I just have to chime in here (house, college)

[domergurl]

But holey freaking schmoley ... IT'S BLOODY HOT AS HADES!!! I don't ever remember it being this hot for this long in many many moons. It's not even worth going to a pool when it's this stinking hot!!! I have to water my poor plants twice a day. The birds are using the bird bath more than the bird feeder at this point.

Here's hoping for a break sometime soon, although the weatherpeople aren't calling for one. What's worse is it rains and it makes it even more steamy.

Feel free to rant away as I did. We can't change the weather, but we sure can complain!

DM

[Southlander]

What's the high temp for the day?

[lynne2007]

It is a sauna (sp?) out there!! I can barely breathe its so bad...omg can you imagine not having AC right now?!?! NO way Jose!!

[cal gal]

It's 91 deg at this posting. Heat Index 103 deg. Humidity 59%.

Better than the last few days...

[mbuszu]

Originally Posted by domergurl

But holey freaking schmoley ... IT'S BLOODY HOT AS HADES!!! I don't ever remember it being this hot for this long in many many moons. It's not even worth going to a pool when it's this stinking hot!!! I have to water my poor plants twice a day. The birds are using the bird bath more than the bird feeder at this point.
Here's hoping for a break sometime soon, although the weatherpeople aren't calling for one. What's worse is it rains and it makes it even more steamy.
Feel free to rant away as I did. We can't change the weather, but we sure can complain!
DM

LOL for sure! - too hot to be outside for long... the kids are enjoying some water fun, but daddy is inside with mommy enjoying the AC. Sometimes I'm thankful I haven't rushed to take up residence in Florida - especially in August.

[rtboy1961]

complaining about the weather is a God given right to any Hoosier. We are never happy with our weather. We are moving to Florida in the next few weeks. My wife keeps telling me to just forget it if I cant handle the heat in Indy.

[domergurl]

I was taking the kids to DQ today and the sign at the Walgreens said 102 ... I can stand the heat, but this prolonged no end in sight crap is fer da birds.

[domergurl]

Just so you all know, it's 9pm and it's still 90 degrees ...

[MainStreet]

Here's a nostalgia piece I wrote today for another forum, about me, Indiana, and heat...

Wednesday, August 8th

BaBy It'S hOt OuT tHeRe!

This is the kind of heat that boils up memories of my move to central Indiana in the mid-80s, from a land where A.C. stood for Allegen County. Back then, central air was as foreign a concept to me as the ATM and WWW. Life was quite simple and heat was something you experienced when you broke curfew or explored the attic looking for that thread bare concert t-shirt your mom packed away too soon and without asking.

I don't think I perspired until 1981 and even then it was because some Finnish woman poured water on the sauna stones in an attempt to vacate the hot house of college students who were merely warming up after a drunken night of snow drift swimming. As we ran out of the sauna holding our noses, she was bragging about the number of children she'd given birth to under the same conditions. Show off.

When I moved to Indy, I drove a 1986 Mazda pickup with an air vent that was used primarily to defrost the windshield during the winter months. Air conditioning meant rolling down the truck windows with a "knob" that went round and round (I explain this for everyone reading that was born after 1980.) My hair was always messed up, but I had really toned arms. Long before cell phones distracted drivers, not keeping your eye on the road meant leaning across the passenger seat to "roll" down the window while you drove. Back in those days, cars were huge boats and getting some air flow sometimes meant your eye level dipped a bit south of the dash board and the sound of gravel meant you'd just drifted off the road. Ah...those were the good old days.

My mother-in-law's house was the first home I'd ever been in that had central air. I remember my first summer here like it was yesterday. The first morning I stepped out in 90 degree heat and 100 percent humidity, the yelled over the drone of cicadas (a phenomenon I also had never experienced) with a fear reminiscent of Shelley Winters in the Poseidon Adventure, after the ship flipped over and before she saved the day by swimming underwater in the amount of time is takes to fry up a small omelet. It was the very first time I'd thought that moving to Indiana was a mistake. I won't bore you with the 73 other thoughts.

I hope this finds you all in soothing, cool digs...take a moment today and raise your coffee to Willis Haviland Carrier, inventor of air conditioning.

[Colts]

It aint that hot, trust me. We haven't even hit 100 like some of our counterparts.

I'll tell you hot--try living through three Mississippi summers, where the temperature is 93 for 90 days straight each summer.