We run a fan in my bedroom all year for the noise.

Toms River just hit 100° -- just went out to water the plants and am sweating my butt off.

Don't water your plants in the heat of the day!!!

I see the feel-like temp in Baltimore is 114°!!

You are suppose to water in the am before the sun gets up in the sky, but my newly planted daisy were crying out for water. I couldn't turn my back on them. They were wilting!

Even my sweat was sweating.

Now THAT'S hot!!!

I hadda turn off my a/c. I was having some kind of electrical power issues (the a/c would stop, and then go back on... I noticed one of my power strips, which has a light on it indicating power, was turning "off".)

Dunno if it's a brownout (the tv picture didn't shrink and the p.c. wasn't affected) but I'm afraid of an electrical fire, so to be safe I turned the a/c off. The temperature in my bedroom went up at least 20° in the last 30 minutes.

I hate summer!

I remember when a heat wave hit shortly after my wife and I moved into our first house in August. We had one air conditioner and wanted to get through the summer without buying another one.

We would spend time in shopping malls and go to a movie. We felt that the movie didn't have to be good because it was worth $5 to sit in a soft chair in an air conditioned theatre for two hours.

After being in the house basically all weekend stepping out today was a real blow. It literally feels like opening your oven door and sticking your head in while it's heated. The breeze we have is just circulating heat. And to make it worse the first bus I catch, which is the longer ride, had no a/c. Uggh! Double Uggh! Halfway through the ride when we got to the stop by the MTA bus depot they had another bus with a/c waiting for us to transfer to. By the time it felt cool it was time to get off. I went to the store and got a bottle water for the wait for the next bus. I have a 10 minute walk home from that ride. I had to stop a few times because I felt like I would keel over.

I actually sent an email to my BGE home website about installing central air. I might have to hanker down and pay to get it. After only 2 days I'm feeling it already. If I want to die that bad I'll just put a gun to my head. It'll be quicker.

You'll get that money back when you sell your house (central a/c would be a good improvement and a strong selling point).

Cool. Never mind that the walls need painting and the kitchen cabinets are falling apart.

That's cosmetic stuff and you can fix that yourself. Central a/c is not only a comfort factor but with your history of respiratory issues it would be a good thing.

That's true. My to do list is longer than Elizabeth Taylor's list of husbands.

I'm also afraid of blowing a fuse. My carpets are in serious need of cleaning but I don't want to run the vacuum with the a/c on.

I use that reasoning too. That's why I turn my a/c on in January.

My house had central air, but the previous owners removed it and put in wall air conditioners. I wanted in the worst way to put it back in, but my wife doesn't want to. She hates A/C. I just called home from work, and despite it being 99 degrees outside, she doesn't have the A/C on.

Ozzieboy loves his dust bunnies anyway.

We're supposed to be in a heat advisory until 8:00PM tomorrow night. Right now we have a Code Red alert. They should name it Code dead.

Tomorrow night we're supposed to get a major thunder storm with large hail to break this heat.

They're calling for them here too. I just hope they start after I go to bed so I don't have close the windows where the a/c isn't.

I LOVE hot weather. From 90° and up, I'm starting to feel good.

110°? I don't care.

I also love the thunder storms in summer.

Which is just the best season there is, hands down.

I have to admit, I love it when it's hot out. I can't stand the cold, and the older I get, the colder and longer the winters seem. My house has a/c, my car has a/c, and my office has a/c. What more could I want?

rain rain rain

A frozen cheesecake maybe?

I might actually enjoy that today!!

Tons of local schools are having early dismissals or closing altogether. Most of them aren't air-conditioned, so I guess they hold whatever classes they can, and then just shut it down. We got an email last night that said that ours will be holding a regular schedule, though.

Hot? How about being a soldier in Iraq with all that gear on?? It's 106 there now and the humidity is 9%! Which makes it feel like a cool 100. Here's the forecast for the week. God bless them.

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MC, how right you are to remind us of them.

I think of soldiers and fire fighters on days like these. All that clothing and equipment they have to lug around with them. They're a different breed of people for sure.

Cooler here today!

We have a breeze going and clouds and everything.....

We're supposed to get thunderstorms around 4:00PM. Of course, since that's when I'll be going home. We'll see if it cools things off.

You cannot beat a good thunderstorm to clear the air after a heat wave!

Makes me want to dance naked in the garden

Although i have been known to do that in the middle of winter after a few drinks.....

Still race riot hot here in the city.

The news here said Baltimore and New York to reach 100 today.