current health I’d probably have had a heart attack if I kept at it.
Use to call them “Chinook” winds.
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