Wednesday, July 20, 2011

We're having a heat wave . . .

. . . a tropical heat wave! The temperature's rising, it isn't surprising (etc.)!

Seriously guys, it's crazy hot here! We've been in the mid 90s all week with humidity in the 60-70%! Don't get me wrong, I can handle my heat, but when you slap on that 60-70% humidity, it is ROUGH!

We're having something called an "extreme heat warning" or something like that, and they (whoever "they" are) are telling everyone to stay inside, drink lots of water, check on your elderly neighbors, etc. They're even opening fire hydrants all over town to help people cool off. It's kind of good that they are opening them, because if they city doesn't do it, people will just open them on their own anyway and that creates all kinds of problems (or so the local news tells us). Even our poor air conditioner, which usually does an amazing job, is struggling to keep up with the heat. We have it set at 70 and for the last couple of days it has struggled to keep our inside temperature at 72/73! Poor thing! There is just too much water in the air!

But, it's really not all that bad, and I'll take the heat and humidity over the cold and grey ANY day. The sun has been shining non-stop for a week now, which is quite the achievement for little ole' Ohio! I think it's going to be like this until Monday, and hopefully then we'll just have some normal Ohio summer weather (hot in the day, storms at night--love it!).

And until then, I'll keep singing and dancing to music from "White Christmas." :)

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