Too Hot

[BadgeBunny]

Oh...

I thought this was another BB thread.

I was just gonna say ... I like hot weather but this is a bit much ... And for the record, all you guys who are saying we had it worse last summer, you are only kinda right. We had MORE days in a row of 100+ weather but this year has been HOTTER by a couple of degrees average since the middle of July, I believe.

No, I don't have a link but Mike Morgan said it was so, so ...

 

[BadgeBunny]

Funny you mention this, Ronny. I really, really don't like OK summers but I got to thinking that during the Dust Bowl, our grandparents went through this kind of weather and didn't have a clue that air conditioning would ever be invented. I think about what it must have been like to try to sleep at night in the heat while storms blew dust everywhere. My grandma said they hung oil-soaked canvas over the windows to trap the dust before it made it inside.When I think about the things my grandparents and great-grandparents endured it makes me realize how good we have it and how tough those people were.

My grandma said the same thing. She also told me of folks who lost relatives to what she called "dirt drownings". Apparently the dust was so dry and fine that if folks went out without a wet covering over their mouths and noses that it would get in their lungs and cause pneumonia. She said it was a horrible way to die. I don't doubt it, can you imagine?

 

[redmax51]

I was just gonna say ... I like hot weather but this is a bit much ... And for the record, all you guys who are saying we had it worse last summer, you are only kinda right. We had MORE days in a row of 100+ weather but this year has been HOTTER by a couple of degrees average since the middle of July, I believe.

No, I don't have a link but Mike Morgan said it was so, so ...

^^This is correct, I believe we have had, not straight, 45 days at or above 100 this year so far.

 

[ruckerduck]

I do believe we were the hottest spot on the planet Thursday!

 

[O4L]

Went to Thunderbird Range yesterday to help a couple of youngsters sight in their rifles, and to run a couple of mags through my AR.

It was 115 in the shade, but there was a good breeze at the shooting benches.

It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

I always seem to enjoy shooting no matter how hot it is.

 

[Popjim]

Pray for rain and relief from this heat.

 

[ronny]

Funny you mention this, Ronny. I really, really don't like OK summers but I got to thinking that during the Dust Bowl, our grandparents went through this kind of weather and didn't have a clue that air conditioning would ever be invented. .

I hear you! I was between 7-8 years old when my grandparents got our first water cooled evaporative fan. That thing was great. I slept under it on a pallet on the floor.

I never had to experience the dust bowl storms, but we still had lots of dust storms when I was growing up. That dust/sand would blow in from down south of Red River and the sky would be red. It was impossible to keep the dust out. I can still remember sleeping on sheets with sand in there with me.

Just for kicks, here's a picture of me on the old farm where I was born about 3 1/2 miles north of Healdton. You're looking at the plumbing and the old smoke house. That smoke house was newer than the shotgun house we lived in. I don't ever recall even thinking about the heat. If it got hot, I just ran down and jumped in the old muddy tank (pond to some of you).

Man, I've not had it so good since.


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[ssgt ben]

I never knew what AC was until I was 29 years old, and now I'm almost 63 and ca'nt live without it.

 

[okietool]

But at least we got this out of the deal.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDheam8S1pk

 

[Lurker66]

Same here, we got a water cooler in 82. i used to sleep outside on a old mattress and cover up with wet sheet.