Wow, it is SO HOT!!!

**madhen** · 08-30-2008, 12:04 AM

102F IN THE HOUSE!! I have an incubator going for my birds' eggs, and I actually had to unplug it to keep them from getting too hot! Winter is looking better and better - wood stoves, curling up in a fluffy robe and sipping a hot cup of coffee - right now I just want to submerge myself in a tub of ice water.

**LeeCee** · 08-30-2008, 12:16 AM

I feel like that all the time living in florida! I wish we had winter and could look forward to doing breathing fresh cold brisk air.And making hot soup hot cocoa and all those cozy type of things.I am originally from new york and miss the north more than I could say.

**madhen** · 08-30-2008, 01:03 AM

I have spent some time in Florida. Can't say I recommend it.

In the spring, you have the invisible biting flying insects. In the summer/fall, you have hurricanes. And those mutant flying cockroaches appear to be a year-round thing! (I have been informed that they are NOT cockroaches, but are "palmetto" bugs. If it looks like a cockroach and moves like a cockroach and sounds like a cockroach...call it what you will, it is a huge mutant flying cockroach.)

**Luv2BeFrugal** · 08-30-2008, 03:32 AM

Whoa...you guys are sure makin' the north look good!

I think when it's negative 30 here I'll think again, though??

**momof2joys** · 08-30-2008, 10:35 AM

I am so glad that we are pretty much done with our hot season!!! It is getting down to the low 50s here at night so that lets us keep the windows open more!! YEAH!!!

Try and stay cool!!! Think freezing cold!!! South pole, north pole, etc.

**madhen** · 08-30-2008, 10:41 AM

I have to admit that I hate being bone-chilling cold, as well. I spent one winter in D.C, and found that being so cold that my teeth-chattering interfered with my ability to talk was not for me.

Not much of a fan of snow, either, except when we get just the lightest smattering of it and it falls into the category of "rustic" or "scenic."

No pleasing me, I guess.

**beks37** · 08-30-2008, 12:14 PM

No airconditioning? EEK that's so hot. It still gets pretty hot here, about 100 yesterday, but without my AC, I wouldn't make it.

**dcompton** · 08-30-2008, 12:27 PM

I'm in the tier of hot states too. It hasn't been so blazingly hot in temperature recently, it seems, (maybe mid 90s, but I haven't really been watching) but it been horrid, steamy weather - I imagine you also get that effect in Florida and California. Give me a 102 over 90% humidity. I hope it's not so humid where you are. But here too, the misery should end in the next month.

I once moved in the early days of September and it got up to 107 that day. It was the move that convinced me hiring movers in the future would be money very well spent. I can do cold much better than heat.

I too could not survive without the A/C. Or, I guess I could, but not in any recognizably civilized and human manifestation.

**madhen** · 08-30-2008, 02:21 PM

The house I moved into did not have A/C, and considering it took me until last year to finally give up and start paying for t.v, I keep telling myself I can hold out. Today is supposed to "only" get up into the 90's , and the paper promises temps in the 80's tomorrow, so I am just keeping thoughts of ice cubes in my head.

California doesn't get the type of humidity that Florida does, so at least I am not having to deal with that. The hydrometer in the birds' room is measuring about 30% and that is with all the plants in there, so I imagine it is more about 20% elsewhere.

**madhen** · 08-30-2008, 05:55 PM

"Only" 92F in the house today. Wow, better go get a sweater.

**shoiji** · 08-30-2008, 06:54 PM

August was surprisingly cool, go figure that the first week in September will be in the 90's. Usually you can start thinking about turning the air off in September.

**Stella** · 08-30-2008, 07:25 PM

I am in Ca too and so ready for it to start cooling down. This morning was nice and cool so I opened all the windows. It is 75 inside and 94 outside right now.

**MomToTwoBoys** · 08-30-2008, 09:24 PM

It's 11C right now. It's been that way pretty much all day. Our forecast high for the next three days are 9C, 10C and 15C. Isn't this summer? I smell a hard winter this year and I don't want that. It means -40C.