Dropped the hook at Tice's Shoal by 11 this morning. Back to the marina for a dip in the pool around 3. Hot but enjoyable.

On a side note, going shooting .22 tomorrow at a WMA....hope it's not as hot as it was today.

93 degrees and 50% chance of showers

Hotter than africa out there. Tomorrow were starting to build an out door kitchen at a poolhouse. Against a brick wall on a paver patio in full sun all day. I feel bad for my guys. Ill be out there with them all day. Drink water lots of it. The lack of is nasty. Dehydration/heat exhaustion will take you out for a few days.

I was once in Fresno, CA and I'll never forget that by noon the temp got to 113 degrees. Thing was, you could feel the heat, but it was so dry that it really wasn't that bad.

"But, it's a dry heat".  Yeah, and so is a campfire, hot is hot. period.

LOL

 

Campfire......ha....

Not as hot as the piece of brass that got caught in my low-cut sock at the range last week.  That left a mark!

Hottest day I ever experienced was probably summer of 93.  It was 101º that day, no clouds, full sun.  I was working on a roof top air conditioning unit on a hotel.  Flat black roof.  My IR thermometer said the roof surface was 160º.  I was up there for a couple of hours.  I couldn't see what I was doing because of the sweat running into my eyes.  

 

I finally got the unit working.  The temperature inside the hotel had reached about 85º.  I packed up my things and went to get a signature from the receptionist who said "I'm glad you got it fixed, it's really hot in here."

I packed up my things and went to get a signature from the receptionist who said "I'm glad you got it fixed, it's really hot in here."

I hate people like that.

I spent about a year in conditions similar to that but generally didn't get above 100°. I carried about 80 lbm of gear marching up and down mountains at about 10 miles a day and pushing and cutting through brush at about 50 yards per hour.

 

I drank about two gallons of water and mud a day and peed every other day. My clothes turned white and even the leather parts of my boots were white with salt stains. At night I would look like a ghost if there was moonlight. When I had mud I would rub it into my clothes from time to time to get the white off me. I ate about one meal a day on average or maybe just some things I found here and there some days. I shit about once a week. Never any time for trapping and never any fire. I was dumb enough to dip but had to swallow my spit to avoid leaving a trail or losing water. I was a smoker but there was no smoking so I dipped.

 

The heat would get unbearable sometimes and I would try to hide in cumma grass to get out of the sun. But it would just clutch the humidity around me and make it worse. It's one of those things where you are miserable and have to do something. When you do nothing, it makes you more miserable, and when you do something, it makes you even more miserable. I had a friend go real tits-up and we were on a hill and had almost no water. Just an IV bag. So we gave him the IV and had to "improvise" water on his skin to cool him. Fortunately we were reasonably hydrated and there was a breeze to allow some evaporative cooling. Dude actually recovered but should have spent a month in a hospital. I am sure he was screwed up and of course I had to carry half his shit.

We use these to help keep cool in the heat, work pretty good.

http://www.gemplers.com/product/165504/Evaporative-Cooling-Vest

We use these to help keep cool in the heat, work pretty good.

http://www.gemplers.com/product/165504/Evaporative-Cooling-Vest

I'm sure one of those would chill you to the bone in AZ. In Jersey? Well, it depends on the humidity

 

Thanks though, I need something like that.

I spent about a year in conditions similar to that but generally didn't get above 100°. I carried about 80 lbm of gear marching up and down mountains at about 10 miles a day and pushing and cutting through brush at about 50 yards per hour.

I drank about two gallons of water and mud a day and peed every other day. My clothes turned white and even the leather parts of my boots were white with salt stains. At night I would look like a ghost if there was moonlight. When I had mud I would rub it into my clothes from time to time to get the white off me. I ate about one meal a day on average or maybe just some things I found here and there some days. I shit about once a week. Never any time for trapping and never any fire. I was dumb enough to dip but had to swallow my spit to avoid leaving a trail or losing water. I was a smoker but there was no smoking so I dipped.

The heat would get unbearable sometimes and I would try to hide in cumma grass to get out of the sun. But it would just clutch the humidity around me and make it worse. It's one of those things where you are miserable and have to do something. When you do nothing, it makes you more miserable, and when you do something, it makes you even more miserable. I had a friend go real tits-up and we were on a hill and had almost no water. Just an IV bag. So we gave him the IV and had to "improvise" water on his skin to cool him. Fortunately we were reasonably hydrated and there was a breeze to allow some evaporative cooling. Dude actually recovered but should have spent a month in a hospital. I am sure he was screwed up and of course I had to carry half his shit.

Sound like you worked in hell or maybe the earthly equivalent....... Forest Fire Service?

Central America. Sometimes South America, but only at night.

Well you know what to do

 

 

 

Monday and Tuesday I was removing foam glass insulation off this tower. I was 75' up and it ran at 800 degrees. The ambient was so hot that you could occasionally smell your hair burning and your lips felt like they were on fire. I didn't even notice it's was 95 degrees out because I went into the sun to cool off

I'm in TX and it was still 93-95

AFTER 9pm. It didn't feel bad at all though

 

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I'm in TX and it was still 93-95

AFTER 9pm. It didn't feel bad at all though

 

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Where in TX?

Where in TX?

Frisco

 

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Ahh...too far to drive.

 

 

This signature is AWESOME!!!

Wimps. They should deport you all to the swamps of Alabama.

 

We've had like 5 hot days this summer. 

 

I work in an attic in my boxers with an exhaust fan pulling the air through. Every AC I've tried freezes up from over-work. I'm afraid even to measure the temperature because the next day I'll read that 115 degrees will kill you. 

 

Put an ice cube in your jock strap and man up.

115, hahaha sounds like a vacation

Ahh...too far to drive.

 

 

This signature is AWESOME!!!

Where are you?

 

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20 miles North of Houston

 

 

This signature is AWESOME!!!

Wimps. They should deport you all to the swamps of Alabama.

 

We've had like 5 hot days this summer. 

 

I work in an attic in my boxers with an exhaust fan pulling the air through. Every AC I've tried freezes up from over-work. I'm afraid even to measure the temperature because the next day I'll read that 115 degrees will kill you. 

 

Put an ice cube in your jock strap and man up.

 

lol...

 

I'm never asking you for ice for a drink.....

lol...

 

I'm never asking you for ice for a drink.....

For some men, and I'm not sayin' I know them, the ice cubes fit in other places as well. Snugly.