No Power, 104 Here Yesterday!

[Debp]

We had record breaking heat in Los Angeles....108F, then yesterday at 104F.   Plus the evening of the 108 day the power went off!   The electric was off for 24 hours!   33,000 people were without electric in this intense heat.

My mom and I had to eat cereal for two meals, then yesterday evening I ventured out to the food truck nearby to bring home burgers for us.

We kept our refrigerator door closed as much as possible, and didn't open the freezer at all.  The thermostat in our apartment read 90F.... that's the highest it can go, so it might have been hotter.

Finally last night the electric came back on....so thankful for that.

There are others still without electric even in our area.

When we were sweltering in this heat I really felt more for those boys in the caves in Thailand....they are in 100F heat!

[Neighbor]

8 minutes ago, Debp said:

We had record breaking heat in Los Angeles....108F, then yesterday at 104F.   Plus the evening of the 108 day the power went off!   The electric was off for 24 hours!   33,000 people were without electric in this intense heat.

My mom and I had to eat cereal for two meals, then yesterday evening I ventured out to the food truck nearby to bring home burgers for us.

We kept our refrigerator door closed as much as possible, and didn't open the freezer at all.  The thermostat in our apartment read 90F.... that's the highest it can go, so it might have been hotter.

Finally last night the electric came back on....so thankful for that.

There are others still without electric even in our area.

When we were sweltering in this heat I really felt more for those boys in the caves in Thailand....they are in 100F heat!

Wow! So sorry you have had to endure that  at LA. I had not heard of that heat wave. Surprisingly we have been cloudy and cool here in the subtropics temps from 78 low to 88 high intead of our more normal highs in the mid nineties this time of year. I can't imagine the grit needed for a line cook to work a food truck grill in those conditions, but thankful they were at it and you had some food as result.

How long is the heat wave supposed to last?

Not exactly the images that go out to the world at Rose Bowl Parade is it?

Again so sorry, is there anywhere you and your mom can flee to if you lose power and  AC again?

 Praying for your health and safety!

I think it takes a while  for repairs of electric service grids  and even local street transformers now because there is still a shortage of material supplies and workers, many are still working hurricane damaged areas and parts are in very short supply. There is evidently not the abundance  of parts in stock everywhere as  it was in the past.

[ayin jade]

I feel for you.

Here are tricks we do in the desert when we do not have air. Ice cubes are your friend. McDonalds sells bags of ice for a dollar here. You can put those cubes in ziplocks and use them on your neck to cool you down. A lot of body heat is lost in the neck and head area. Cotton is also your friend. Synthetic fabrics do not breathe and are disaster in the heat. Cotton allows the body heat to disipate. Drink plenty of fluids, Your body looses a lot of fluids in the heat even if you do not think you are sweating. 

[Debp]

2 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Wow! So sorry you have had to endure that  at LA. I had not heard of that heat wave. Surprisingly we have been cloudy and cool here in the subtropics temps from 78 low to 88 high intead of our more normal highs in the mid nineties this time of year. I can't imagine the grit needed for a line cook to work a food truck grill in those conditions, but thankful they were at it and you had some food as result.

How long is the heat wave supposed to last?

Not exactly the images that go out to the world at Rose Bowl Parade is it?

Again so sorry, is there anywhere you and your mom can flee to if you lose power and  AC again?

 Praying for your health and safety!

I think it takes a while  for repairs of electric service grids  and even local street transformers now because there is still a shortage of material supplies and workers, many are still working hurricane damaged areas and parts are in very short supply. There is evidently not the abundance  of parts in stock everywhere as  it was in the past.

My brain is still fuzzy from the heat...I think it will be 95 later today.  We rarely get into the 90sF in Los Angeles, so this 108, 104 was a shock to us all.  Even Death Valley was a degree less hot the other day! No where for mom and me to go.   Hopefully, we won't have an outage too soon....some months ago, we had an 11 hour outage but not so hot then.

Our neighbors, a mom and her nurse daughter went to a hotel when the power went out.  They are staying another night.

I called my young neighbor, Will, to let him know the power was back....he told me he was escaping the heat in Mexico!   I was surprised...then he said actually he's in San Diego!   He has a meeting down there.

[Debp]

7 minutes ago, ayin jade said:

I feel for you.

Here are tricks we do in the desert when we do not have air. Ice cubes are your friend. McDonalds sells bags of ice for a dollar here. You can put those cubes in ziplocks and use them on your neck to cool you down. A lot of body heat is lost in the neck and head area. Cotton is also your friend. Synthetic fabrics do not breathe and are disaster in the heat. Cotton allows the body heat to disipate. Drink plenty of fluids, Your body looses a lot of fluids in the heat even if you do not think you are sweating. 

Yes, we did drink ample fluids and I gave mom a wet wash cloth to keep wiping herself with.   I kept splashing water on my arms, back of neck.

Oh, I needed a shower yesterday and because the water heater is run with electric....well, I had to take a very cold water shower!  I soaped up a little at a time and kept rinsing a bit at a time.  Also, had to shampoo that way.

My elderly uncle lives in Phoenix....we always feel for him in that intense heat during your Summers.

[Neighbor]

Hi again, I just did a look see, Van Nuys hit 117. You seem to be  in a small pocket of extreme heat, even our old Yorba Linda area only hit 95, which would be nasty enough. Las Vegas was even cooler than you have been. Since you  are stuck there please be prepared to call emergency services maybe even ready to get to a shelter if needed.

Did you lose food supplies?   By the way  I fill every space in the freezer with freezer baggies of water ( Ice) to fill all the voids and to be able to use as body cooling ice when power goes out  during a hurricane. That keeps us cool long enough to get  cleared away and then get away if needed. Might try it as a practice for there too.

[Neighbor]

Ha, I just realized you are a worse night owl than I am! The older I get the lesser I sleep.

Never did sleep all that much myself. Being  "on call" for much of my working life, and getting up at all hours to "spring" into action makes one a very light sleeper, kind of sleeping one eye at a time.

[Heleadethme]

Being a mother turns you into a light sleeper too, as well as shift work.  And then not to mention loss of hormones later in life, heh.

In the province of Quebec, here in Canada, over 50 people have died as a result of the heat wave....I was shocked to hear that, it's like a massacre!  Mostly elderly and mentally ill who live alone and have no A/C and nobody to check on them and look after them....so sad.  The weather seems to be having wider swings from one extreme to another lately....polar vortexes for most of the winter and now oppressing heat.  We're having a reprieve of cooler weather the last couple of days in Ontario though, enjoying it while we can. 

Bucket of ice water is good for a bit of relief as well, just sit down in a comfy chair, stick your feet in the bucket and say "aaaaaaahhhhhhh".

 

[Neighbor]

Heat wave at Canada. Wow never heard of that one either. Sad that so many suffered and have even died!

Course all we ever hear of Canada down here is when they all come through in February seeking the heat.

I dealt with so many Canadians when we were in the hotel business I picked up the habit of finishing  all my sentences with ...say what eh? Funny thing some of them had a different word than  "say". Cracked me up to here someone finish  near every sentence with that. On occasion just for fun I'd do my best Bostonese and then flip to Maine-iac-isms as in, eh-yup yup, can't get there from he-yah.

Maybe when it gets near universally hot and hotter than hot we will devolve into one big cooler cluster around Mt. Washington New Hampshire tops 78 today. I will be heading for Kennebunkport soon where it is 73 tops, but going as high as 80 days and low 50s at night. It will be the first time I've gottenout of the summer heat here in decades.

 Just talking cool weather feels refreshing. May God keep us all safe even as we sweat a bit, well more than  a bit in these hotter climes of the times.

[Neighbor]

Oh to have Winnie the Pooh's five acre wood and a honey pot. Oh well, God wills and it is good regardless.