No Power, 104 Here Yesterday!

[ayin jade]

I saw golfers playing golf yesterday. At the time, it was 112 degrees.

[other one]

interesting...   I don't think our actual temperature has risen above 10 so far this year.   We have had heat indexes of 108 or 109 though...

 

Even at 71 there has only been a couple of days that I didn't feel comfortable/safe working out in it.   But I'm a sweat hog and after ten minutes I'm soaking wet and that really cools you off when wearing cotton or the Starter stuff that is designed to wick away moisture.

[ayin jade]

Our temps have been fairly mild this year. 

[Debp]

9 hours ago, Neighbor said:

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.

Thankfully we didn't lose the food....the freezer foods were still frozen, I had a bunch of them and never opened that door.  The fridge part did finally get a slight bit warmer but so far so good on the foods there.

8 hours ago, Neighbor said:

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.

Oh, yes, I'm a terrible night owl!   Everytime we have to change the clocks backwards or forwards, I seem to be awake later!  Sometimes I go to bed earlier, need to work on it....but you people at the forum are such fascinating individuals, I keep on reading and posting! ?

8 hours ago, Heleadethme said:

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".

 

I didn't realize Canada could have deadly heat waves!   Sorry to hear of the people dying!

[Debp]

1 hour ago, ayin jade said:

I saw golfers playing golf yesterday. At the time, it was 112 degrees.

Oh my..... that's the reason we never moved to Phoenix!!  After a slight earthquake here in 1971, the few family members we had here moved to Phoenix.  One time while visiting them, I tried walking from my uncle's where I was staying to my other uncle nearby.   The other uncle didn't answer the door and I was about perishing with the heat.....so thankfully found a 7-11 and ducked in there for a beverage and went back to uncle Leo's.

Saw a mailman delivering the mail at noon in Phoenix (in Summer).... couldn't understand how he could do it!   My brain felt baked!

[Debp]

Heard on our news last night that something like 22,000 people are still without power!  We went without for 24 hours and that was bad enough....can you imagine being without power since 9pm on Friday till now?!

[ayin jade]

38 minutes ago, Debp said:

Heard on our news last night that something like 22,000 people are still without power!  We went without for 24 hours and that was bad enough....can you imagine being without power since 9pm on Friday till now?!

In the summer, we have a monsoon. Going through that now. (I love the monsoon here.) During the monsoon, large amounts of folks are often without power. Today, the city of buckeye was without power. The power companies crews are swift to restore power within hours. Rarely do power outages last more than 24 hrs. During that time, there are emergency shelters set up at schools (the ones that still have power) for folks to hang out and cool off. In addition, there are trucks that bring free ice out to neighborhoods so that folks can use that to cool off or keep food cool.

News about buckeyes power outage. Its a suburb of phoenix. 10k people were without power. All has been restored by now, according to the power companys website. Fixed within 5 hrs.

Your state is prepared for earthquake emergencies. Mine is prepared for heat emergencies. 

[Debp]

5 minutes ago, ayin jade said:

In the summer, we have a monsoon. Going through that now. (I love the monsoon here.) During the monsoon, large amounts of folks are often without power. Today, the city of buckeye was without power. The power companies crews are swift to restore power within hours. Rarely do power outages last more than 24 hrs. During that time, there are emergency shelters set up at schools (the ones that still have power) for folks to hang out and cool off. In addition, there are trucks that bring free ice out to neighborhoods so that folks can use that to cool off or keep food cool.

News about buckeyes power outage. Its a suburb of phoenix. 10k people were without power. All has been restored by now, according to the power companys website. Fixed within 5 hrs.

Your state is prepared for earthquake emergencies. Mine is prepared for heat emergencies. 

That's nice you get Monsoon rains!  I miss rain, we rarely get it.   Also, great your city is so quick to restore power, etc.

[ayin jade]

Big monsoon storm today. I think it included microbursts from some of the photos Ive seen. 60 mph winds. 51k without power. 

Let me show you. 

These are big steel power poles that are now in the canal. 

https://mediaassets.abc15.com/photo/2018/07/09/7_9JasonMcCoy_GreenfieldPark_1531181271663_91952304_ver1.0_900_675.jpg

 

Tree gets knocked down on top of cars. 

https://mediaassets.abc15.com/photo/2018/07/09/Silvia Lee Palma Sun City_1531183424472.jpg_91952310_ver1.0_900_675.jpg

 

https://mediaassets.abc15.com/photo/2018/07/09/Screen Shot 2018-07-09 at 4.20.45 PM_1531178509592.png_91936300_ver1.0_900_675.jpg

 

More tree damage.

 

https://mediaassets.abc15.com/photo/2018/07/09/Albin Haglund_I17andTbird_1531183058862.jpg_91952309_ver1.0_900_675.jpg

 

And my favorite. Just because the dog is cute.

https://mediaassets.abc15.com/photo/2018/07/09/Julie Kirk Higley Brown Mesa_1531182005753.jpg_91952308_ver1.0_900_675.jpg

 

[ayin jade]

The dust storm (haboob) approaches.

https://mediaassets.abc15.com/photo/2018/07/09/Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport_1531178890149.gif_91948804_ver1.0_900_675.jpg

The dust storm arrives.

https://mediaassets.abc15.com/photo/2018/07/09/Screen Shot 2018-07-09 at 4.27.43 PM_1531178890231.png_91948805_ver1.0_900_675.jpg