Its HOT!!!

103 in the desert ain't shit. Try 103 with 95% humidity. Heat index was 115 today.

I'm not complaining, but I'm also staying inside this week. I'll take a week of this over 1 day of snow.

 

When I was working on my uncle's farm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I got hit in the head and got a concussion...it was 98 degrees that day, and the humidity was over 90-percent. We routinely worked in the fields with temps over 100 degrees, and that was in Wisconsin.
I worked for him for four summers, and every single summer, it was so dry and so hot in July and August that the ground cracked. Every summer. And it ALWAYS did that, before and after I worked for him. And that was from 1981-1985.
I got my '56 Chevy the summer I was 17. I brought it home, and took it apart that summer...It was 100-102 all week when I took out the interior. I remember specifically that it was 103 the day I crawled through the back seat area into the trunk--where every rat and mouse for miles must have called home at one point, because they all pissed in the trunk--to open the deck lid from the inside because the keys were MIA. That was 1987.
Every year it gets hot in...um, July and August. It's called "Summer." Been happening for at least the last couple hundred years, maybe longer. Who knows for sure? Certainly not the same band of scientists that were telling me in 6th grade that we needed to get ready for another ice age! Remember that?! That was the big Global Crisis when I was in elementary school. A freaking Ice Age was going to come in our lifetime.
There's a cure for these high temps, and it's not driving electric cars or the idiotic idea that McDonalds cattle ranches are farting us to death (incidentally, how many cows roam India? And what about all the greenhouse gasses produced by rapidly industrializing/polluters China and India?).
The cure, my friends, is September.
Wait it out.
Or, do like I did tonight--waited until it was nice and cool(ish), went out into the shop, set up a fan to blow the mosquittos out the door, another one blowing on me, and installed the lowering springs on my '62 Suburban.

"Cool" tip for guys wanting to cool off their shop so it doesn't become an oven--open a window during the day, but even more importantly if you have uninsulated metal garage doors--get the 1/2-inch insulation board at Home Depot (comes in 4x8 sheet like plywood), and insulate your garage door/doors. My doors faced direct west, and radiated heat into the shop from 1pm until sun down. I didn't have a thermometer out there, but I garauntee it was over 130 degrees on a hot day.
Insulating the doors easily knocked that down 20-30 degrees. It's hot out there, but do-able.
-Brad

 

oh my god!!! I am in sac and its was over a 100 for 12 days straight when you work in a metal building it like a beer can in a parking lot. inside temp was 118 for days. but isn't that what the dog days of summer is all about. we finaly got a break. cant wait till I move back to santa rosa where the fog comes in at night and chills the place down. 4 days and counting.

 

I'm seriously thinking about getting one of those big 700 pound portable units for the shop. Says they can cool an area 4 times as large as my shop so it should work well.