On day 3 here. Can’t imagine this, or worse, more often. Thank goodness I put in a new A/C unit in my and my mom’s house over the past 2 years. Even they are straining to keep up, but it is well within the comfort zone. My team in Germany, where A/C isn’t a common thing, is suffering though.
My uncle, who fled Illinois and it’s “insane taxes and corrupt governor” (feel free to guess who he voted for) enjoyed 113 days in a row over 100+ in his new home in a refurbished desert outside of Phoenix last year. Wonder what they’ll get this year?
Lol, yup! We are currently the leader of sending Governors from a big house to the Big House!
But it was JB. My uncle is a red hat. He was a standing embarrassment of my grandmother (his mom), who used to call him out on it all the time, except when he was around, which was rarely. He essentially disappeared from her life, only showing up to borrow money and eventually take his half of the inheritance.
Like many of these “reclaimed desert” developments, there’s a single water pipe providing water for ~300 homes. There’s many many restrictions around what he can use water for. I remember when he first moved there and ‘decorated’ his lawn with lava rocks and sent a picture to his mother says “look, no more cutting lawns!”.
As I understand it, there was an issue with water supply last year as well, but thankfully he made it through without impacting his health. I mean, I don’t want something bad to happen to him, but this move is at least the third stupid housing decision he’s made in a row.
Meanwhile, Chicago and literally hundreds of other communities in Illinois enjoy the. benefits of sitting on the largest fresh water system in the world and having a world-renowned intake and reclamation system:
Apparently we’ve got a major storm coming this evening, breaking the heat wave (at least temporarily), so y’all on the East Coast have that to look forward to in a few days.
y’all, i have been hesitant to report on the sitch down here in the way-way south of our southernmost island chain, because i haven’t wanted to seem to be bragging, or unsympathetic. i do know hot, i do especially know humid.
while mainland miami has been reaching the 90F ambient and 100F+ heat index, we here in the keys are only getting up to about 88F and index of 90-94F. it is the prevailing easterlies, our trade winds, that blow 10-15knots all day, that make life here even bearable.
one does not want to be in the sun, however. sitting in the shade - or better yet, on the porch, under the porch fan - is pleasant. we spend our happy hour afternoons on the porch, cold g&t in hand, and.watch the stupid chickens go to roost in the neighbor’s trees.
talk to me again next month as we progress into our season of tropical storms, then again in august, when the real threat of big storms are the daily weather topic.
Honestly it doesn’t feel too bad for not having air conditioning, and speaks to the benefits of a masonry building. That’s naturally 12 degrees below the high temperature.
When it gets to be this hot inside I curtail my activities, eat light foods and pretend I am George Brent in “The Rains Came.”
That’s us later this week…
