Heat wave

I didn't do anything for about a week. Last three days or so, been breaking down HDDs on the living room table in the AC. Hopefully I can get back to work in my cabin in a couple days.

It's been kinda nice around here lately... only in the upper 90s.

Thank God half of my shop is air conditioned. We have large fans in the other half also. We keep a lot of air moving.

It has been hot here in Iowa also. Mid to high 90's. But then, it is July. If I were a gambling man, It would be a safe bet that it was going to be in the 90's in July here. Nothing unusual about that. It was still very wet and cold here in May, so I am happy that it is warmer now. One of the things I like about living in Iowa is having all 4 seasons. Some heat and humidity is what makes July, July.

I have been doing recycling for a lot of schools around here. I do it every summer. They are not air conditioned in the summer. We just pace ourselves and drink a lot of water. I then check my gratitude against the fact that I am not doing hot tar roofing or hot asphalt paving. Not that there is anything wrong with those jobs, they are just not for me and I am grateful I am doing this instead of those jobs.

I do know if one were to choose to do this full time like I do, They still send the bills when it is hot or cold. I still have to work to pay them. I guess you just do what you have to do.

Sometimes you just have to work smarter, like working in the evening or having a work=space that is climate controlled.

Be safe out there and stay hydrated.

There is good and bad with every job you do.

I have a good friend that we kid each other back and forth. He razzes me all winter about himself getting paid not to work while I razz him about being hot and miserable in the summer running a lay-down machine for a highway paving company.

Had to work in a stifling hot shop the whole week. No fans or ac was 40+ celcius with humidity. It sucked big time. Didn't think it could get that hot up here for that long.

Originally Posted by jord0690

Had to work in a stifling hot shop the whole week. No fans or ac was 40+ celcius with humidity. It sucked big time. Didn't think it could get that hot up here for that long.

You had me going till I realized 40C would be around 100F.

Originally Posted by Mick

Originally Posted by jord0690

Had to work in a stifling hot shop the whole week. No fans or ac was 40+ celcius with humidity. It sucked big time. Didn't think it could get that hot up here for that long.

You had me going till I realized 40C would be around 100F.

Hahaha well 40F is still t shirt weather for us canucks!

Been workin my butt off last couple of weeks. Been polishing off my first gallon of water by about 10am it seems to come out as fast as it goes in. three metal hauls, 50 hour weeks digging and moving piles of rock,loam. But took one of my rare days off yesterday "wifes birthday" and we went to the lake all day out to eat in ac restaurant I felt cold the whole time lol

I have a thermometer in the cab of my truck that has been reading 110-115 around lunch time. The cab of the truck feels like it is air conditioned compared to the roof that I have been working on, they have a white reflective surface so the temp on the roof's are probably running 120-130 with the high humidiy. It rained cats and dogs Thursday and I stood out in it and said than you GOD..

You have to learn to put your ind some where else and ignore the heat to get the job done.

When I was on the USS Kitty Hawk, I worked down in 4 Main Machinery Room. (the old oil-powered carriers have 4 separate enginerooms, and 4 shafts leading to 4 propellers). Each engineroom had 2 boilers, a high pressure turbine, an LP turbine, and what's called a Deaerating Feed Tank (DFT): a ~3600 gallon tank with water at ~250° in it. Those are the major heat sources although there were others. One spot I had to take 4 readings in was right in between one of the boilers and the DFT. Ambient air temp there hovered between 140° and 150°. Let me tell you: I got real adept at holding my breath, poking my head in there, unfocusing my eyes, and taking a mental snapshot of the angle of the dial on those 4 guages and then stepping back & mentally converting those angles into temperatures!

But even in the other parts of the engineroom, it was always hot. There were about a dozen 12" ventilation pipes that pumped in ""cool"" air down there. I used the quotes for a reason: Each pipe had a thermometer in it, shoved way up in there. As part of the Navy's Physiological Heat Exposure Limits program, we had to track the temps on those thermometers. As long as the air pumping down to keep us cool was under 100°, all was good. If it went higher, we had to shorten up our shifts from 6 to 4 or even 3 hours, which really sucked, working 3 hours on 3 hours off... There's not enough TIME to shower, eat, catch any meaningful sleep, and then get back to the pit in 3 hours. I can neither confirm nor deny that sometimes those readings got fudged to prevent any PHEL shifts from happening.

So... whenever I feel like whining about a 105° Texas day, I just remember how bad some others have got it. I do kinda miss those summertime days in Dillon, CO, though: the record high temp there since recordkeeping began in 1850-something is 88°.

Nice thing about Denver is 90's at 10% humidity is very tolerable, especially if there is a breeze AND swamp/evaporative coolers work awesome here.