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I lived through the Summer of 1980 in little Bridgeport, and I was truly thinking that this summer, when all is said and done, might rival it. Man, I'm wrong.
Today is the 23rd day this year that temperatures have broken the 100 degree barrier.
1980 was a heck of a lot worse according to the always reliable Wikipedia: "In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded 100 °F (38 °C) a total of 69 times, including a record 42 consecutive days from June 23 to August 3. Dallas/Fort Worth reached an all-time high on June 26 and 27, soaring to 113 °F (45 °C) on both days."
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The day I turned 34 on June 27, 1980, the high was 113 degrees. I remember driving down Old Granbury Rd in FW at 2 PM and the street was deserted. That was a tough year to be working outside. To get the temperature of buried cables for analyzing we would check tap water. That year tap water was bathwater warm.
Then there was the year of a week below freezing. I was working outside that year also.
that cold year was christmas 83, red river was frozen solid and the mississippi river had chunks of ice as big as school buses..no what i mean vern..!!
Winter of 1979 brought a HUGE ice storm over the state of Texas. I drove with friends from Red River, NM back to Wise County and it was ICE all the way. Horrible! Then... the summer of 1980? Oh geeeeeeeeze....we were begging for the cold back!! That summer was awful! WHAT HAPPENED TO SEASONS in Texas?????
this year doesn't come close to comparing yet..i remember driving from west texas to miss. across I-20, you could drive a thousand miles and not see 1 blade of even dead grass..i mean we were scorched, it was very memorable for me as i met my wife of 28 years in 1980, on the 4th of july. the ac would only cool the temp down about 20 degrees below the outside temp of 115....that's about 95 inside with the ac going constantly, never shutting off..lots of those lukewarm showers..!!
I remember the Hot, and the Cold you are talking about. Actually, the heat does not seem near as bad now, as it was during that scorching, "Hard to Breath Hot Outside" when it was Midnight that summer in '80.
Hubby mzchief is in Kuwait. The daily highs, 90 miles north of Kuwait City, have been between 120-129 degrees with lows around 95 degrees for the past month. Typically, it is 100 degrees by 8:am. He says the sand storms make it feel like a person is being sandblasted in a blast furnace. Fortunately, most of his work is conducted indoors in the a/c.
Were talking about TEXAS weather Mzchief! We don't really give a chit about Kuwait City and their weather patterns. Just give us the damn oil, so I can drive my gas hog!
To anonymous 9:23...
What about ANY of my previous comments have ever indicated I care what you or anyone else wants?
Be patient for a few days. Normal daily highs start dropping around August 16. That also applies to average daily temperatures. Of course, every year is not always "normal".
In the meantime, shade your solar heaters (aka east, west and south facing windows). And by all means, do not run your indoor clothes dryer during the hot parts of the day. A clothes dryer takes in cool conditioned indoor air, heats it up to dry your clothes and then blows it outside. The cool indoor air that is blown outside is replaced through infiltration of hot, 100+ degree air from outside your home. With one hour of usage, a dryer will evacuate all the conditioned air from a 1,300 square foot home. And while the dryer is running it is using more electricity than your a/c unit. It has to be our most wasteful appliance.
I remember the summer of 1980 and this is nothing in comparison...
It was so hot that I saw two trees fighting over a dog.
I saw a funeral procession pull into a Dairy Queen.
I saw a bunch of winos passing around a Dilly Bar!
I saw squirrels fanning their nuts.
It was so hot that Bill would have got in bed with Hilary.
Now that's hot!
On December 21 2012 hot will be cold by all accounts.
Relief is on the way. Check radar off the Louisianna coast.
12:16 at least it will be the end of this bullshit gene my family has endured over 150 years now...i need my check..!!
I remember the summer of 1980 as I got married that June 21st but the heat didn't bother me then as much as now.
In 1980 We were poor,my dad died things got worse. My mom got an FHA loan to build a little crackerjack house. We lived in a dump of a rent house with no a/c she incurred heatstroke and nearly died. My uncle came to live with us and he died. I worked at the egg farm on 51 (those long tin buildings across from the little trailer park)I crated chickens to go to a Campbells Soup factory. They peck and scratch. You'd get hollered at if you couldn't carry enough birds in each hand. It was dusty, everybody coughed. I was 14 years old. I stopped believing in anything around this time.
I remember 1980.
The End
3:05......you've got to write a book.
BTW.....as got as it is now, I'm glad I did not have to endure 1980.
in 1980 it would be near 100 at 6am, so how can anyone compare 2008 to that??
822 you've got that right..!!!!
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