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07-29-2009, 04:43 PM
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Yes, the rain - I get a job, buy a motorcycle with the proceeds, and I personally can claim to have ended the drought here. The thing sits in the garage on my days off more than riding because of the dang rain! That's why I'm at the keyboard instead of riding now.
AAARRRGGGHHH!
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07-29-2009, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Walt34
Yes, the rain - I get a job, buy a motorcycle with the proceeds, and I personally can claim to have ended the drought here. The thing sits in the garage on my days off more than riding because of the dang rain! That's why I'm at the keyboard instead of riding now.
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Walt, move to south TX and you'll get to ride all you want - or make a fortune as a rainmaker...
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07-29-2009, 06:40 PM
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I live in the vicinity of Seattle (the other side of the pond as they say)...107 degrees on my porch right now! We are known to whine when it gets up to 85 degrees! 
Let the whining begin....holy schmokes... what is going on! 
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07-29-2009, 07:30 PM
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Wow - some of these temps you folks are getting are unbelievable.
I joined the "100 Club" in Ephesus,Turkey while I was away. We were outside, walking among the Roman ruins, very slowly, and the tour guide told us it was something C degrees (can't remember), the equivalent of 100 F. She gave us all the option to sit and wait in the shade or continue. We had a 1.5L jug of water with us and felt fine so we continued. It was blazing hot. 
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07-29-2009, 07:40 PM
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I started this thread when the Pacific NW was suffering snow and ice over New Years. Now we feel like we are bbq'd. I am in Portland for a few days and am staying inside. We are just not accustomed to this kind of heat. The forests are very dry.
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07-29-2009, 08:04 PM
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07-29-2009, 09:12 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Its official folks. Seattle blew away the old record of 100 at SeaTac
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We went sailing to cool off. Probably only in the 80's out in the middle of Puget Sound. Burned myself on the seat buckle when I got back into the car.
DD
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07-30-2009, 10:07 AM
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Rain!
And it is actually cool outside, 72 degrees!!!
rain.jpg
Last edited by IndependentlyPoor; 07-30-2009 at 10:15 AM.
Reason: This calls for a dance.
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07-30-2009, 10:48 AM
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Looks like it's going to strafe the Austin area and the northern Hill Country. We are getting a few showers here. Farther south, where they're even more desperate, still nothing...
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07-30-2009, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by ziggy29
Farther south, where they're even more desperate, still nothing...
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It's so damn dry here the county is considering a water pistol buy-back program.
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07-30-2009, 11:20 AM
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Summer has officially arrived here, as they say, "bring out the woolies."
Trade ya some of that heat for some cold wet drizzly fog.
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08-01-2009, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by REWahoo
It's so damn dry here the county is considering a water pistol buy-back program.
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Well, I just came back from a couple of days in SA. I hope you got some of the rain I brought with me.
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08-01-2009, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Leonidas
Well, I just came back from a couple of days in SA. I hope you got some of the rain I brought with me.
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Thanks for the effort, but no such luck. There appears to be a lid above this area (~25 miles northwest of the Alamo).
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07-30-2009, 12:05 PM
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Still only 75 here after some morning showers. I feel like my vacation started a couple days early.
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07-30-2009, 12:12 PM
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Got back into town (Tempe, AZ) on Tuesday and found the lawn in desperate need of mowing. Only problem: 115 F. My standard solution: wear shorts and t-shirt, and soak myself from head to toe with the hose. Mow for 10 minutes. Repeat.
Even despite our absurd heat, it's normal for these parts and we're reasonably prepared. I feel truly sorry for those in Portland or Seattle when it cracks 100 degrees there. We look forward to days that are merely 100 F, but they're just not set up with stuff like AC for that kind of weather. Bad news.
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07-30-2009, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Wally
Got back into town (Tempe, AZ) on Tuesday and found the lawn in desperate need of mowing. Only problem: 115 F. My standard solution: wear shorts and t-shirt, and soak myself from head to toe with the hose. Mow for 10 minutes. Repeat.
Even despite our absurd heat, it's normal for these parts and we're reasonably prepared. I feel truly sorry for those in Portland or Seattle when it cracks 100 degrees there. We look forward to days that are merely 100 F, but they're just not set up with stuff like AC for that kind of weather. Bad news.
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And it is now staying at 100 degrees at night. When it drops into the low/mid 90's with low humidity I do enjoy the few hours on the patio before 9 am.
Hi Wally, I am over in Gilbert! 
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07-30-2009, 02:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wally
Got back into town (Tempe, AZ) on Tuesday and found the lawn in desperate need of mowing. Only problem: 115 F. My standard solution: wear shorts and t-shirt, and soak myself from head to toe with the hose. Mow for 10 minutes. Repeat.
Even despite our absurd heat, it's normal for these parts and we're reasonably prepared. I feel truly sorry for those in Portland or Seattle when it cracks 100 degrees there. We look forward to days that are merely 100 F, but they're just not set up with stuff like AC for that kind of weather. Bad news.
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Did you try one of those personal misting systems? I always wondered how they work. We have a pool and it is only 92.
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07-30-2009, 01:25 PM
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When it drops into the low/mid 90's with low humidity I do enjoy the few hours on the patio before 9 am.
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Yeah - but that's November!
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07-30-2009, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Wally
Yeah - but that's November!
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That could be true Wally, but with the extra farmland here in the East Valley we get a little cooler a little earlier!  A girls gotta have something to look forward to. 
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07-30-2009, 02:41 PM
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Got to love rain. Last week it was 109 when we went into CostCo. A storm strafed us while we were inside. 30 minutes (and $200) later it had dropped to 84. And we haven't seen those lows since then.
Have staff visiting from our UK and Canada offices and are trying to translated the temps to C so they can go back and boast what they had been through.
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