Hot in Nor Cal Right Now

103 here

No joke LOL.

I'm dying here.

hmmmm

Soak a hand towel in water, wring it out and put it in the freezer for a bit. Actually, put a few in there. When icy, take out and wrap around your neck. Repeat as necessary!

Back porch is on the west side of the house, catches the afternoon sun. Even behind shade cloth, its damn near 120 out there.

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Yes, thank you...have been doing that.

I am chilling at 82 inside and have a small fan on me, a box fan filling my trailer with cold air from a shaded tree. I have my windows covered in insulated rigidfoam with chrome outside. I keep it dark and excercise by low impact stretching and chores, just lay low watch movies or tv show. Like someone said, use water to cause evap cooling that principle can keep a person alive. Drink not just water but a hood whey protein powder. Keep this vold and have big ice cubes to drop in it, two of those, 400 calories and cold waterm driunk them at peak times.

Good thing you have a cool buzz going....

I know you're old and beat up heh, can you lie in the tub???

Seriously though a man like you ends up needed. God help the people who are needed eh Crunch?

Seriously, get a kid pool and lie in it. Pay a kid to loft water onto you sprinkler style. If anyone asks tell them you are going as a walrus for halloween and are practicing.

Yes, trying to stay hydrated. We have an evaporative cooler for the house, but it becomes useless when it gets over 90. It just blows hot, humid air.

My wife is hanging out in the bedroom where we have a small AC unit. It runs up the power bill, though.

Turn off your AC and save power for the EV charging stations...quit being electrically selfish...share the volts!

The tub is a large one, but located at the southwest corner of the house behind large windows. That room is like Hell right now LOL.

Probably due to the overall water temp as you know the device is built on that premise. What you want is to trap the low temps in some water in good plastic 60gal barells out of all light or warmth like all day shaded spot up here that always has moss all year round. Chill them down. The cool side of the hill so to speak. Then get that cold water into your air. Get some rainbird misters the ones with the brass they create ten degree lessening when combined with proper fan. Trap the cold air and water and air early in the day. Build up supplies of those overnight. Know your water temps. BTW I am shitty at all of this :) I could easily run a splitter off my hose, and then a rainbird 1/4 inch to a mister and have that on me here inside, and it would make nothing wet really, and the pressure is controlled by having a valve on the hose. Misted air and shade you're talkin twenty degree drop.

That's just the GLP angels beaming down on you.

Take the "sit in car with windows up @ noon" challenge. See if you can beat the record.

Yeah, I have a spot on the north side of the house that is always shady. Still hot, though. I have used misters in the past, but they always get plugged up (calcified, maybe). I have tried soaking them in vinegar without much improvement.

The evap cooler needs new pads, too. They are pretty well plugged up. It is one of the 'low profile' versions. new pads are about $120.

i really don't like smoking herb when it really hot like this

no i don't have AC

Thanks! Hahahahaaa how nice!

It just dont seem like it should be that hot out there right now. It was never that hot in south Calif where i grew up, ever.

My neighbor has been watering his plants 2x a day in this heat. 1000 gallons each time. Pulling it out of the ground.

I am worried about my well going dry.

I grew up in So Cal, it was never this hot. I moved up here about 36 years ago.

Here in inland Nor Cal, we normally get 'a few days' each summer that are hot.

But this is different. It has been 100+ nearly every day since late May.

Save me some of nancy's ice cream LOL...

Forecast for the next week or so...106, 101, 106, 109, 110, 105, 102, 101.

Hopefully we won't have a wildfire thrown in for good measure...

The Governor said if you don't charge your car it will be ok

all i saw was, " Hot Karl Right Now"

whats he using 150 gallon smart pots?

tell him to put some hay or mulch on top to keep the soil cooler

Hahahaaa!

Yikes! He should use old bathwater and dishwater to do that. Its work but water really is precious, im obsessive about conserving it.