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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 2:03 pm
Wow, didn't even occur to me to turn anything off.. but this morning my computer had powered itself down.. Rosie is it still storming there? We never got much in the way of rain. I've heard rumblings today but not totally sure they are thunder caused. It is gloomy doomy out though.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 2:45 pm
Thanks for sending it all to me, ya'll. It started to sprinkle about 1 and has been going steadily since then. It just started to thunder though (haven't seen lightening but I'm also not looking outside.)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 2:45 pm
Thanks for sending it all to me, ya'll. It started to sprinkle about 1 and has been going steadily since then. It just started to thunder though (haven't seen lightening but I'm also not looking outside.)
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 3:45 pm
Wargod, lol. SEA, it has not let up all day. It reminds me of popcorn popping. Once the popcorn gets hot enough, it pops with rapidity and then slows down to pop pop pop. Denecee, I turned off the TV and computer and took a nap. About an hour ago, the thunder sounded and felt like it was inside and my cat and I both jumped up. Still not enough to rain to cause any problems. The storm just doesn't want to move on.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 5:33 pm
Don't just be turning that stuff off in a lightning storm, UNPLUG it! Sheesh. Especially those big expensive tv's.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 5:42 pm
Unplug and disconnect cable!
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 5:45 pm
Hi Juju. Hi GAL. Local news reported about 15 fires started by the lightning but then mother nature helped put them out with her rain. One woman, in Fontana, was killed when lightning hit a tree that she was walking near and then hit her. She was walking home from work. Might get more storms tonight or tomorrow if the weather people know of what they speak.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 8:36 pm
LOL, no big expensive tv here and while there were a hundred strikes in this county, they weren't down here near the coast. Had a little spitting yesterday, totally dry, just clouy today.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 9:35 pm
Hi Rosie.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 10:58 pm
It finally dawned on me today. We have graduation weather! Extremelly windy and it's down right cold (I had to pull out the heavier blankets to put on the beds tonight.) Every year right around graduation time, we have a week of nasty weather (and graduation night is always, always windy) and it's about that time here. I will admit though the rain and thunder/lightening storms are unusual!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 10:48 am
rainy day in boston only in the low 60's. if this was snow whe would probably be getting a good 2 feet of snow. by the end of the week in the mid to high 80's and very humid.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 11:04 am
How hot do ya'll get in the summer, Dfennessey? It's only 81 right now, which is totally awesome!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 11:21 am
We have been in the low 100s this past week in New Orleans. <<---- ready for winter!!!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 11:23 am
we can get into the mid 90's with lots of humidity. this year it has been a very rainy and raw spring with a couple of warm days thrown in, the good part about it is that I planted some tomato plants about 3 weeks ago and probably have only had to water them myself 3 times, mother nature has done the rest.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 12:31 pm
Ick, the humidity is a killer. We have very little of it here and when we do it's just miserable. Our weather has been extremally odd here. We've had very few truly hot days this June (May too.) Usually end of May and June we're wearing shorts to Kota's games and suffering in the heat but this year it's been downright cold (talking jeans, sweatshirts, blankets and hot chocolate!) The good thing about it is that we've barely run the swamp cooler and don't have the big one even hooked up yet, just the window one in the living room. We're also on water restrictions (need to conserve as much as possible, they can fine you if you use too much, but it's not really being forced yet) so we've only been watering the yard two nights a week and the grass is doing just fine. If we were having our normal hot hot hot weather, the grass would already be dying!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 12:45 pm
now War, I know this may be a stupid question, but what is a swamp cooler?
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 12:55 pm
LMAO!!!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 12:57 pm
Scoot don't laugh at me We don't have them on the east coast.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 12:57 pm
Not a stupid question, it's like an air conditioner, but runs off a water line and has pads and requires constant care. They are ugly box like things that sit on top of the house and smaller ones that fit in a window. They suck electricity like mad. We tend to use only the window cooler during the day and shut the hall door so we're only cooling down the front part of the house. Then at night, we turn it off and run only the big one for a few hours for the back of the house.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 12:58 pm
My digital outdoor thermometer says 100.8 right now. The dogs don't even want to go out to pee. They would rather hold it. Oh well, half the yard will be in the shade in about 2.5 hours from the neighbors trees. Maybe they will go out then.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 1:00 pm
I think the big difference between a swamp cooler and an air conditioner is that a swamp cooler is only effective where it is hot and dry. If it is hot and humid, you need an air conditioner. Is that right, War?
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 1:02 pm
DFennessey...I know you don't have them there...I was joking...you should know that by now!!! You don't need them there...you have that snow stuff!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 1:03 pm
That is true, Jimmer. It needs evaporation for the cooling. On a day like today at my house near KC, it's so freaking humid that when I got the deck wet, 30 minutes later you could still see the wet spots on the deck even tho it's near 100.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 1:08 pm
I actually had to put my a/c on Friday night and Saturday night because of the humidity. It sucks the life out of me
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, June 22, 2009 - 1:10 pm
and I always thought there has to be a way to bottle up the natural heat that we get in the summer to heat our homes in the winter and bottle up some of the cold weather in the winter to cool our homes in the summer and I would charge Scoot triple
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