Can you handle the Heat???

cars · Post by **cars** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:33 pm

When the temperature exceedes 90 degrees, and it is extremely "Humid",

CAN YOU HANDLE THE HEAT!??? :-6 (And what do you do to cope?)

Cars :driving:

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:42 pm

i absolutely HATE the heat, and it's twice as brutal since we wear polyester uniforms, (yuck!) not to mention kevlar bullet-proof vests...it is MISERABLE!! i live on iced coffee.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:54 pm

I once went to Chicago (won a trip!!) and going from the airport

to the hotel I saw one of those flashing time/temp signs on a bank,

only this one had the humidity, I'll never forget it... it was 98 degrees

and 98% humidity! Now THAT is hot!! :-6

I was raised where it was hot but dry. I love heat. I sit in the shade

and read, and don't do much. Get up and run the garden hose over my

head and/or down my back... brrrrrr!!!

;)

jahamaa · Post by **jahamaa** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:21 pm

cars, lady cop I have not been warm since November. todays forcast sees a warm up but they are calling for up to 2 inches of rain.

My friends from Florida are really starting to torq me off. But I'll get over it by July, I hope.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:30 pm

you can have florida, Jahamaa...right about july i'll be worrying about hurricanes!!

Jika · Post by **Jika** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:14 pm

lady cop wrote: i absolutely HATE the heat, and it's twice as brutal since we wear polyester uniforms, (yuck!) not to mention kevlar bullet-proof vests...it is MISERABLE!! i live on iced coffee.

I feel for you LC. Synthetic fibres in extreme heat must be excrutiating! Does this cause problems for other officers with regard to skin irritations, heat rashes etc? I was just wondering because it could be a real occupational health and safety issue, or are you guys n' gals supposed to just 'soldier on'?

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:59 pm

Jika wrote: I feel for you LC. Synthetic fibres in extreme heat must be excrutiating! Does this cause problems for other officers with regard to skin irritations, heat rashes etc? I was just wondering because it could be a real occupational health and safety issue, or are you guys n' gals supposed to just 'soldier on'?i really wish we could wear tropical cottons, i know they need ironing, but i don't care, i'd be happy to pay the cleaners. ...but the polyester stays neat looking so we're stuck with it, to answer your question, yes, heat rashes are common.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:55 pm

Well here is San Diego.. the weather is almost perfect each and every day.. :-6 Summer can get hot, but we don't have the humidity... as long as your not to far inland you always have a breeze.. I can't complain it as close to paradise as it gets.. :-6 :-6

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:04 pm

CARLA wrote: Well here is San Diego.. the weather is almost perfect each and every day.. :-6 Summer can get hot, but we don't have the humidity... as long as your not to far inland you always have a breeze.. I can't complain it as close to paradise as it gets.. :-6 :-6 CARLA , you need to work for the Chamber of Commerce! (your area IS gorgeous!) and you get to live in sarongs and leis pretty lady! :yh_flower

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:07 pm

I can handle the heat,with humididty I wilt and suffer. Summertime temps in Roseville (near Sacramento) can run 100 to 104 for weeks on end and I have no problem with it because the humidity is around 26%. I'll walk 18 holes of golf with no problem. New Jersey (where I once lived) at 85 degrees and 85% humidity, wipes me out.

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:51 am

Posted by lady cop:

you can have florida, Jahamaa...right about july i'll be worrying about hurricanes!

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That's why I'll be running back to CT in mid May!!! :wah:

Cars :driving:

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:13 am

Send some of it over here:-2

greydeadhead · Post by **greydeadhead** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:37 am

A 90 degree day I can handle.. as long as there isn't any humidity and I am on the lake in the boat...add in the humidity and forget it.. you can have it. Now give me a day like yesterday.. 40.. blue skies.. incredible ski conditions.. yeppers.. take that over 90 and humid anyday..

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:47 am

You'd love it here it's been raining for two days, nothing like warm spring rain to make you feel alive. Go and stand under a cold shower if you want the same effect.

In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

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minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:35 pm

Heat? Humidity? What is that about, I never live in that heh heh , cool and dry here. So only heat and humidity I see is holidays and it never is long enough to find discomfort with that.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:42 pm

Give me HOT HOT HOT!!!! When it's super hot out, we just put on short sleeves, and jump on the scoot! Riding down by the water, even on the hottest day feels great when you're on a motorcycle. I'd live where it's hot year-round if I could.

BonnieScotsLass · Post by **BonnieScotsLass** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:55 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: Send some of it over here:-2

And send a wee bit to Scotland too please :wah:

Philadelphia Eagle · Post by **Philadelphia Eagle** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:29 pm

I'm OK up to around 85F But above that and especially if it's humid I disappear inside to the comfort of air-conditioning! It gets to around 100 here in the height of the summer (triple digit days we call 'em).They're bad news.

I sympathize with our colleagues from Scotland and Ireland. During a 'summer' vacation there some years ago it rained every day for two weeks and it was so cold! So on 'triple digit days' here at home I remember that and the heat and humidity suddenly becomes more bearable!

David813 · Post by **David813** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:26 pm

I absolutely LOATHE excessive heat. KC has miserable summers with the agony peaking in August. I had some friends from Carla's area here last year and they were literally sick unless we were indoors. Temps in the 90's with 90% humidity that floods in from the Gulf Coast is so awful I let my yard go till September! I know about the dry heat in the SW deserts. And that kind of heat kills. The humidity kills the youngest and oldest of the poor. A libertarian wet dream! My favorite weather is either in Labrador, P.I.E. or western Canada. And to think August is my birth month! My poor mother back in '63 must have been miserable! BAN HUMIDITY!!

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:05 am

bring it ON!!!

except here, there just isnt enough of it.