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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2004Heat Wave
Out here on the plains of Colorado we are sweltering. WAAAH!! I miss the cool, rainy weather of June. July has been getting hotter and dryer with every day. Today, as I was going home at four-thirty, I passed the bank and noticed the big temperature sign said 98 degrees!! That is when i dug out the thermometer in my glove box and saw the heat in my car was 108!! And I had the windows and sunroof open and was traveling about 35. No wonder I was dripping with sweat all day. I had been drinking a lot of ice water but still felt dehydrated. When the weather got into the nineties, i got the portable swamp cooler out and filled it up. It came on with a "WHUMP!!" as the powerful squirrel cage accelerated to 500mph in 2 seconds! ;-)). This was Robin's intro to it. He fell over trying to move faster than his feet could move!! LOL!! The other cats had met the windy monster last year and were rather blase about it. Amber was on the top of the cat tree directly in line with the cool wind. He gave me a look like, "It's about time! What took you so long!" He has been doing his best to shed that long, shaggy furcoat he wears. -- CATherine > Out here on the plains of Colorado we are sweltering. WAAAH!! I miss > the cool, rainy weather of June. July has been getting hotter and [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > -- > CATherine LOL!! Poor Robin. But I got a good chuckle out of it. >Out here on the plains of Colorado we are sweltering. WAAAH!! I miss >the cool, rainy weather of June. July has been getting hotter and >dryer with every day. Today, as I was going home at four-thirty, I >passed the bank and noticed the big temperature sign said 98 degrees!! >That is when i dug out the thermometer in my glove box and saw the >heat in my car was 108!! <SNIP> Be glad that at least it's dry, when it's hot. Where I am, we have temps in the high 80's, with the humidity at 65-75%. Sweat doesn't evaporate; it just *pools* under my clothing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Life without cats would be only marginally worth living." -TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie. How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier. -Buddha > >Out here on the plains of Colorado we are sweltering. WAAAH!! I miss > >the cool, rainy weather of June. July has been getting hotter and [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > in the high 80's, with the humidity at 65-75%. Sweat doesn't evaporate; > it just *pools* under my clothing. We get a lot of 100 plus here but have very low humidity. You have to be very careful to drink enough water, because you don't "sweat". It evaporates off your skin that fast. We remind our kids to drink water the way some folks remind their kids to wash their hands. My grandsons (and the cats) will come in the house and go drink out of the kitchen faucet. Kind of drives my nuts but it saves on glasses and for the life of me I can't see what harm it does. Maybe I'm just jealous cause I can't bend far enough to drink out of the faucet myself. Jo > We get a lot of 100 plus here but have very low humidity. You have to be > very careful to drink enough water, because you don't "sweat". It [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Jo I have been driving my semi mostly between CA, OR, and WA for the last couple of months. Today, though, I ran into Arizona to deliver 22 tons of cat litter to a Safeway Grocery warehouse. I'm used to warm weather, but this is ridiculous. It's 10:45 PM here, the temperature is still over 100 degrees F (38 C if my math is correct). We're having a truly awesome lightning display in the sky. Now about to shut down for the night at the only truck stop in which I've ever had an encounter with a ghost! Let's I'm able to sleep tonight. Dan > > We get a lot of 100 plus here but have very low humidity. You have to be > > very careful to drink enough water, because you don't "sweat". It [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Dan Did you tell us about this ghost story, Dan? Inquiring minds want to know! Christine >>Now about to shut down for the night at the only truck stop in which >>I've ever had an encounter with a ghost! Let's I'm able to sleep tonight. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Did you tell us about this ghost story, Dan? Inquiring minds want to know! > Christine Don't recall. This was 3 or 4 years ago. I had picked up a load in Tolleson, AZ, then drove to the company yard in Phoenix to scale. I was very tired and wanted to sleep a few hours before hitting the road but the company yard was very crowded and busy. I had noticed leaving the customer site that the Williams truck stop on 99th Ave in Tolleson had just opened in the last week and was usually mostly empty, so I headed there. Found a good spot in the first row that I could fit into, got settled, and climbed into the sleeper. I was in that nice, comfortable limbo between awake and asleep when I felt the cab rock, the way it does when someone steps up on your running board. At a lot of truck stops we have to deal with parking lot hookers - "lot lizards". I figured one of them had climbed up on my running board and was about to knock on my door. But a couple minutes later there was still no knock. I figured I'd better get up and take a look, in case someone was playing with my rig. Looked out the right side mirrors and saw nobody. Looked out the left side mirrors and saw a young woman dressed in 60's-70's style clothes, with very straight hair hanging about halfway down her back, standing rock-still between my truck and the one to my left, staring at the sleeper of the truck on my left. I couldn't tell what she might have been doing so I turned around to look at her directly. When I did I saw - nothing! There was nothing between my truck and the one next to me but empty blacktop. I shined my flashlight out the window and still saw nothing. I looked in the mirrors again and again saw the young woman. Shined the flashlight out the window again while watching in the mirrors. I could see the beam of the flashlight lighting up the pavement all around her, but it never lighted her. This was a little too weird for me, so I started up my engine and pulled up. I was a little bit freaked out, so I pulled up next to a fuel island (the best lit area in the parking lot). As soon as I pulled under the bright lights I felt the cab rock again, as whoever/whatever had been on my running board stepped off. I checked both mirrors, again saw nothing. That was enough weirdness for me. I put the truck in gear and beat a hasty retreat for Interstate 10, didn't stop again until I got to the company yard in Fontana, CA. I also haven't been back to that truck stop (now a Pilot) since then, until last night. But last night was nice and peaceful. > That was enough weirdness for me. I put the truck in gear and beat a > hasty retreat for Interstate 10, didn't stop again until I got to the > company yard in Fontana, CA. I also haven't been back to that truck stop > (now a Pilot) since then, until last night. That was spooky. My dad tells of several ghost encounters when he was younger.  SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >>> Now about to shut down for the night at the only truck stop in which >>> I've ever had an encounter with a ghost! Let's I'm able to sleep [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > But last night was nice and peaceful. Spooky! I was hot until I read your story but the hair standing up on my arms and neck helped cool me off! SignatureMargaret Fine mefine@mindspring.com >>>Now about to shut down for the night at the only truck stop in which >>>I've ever had an encounter with a ghost! Let's I'm able to sleep tonight. [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > >But last night was nice and peaceful. I was always told as a child that it is not the dead (ghosts) that might harm you, but rather the living. MLB > > We get a lot of 100 plus here but have very low humidity. You have to be > > very careful to drink enough water, because you don't "sweat". It [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Dan I miss my ghost. I moved to a new apartment last month and there's no sign of him. Bob SignatureTakeoff is an option. Landing is a must! And in the end on wheels we will depend. >> We get a lot of 100 plus here but have very low humidity. You have to >be [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >Dan Hope there aren't any ghosts this time. Its wet and not very warm (60's-70'sf) here in New England USA. Suz Macmoosette Thank Heavens There's Only One =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= Waiting for inspiration. Please hold while I contemplate my navel. |\__/| (=':'=) (")_(") >Be glad that at least it's dry, when it's hot. Where I am, we have temps >in the high 80's, with the humidity at 65-75%. Sweat doesn't evaporate; >it just *pools* under my clothing. Same problem here. High of 97, humidity 77%, heat index 103-105. We're in the Tennessee Valley, surrounded by mountains, and the heat doesn't "rise" - - it just puddles around the bottom of the bowl. No cooling rain in sight and if it's this hot in July, I dread August!!! Jeanne > >Be glad that at least it's dry, when it's hot. Where I am, we have temps > >in the high 80's, with the humidity at 65-75%. Sweat doesn't evaporate; [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Jeanne At least simple physics guarantee that if it is too hot for too long in the Sacramento Valley, it will pull in a Delta breeze from the San Francisco area in the evenings. It can easily be over 100 here every day for weeks and cool off to the low 60s at night. Jo > At least simple physics guarantee that if it is too hot for too long in the > Sacramento Valley, it will pull in a Delta breeze from the San Francisco > area in the evenings. It can easily be over 100 here every day for weeks > and cool off to the low 60s at night. > > Jo And I've sure been glad of that! I've spent many a weekend at the company's yard in Sacramento, and that night-time breeze sure has been nice. Dan > Out here on the plains of Colorado we are sweltering. In Missouri we regularly have mid- and high 90s with 90%+ humidity from July through mid-September. Fortunately, here in the Ozarks it always cools off nicely at night - usually down into the 60s; very rarely, the low 70s. I spent almost 10 years in Arizona, and the only place in the state that didn't cool down much at night in the summer was Phoenix. I think it's because of the humidity there. Everyone seems to want to turn the city into another Minneapolis, so they're always watering lawns, trees, gardens and golf courses. Add in the zillions of pools and fountains and canals, plus the fact that it's in a valley, and you get a place where you can NOT sleep without air conditioning. Up north, it's the opposite: From an hour after sundown until sunrise in the morning, you need a jacket, then by 10 a.m. it's often 90 degrees or more. But all you have to do to cool off is find some shade :) |
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