Heat Wave?

Hot as hades in Atlanta. Upper 90s with no signs of cooling.

We hit 103 degrees at the airport on saturday, setting a new record high temp. It's hard to work outside, drinking lot of water to stay hydrated and lots of rest breaks in the shade.

We're in the thick of it here.  It's been hot, but I like heat a lot better than cold so no complaints from me.  The only thing I don't like about heat is trying to sleep in it, but having an air conditioned house takes the trouble out of that.

Glad too hear most of you are doing ok ,hope it will get over soon,need too get rid of the humidity out there. My son is working 16 hour shifts( He is with the power co in S.C.)

Wow.. finally able to get on.  Just got power back on from the wicked storm that blew this area out on Friday night..  one of the worst storms I've ever seen including hurricanes.  It was like a hurricane in 30 minutes..  transformers outside of my house blew, poles and trees down - power out.  We're on a well so when power fails.. no water.  No water for anything including flushing..  dreadful.  But, back on now after 3-1/2 days without.  I have to give a shout out to the power company - I literally saw them working around the clock..  still so much damage around.  Good luck all..  Deb

Just got our power back too.  After Friday's storm there were crews working hard on Saturday just to open roads so electrical workers could assess the damage.  The prediction is that some areas nearby may not get power back until next weekend. I understand the problem of restoring power down here in the hills where I live but even some areas near Columbus (50 miles north of me) may not be back until next Sunday. 

The good news was that we still had water during the power outage.  Not having electric was an inconvenience but it allowed me to make good use of some of my camping equipment for cooking, etc.  Every evening we would bring in the solar powered lights that we have along our walks and flower beds and they provided enough light to move around the house.  We also opened all the windows after dark which cooled the house down to about 75 before morning  and then buttoned her up during the day.  No air movement, but it stayed below 80 degrees in the house which felt great compared to the 95+ outside temps. After 2 days we had to empty the fridge and put everything on ice in coolers so once again the camping gear came in handy as I have 3 coolers between  70-100 quarts which I use on multi-day raft trips.  I also got a lot of reading and guitar pickin' done and caught several smallmouth bass on a local stream yesterday while floating/cooling off.

Per the papers, the storm was classified as a "Derecho" or shear winds which covered a wide area.  Winds reached 85 mph locally but I'm sure other areas were probably hit worse. Hope all is well with my fellow Chordians.

DE

I heard this storm was a derecho, which concerned me given that my name is Derek, the radio announcer didn't enunciate very well, and I had had a wee drop to drink with my Chordie friends on Skype that night....

Thanks bluejeep,my daughter in law told me that they were heading further up into N.Carolina,I hope he is carefull out there.

It hasn`t been too bad here.It`s hot but not 100. Of course my electric bill will be outrageous this month. The back of my truck gets hot, but it hasn`t killed me. All I have to do is think of how hot it is for everybody else. Hope everyone is getting through it ok. Look at it this way. In Anchorage, they are still turning the snow mountain from all the snow they had. I think I would prefer heat.

It's going to be 72 and beautiful here in Seattle. 

It's supposed to be 80 here on Sunday.  Might have to break out the sun screen!