Hand Tool Chat, Tonight, 9:30 p.m. e.d.t.

Re: Hand Tool Chat, Tonight, 9:30 p.m. e.d.t.

Greg Bétit, Vergennes, VT

>I was doing some planing Saturday, and the grandson asked me why I had a folded bandana tied around my head like a ninja. My daughter told him it was because I was reminiscing my hippie days, back when Pépère had hair. The bandana was wet enough that it must have stung a little when I snapped my daughter's backside with it.

After a month's visit, they're off back on their way back home to Kenya today, the house will seem empty.

Greg

Re: A/C shop and

Dale Lenz-Tahlequah, OK

>bandana and plenty of rest breaks w/ cold drinks work most of the time, : ' >

Dale

Re: Hand Tool Chat, Tonight, 9:30 p.m. e.d.t.

R.J.Whelan

>Four fans, all north facing windows open, bandana, lots of icewater and finally give up when I'm spending more time removing sweat drips than working. 112 degrees one day last week!

rj

The other Arizona

Don in Northern Arizona

>You want strange weather come to Northern Arizona during monsoon season. It was 62 degrees and rusty humid when I came home from work at about 5:15PM yesterday. I wore my fleece jacket to walk the dogs this morning at about 5:30AM. A week ago I couldn't sleep for the heat. The shop window faces west so it has been toasty in there after work. Yesterday it was perfect.

Don

Heat Woes at Lie-Nielsen

Hank Knight from SC

>I just talked with the folks at Lie-Nielsen in Maine. It's 90 degrees there and they are suffering. Their machines are shutting down because of the heat. I feel for them. The heat index is 109 here.

Re: Heat Woes at Lie-Nielsen

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Well, it's only 98° here, and I don't think I even want to know what the heat index is, but across the Bay in Salisbury, DE, it's about 120°. They're promising severe thunderstorms for tonight. I've got my fingers crossed. Of course, if power gets knocked out and the temperature doesn't go down, I'll have to retreat to the cellar. Well, it could be worse. We could be in Bombay, where the monsoon dumped almost a meter of rain in one day!

I don't know if you get our leftover weather

Bruce, a MN Galoot

>Last week it was very hot, 90+ with dew points pushing 80, and this week we're at 73 with DP or 50. Life is good again. Hang in there.

Bruce

Re: Heat Woes at Lie-Nielsen

Steve knight

>what they can't afford cold air? I rode my bike 15 miles today and it got to 98.

Re: Hand Tool Chat, Tonight, 9:30 p.m. e.d.t.

Steve knight

>my shop wont get above 79 this year. nothing like being underground.

Re: Used weather :^(

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>By the time the system got to the Cohansey last night, you guys had just about used it all up. We got thunderstorms all right, and power was out for over six hours, but it only gave us a tenth of an inch of rain. My linguini was al dente, to say the least. Temperature fell to 70°. It's now climbing again, 72° currently, but the humidity is 73%. More warp, rust and sweat! I hope the guys in Maine fare better. I've got a couple of tools on order. September should be better.

Send Your Leftovers Down Here

Hank Knight from SC

>It was 99 degrees when I drove home from work at 7:15 P.M. last night and 89 at 8:30 this morning. I'd welcome any leftover cool air you guys can spare.

Re: Send Your Leftovers Down Here

Greg Bétit, Vergennes, VT

>I'll trade you some 67 degree, 50% humidity weather today for the same from you in January...

Greg

Deal!

Hank Knight from SC

>Greg,

With one day of your snow in January we'd be shut down for a week! We are conditined from childhood here to regard snow as an impromptu holiday. As soon as it begins to snow, the schools let the kids out and it's party time! By the time we grow up (?), the attitude is deeply ingrained. With the first few flakes, businesses start shutting down - and it's party time! A day or two of the stuff is great, but I get enough of it very quickly. Nevertheless, I'll trade you a couple of days of this 100+ degree heat for a couple of days of your snow and cold in January.

Hank

Guys at LN

Jack Guzman from Maine

>They must've had a better day today.The temp dropped quite a bit and no humidity. Just a warm breezy beautiful summer day.Gonna be that way all weekend too.---Jack

Wimps!!!!!!!

Steve Kubien

>I have been born and raised in Canada (proud of it I might add). Now granted, I'm not from the prairies or maritime provinces that get real serious snow but I think I understand what winter is supposed to be about. I think your 'Carolina' attitude is digusting. It is also contagious! My uncle moved from Ontario to Myrtle Beach about 20 years ago and ever since he has been complaining about snow (whenever he sees it and remembers what it is). Do you guys hang billboards denouncing the glory of fluffy white precipitation or do you put something in the water? Sheesh, you ruined a perfectly good man in my uncle. When he retires and comes home we're going to have to send him to Nunavut (waaaay the heck north!) just to get him back in the spirit.

Steve Kubien - hating humid heat and looking forward to a bit of the white stuff

(tongue planted firmly in cheek except for the last part, I hope you understand).

Re: Wimps!!!!!!!

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>I like four seasons, but not too much of any one of them. No "Winter and the Fourth of July" for me. I can take some snow. I can take some bugs. I can take lots of spring flowers and autumn leaves. I'm not sure which is more frustrating, mowing the lawn and having it grown back before dawn, or shoveling the driveway and having it blown shut before dawn, or raking sycamore leaves and not being able to find the chrysanthemums by dawn, just as long as I don't have to do any of it day in and day out for months on end. I need some time to work in the shop!

Re: Wimps!!!!!!!

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I grew up in Virginia, where there was some snow but not all that much, quite a bit of high humidity heat from mid-July to mid-August, nights never cooling down, no A/C way back when. Twenty years in the Boston area was quite enough snow and winter for the rest of my life, twenty springs when my body kept yelling for 80° in April (good luck on that in Boston). My theory for coping is to jump in with both feet, go skiing in the winter, go further north for vacation, etc.

While Austin isn't perfect, it's closer than anywhere else I've lived. Yeah, it gets super hot for July and August, but when it's real hot the humidity is relatively low, and it cools down real nicely at night. I don't use A/C. Winters are close to non-existant, but it does get cool enough to kill a few germs and bugs, no snow.

I'm with your uncle: if I never see another snow flake that will be too soon. I probably could be convinced to take up skiing again in the Colorado powder, though.

I heard there was something called the Sun Coast just north of Vancouver. Is that true? Is it really warm in the winter?

Pam

Re: Send Your Leftovers Down Here

Mike G. in SC

>Take heart Hank...It's only supposed to be in the low 80's through the weekend and Monday with about 50% chance of rain everyday.

Mike G. in the foothills of SC