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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:05 PM
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108 degrees here in northeast Oklahoma
Hottest I've seen it here in a long long time. I've got my cooking thermometer that I've checked at 33 degrees and at 210.8 degrees, what water boils at at our elevation, and its right on and this thermometer is in the shade. I suspect it'll go up another degree or two before evening. This is the hottest I've seen it around here in a long time.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:07 PM
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1. You have the most awful weather. Tornados, hail storms, ice storms now 108 degree heat.
I don't know how you do it but props for surviving in it.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:43 PM
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8. We're just immune to it I guess
maybe a little bit crazy thrown in to boot too.
What makes it so unbearable is the humidity. I get to thinking I'm back in 'Nam sometimes.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 10:24 PM
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45. You're much drier than Texas.
At least in Oklahoma, it cools off at night.
In Texas where it's humid, it never cools off at night.

Friday night I was in North Dallas, it was 103 at 10 p.m.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:08 PM
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2. 20 degrees hotter than it is in Redding, Ca today
and Redding has the hottest weather in Northern California. :(
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:08 PM
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3. Jesus FUCK! Get thee to an airplane and head West, my friend...
I have a bong hit waiting for you

And if that's not your style I have a shot of Mezcal for you

And if THAT'S not your style, I have a perfectly functional AC unit for you
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givemebackmycountry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:44 PM
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9. I'll take all three thank you!
Preferably, in multiple doses!
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:00 PM
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19. But of course! Like I say, you gotta be crazy not to be high about now...
Got some Don Amado Plata right now

Goes great by itself, in a mini-snifter

Smoke, agave and a vanilla finish
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givemebackmycountry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 09:58 PM
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44. Oh now see, NOW we are friends.
A Tequila aficionado.
You had me at agave.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:45 PM
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10. The bong would do me righteous about right now as its been a while
If it wasn't for the pool and air conditioner I couldn't make it here any longer.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:58 PM
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18. Always welcome my friend
Just don't mind the kids - they're friggen CRAZY
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:09 PM
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4. It was 106 as we were heading to Braums for A FroYo just now.
Steaming. It wouldn't be so bad if there were not humidity, but it's high, and it sucks.
Keep cool, fellow Okie. Keep cool!:hi:
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:49 PM
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11. A Braums strawberry shake is to die for.
For some reason when we passed Braums on the way back home earlier we didn't stop and thats getting to be unusual.
I can imagine what it must be like out west of here. How do you all take it day in and day out.
I think we're going to be setting all kinds of heat records this year. The last summer I remember it being hot as it is now around here was the summer of '80, it was brutal then. :hi:
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 07:28 PM
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41. Our AC is STRUGGLING to keep up.
It is 85 in our living room and hotter in the back of the house. We have to get Skip (my husband) another fan to blow on his computer. It was up to 131 degrees earlier. We have a ceiling fan blowing and my oscillating fan I've had running since we moved in 2 years ago (I don't think this is an exaggeration; we've only unplugged it to move and clean it). We've also had to find precooked chicken and other simpler dinner ideas to keep from using the oven to keep the heat down. I have blackout curtains on the windows and rarely use covers anymore.
Our Electric bill is SCARY.
Duckie
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:15 PM
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5. It's finally raining here.
It is a good thing. The crops and gardens here were getting stressed.

I know it is nothing like the drought some of you have been experiencing, but I am relieved to see this rain.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:53 PM
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14. We only have a small garden and I'm having to water it every day right now
I made a raised bed garden this year and used mulch from the local mushroom farm to fill them with and my plants are growing like all get outs but not making much groceries. My garden is beautiful though but I can't eat the plants. I guess if I had two stomachs like a cow maybe I could.
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shireen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:20 PM
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6. oh no ... I hope you're OK
This kind of weather is so hard on the elderly, especially those living alone. I hope there are programs in place to check in on them ... unless the local government slashed it out of the budget.


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ezgoingrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:27 PM
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7. The heat in this state
sucks heartily.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:57 PM
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17. Its a lot worse where you are than where I'm at too
I'm looking forward to fall as we didn't even have a spring this year. We were using the pellet stove up to one day and then the next we were having to turn the air conditioner on. We went straight from winter to summer.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:50 PM
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12. Get used to it. It's the new summer normal for your region.
Edited on Sun Jul-10-11 04:54 PM by kestrel91316
Now relax in the knowledge that there is NOTHING to this theory of global warming.
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Cereal Kyller Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:52 PM
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13. Sen. Inhofe's "igloo" for Al Gore is okay though, right?
RIGHT??? :scared:
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:01 PM
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21. That goofy bastard is off flying his airplane somewhere I'm sure
What an embarrassment he and coburn are.
Up to when we started using an electronic vote counting machines you couldn't find a republiCON in our states elected offices and now thats all we have. I think the vote counting machines are at fault too as of the people I know not many are :puke:s. In the local elections most times there won't even be a republicon in the running but get to the state or federal level and thats all we have. :wtf:
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a la izquierda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:55 PM
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15. Howdy neighbor!
We were melting down in Norman...but now we're at the beach, so we're hoping to bring some cooler temps with us when we return home. ;)
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:02 PM
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23. I will forever love you so if you will
And I don't take that love word too lightly either :-) :hi:
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:56 PM
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16. I feel your pain. I'm in San Angelo, TX and it's been over 100 since the beginning of June.
:scared:
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Cereal Kyller Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:02 PM
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22. San Angelo?
You wouldn't happen to know Chris Berry, would you? :-)
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:06 PM
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26. No, I don't.
I've only been here a year.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:04 PM
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25. Where is that from Houston
Last time I was there I swore I'd never go back in the summer time. It's been close to 30 years since that was too.
Stay cool
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:08 PM
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28. It's west Texas,
north and west of Austin???

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=san+angelo,+tx&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1600&bih=616&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8657e583a53b7191:0x827e3d0b3754c742,San+Angelo,+TX&gl=us&ei=aSIaTuOxFI6CsALTtLXCBw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CD0Q8gEwAQ

I've only been here a year and last summer was nothing like this one.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:13 PM
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31. Oh, thanks
I think this mid section of the country is breaking all sorts of heat records this summer and its only the 10th of July, we've got two maybe three months of this to go yet.
Damn I wish I hadn't of thought that thought.
When its too hot to get in the pool its pretty damn brutal is all I know for sure.
I noticed my thermometer has dropped back to 106 now so maybe it won't get hotter after all.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:00 PM
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20. Ouch, that 37 degrees hotter than here
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:03 PM
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24. 108 YIKES!!
I feel your pain, it's been hot here for weeks!

Right now it is cloudy and the wind is blowing,the rain is going around us... UGGGGG!

Keep COOL! And STAY Hydrated!
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:06 PM
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27. Austin Texas, what a beautiful place
full of wonderful people. You are my envy. If I was living in Austin I couldn't or wouldn't complain about anything anytime. :hi:
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:10 PM
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29. Oh... I dunno about that!
It's been horribly dry, no measurable rain since septemeber and it's HOT! LOL!!

I'm a native, so we complain every year about the heat!
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:15 PM
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32. You still live in one of the most beautiful cities there is
The few times I've been there I didn't want to leave.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:17 PM
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33. I agree it is a wonderful place to live!
We need more Lefty's! You should get down here!!! :)
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:20 PM
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34. I'd love to but I'm too danged old to make the change now
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Cereal Kyller Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:10 PM
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30. What about the Bachmanns living under the bridges?
:scared:
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:39 PM
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35. Tulsa news just said
downtown temps at Channel 6 are 109 degrees.

I cut the grass today. Hope I didn't kill it all.
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Springer9 Donating Member (268 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:08 PM
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36. I'm tellin' ya, it's the 1930's come back to haunt
The weather and the economy. July 9-10, 1936 was the worst and the economy started to tank again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1458654
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AverageJoe90 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:12 PM
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37. One strange coincidence, isn't it?
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:16 PM
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39. My grandma called it the "Dirty 30s"
She was a freshman in high school in 1936 and she said it got above 110F that summer. This was in Western MN.
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Springer9 Donating Member (268 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:43 PM
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40. I always got two different perspectives of the depression
and the "Dirty 30's" growing up. My parents were both born in 1925, but my dad grew up in Chicago(Cicero) and talked of sleeping on fire escapes, in the parks and by Lake Michigan if they could find room. My mother grew up in W. Mn.(Graceville, Barry, Johnson area) and spoke of the dust storms and the men and family's, but mostly men, coming to the door looking to work for anything, especially food.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 09:19 PM
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43. My grandma grew up on a farm near Hawley, MN. About 30 miles E of Fargo.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:14 PM
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38. North Dakota must be stealing all of Texas's rain, because Fargo has too much of it.
Spring and summer and been super-wet here. The Red River is still above flood stage.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 07:50 PM
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42. And there is no such thing as global warming. Can't prove it by me. n/t
Edited on Sun Jul-10-11 07:51 PM by RebelOne
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 11:03 PM
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46. Family is visiting Tulsa right... we are used to the heat though...
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 11:05 PM
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47. It was 106 here at 2 pm
I don't ever remember it being this hot.
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