We've been setting high temp records a lot lately. Far too many days have exceeded 100F. Yesterday was 108. Today will be 108. The next four days are to be 106, 106, 104, 104. Mighty hard to get excited about doing anything outdoors.
Is it too hot to do real estate work ? 😀
Our crews have been anguishing in this heat, too. Since a lot of work in the last month has been cross-country transmission line staking, the guys often find themselves a mile or more from the water jug, so I started buying bottled water and keeping three or four cases in the fridge at the office. It disappears fast.
It probably won't let up for three or four more weeks, at least.
It is the employer's responsibility to provide cold water.
However I usually provide my own except when we respond to emergency incidents then they have ice chests full of cold 12oz. water bottles available. The last one averaged 105 with 20mph winds. It is amazing how fast hot wind will blow the moisture out of you. I was drinking 12oz of water every 5 minutes and no need to make yellow stream all day.
I bought eight one gallon water jugs this year. I fill them 1/4 full with filtered water each night and freeze them in the deep freeze. Each morning I top them off and put them in the ice chest. Even in 100 degree temps they are still ice cold at 5pm.
Everyone stay safe and cool this week:
It's never too hot or too cold to bug buyers and sellers, expecting them to do something.
Well, no brag, just fact. It was 115F here today and we haven't had a day below 100 since April. And it's like this every year.
You haven't surveyed until you've surveyed at 125F!
JT in Dubai
I kind of like it hot.....but we haven't seen over 105 here in a long time (Pueblo CO). (I think the record recorded temp. has been 109). I am not sure how you guys handle 108...115º. All day in over 100 is tough.
Have a great week! B-)
Not too bad on Long Island, N.Y. Humidity makes it uncomfortable. Cold water a must.
109.4
And that's not the local FM radio station, either.
Drier than a popcornfart to boot.
I've learned when I'm in that situation to take a backpack and throw in a few bottles of water or gatorade to take with me. I does't stay very cold, but it's better that being a mile from the truck with no water.
I spent a week doing a survey of an entry control point outside of Diwaniyah, Iraq two years ago. I had to wear kevlar the whole time. It was 145.