It’s hot. Like crazy hot. Today is day one of an expected week long heat wave of 90+ degree temps. It is around 95 right now.
That kind of heat is tough for the livestock so water is critically important for the critters. The dogs are in the house in the AC so they are fine but the other animals are trying to find shade and stay still. It reminds me how glad I am that the hay is in the barn, a few guys are making hay today and that must suck.
So it is hot. Upper Midwest hot, not Arizona or Texas or Florida or Mississippi hot. Still, hot for us.
I’ll leave you with some Miracle-American music.
Very humid here, too.
Yessir, hot as hell with too much humidity, is here now with a vengeance. I consider us lucky to have maintained pretty damn nice temps and relatively low humidity until just this week. It isn’t uncommon for that to set in even in mid to late May around here. So we had longer than usual reprieve. Now through August will be mostly miserable, with maybe a few days where we get a break.
I hope to get a little bit of a break for the 4th. Going to be doing a big fireworks show for family and friends, and while I shoot it all using a remote electronic ignition system now (so no hand lighting and running my ass off to safe range) it still will most likely not be a great day to spend outside.
Good song by Glenn Frey, too. It’s on my fireworks show playlist, which is heavily skewed to 80’s rock this year.
so no hand lighting and running my ass off to safe range
That’s half the fun though Brother…
I didn’t mind hand lighting it so much when I was just doing the small novelty stuff, some fountains and a few multi shot cakes. A few years ago it became a major production (my nieces and nephews love the big show, so I indulge them) with proper launch racks for the mortar shells, and the size of the show just kept growing. Now it rivals a lot of professionally done shows put on by municipalities, but we (family and friends) don’t have to deal with crowds and traffic (and you know what Ol’ Remus said about crowds).
Last year I shot nearly 500 mortar shells, 30 500g multi shot cakes, a bunch of fountains, plus all the small novelty stuff. The latter were hand lit as pre-show messing around. The rest was fused with e-match and shot with a Cobra firing system consisting of 252 cues across 6 firing modules. Run time was a bit over an hour.
I was actually able to watch and enjoy the show instead of sweating my ass off in the 90° heat and 99% humidity running back and forth doing hand light on all that.
Yeah, it loses something in the process, but I’m well past the point of the small time backyard pyro now, and it wasn’t practical to do a whole production this size with hand lighting. Safety is another factor, I don’t need to be in the field, or worry about duds potentially going off late as I’m standing next them while lighting another. And with this quantity, the chance of a stray spark causing a mass ignition event gets to be a lot higher. I really don’t wan’t to be within “blow my ass off” range if that happens.
Keep in mind we do a big BBQ before hand, so I’m usually stuffed at showtime. Maybe I’m getting lazy as I age, but it was definitely getting to be a drag before I got the Corba hardware.
Just went out with digi desert cam and bandana, not so hot now that I’m not 330lbs.
The Eagles are some of the best roadtrip music ever and those Miami Vice songs by Frey are still rocking.
Another cool thing about Russia is they don’t recognize the immaculate Chicago jesus messiah, the one, the greatest human to ever walk the face of the earth.
Scrubbed from Amerikwa searches but they had the Obamski cookies where he looks like Curious George and a nightclub had a neon sign where he was peeling a banana Chicago bathhouse style.
LMFAO! And burn this Mofo down.
There was a new record set recently in San Antonio for heat index, the “real feel” temperature. It was 103 ambient air, and with humidity the heat index was 117. I live a little ways out from S.A. and we had a (non-record) heat index of 121 that day. Really makes me wonder why anyone ever decided to settle in such a place as this, with ridiculous heat, no water to speak of and lousy clay soil an inch deep over hard caliche. The best I can say about it is that our “winter” lasts about 48 hours. If not for stubborn family, I would never even visit such a place as this, let alone live here.
Have to lead them out of the desert Brother…
Well, you know we are in St. Louis county, and no one ever moved here for the weather.
In the Mississippi and Missouri rivers valley, only a few meters above sea level, eastern Missouri stays humid, all the way down to Cape Girardeau.
This much non stop 95+ heat is a bit uncommon this early, usually not till July.
It’s all workable and livable, certainly not the apocalypse, I just dread the electricity bill.
Got all the way up to 75 today with 99% humidity, rain most of the day.
The tornado watch kind of sucks, too, probably lose power when it’s sunny out again like last Friday. Went from a couple years of bad droughts to super-saturated with areal flood warnings, some places have 5.5 inchea TODAY.