and the start of July),
Where I used to work it was a 24/7 operation. When I'd been working evenings this time of year, when it got hotter than average, you'd get off around midnight; it'd be in the upper 80's, sometimes low 90's when really bad, and the humidity so high you half expected to see small frogs kicking past you. Lord, that's miserable. And usually very little wind at those times, , which made it worse.
So when the Usual Suspects start bitching about the evils of air conditioning and how we were better off without it and would be now, I want to pick up something long and heavy and beat them with it.
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There's a good reason that Florida was a backwater, sparsely-populated hinterland until the invention of the air conditioner... It's ball-sweating hot and humid. As kids, we just figured it supposed to be like that and spent every walking hour outdoors, either playing sports or hunting/fishing. As a soon-to-be-geezer, who has worked outdoors most of his adult life, I appreciate the luxury of a well-tuned AC system. 😎
I remember being a little kid in Texas in the 1950's and it being so hot and/or dry that the ground actually had cracks in it. So everybody just calm down. Weather is cyclical.
From the Fifties when I was a kid to the Oughts, we regularly had 100 to 107 degree days during the summer. In the last 10-15 years we have had maybe two a year. Anyone who makes their living working outside has nothing but contempt for the globull warming BS.
If nothing else is certain. It is certain some people want or need others to freak out and worry about the weather tomorrow. Life is too short to worry. Go out and enjoy it as we were intended.
"I want to pick up something long and heavy and beat them with it. "
Nope.....too hot for that. Just give them an ice cold drink and they will thank you as they suffer all the more. Take a sip of hot tea and a draught of ambient temp water with a pinch of salt, and put them on the list for attention in winter when a little exercise is welcome.
I spent over 35 years working here in Muskegon, MI at a steel melt shop. The temperature on the air melt floor was routinely 150 degrees or so. That was year round.
We often saw temperatures outside in the 90's. You acclimate to such conditions. But we always kept an eye on each other during very muggy and hot conditions. I helped out other guys several times when they got heat stress, taking them to a cool, air conditioned lunch room and making sure that they were alright.
I only had a problem one time, and I was able to recover on my own. We were pouring a heat, and it took around one hour. Around half way, I got dizzy and light headed. The guy running the ladle above my head too the wheel from the pouring box and gave it to another and I went to the lunch room and sat for about a half hour, after dousing my head in cold water.
Supervision never said a bit about someone needing to take a cool down break, since they knew that it could be dangerous.
The other thing about working there was that we were within a mile or so of Lake Michigan. The wind in winter was often super strong. I remember driving outside on a lift truck when the wind-chill was 70 degrees below zero. I had to go outside often when I was getting scrap steel for remelt. If you got stuck you had to come inside to warm up before trying to get unstuck.
We made steel for the investment casting industry.
Seasons, just another one of nature's way of making liberals and low educated people cry about the sky falling.
Check for a giant kid with a magnifying glass.
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