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    It's so hot in here....

    I don't know about the rest of you, but there's been some nasty old humidity in connecticut that would make mother Theresa wanna knock some one out. I'm thinking it's turing my already cranky-pants patients into fire breathing dragons!!

    Just today we had a woman storm in and start screaming at our doctor's office, because when she called us, we wouldn't stop talking. Every time she would say, "excuse me!", they would just keep talking, and talking, never letter her get a word in to tell them that she is hard of hearing.

    Turns out she was arguing with the recorded message that picks up when someone calls and directs them to push one or two...

    She best go get some fro-yo and go cool herself the heck down!

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    Heat and humidity knocking us out here in NYC too. Although I'm sure our colleagues from Texas or Florida would call us whimps.

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    We are having an absolutly beautiful summer here in northeast Florida. We have yet to enter the middle 90's yet. The forecast average high temperature for the next 7 days is a stunning 89 degrees! That's not even hot, just warm for these parts.
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    its global warming caused by the fumes of edging hi index lenses....better stop! LOL

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    A couple weeks ago I was in a wedding in Phoenix during record breaking heat. 118 taking pictures in a tux. Never again.

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    This warming is a plot by Essilor to cause the premature breakdown of ar so you need to replace the lenses more often!

    Tropical downpours right now. Weather in Massachusetts is like Bangkok today but I remember February and March this year so I'm not kivitch'n.

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    it was NINETY degrees in ALASKA of all places. i literally had to COOL off in ALASKA.... and people say global warming is a joke! i can literally see snow from where i am standing but its 90+ degrees outside....

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    ..arguing with the recorded message... That's too good!

    The humidity in Utah has even been stifling, and humidity isn't something we normally get! Good for our dried out skin, though..

    Quote Originally Posted by optilady1 View Post
    I don't know about the rest of you, but there's been some nasty old humidity in connecticut that would make mother Theresa wanna knock some one out. I'm thinking it's turing my already cranky-pants patients into fire breathing dragons!!

    Just today we had a woman storm in and start screaming at our doctor's office, because when she called us, we wouldn't stop talking. Every time she would say, "excuse me!", they would just keep talking, and talking, never letter her get a word in to tell them that she is hard of hearing.

    Turns out she was arguing with the recorded message that picks up when someone calls and directs them to push one or two...

    She best go get some fro-yo and go cool herself the heck down!

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    it was 88 degrees inside my lab yesterday, without the machines running.

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    We just had a record-breaking rainfall for July 11th of .04 inches....the 4th "measurable" rainfall on that date since the early 1800's. Humid by Cali standards but we're so spoiled!

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    After spending most of the past 74 years in New England I sold the farm and moved to the Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon. I can no longer tolerate sleet, snow, week long power outages and hot humid rainy weather. The climate here is perfect and the quality of life second to none.

    The summer climate is sunny (the last precipitation was three weeks ago) with average temps around 90 degrees and no humidity. As soon as the sun goes down the evening temperature in my door yard drops to the mid fiftes so we sleep under blankets every night.

    How sweet it is!

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    (heard on the radio)..It's so hot, the Sun showed up with a baseball bat and thinks I owe it money.

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    A summertime treat cools life down.

    In my left hand.. Canadian Club on ice teased with Pepsi.

    In my right had a sugar only
    Bunn brewed double scoop of dark roast.

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    It's so hot that instead of tapping phones, the NSA has been tapping kegs.
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    Another full week of 95+ days here in NYC. Heat index over 100.

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    That's our night time low!

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    Quote Originally Posted by optical24/7 View Post
    That's our night time low!
    LOL...figured you would say something like that.

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    Replaced the halogen lights (32 of them) with led's last winter and switched from shirts & ties to golf shirts this summer. Can't imagine what it would have been like if we hadn't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Huffam View Post
    ....and people say global warming is a joke!
    You Global warming people start this up every summer, but when it was like hell frozen over we didnt hear a peep out of you.

    Im in the south and it's just now starting to get hot...this has been the coldest year so far since I moved down here about 10 years ago. So people down here dont wanna hear any of that global warming flat earth nonsense



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    Quote Originally Posted by waynegilpin View Post
    Replaced the halogen lights (32 of them) with led's last winter and switched from shirts & ties to golf shirts this summer. Can't imagine what it would have been like if we hadn't.
    How many of those halogen lights are you going to put back in to help reduce the cost of heating this up coming winter?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterCrafter View Post
    So people down here dont wanna hear any of that global warming flat earth nonsense
    The erudite community throughout history knew the earth wasn't flat. They just needed to look at a lunar eclipse to figure it out or that a ships mast disappears over the horizon.
    The planet is warming- as confirmed by a recent study sponsored by those liberal lefties the Koch brothers!

    http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...climate-change
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Martellaro View Post
    It's so hot that instead of tapping phones, the NSA has been tapping kegs.
    Hah!!! The wit in here, it's as intense as the heat.

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    We may get into the low 90's next week.

    Looking forward to "Night at the Movies" at our local NFL team's stadium, low 80's blanket on the field watching a movie on the big screen. It will be awesome when we get our 300 foot wide video boards next year!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCGREEN View Post
    How many of those halogen lights are you going to put back in to help reduce the cost of heating this up coming winter?
    It's not the cost that concerns me. It's my comfort. In the winter I can put on wool pants and sweaters. In the summer I can't come in wearing shorts and sandals. A few more years though and I burn all the business clothing, then they can reinstall the halogens if they want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Fester View Post
    The erudite community throughout history knew the earth wasn't flat. They just needed to look at a lunar eclipse to figure it out or that a ships mast disappears over the horizon.
    The planet is warming- as confirmed by a recent study sponsored by those liberal lefties the Koch brothers!

    http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...climate-change
    Most Global Warming scientists agree that the Earth has not warmed up in the last 15 years. They admit that it has been a cooling period. They try and and say it's an anomaly, that it will warm up again.

    I say DUH !! Doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that the earth warms sometimes, and it cools back off.. It is a cycle that repeats itself. Its called freaking mother nature...it's not "man made" All those Libs and thier war on woman... Man made Man Made - Give Mother nature her credit and stop this war on woman

    Al Bore took all his data from the late 80's early 90's and has ignored all the recent data...he says the argument is over. I ask Al why are most of the heat records set in the late 1890's and the 1930's ? Where the more cars on the streets back then? I think Mr Bore thinks so...I mean he did invent the internet!!

    So to sum it up... it is hotter in some area's and colder in other area's



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