SeaCat
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Okay I'm used to it being hot out, I live in southern Florida after all. This is getting a bot much though.
For the past several weeks the winds have been out of the west, they pick up heat as they come across the land. In other words it's been hot, usually in the low 90's every day with some good humidity. Then again it does this every year and we get comfort from the afternoon Thunderstorms. For the past week or so though we haven't had any afternoon T-Storms. In other words there hasn't been anything to cool things off.
Then today it got downright insane.
This morning the wife and I went to do some shopping. We picked up the Timber and Bolts I need for the planter as well as some things at a local grocery store. It felt hot out even though it wasn't quite noon yet. When we got home I grabbed the timber and carried it to the side of the trailer where I was working. A distance of less than 50 feet. By the time I dropped the timber I was dripping with sweat. WTF?
I went inside and was just in time to hear the weather radio let loose with it's usual blast of tones for an alert. Glory be but it was a High Heat Warning for the county. That got me curious so I looked at the thermometer. 96°F with 79% humidity. Curious I went online to a site I know to see what the Heat Index was. I didn't believe it so I hauled out my pocket reference and double checked it. It didn't go that high.
A Heat Index of 137°F. No wonder it felt hot out.
My wife and I changed into our bathing suits and headed for the pool. Just walking the short distance there had us sweating. When we showed up the pool was empty. (No big surprise there, the pool area is made of concrete and tile. It reflected the light like a mirror and made it feel even hotter.) Dropping the towels under the overhang of the pool house we looked around and I got an idea. There were an even dozen large patio umbrellas scattered around. I started working as my wife watched from the shade and shook her head.
Each Umbrella was dismounted from it's weighted base and carefully set down. The bases were either lined up along the edge of the pool in the shallow end or tossed into the pool itself. When all of the bases were in place I started setting up the umbrellas. Within a couple of minutes the shallow end of the pool was in shade. Now my wife and I kicked off our shoes and slipped into the water.
We hadn't been in the water for more than five minutes when the property manager comes strolling out of the office. He looked at what I had done, grinned and tossed in a couple of chairs before joining us. (The chairs were set up in the water and we sat in them, the water up to our shoulders.) Before we knew it we were joined by several more people, all of us sitting in the water and shade as we cooled off. (One of those joining us was the woman my wife and I chatted with on the Fourth.)
When the Property Manager was getting ready to leave he mentioned to me he liked my idea enough that he was thinking of getting a cover of some kind to shade the pool.
Now here's an interesting tid bit. A Mobile Home with little or no shade on it heats up incredibly when it gets this warm out. Our A/C has been running all day at full blast. If you stand over the outlets you can feel the blast of cold air against your skin. (I have small fans over the outlets to blast the cold air around the place which helps a lot.) Enough air comes out of even the smaller vents that it will lift a womans skirt. Unfortunately the trailer heats up enough inside that the A/C can't quite keep up. The inside of the trailer reached the lovely temperature of 85° this afternoon.
Cat
For the past several weeks the winds have been out of the west, they pick up heat as they come across the land. In other words it's been hot, usually in the low 90's every day with some good humidity. Then again it does this every year and we get comfort from the afternoon Thunderstorms. For the past week or so though we haven't had any afternoon T-Storms. In other words there hasn't been anything to cool things off.
Then today it got downright insane.
This morning the wife and I went to do some shopping. We picked up the Timber and Bolts I need for the planter as well as some things at a local grocery store. It felt hot out even though it wasn't quite noon yet. When we got home I grabbed the timber and carried it to the side of the trailer where I was working. A distance of less than 50 feet. By the time I dropped the timber I was dripping with sweat. WTF?
I went inside and was just in time to hear the weather radio let loose with it's usual blast of tones for an alert. Glory be but it was a High Heat Warning for the county. That got me curious so I looked at the thermometer. 96°F with 79% humidity. Curious I went online to a site I know to see what the Heat Index was. I didn't believe it so I hauled out my pocket reference and double checked it. It didn't go that high.
A Heat Index of 137°F. No wonder it felt hot out.My wife and I changed into our bathing suits and headed for the pool. Just walking the short distance there had us sweating. When we showed up the pool was empty. (No big surprise there, the pool area is made of concrete and tile. It reflected the light like a mirror and made it feel even hotter.) Dropping the towels under the overhang of the pool house we looked around and I got an idea. There were an even dozen large patio umbrellas scattered around. I started working as my wife watched from the shade and shook her head.
Each Umbrella was dismounted from it's weighted base and carefully set down. The bases were either lined up along the edge of the pool in the shallow end or tossed into the pool itself. When all of the bases were in place I started setting up the umbrellas. Within a couple of minutes the shallow end of the pool was in shade. Now my wife and I kicked off our shoes and slipped into the water.
We hadn't been in the water for more than five minutes when the property manager comes strolling out of the office. He looked at what I had done, grinned and tossed in a couple of chairs before joining us. (The chairs were set up in the water and we sat in them, the water up to our shoulders.) Before we knew it we were joined by several more people, all of us sitting in the water and shade as we cooled off. (One of those joining us was the woman my wife and I chatted with on the Fourth.
)When the Property Manager was getting ready to leave he mentioned to me he liked my idea enough that he was thinking of getting a cover of some kind to shade the pool.
Now here's an interesting tid bit. A Mobile Home with little or no shade on it heats up incredibly when it gets this warm out. Our A/C has been running all day at full blast. If you stand over the outlets you can feel the blast of cold air against your skin. (I have small fans over the outlets to blast the cold air around the place which helps a lot.) Enough air comes out of even the smaller vents that it will lift a womans skirt. Unfortunately the trailer heats up enough inside that the A/C can't quite keep up. The inside of the trailer reached the lovely temperature of 85° this afternoon.
Cat
