We had a couple of warm days here up north, but the house is stone so it stayed nice and cool indoors.
I agree, the fact they are pushing electric vehicles while the grid is in disrepair is laughable.
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well, the old saying is: “you don’t have to shovel heat”.
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In winter, even though I might keep the house cooler [$$$], I can get comfy with warmer clothes. Furry sox, fleece pantaloons, long-sleeve thermal shirt, etc., and just get under the covers if I need to.
In summer, there’s only so much you can take off without getting arrested outside, and inside there’s nothing to wick away sweat which only makes you feel worse.
All of The Cats were just lolling about like lions in The Serengeti, doing nothing, smarter than most hyu-mons. They’re all short-haired except for my #3, who has thick luxurious wool.
He parked himself in front of my fan, but I didn’t mind. Saw him panting, though, and figured he needed a cooldown.
Grabbed a bowl of water, and after brushing him to get as much of that loose fuzz off of him, started petting him and dunking my hand in water to wet him, even “palming” some water to move it along. He seemed to like it after a while, and then just laid down with no panting.
Thankfully, they’re all drinking as much water as I’m putting out, nice and cold(ish) right from the tap.
I’m doing the same, with half grape-juice and half water. Even made grape sody-pop with half GJ and half seltzer. Way way better than grape-scented fizzy sugar-water.
'Though I’m still wishing for a good Polar Vortex to come along right now…
Fleece is a gift from whatever God you cherish. Retired now, but I worked out-of-doors most of my adult years. I tried it all, including high end woolies, but at the end of the day fleece wrappings beat it all. Only exceptions were socks. Wool rules in the footwear comfort department, cold or hot.
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Yeah, for however many years already, in winter I wear the same 3 fleece jammie-bottoms over and over in rotation, and even take them outside in freezing weather to go shopping, etc.
Only downside is that I think they’re made by Swiffer, because they pick up every last damned cat-hair, fuzz, lint, etc., to the point where the washer’s trap gets filled, and there are still fuzzes seemingly permanently stuck to them.
I literally pull out from the trap, clumps of wet fuzz that’re about the size of a Brillo pad. I wonder how The Cats aren’t bald from all the hairs that come out, and get picked up, in each wash.
But yah, on the bright side, they’re hella warm!
My cats used to love zooming outside and then inside while I was putting in the window AC in the bedroom when they were younger. As they got older they started looking at me with a look that said “hurry up”.
My GF loves to shop and was buying Darn Tough socks for gifts long enough to equip us for both hot and cold conditions. I bought her some Alpaca socks and she’s been liking those lately.
If the zombie apocalypse ever arrives I’m confident I’ll have warm feet while they’re eating my brain.
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That pretty much describes my life so far…
I used to run around like an idiot in the hottest weather. Then go biking all over Hell’s Creation all day long, using the breeze to “cool off”.
Now? I find shade under a nice flat rock and just park myself there like The Mighty Lizard.
I can relate. It’s too hot to sit outside and listen to the baseball game so I’m camped out inside. I can’t yell at the kids to get off my lawn but it’s a lot cooler in here.
I got my ass parked in here all day, but even the fan just feels like someone shining a hairdryer at me at full blast.
Still, I’d rather be inside than outside. Put out a while ago, a garbage bag onto the patio to dump out front when it’s “cooler”. Mr Amazon was the next stop, so figured I’d grab the bag, dump it in the bin out front, and just wait for the package.
Yeah, I’m in blazing sunlight in 1,000,000° heat, and STILL I’m being chased around by skeeters in just 20-30 seconds.
Back inside now, and already the backs of my knees (they always go there for whatever reason) are itchy if not burning.
I’m like sugar to them.
Like, do I gotta marinate in citronella oil?
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Semaphore flags?
That’s right, signaling I’m pretty chill. 
I they’re the 7 Chakra flags, they arrived with some Nepalese wall hangings and go up the pole when I take the van out for a few days static.
The telescopic pole was bought to take a Tecsun SW radio wire antenna up high. It’s surprisingly easy to forget it’s up and start driving 
It’s been fairly hot here.
As long as our air conditioning and our swamp cooler and our electricity works, I can handle the heat.
Oh, and the dew point (humidity) has been reasonable.
When the dew point gets too high, it gets uncomfortable, even indoors. 
They got a flag for everything nowadays, don’t they?
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I’ve never had much luck using a long wire antenna, the whip antenna works better in my part of suburbia. I keep looking for interesting programs there but about all I find are foreign language shows, people yelling about their religion and a couple of conspiracy nuts.
Mmmmmm, conspiracy nuts…
Salted or unsalted?
I like honey-roasted.
Dry roast, in tinfoil bags are my favourite conspiracy nuts.
In answer to @no_motor, I’m far from any suberbia. I live amongst the South Downs in Southern England, you’ll notice I spell favourite and colourful in the correct manner 
The sort of place that looks a bit like Hobbit Shire to many US dwellers. Our signals are uninterrupted and it’s also very easy to gain some height if not.
Having said that, the Tecsun was bought for several reasons. It’s analogue, and has great sound quality so works for regular listening. But it’ll double as a listening post if the SHTF. I quickly got bored of Bulgarian radio etc, and the religious nuts can FRO.
We do seem to be getting heatwaves, but I’m convinced in our case that the BBC ( we refer to it as Auntie) insists on making these heatwaves newsworthy and sensationalist. What it creates is classic British chat about the weather, and if I had a £1 for every time I heard “it’s supposed to be even hotter tomorrow” over the weekend I’d have a pocketful of cash. Years ago, it would just be a hot day.
Here’s a trick I used in the days when I rented a house with a central swamp cooler.
As soon as the sun stops cooking the roof, get out the water hose and spray down the roof.
For the first few mins the runoff will be hot enough to burn you.
In poorly insulated attic dwellings having a 100f vs 170f overhead made evening cool down much faster.
All the Best, Jeff