WA heat wave - how is everyone doing?

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<p>Just checking how my fellow WA CC’ers are doing today. This heat wave is UNBELIEVABLE. I hope everyone is staying hydrated and cool. If you have pets, don’t forget abot them. My cat was panting last night after a vigorous moth chase, so I dipped her in a sink full of cool water - for the first time in her life she did not mind a “bath”!</p>

<p>This article has some helpful tips for dog owners to keep their furry friends cool in this heat:</p>

<p>[Dog</a> day cares keeping pets cool in heat | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009555808_dogsweather29m.html?cmpid=2628]Dog”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009555808_dogsweather29m.html?cmpid=2628)</p>

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<p>Sorry to hear about your heatwave. Here in the northeast, it is, yet again, raining.</p>

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<p>garland, can we borrow some of your rain? I’m tired of constantly watering my garden beds, and I gave up on whatever used to be a lawn.</p>

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<p>I wish I could send it! Our plants may rot away.</p>

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<p>I’m a happy camper!</p>

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<p>It’s even hotter here in Portland. It is 100 today. I took the dogs out and they immediately lay down in the shade of the car. There are smog advisories… no unnecessary driving. Yes, I really want to spend time in my car with the sun coming through the windows and the AC straining…</p>

<p>Of course the refrigerator at our biz chose today to die and now I’m trying to get a replacement delivered today.</p>

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<p>Did our states switch places? I swear colorado has been under a blanket of wet weather for a while now (not that i’m complaining) and where i live its only gotten into the 90s three times this year. Weird.</p>

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<p>Another New Englander here. I’m SICK of the rain. Yes, it’s raining AGAIN today.</p>

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<p>The NE folks need to send their rain to drought stricken TX and CA.</p>

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<p>OK, this is a bit much for me:</p>

<p>[The</a> Seattle Times: Record 102 degrees reached](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/zoom/html/2009560233.html]The”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/zoom/html/2009560233.html)</p>

<p>:eek:</p>

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<p>Hmm. I’m sick of the rain, but overall, I’ll take that over 102 :eek: </p>

<p>My sincerest condolences to you all out in the NW. This is just freakish.</p>

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<p>I am loving loving loving it, but I grew up in much hotter climates and like a week or two of hot weather to feel like summer. That said we are near the coast and get on shore breezes, friends 20 minutes inland are miserable</p>

<p>The bald eagle I saw today on a tree looked like he was panting! Mouth open, tongue out, not sure why he was on the branch in the sun instead of the shade.</p>

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<p>It’s a little too hot for me. Thank God we bought the AC unit last year. Can’t buy one right now anywhere. Was a cool 70 last night in the house and slept under a blanket as usual. The office AC is barely keeping up so I closed my blinds which helped. And my little desk fan. Not bad. Reminds me of an Austin summer. AC house to AC car to AC office. Repeat. Not much outdoor time.</p>

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<p>102 for the high? You guys in WA are BIG WIMPS! Here in Phoenix, it’s currently 109 – down from highs around 115 last week! :D</p>

<p>But seriously, I do sympathize with you. If you’re not used to the heat and really prepared to deal with (e.g., having a 5-ton A/C unit on your house and ceiling fans in every room), it can be really debilitating. So sorry…</p>

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<p>worried_mom, I’ll take 115 in Phoenix over 102 in Seattle! Proximity to large bodies of water makes our heat humid and less bearable. You are right - only 15% of households in our county have any kind of AC. I told H to get a ceiling fan long time ago (our house was pre-wired for it), but H thinks they are ugly. May be this heat wave will convince him (and he can change the light fixture as well while he is up there) - LOL.</p>

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<p>BB, I can assure you that even in mid Willamette Valley, at 300 elevation, 104 is unbearable unless you have AC. I installed whole house heatpump in mom’s house, over her objections, but I will not allow our frail 80# mom endure this heat. </p>

<p>Investigate if Puget PUD has a energy program. </p>

<p>Wasn’t all that expensive thanks to PUD copay and a great deal with the HVAC installer. Installed thermo-efficient windows too. Thankyou OB, Congress, oil and energy speculators.</p>

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<p>I just spoke on the phone to relatives back home in Seattle. It’s the end of days. The folks said there are no fans to be had at any department store. A fan??? In my childhood growing up in the Great Northwest I never saw a fan or an AC unit. Our first car with AC was a nearly new 1974 Chevy Impala 400. Of the three cars we owned prior to that one, none had AC and none of the cars of my parents’ friends had AC either. Ever drive through the southern Idaho desert in August with no AC? We did. Three times on car vacations from Seattle in the late 1960s and early 1970s.</p>

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<p>I used to envy son spending his summer in the NW- not recently however.</p>

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<p>Loving the weather here in Missouri…rains…mostly at night…delightful to sleep by…mid 80’s most days (norm for us this time of year is more around 100)…whoever switched the weather…I need to give him/her a BIG HUG!</p>

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<p>It was 107 at my house in western WA today! We are always about 5 degrees hotter than Seattle, as we are 20 miles inland. Remember we don’t have AC here in houses too often. We have lots of fans and a portable room air conditioner for our bedroom. My dogs are not happy right now, even when I give them soft blankets and pillows in front of a big fan. Same story tomorrow…</p>