Relentless heat
-
96 F today. The forecasts are wrong (way off) 90% of the time. Their usual mistakes are they forecast a temperature and it's much higher or they forecast an amount of rain and it's much lower. Cooling for the next three days. 92 tomorrow but that wouldn't be cooling if they missed the second hottest day today this summer. 21st largest metro area and their technology is carp.
-
The usual rejoinder to a complaint about the heat in Arizona is “But it’s DRY heat.”
@RealPlayer said in Relentless heat:
The usual rejoinder to a complaint about the heat in Arizona is “But it’s DRY heat.”
90 humid is worse than 90 dry, but the difference is not large, but 115 is 115. -
It was supposed to be 92 F so of course it was 94 F. It's supposed to be 89 F and we're supposed to have rain. I'm out of here soon. I'm going to have my own place and finally a car. I'm going to have electric. I'm going to have a washer and dryer. I'm planning to care a whole lot less about the weather.
-
89 finally, rain later. Rain not related to any storm. This is the weather I remember in Tampa. Gets hot, rains in the afternoon.
Supposedly, it's all going to flip back by Monday and another heatwave.
I'm getting as much laundry done before I won't be able to dry it.
-
More than sick of it. Sorry. I know it's nature and nothing personal. I know there are people who have to toil all day in the Florida sun. I know our governor made it harder for them to have rest, shelter, and water breaks.
But I have no electric, no fan, no air, and inside gets hotter than outside and outside burns the skin. I have a 5" 2 D battery fan that eats batteries, a paper fan, and running cold water, and a new roof. Thanks be to the universe.
It was supposed to be 90 today so of course it was 93. I'd like to slap these people upside the head at this point, not that I would do it.
It's been as high as 98. People keep saying go to a library. It's a $34 cab ride and walking there in the sun would leave you burned.
I should have a new home, electric, and a car.
It's not going to be until the end of the year because our house has to be put in the market.
It will be about 3 or 4 more weeks of this hell. I've decided to ask for small advances from my father's estate if and when. I need light at night, I want my fan, and I have no intention of freezing through another winter at 45 degrees. It sucks because once I spend the money, it's gone. It won't come to me. It can't be invested.
My roommate wants me to live here and support him until he gets OASDI. I said I'd think about it but couldn't promise and that I'd have agreed to my terms. He's not meeting any of them and I don't think he can. I didn't detail them because he had been in a state of drug induced psychosis for weeks at the time this topic was raised. He would have acted defensively.
I know for a fact my father would want me to take care of myself. I intend to do just that.
His mother's going to die in the natural course of events, his sister will inherit their mother's house, she will get a restraining order against him, he's not preparing to do anything remunerative, he won't be able to pay the lot rent here, and he unilaterally and unequivocally threw me overboard. He created this situation for himself.
The one thing he could do to allow anyone to get and accurate read on him now and maybe engender any sympathy is stop buying street drugs, but totalling a car with 37k, and later OD'ing and ending up in the ICU didn't do it. He was saying he wasn't going to live much longer. He's exhausting. I can't believe I have to live with him for the rest of the summer, fall, and another winter.
I'm keeping my head above water. This heat has me physically exhausted and emotionally depressed.
I've been thinking about the things he's not doing here while he goes to his mother's house before it gets hot, mainly for the air conditioning and home cooked meals while I don't have a stove or refrigerator, takes hot showers, and uses her and dryer.
I'm not in the mood to talk to him when he comes home after dark, or in 3 or 4 days if it's a weekend and his mother goes to stay with his sister (I'm forbidden to be there when his mom isn't there when I haven't caused any of these problems but I respect this rule even if he asks me to come over, nope).
Not speaking to him is much better than trying to communicate. Having privacy is the best.
This saga will have gone on for five seasons including two winters.
-
Today will also be around 83 and raining with winds around 10 mph, again.
Such a nice change.
I have to confirm this but it looks like we might have our first hurricane.
Erin has hit part of North Carolina. I don't know where that was but it looked like Long Beach where we used to vacation in the summer.
At the best of times, high tide would rise to under the houses. They had an empty first floor for this reason.
A random video said Tampa floods during high tide on a normal day. Lol. I can assure you this doesn't happen and has never happened.
-
Every day for the next week below 90 as low as 83 as high as 88 a single day. Lots of rain. It definitely feels like the climate has changed somewhat.
I'd have to say after this month long heat wave with no rain and no wind, the fact it was a dry heat only made it worse.
