With some exceptions, kitties don’t love getting wet. One particularly hot day, I tucked my black beauty into a damp bath towel and roller her up in it. She went for that better than she would have tolerated getting spritzed or dunked.
Thanks for all of your wit and caring and resilience.
To live in these times is to understand why so many earthlings millennia and hundreds of years ago thought the End Times were coming. It's just one thing right after another -- I remember when "worried" scientists were always telling us we needed to get our act together on the climate in, say, 75 or 100 years, or something bad might happen. Well, now the very stuff they were warning about is already under way. Those "100 years" sure went by fast! Point is, climate change is already happening at a very nearly catastrophic intensity, and most of the big, high-polluting countries are still dithering about maybe someday fixing to do something good for the planet. President Biden has done some good work in this vital area, but not many are following his lead.
In most of the SW where it seldom freezes for long, water pipes are buried near the surface so the first drink of water in the morning will be the coolest until tomorrow morning. Much of their water comes from the Central Arizona Project which is determined to be fit for human consumption but try not to give any to pets or water your plants with it
Just got a new TX-transplant weather forecaster on one of our northern locale stations. Who on various occasions during these helldays says "caused by man-made climate change". Wonder how long they will last.
I’m on medication that is wonderful and saved my whole life BUT it has made me very heat sensitive. It sucks. I was fighting for my life when I got to work this and had to chug a liquid IV out of my big dumb cup (full of ice of course) and today won’t even be the worst of it
"Drink more water than usual. In this heat, you may perspire more than you realize."
This goes double for you non-natives in places like the Terrible Sand Kingdom of Arizonastan, because in the dry h̶a̶t̶e̶ heat here people don'e even realize they're sweating, and think they're ok until they're not...every summer we get visitors who start off on a 5 mile hike in the desert with like a single 12oz bottle of water.
I had a friend who helped rescue/recover (iirc she ended up dying) a young German tourist who hiked down into the grand canyon with insufficient water and did not realize she was in bad bad shape until it was far far too late.
On a less lethal example it happened to my wife when we first moved here; she got a bad case on the border between heat exhaustion and heat stroke; it's made her more susceptible to overheating issues for going on 35 years now.
I work in a nursery, most of which is greenhouse. We have urine color hydration charts in the restroom. Those are pretty accurate and a good way for employees to gauge their level of hydration. Discussing the color of your urine with coworkers is a great way to get to know one another. I've worked in nurseries where, when it's peak heat / sunshine resulting in temperatures over 110 we rotate everybody 20 minutes in 20 minutes out of the greenhouse. We usually have timers. One for every two employees. They pass it back and forth when they go in the house and when they come out.
Cory Doctorow writes a wonderful riff on this in "Walkaway":
" “Piss clear.” It was a walkaway benediction, especially in nomadic mode. It was polite to offer unsolicited opinions on your neighbor’s urine. Clear was the goal. Anything darker than a daffodil was grounds for having water forced upon you. If your piss was orange or brown, you’d be passively and aggressively made to drink a tonic of rehydration salts, and endure your peers’ condescension for letting your endocrinology get the best of you."
After DSO and I read it, we started being a bit more cognizant of it as some of our recreations involves bicycles and long rides in hot weather. Turns out staying hydrated is a good group goal....
And here's my 10yo wanting to snuggle up beside me. ugh, child, I do not want to wash vomit out of your hair, can you please sit slightly away from me.
Spray bottle with ice cold water in it for the face and head. Even better if you can spritz while in front of the fan. (This kept me alive, I reckon, when our A/C went on the fritz a few years ago in a heat wave. Even the cat quickly learned to enjoy it.)
With some exceptions, kitties don’t love getting wet. One particularly hot day, I tucked my black beauty into a damp bath towel and roller her up in it. She went for that better than she would have tolerated getting spritzed or dunked.
Thanks for all of your wit and caring and resilience.
<laughs in Atlanta-ish>
To live in these times is to understand why so many earthlings millennia and hundreds of years ago thought the End Times were coming. It's just one thing right after another -- I remember when "worried" scientists were always telling us we needed to get our act together on the climate in, say, 75 or 100 years, or something bad might happen. Well, now the very stuff they were warning about is already under way. Those "100 years" sure went by fast! Point is, climate change is already happening at a very nearly catastrophic intensity, and most of the big, high-polluting countries are still dithering about maybe someday fixing to do something good for the planet. President Biden has done some good work in this vital area, but not many are following his lead.
Good advice: note, though, then when the humidity is high, drinking water is little help. Get cool.
Ta, Sara. Keeping cool here in the east village this evening.
Wear a floppy sunhat. Soak it in water before putting it on
In most of the SW where it seldom freezes for long, water pipes are buried near the surface so the first drink of water in the morning will be the coolest until tomorrow morning. Much of their water comes from the Central Arizona Project which is determined to be fit for human consumption but try not to give any to pets or water your plants with it
Just got a new TX-transplant weather forecaster on one of our northern locale stations. Who on various occasions during these helldays says "caused by man-made climate change". Wonder how long they will last.
I’m on medication that is wonderful and saved my whole life BUT it has made me very heat sensitive. It sucks. I was fighting for my life when I got to work this and had to chug a liquid IV out of my big dumb cup (full of ice of course) and today won’t even be the worst of it
"Drink more water than usual. In this heat, you may perspire more than you realize."
This goes double for you non-natives in places like the Terrible Sand Kingdom of Arizonastan, because in the dry h̶a̶t̶e̶ heat here people don'e even realize they're sweating, and think they're ok until they're not...every summer we get visitors who start off on a 5 mile hike in the desert with like a single 12oz bottle of water.
I had a friend who helped rescue/recover (iirc she ended up dying) a young German tourist who hiked down into the grand canyon with insufficient water and did not realize she was in bad bad shape until it was far far too late.
On a less lethal example it happened to my wife when we first moved here; she got a bad case on the border between heat exhaustion and heat stroke; it's made her more susceptible to overheating issues for going on 35 years now.
I work in a nursery, most of which is greenhouse. We have urine color hydration charts in the restroom. Those are pretty accurate and a good way for employees to gauge their level of hydration. Discussing the color of your urine with coworkers is a great way to get to know one another. I've worked in nurseries where, when it's peak heat / sunshine resulting in temperatures over 110 we rotate everybody 20 minutes in 20 minutes out of the greenhouse. We usually have timers. One for every two employees. They pass it back and forth when they go in the house and when they come out.
Cory Doctorow writes a wonderful riff on this in "Walkaway":
" “Piss clear.” It was a walkaway benediction, especially in nomadic mode. It was polite to offer unsolicited opinions on your neighbor’s urine. Clear was the goal. Anything darker than a daffodil was grounds for having water forced upon you. If your piss was orange or brown, you’d be passively and aggressively made to drink a tonic of rehydration salts, and endure your peers’ condescension for letting your endocrinology get the best of you."
After DSO and I read it, we started being a bit more cognizant of it as some of our recreations involves bicycles and long rides in hot weather. Turns out staying hydrated is a good group goal....
This is The Way.
Good comment.
Thank you!
Hotter than Mojave in my heart
Iris Dement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaKEzrKXiZU
I keep confusing Mojave with Rojava.
Climate is similar, anyway.
currently 90 in Mojave.
Too hot.
90 here in the Owens Valley, too. It's true what they say about dry heat. I don't mind it. I lived in Death Valley for years, this is nothing.
And here's my 10yo wanting to snuggle up beside me. ugh, child, I do not want to wash vomit out of your hair, can you please sit slightly away from me.
Aren’t you glad global warming is hoax?/s
Spray bottle with ice cold water in it for the face and head. Even better if you can spritz while in front of the fan. (This kept me alive, I reckon, when our A/C went on the fritz a few years ago in a heat wave. Even the cat quickly learned to enjoy it.)
𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘹 𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭-𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬, 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦.
So, keep the Dr. Cathy Gale leather catsuit in the closet, and wear the Emma Peel crimplene catsuit instead. Gotcha.
I just learned of the existence of crimplene. Interesting.