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Post by bula on Jun 8, 2021 11:05:19 GMT -5
Whoa..not ready for this ! I thought as you got older you were to prefer warmer, hotter. NOT me. How somebody like me that prefers cold, ended up with a career at a glass making plant is beyond me. What was I thinking ? Ok, pay n benefits, now I remember. But, yikes ! Last nite by 9pm(2nd shift) the whole crew were soggy zombies. Texted boss this am to have maintenance verify that all heat producing h/vac units are OFF ! Just in from some mowing and soaked. Back into house to recharge a bit. November can't come fast enough. The mean season is here.
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Post by kings6 on Jun 8, 2021 11:22:18 GMT -5
Understand. Just got home late last night from 5 days in Vegas seeing the kids. The coolest day was 104* upto 107* I think. I know, it’s a “dry” heat but triple digits is still triple digits.
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Post by tdbarton on Jun 8, 2021 11:29:20 GMT -5
In the 90s and humid this week in Virginia and I get to go sit out at Quantico for three days of sweaty live fire
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Post by bula on Jun 8, 2021 12:18:04 GMT -5
Yeah, spent time in NE Va and south of Tampa Bay, both SUCK.
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Post by kings6 on Jun 8, 2021 12:33:37 GMT -5
I think the nastiest I’ve experienced was the year my wife and I taught school at the boarding school on Eleuthera Bahamas. Two to three cold salt water showers per day and you just learned to live sticky and with a white salt sweat ring around your neck all the time.
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Post by tullymars on Jun 8, 2021 13:17:04 GMT -5
Spent 30 yrs at a Ford motor co glass plant in Nashville Tn. Other than a steel mill I can’t think of a hotter nastier environment to work in the summer months. I was in maintenance the last 15 yrs. They would shut the plant down for 2 wks in July to do major rebuilds on equipment. Most every year in summer I’d lose 15 to 20 lbs of mostly water. Winter could never come soon enough.
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Post by Fowler on Jun 8, 2021 13:34:44 GMT -5
We used to have a metal treating shop here in Denver that I had to drop off and pick up parts from every now and then. The huge roll up doors were always wide open summer or winter and inside was always brutally hot, 125 degrees or worse. I have no idea how the place legally ran. One of the guys on the floor was chugging from a gallon water jug and I jokingly asked how many a day he would drink "3 gallons a day without pissing a drop".
No thanks, wasn't surprised when a gas line leaked and burned the place to the ground...
Sort of wish it was still open so I could get my kids a job there for a few weeks, as I tell them the choices you make today wont decide what you will do down the road but it will have huge impacts on what options you have later...
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Post by blacktailslayer on Jun 8, 2021 13:54:06 GMT -5
I don't mind the cold, can always throw on more clothes or move around to get warm. Can only take off so many clothes to cool down. Anything over about 85 is too damn hot for me.
In my younger days spent a few summers on hay crews and when I was stuck in the hay lofts stacking bales with the hot tin roof right above baking you like a roast in an oven. The first day I spent running a bale wagon was absolute heaven!
Don D.
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Post by nicholst55 on Jun 8, 2021 14:55:42 GMT -5
I spent 4 years in Kuwait, working right on the water. You ain't seen hot and humid until you've spent 4 summers in Kuwait. From about mid-August to mid-September, the heat would actually drop a bit - but the humidity picked up to near 100%. It was like walking in a swimming pool! Then there were the five years I spent in Yuma, AZ. Not QUITE as hot as Kuwait most of the time, and not nearly as humid. Still, working outdoors in 115+ heat is no picnic. We kept the AC in the house set at between 82-85 in Yuma, else we would have gone broke and suffered even more when we were outside. I got to the point that 95 degrees seemed pretty mild...
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jun 8, 2021 15:58:58 GMT -5
Was at my nieces wedding last weekend... outdoors in a big tent... 99* outside... absolutely brutal in the tent...
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Post by Robster on Jun 8, 2021 16:47:42 GMT -5
Even here in Upstate NY the heat and humidity have been oppressive. Seems like I soak through my shirt and hat by 8:30am at work.
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Post by rangersedge on Jun 8, 2021 17:30:43 GMT -5
Just checked the temp guage on my truck. 71 degrees. :-)
Spent some time in the Philippines. That seemed pretty hot. Was also there for one storm that was so intense car alarms were going off all over the place. Had never experienced a storm that intense before and haven't since.
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Post by tdbarton on Jun 8, 2021 18:35:16 GMT -5
Just checked the temp guage on my truck. 71 degrees. :-) Spent some time in the Philippines. That seemed pretty hot. Was also there for one storm that was so intense car alarms were going off all over the place. Had never experienced a storm that intense before and haven't since. Crow Valley? |
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Post by JM on Jun 8, 2021 19:04:48 GMT -5
Grew up with +/- 120 degree temps. More than 100 days of 100+ temps every year. Hottest day I recall was 127. I worked on a coal fired Boiler. Some work areas 140 to 160, but it was the desert & dry. My only experience with humidity were my years in the PNW.
I don't think I could tolerate what I think the South's humidity must be like. Ugh!
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Post by ncrobb on Jun 8, 2021 19:06:20 GMT -5
I hung sprinkler pipe and heads in a dye house one summer. ONE SUMMER. It was hot up against the metal roof but the dye stench and humidity off the tanks made me rethink my line of work.
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