This heat is too ridiculous...

[Nicole01]

All my girls are inside the house and set upon the basement. The heat index has been up to 117-120 these past few days(week). The dew point is above 80, which I've never seen it so high in my life, making it very miserably humid. I didn't want to lose any of my girls. My dark brahma is my daughters favorite and especially can not handle the heat. I think she has something internally wrong with her. Luckily, the heat warning ends tonight at 9pm! I'd rather deal with the cold then this heat!

 

[woodmort]

How can heat--or any other weather for that matter--be "ridiculous"? Weather is weather and, if there is one thing I've learned in my 73 years on this planet, there isn't much you can do about it but grin and bear it. All these people that talk about moving someplace else eventually find there is something just as wrong with wherever they end up. I guess it is human nature to complain. As for me, I'll enjoy the heat while it is here--it is summer after all--and the cold in the winter. That way, on the average, I'm comfortable.

 

[ChooksChick]

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Yep, my girls (human girls: 14 & 15) are staying in and watching movies incessantly and don't even want to go to the pool. We're heading in to KC to go to Whole Foods today, and I'm delighted to say the car AC rocks...but I'm going to be stopping at Costco to get another big bag each of corn and berries!!

Poor chickens. I wish I could bring the hundreds of them inside...hubby wouldn't love me for that, though.

 

[hennyannie]

Yesterday we had a storm that dropped 3.5 inches of rain at one time. I thought it would cool us down today, but man is it muggy.

 

[MustLoveHens]

I have the rabbits in the basement to stay cool. Here in WI its over 103 with the heat index. The Girls are outside with fans and tons of water. I check on them frequently and spritz water on them. So far the only ones really not bothered are the Aseel and the pheasant. They are handling the heat like it's nothing!
I even have set up a bird bath in the shade for the wild birds and the squirrels are lounging in it!

I'm not a fan of hot weather and I'd rather it be cold, but I'll remember warming my toes in the sun fondly when the winter weather hits and it's -10! I figure it all evens out in the end!

 

[ChooksChick]

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Pops is up there in Mishicot, and he's whining about the heat. He says you guys are getting a break this weekend.

My goldfish pond is full of birds- I'm going to overfill it just to drop the temps for the fish. Blah.

 

[dewey]

It's 114.4 right now...we don't usually pay any attention to heat index charts much since it's already hot anyway....but with the heat index it'd be around 128 degrees since the humidity is not high today. (Topped out at 67% humidity this morning, down to around 25%.) The real ground level temp, the level where we all walk around and live at, is probably around 130-140 on bare ground.

I feel for everyone that's not used to the heat. The news said other states will be calling this the heat wave of 2011.

 

[melodie_a]

Tomorrows forcast here is 102 with 84% humidity. It is miserable.

 

[SanctusPullus]

107 today, 108 tomorrow, and then back down to 107 Wednesday... too miserable to look ahead any further. Don simply disintegrated when it hit the dry hot ground over TX. The rivers are dry and the lake is 40 feet below normal. The highland lakes are normally fed with 20,000 gallons of water a minute, they are now getting 1,500 gallons a minute. Nearby towns are at stage 5 water restrictions - no outdoor water use at all. The price of hay has skyrocketed and ranchers are selling off all their cattle. If this continues for another year, I can see a migration out of TX beginning. Have a nice day.

 

[Randy]

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I respectfully disagree. This is ridiculous!