OT Anyone else in a Heatwave. Can it rain already.

LeatherGryphon

McGyver said:

Blegh... it was hot and humid and I was cutting and sanding lots of wood... it's soooo gross to be coated in sweat that seals in the heat, then add a layer of sawdust... very sticky, very gross.

I might make a good crust and look good though, if you were carefully toasted. 

Dandene

We managed to hit the 80s today!  And "only" 65% humidity.  Better than 90% hehe.  It's been one of our "cooler" days.  A friend is in town and hitting up the beach, swimming pools, parks, etc.  I might be a little jealous.  Makes me wish I had a pool! At least we'll have some rain tomorrow.  Hopefully it'll be a pleasant rain. 

nonesuch00

I was sanding today too. I have been sanding for the entire week; although not for myself though. I'm sanding only because about a half dozen professionals that said they could do the job either don't show up or show up and then back out. I'm essentially redoing the awful job a professional crew that was paid $10K in 2018 did so, well, awful on! I'm decidedly not a professional but disguise it with repeatedly doing the work over and over until I figure out how to do it right. It's the same way I graduated college after flunking out of high school.  I also am definately not getting $10K or anything close out of the work. Hours and hours on my hands and knees with 50 grit sand paper, hour after hour, and I get up and look and think what in the heck, have I been using cheesecloth all day or something?! The joys of being a sibling. 

We had floods yesterday and today at my house and nearby too but lucky I am just far enough up a hill that my house doesn't get flooded although the basement has a slow leak from an ancient seasonanal stream that starts back up everytime one of these floods come. It runs directly into the back of my basement wall and is bad enough that FEMA gave me $400 for cleaning it up; but not enough to repair it were I to try hiring it done. The $400 though, if I buy the materials and do the labor myself, is about one quarter of the needed money to buy the materials needed to repair my basement. I also have now the good luck to know of someone with a ditch witch that can make a 2 or 3 hour job out of a 3 or 4 week job I'd have to do manually digging a french ditch myself and for only $80 a hour. 

All made necessary by this new reality of frequently repeated flooding rains, at least in this part of the USA. Maybe we will surpass Hawaii for heaviest rainfall per year on average now? The rains since 2015 are crazy, some ecological tipping point has surely been surpassed.  

kyoto kid

LeatherGryphon said:

To all foreigners(except Canadians): Keep your hands off our Great Lakes, they're ours to plunder.

And by the way, weather here at the east side of Lake Erie is still absolutely beautiful, rain now and then at night,  a little warm in the low 80sF(26C) during the day. 

...in my old hometown of Milwaukee, Lake Michigan was known as the city's natural "air conditioner" It would often be in the mid 70s to around  80° in downtown and along the east side where I lived while on the west side it could be in the 90s.  There would be warnings issued about swimming in the lake in June as the water was still pretty cold.

The city is prone to fog throughout the summer due to the contrasting temperatures (miss the sound of he old foghorns).

Barefoot Upto My Soul

31c here today in Montreal but with the wind chill factor it will get down to 29c.

hacsart

or you wake up with tattoos and enlistment papers into the Foreign Legion!

rebooting is very uncomfortable and while you rebooting, unscrupulous people might draw a mustache on you with a marker or something... I wouldn't do something like that, but I hear there are people like me, who might...