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Whew, I feel like Murtaugh from the Lethal Weapon movies.
Posted by Jon Payne on June 30, 2023 at 7:36 pmI stopped by a courthouse a county over to get some information. I wasn’t planning to, but on the way back to my office, I stopped to see if I could find/set a couple of points to start the work from next week. I dug up the front two corners; which were down about half a foot. I then started to set up a NRTK receiver to hit a couple of points. Didn’t have the batteries as I hadn’t planned to actually stop by.
Oh well, it’s too dang hot anyway. Then, I looked up the weather.com temp. report:
I’m getting too old for this shtuff.
james-fleming replied 1 year, 2 months ago 9 Members · 13 Replies -
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I can’t do the heat anymore, I like the office life, it’s always sunny and 72 degrees.
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It was a hot one here in Orlando as well. I tanked up with some water and Gatorade before heading out from the truck with my RTK and shovel to recover more PRMs. Not even an hour had passed when I began to develop a headache. I should have brought a bottle of water with me, but I wasn’t wearing a safety vest so there was no place to put it. This all took place in the late morning.
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We’re dealing with Canadian smoke here. The North Central part of the state was code red on Wednesday and Thursday, orange today.
I’ve had nose bleeds and headaches and wear a mask indoors and out. Next week, we have the heat, not like the West, but bad enough.
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Friday here in eastern Iowa the smoke had cleared a lot. We had several days of haze that limited visibility for aviation and I could see that it was hazy when looking at trees less than a block away.
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@mathteacher I’ve seen some footage and can’t even imagine how bad that smoke would be. Hopefully it will pass soon.
I live near Land Between the Lakes and they do controlled burns occasionally to keep the material down. It can get very smoky but is in small areas at a time.
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I never work in lightning. Or Hail. If I’m feeling hail, I’m not sure why I’m not already in the truck. Lightning is a solid stop anytime. Heat Schmeet. Truck has AC for the end of the day.
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My trucks are all equipped with 255 air conditioners. Two windows down and 55 miles per hour.
One has a heater that insists on working yearround.
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you’re tougher than I am. Something in the water over there I suppose.
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yeah. I learned about Picher chat when I was working in environmental science.
It’s a shame that people didnt rise up with pitchfork and axe handles to beat down the beN counters and ‘scientists’ that deemed it no harm and innocuous at that time.
something I learned was free rock and stone isn’t really free, or good sometimes…
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Chat was spread over many miles of roads in all directions. Dust, runoff,…………………..Standard road culverts deteriorate much faster in those areas.
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This was what the truck said when i got off the tractor. Truck was parked in under the shade of hardwoods. Probably more like 90ish all i know is outside feels like when you open the oven and check on mommas cakes. We fed cows this morning first and the ladies spent time picking blackberries for a pie. Once i got the ac on in truck I never wanted to leave. The heat is one thing but humidity is all together something else. What a day. And i am supposed to smoke some chicken and pork this afternoon. Good grief. We will have a late dinner lol.
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I’m getting too old for this shtuff.
My last job had me traveling way too much (flew to Kansas City just to do a “Lunch and Learn” for a huge engineering company).
When I gave my notice, I told my boss that this is a great position for someone ambitious in their 40’s but I’m just too old to be hauling my a** through airports two weeks out of every month.
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