Reply With QuoteYeah, it's the same here in central Illinois. The humidity is what's killing me though (I don't actually mind the heat at all). I feel like the mouse from The Abyss every time I try to take a breath outside.
Hitting mid 90's at my house every day is getting tiresome, and I can't imagine how much worse it is for others that don't have a giant lake (Lake Michigan) just 30 miles West of you. We have another 7-8 days minimum of this horrible weather, how about you? :(
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-...grees-20120626
Pacific NW... I'm jealous!
Yeah, it's the same here in central Illinois. The humidity is what's killing me though (I don't actually mind the heat at all). I feel like the mouse from The Abyss every time I try to take a breath outside.
Heat index is past 110 last three days running. Likely to stay there another week.
HOW IS IT 8PM AND STILL 100?!
The wife and I are going up to Traverse City next weekend for our anniversary (as we do most years).
If it is still this freaking hot I'm going to be majorly pissed. Even the beach is no fun in this kind of weather.
Pussies. Turn your a/c and all fans off, allow yourself half water pressure, and then get back to me.
In a couple weeks, it'll get to the point where it's still 100 after midnight here.Originally Posted by Houngan
power out? I saw DC got hit by that crazy storm yesterday.
About 67 and misty rain around here today. Sigh, all this water makes the indoors humid :(
I miss the heat. I remember the windows in my car wouldn't roll down and the a/c didn't workl so it was like 130 degrees in there. And being a cheapass, we wouldn't run the a/c in the apartment too long so it was constantly hot so I guess I kind of got used to it. Though not at night trying to sleep, that's the worse. Now here in Alaska it's mild all the time and people complain it's hot when it's in the high sixties, low seventies. I just have to shake my head at them when it's perfect weather.
POWER! AC!! WATER PRESSURE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit, just as I was thinking I was about at the far end of my tether, the power kicked on in my neighborhood. Still millions in the metro DC area without power, but at least over the last 5 hours Dominion has seemingly kicked into high gear. If you're in Maryland and on Pepco....well Jesus. Move. You may have power by August.
Still a lot of potential for a major public health emergency in the DC suburbs (DC is actually in great shape; most of their power lines are underground.)
I have never knowingly been in a derecho before, and don't care to ever be in another. I've been through 3 tornadoes (including one that touched down in our backyard in college) and 2 hurricanes and that storm Friday night--brief as it was--was the most violent unleashing of Mother Nature I've ever seeen.
It was an amazing storm. It hit us at the worst possible time of day, when the energy in the atmosphere was at its zenith. There are still a lot of people without power here. We're on a separate grid, and our lines are underground. It cut off a few times but always came back on. Which is fucking amazing considering it randomly shuts off for a few hours when the weather is nice.
Tweaked my back picking up branches yesterday, but I'll be OK. I hope those of you without power get it restored soon.
Are you serious?
I hate it when this happens... The weather forecast was horrible enough, now they just added 3F to every single day for the next 8 days. The change from low/mid 90's, to mid/high 90's is brutal.
Only just barely kidding. When a big storm is forecast, Marylanders begin wondering how long they'll be without power sometimes days before the storm even arrives. Pepco is notoriously awful.
I was driving along the corridor just yesterday and every stop from Quantico up to Germantown was out of power. I know a storm had swept through the night before, but I'm thinking there's a pretty bad system in place to be that vulnerable to some high winds.
It wasn't "high winds". It was winds gusting higher than the heaviest measured winds of both Isabel and Irene, which were a hurricane and tropical storm, respectively, when they made landfall in Virginia.
As I put it in the other thread--I've been ground zero for a few tornadoes, and the storm that came through on Friday was by far the most destructive and frightening one I've ever experienced.
The other thing that made this storm particularly bad for the area was how little notice there was. When a hurricane or tropical storm makes landfall, you've got days to prepare if you're a public utility and government aid agency. You get everyone set and on notice.
As late as Friday afternoon they were talking about a "chance of thunderstorms" in the area. By 6pm they realized that the storms that caused destruction in Indiana and Ohio were likely to head our way, and by 8:30 they realized that the storms were going to be very violent. Dominion and Pepco had about 3 hours to mobilize their people. Dominion seems to be way out ahead on this--out of 1m customer outages Friday at midnight, they've restored all but about 280k right now.
Maryland? Oof.
Mid 90's I can handle, but the 107 degrees on Saturday combined with the humidity here in the south was just awful. I actually had to use my car's ac, something I rarely do, because even the wind was scalding. I just hope it cools down a bit before the end of the month when I go down to the Keys for a couple of weeks.
Thankfully we got our power back last night around 7pm, so just shy of two full days without power. Not our record certainly, but with this heat it felt muuuuuch longer. BGE is saying it will likely be the end of this coming week before they have everyone back on. I used about a quarter tank of gas this weekend just having everyone in the van cooling off and charging out DS's and iDevices. I'm really glad I still have the unlimited data on my iPhone, lord knows I spent enough time refreshing the BGE outage page.
Yeah this one kind of came out of nowhere. I didn't even realize how bad things were until halfway through the next day when I caught snippets on the news. My parents are in town visiting and my sister halfway across the country called them to make sure they were okay "because of the storm." I was like, pfff, yeah we're all fine. We had some branches down in our neighborhood but nothing bad and like you said, DC's power is underground so we were just peachy.
Went down to Eastern Market yesterday and man, what a mess. Big, old trees blown down into rowhouses, some poor guy's truck was just flattened--oh now I see what everyone's talking about.
Then it was back up to 103 the next day.
My parents in MD bought a generator a few years back. This storm dropped a branch that poked a 12-inch hole in their roof, but it's already fixed.
Generators are great for situations like this where one street has power and the next one over does not. A few years ago when NH got it was surreal at the local Applebees. Everyone unwashed, stealing Applebees' power to charge their cell phones, etc.
Applebee's power is crap. If you're gonna get power from a restaurant Red Robin has freshly ground power, not that frozen garbage.
Been very warm here in Denver also.
Many days of 100+ heat and one dinky AC unit to keep cool with.
But we get a break this week...only going to be in the 90s.
Nice.
In other news we had a good little storm burst last night, should be just enough to make the lawn grow so I can refuse to mow in this heat for another week.
They revised our forecasts AGAIN. It will be 100* and humid for the next 3 days.
It's only supposed to be ~65 today. Had to send the kid off to summer school with a little jacket so she didn't get cold during morning outside time.
There's a reason we Pacific Northwesterners put up with 8 months of rain.
Here in central California we may get 100+ temps for 30 days at a time, but it's a dry heat and we have A/C.
The one time that happened and the A/C's didn't always come on resulted in a governor being recalled.
99 degrees currently.
I thought my AC was ok.
Not powerful enough for this stuff.
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