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kingfc22
07-22-2006, 08:15 PM
I can not remember it being this hot in the Bay Area in a long time. Just got out of work and it is still like 103 around 6 PM at night. Craziness.

All I can say is I am thankful that we got AC this past fall in our house. Phew!
Franklinnoble
07-22-2006, 08:21 PM
http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=51346

Yeah... NorCal is roasting right now.
Cringer
07-22-2006, 08:39 PM
100 and something here....not much is new there. I just don't want to be stupid and get heat stroke like I did last weekend.
cartman
07-22-2006, 10:28 PM
Is it that hot on the Bay? I remember when I lived in Dublin, it was always 20 to 30 degrees hotter there than on the other side of the hills. It would be 100 at my place, but only 75 to 80 at my friend's places in San Jose.
Schmidty
07-22-2006, 10:48 PM
My wife is in Redding, CA this week, and it has hit 113 degrees on several occasions. It's even hot here near Vancouver.
Poli
07-22-2006, 10:59 PM
Welcome to my world, where it was so hot our heat index monitor broke after 150.
chinaski
07-22-2006, 10:59 PM
104 yesterday and 100 today in Portland. guh.
Raiders Army
07-22-2006, 11:01 PM
I just hosed down the outside of our house to cool it off.
Karlifornia
07-22-2006, 11:05 PM
In Los Gatos today it was easily 103-105 all day. I had to deliver pizzas in my car which has a non-working A/C.

On one delivery I had to walk across a park lugging around this case that held 10 piping hot pizzas. I was just dripping sweat. Then I got there and the lady handed me a bottle of water and a $20. Needless to say, that cured my ills.
st.cronin
07-22-2006, 11:09 PM
In Los Gatos today it was easily 103-105 all day. I had to deliver pizzas in my car which has a non-working A/C.

On one delivery I had to walk across a park lugging around this case that held 10 piping hot pizzas. I was just dripping sweat. Then I got there and the lady handed me her negligee...

That's how that story should have gone. Please try again.
Franklinnoble
07-22-2006, 11:09 PM
I just hosed down the outside of our house to cool it off.

Did that actually work? I thought about hosing off the roof of our place today.
Poli
07-22-2006, 11:13 PM
I've been working on isulating my rack from the tent I'm sleeping in.

The tent's not bad, and it does have AC...but when the sun is out it doesn't feel like we have AC.

I'm creating a mini tent of sorts...with a tube from the AC vent going inside. Stage 1 is already complete...and worked like a champ yesterday.

Stage 2 starts in about 20 minutes when I put up my sleeping bags up along the walls.
Raiders Army
07-22-2006, 11:14 PM
Hells ya that worked. It's much cooler inside. I'm not sure how good it would work in a more humid environment though. It's the desert here.
Raiders Army
07-22-2006, 11:15 PM
I've been working on isulating my rack from the tent I'm sleeping in.

The tent's not bad, and it does have AC...but when the sun is out it doesn't feel like we have AC.

I'm creating a mini tent of sorts...with a tube from the AC vent going inside. Stage 1 is already complete...and worked like a champ yesterday.

Stage 2 starts in about 20 minutes when I put up my sleeping bags up along the walls.
You have floors?

I love being supported by the Air Force. It always seems as if they have floors and AC in their sleeping tents.
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn
07-22-2006, 11:48 PM
It was 117 yesterday. 112 today. And at 9:45pm, it's 107.

I live on the surface of the sun.
SunDevil
07-22-2006, 11:50 PM
Yep,

Freaking hot for the last couple of days, but the nights are the real bitch. So much concrete and asphalt around here that it just does not cool down that much at night. I have been here for 10 years and I can not remember it ever being this hot at night.
st.cronin
07-22-2006, 11:51 PM
It was 117 yesterday. 112 today. And at 9:45pm, it's 107.

I live on the surface of the sun.

But it's a dry heat, right?
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn
07-22-2006, 11:52 PM
Yep,

Freaking hot for the last couple of days, but the nights are the real bitch. So much concrete and asphalt around here that it just does not cool down that much at night. I have been here for 10 years and I can not remember it ever being this hot at night.

Got up to run this morning at 5am and it was already 100. Sun had barely been up for ten minutes. I wanted to die by the end of the first mile.
Pumpy Tudors
07-22-2006, 11:54 PM
oh noes its hot boohoohoo

Lightweights. :)
Schmidty
07-23-2006, 12:25 AM
oh noes its hot boohoohoo

Lightweights. :)

You're just a really, really mean person.
Greyroofoo
07-23-2006, 12:37 AM
i dunno what you all are complaining about.

The heat just gives ya another excuse to drink,
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn
07-23-2006, 12:43 AM
i dunno what you all are complaining about.

The heat just gives ya another excuse to drink,

Booze + over 110 degrees = very very sick She-Rahn. During the summer I stick to water (over 100 ounces a day) with the occassional cup of coffee or diet soda. Booze just dehydrates me.
Vince
07-23-2006, 01:17 AM
Today, it was so hot that my restaurant had to close down.

Seriously.

I work at CPK in Oakridge mall -- Karlifornia probably knows exactly where that is, and kingfc22 might as well. Our AC unit broke today, and the interior of the restaurant was so hot (~95 degrees) that we had to close, because we couldn't guarantee the integrity of our food. It was really weird...every single employee was just haning out in the restaurant while we didn't let customers in. We couldn't leave, because if the AC tech guy came and fixed it, we'd have to open. But we couldn't serve people...so I literally got paid to play poker with my co-workers today. I showed up at 4:30, was SUPPOSED to start work at 5:00, and didn't leave until 9:15. I didn't wait on a single person all day. By the time the AC would have been fixed, we'd only have another hour or so of business hours, so one of the head honchos finally said "Just don't open." Just a weird, weird day.

I've heard rumors that it was anywhere from 100, to 107, to 111 degrees in San Jose today.
kingfc22
07-23-2006, 01:35 AM
Yea, I know where that is at Vince and that sucks. I remember when I worked at Macaroni Grill about 4-5 years ago and same thing to us. Except we didn't play poker, they just sent us home.
Vince
07-23-2006, 01:38 AM
Yea, I know where that is at Vince and that sucks. I remember when I worked at Macaroni Grill about 4-5 years ago and same thing to us. Except we didn't play poker, they just sent us home.

Come by some time, I'll buy you a beer :)

Yeah, it kind of sucked to be there for 5 hours without making any tips, but they paid us hourly, and like I said, we played poker. It could have been worse.
Poli
07-23-2006, 06:13 AM
You have floors?

I love being supported by the Air Force. It always seems as if they have floors and AC in their sleeping tents.

Actually the base was run by Marines, but now it's run by the Navy.

Billeting, or TENTCOM, as I like to call it, is actually KBR (Haliburton).
AgustusM
07-23-2006, 11:20 AM
Welcome to my world, where it was so hot our heat index monitor broke after 150.

damn, that's like AFRICA hot! ;)
Raiders Army
07-23-2006, 12:31 PM
Actually the base was run by Marines, but now it's run by the Navy.

Billeting, or TENTCOM, as I like to call it, is actually KBR (Haliburton).
Damn Haliburton...
caspanky
07-23-2006, 01:22 PM
Come by some time, I'll buy you a beer :)

Yeah, it kind of sucked to be there for 5 hours without making any tips, but they paid us hourly, and like I said, we played poker. It could have been worse.

Hey I know where that is too, do I get a beer? :)

Sounds like my day at work yesterday. Except we didn't close, cause the heat didn't effect anything other then our moods, and make customers complain more. The thermostat said is was 98 in our little Gamestop, which was not very plesant to deal with. I also really loved when every customer would walk in, and say something similar to "hey, you know it's hot in here? is your a/c broken?"
AZSpeechCoach
07-24-2006, 12:01 AM
I was up in Sedona this weekend (although I left Friday after it hit 118 degrees, dammit). Even the high country was boiling. I felt sorry for the animals at the Out of Africa Wildlife park. The tigers looked miserable.
Vince
07-24-2006, 01:19 AM
Hey I know where that is too, do I get a beer? :)

Sounds like my day at work yesterday. Except we didn't close, cause the heat didn't effect anything other then our moods, and make customers complain more. The thermostat said is was 98 in our little Gamestop, which was not very plesant to deal with. I also really loved when every customer would walk in, and say something similar to "hey, you know it's hot in here? is your a/c broken?"

If you know where that is, and you work at a Gamestop, we've probably met before. Anyhow, come on by -- the offer is open to any FOFC-er I've heard of before (spambots need not apply ;))

:mad::mad::mad: Today we had to close again, because they evacuated the damned mall. A transformer blew, and they were worried about it causing a bigger problem. Too bad that an hour after they told us to close, we could have re-opened but we had already sent 90% of our staff home for the night.