When it gets too hot for comfort

Well at least you are rich Don.

Hoping the Bentley was in the garage.

Hail can be hell.... we had a storm a few years back that was pretty catastrophic. One of my co-workers had bought a 7 series BMW a week before the Hailmageddon he still sings the blues.

Hope it all works out for you.

Here in the Denver area we are used to it, but I am tired of dealing with damage nearly every year the past decade. Five of our last six cars have had significant hail damage at some point. My son was at work yesterday about 5 miles from us. The truck we bought him as a college graduation - wedding gift in May, is covered in dents. Probably about $7000-8000 of repair needed. We have good insurance, but deductibles on multiple vehicles will add up fast. The drive home from work was interesting last night. Cars hydroplaning and driving too fast for the conditions made it an adventure. Anyway, it is all just stuff. Stuff can be fixed or replaced. It will be interesting at work today hearing my co-workers reports on damage.

with an air conditioner! lol

i smoke outside, so I try to get out early morning or late evening, if it is fairly comfortable. yesterday morning it was stuffy and unpleasant, but fortunately it stormed early evening and by 8:30 it was no longer raining and comfortable outside.  when it's too hot to sit out in the morning or evening I just don't smoke. but i do get to go to a smoking lounge across town that is air conditioned

I smoke outside, other than the rare occasions that my wife will be out of town for a few days and I think I can get away with a smoke or two in the house.

It gets damn hot and humid in Lower Alabama and if I didn't want to smoke I probably wouldn't be outside. Having some shade makes a big difference. I have a table and patio umbrella on the deck and it makes it tolerable to sit and have a smoke. There hasn't been much breeze lately so sometimes I take a box fan out and set it up to get some air moving. That helps too.

It's going to be in the low 90s with 84% humidity today, but I'll spend some time on the deck having a smoke and watch the dog swim in the pool. I might just jump in once in a while myself.

I don't know why they even advertise Sunsetter awnings in SE Texas. They are just a place where the mosquitoes can congregate. I am in the process of screening in the 16x32 back porch.

I'm glad that stuff works for you. I'd hate to have mosquitoes around me.

I remember staying with my uncle in Portugal and having to go around his house with a shoe squashing the mosquitoes every evening before bed.

You can buy a screen room from sunsetter awnings for whatever size awning you have... I bought one and it fit so well that there were no entry points for the pests....we really had no mosquitos where I lived south of San Jose, so it was a waste of money for me.


No mosquitos here really to speak of thankfully.
I have a buddy in Houston that has to dress like a beekeeper to mow his lawn, he took pics of his hands, and they looked pretty gnarly.

I am glad that I can smoke all day at work in air conditioned comfort, my Freightliner could double as a meat locker. On my breaks while parked If I flip on the cruise control and hit accelerate, it prevents the truck from doing the five minute auto shutoff. Fairly quiet in the cab, but outside the truck it sounds like a friggin jet engine when the fan clutch kicks in and the turbo whines.

Currently 105, through the week it is topping out at about 110.

Well, it's not exactly hot right now. 77 degrees, but 95% humidity. So not exactly cool either. It has rained more than 6"(150mm)in the last 1.5 hours and it is still coming down so hard that I can't see across the street. Yard is 3+ inches deep.

This is pretty impressive, even by Houston standards. A lot of the streets are flooding right in time for rush hour. We drove into Montrose for lunch and made it back home just as the sky fell out. At least I know that my house won't flood wit anything less than 54 inches. Beaumont has had over a foot before today, but I don't know how my more they will get.

Ron... when handed lemons, make lemonade... rather, Ron the rice farmer.