Yes. I did wildland fire for 30 years. My job description was a wildland Fire Management Specialist with the Bureau of Land Management.Was firefighting your profession? When it comes to forest fires, about which I, blessedly, know nothing, I imagine that there must be community members who volunteer as well as professionals.
I am not sure about canada, but 47 or 48 use states have scorpions, they are all over america even in cold yankee land. However them ending up in swamp coolers has to do with them using water to cool, and being mostly used in deserts swamp coolers are a primary spot for critters to get water and cool off, and much like any critter in a bowl they get stuck and drown.I never even heard the term "swamp cooler" before; I certainly had no idea how one worked. Now i have only the knowledge gleaned here from the list of material used in in making one and the information that sand and scorpions are found when one cleans them out! That scorpions live where they are used is probably a clue to their origins. There are no scorpions where I live.
I have been reading but not participating in this thread. Since I "have the floor" I wanted to mention that in the discussion of temperature at the Equator, no oe mention the role of elevation. My daughter was born on the Equator in late August in a very cool and temperate climate...at quite a high elevation. Not only did I like the temperatures, but I liked the dearth of bugs.
Exactly. Homeless folks may have a problem... they don't have a thermostat. The rest of us are fine.I have no trouble to change the places and the temperatures too. Lived in winter in UK, lived one summer in Mexico. Both where fine somehow
After seeing these headlines when I first woke up, I find your comment startling. This was on the front page of "The New York Times" in the place for the story of second most importance.Exactly. Homeless folks may have a problem... they don't have a thermostat. The rest of us are fine.
Hey, I'm with ya. I hate wildfires. That's one of the reasons I left California and retired in Texas.After seeing these headlines when I first woke up, I find your comment startling. This was on the front page of "The New York Times" in the place for the story of second most importance.
"...at a time when climate change is causing wildfires to be larger and more intense, it’s also one of the most extreme, so big and hot that it’s affecting winds and otherwise disrupting the atmosphere.
'The fire is so large and generating so much energy and extreme heat that it’s changing the weather,' said Marcus Kauffman, a spokesman for the state forestry department. 'Normally the weather predicts what the fire will do. In this case, the fire is predicting what the weather will do.'"
How Bad Is the Bootleg Fire? It’s Generating Its Own Weather.
Unpredictable winds, fire clouds that spawn lightning, and flames that leap over firebreaks are confounding efforts to fight the blaze, which is sweeping through southern Oregon.www.nytimes.com
If you look at historic records of wildfires and high heat, it was actually MUCH worse in the 1920s and 1930s than now. Even the New York Times USED TO report on weather and wildfire related instances, but since then they've become agenda driven, so they conveniently omit their own historical record, and that of the govt agencies who recorded ALL OF THIS back then.After seeing these headlines when I first woke up, I find your comment startling. This was on the front page of "The New York Times" in the place for the story of second most importance.
"...at a time when climate change is causing wildfires to be larger and more intense, it’s also one of the most extreme, so big and hot that it’s affecting winds and otherwise disrupting the atmosphere.
'The fire is so large and generating so much energy and extreme heat that it’s changing the weather,' said Marcus Kauffman, a spokesman for the state forestry department. 'Normally the weather predicts what the fire will do. In this case, the fire is predicting what the weather will do.'"
How Bad Is the Bootleg Fire? It’s Generating Its Own Weather.
Unpredictable winds, fire clouds that spawn lightning, and flames that leap over firebreaks are confounding efforts to fight the blaze, which is sweeping through southern Oregon.www.nytimes.com
Where in Texas?I have a simple question here.
How?
I honestly think I'd die in that heat as the UK can become unbearably hot and that's nothing compared to what you guys get.
We had a guy at work who had lived in the Texas for 20 years and was moving back to the UK and bringing his wife and kids who were born in Texas with him and for them, this place will feel like living in a fridge I imagine.
How do you manage?
Thank you for the explanation. This was on the front page of "The New York Times" today.I am not sure about canada, but 47 or 48 use states have scorpions, they are all over america even in cold yankee land. However them ending up in swamp coolers has to do with them using water to cool, and being mostly used in deserts swamp coolers are a primary spot for critters to get water and cool off, and much like any critter in a bowl they get stuck and drown.
But swamp coolers are also called evaporative coolers, they can work even in the most humid environments like liousiana and florida, but their cooling dimishes. Also they do not work like air conditioners that draw moisture out of the air and require sealed rooms, instead they require a window on both sides of the house partially open, this allows a non window swamp cooler to draw in air and use velocity of air to not only cool the air but also push out moist air and replace it with new moist cool air.
If a swamp cooler can not constantly push air at high cfm and velocity, it just makes the house unbearably humid. But even in high humidity swamp coolers work just not as well, for example in the desert dropping temps by 30 degrees is normal when dry, in humid areas it might be by 10 degrees, either way 20 degrees is decent for an ac unit, and 30 degrees is having perfect insulation and ac function. So for a swamp cooler 30 degrees in the summer in dry deserts is extremely efficent cooling. For humid areas it is only half or slightly less effective, which is why air conditioners are used throughout the southeast.
I don't get the hat thing? When I lived up north the thought was wear a hat in the winter it help to keep as much as ten percent of your body heat in your body. If that's true how does wearing a hat help to keep one cool? I live in florida where in general we average a ton of ninety plus degree days with heat indexes over a hundred, day in and day out. This year has been a bit unusual because of all of the rain we've been getting.Arizona.
in the desert it is going to be 113 to 117 range most of next week. Bad news it will only cool off to the high 80's low 90's at night.
A/C a must.
stay hydrated.
When outside, hats are a must, stay in shade as much as possible.
Any yard work is done real early in the morning.
But hey, so far its a dry heat.
They don't work worth a crap in florida. I wonder why they call them swamp coolers when they work best in very dry conditions?Thank you for the explanation. This was on the front page of "The New York Times" today.
Swamp Coolers Are a Cheap AC Alternative for Dry Climates. Here’s What to Know Before You Buy.
Here’s our take on the performance of evaporative chillers versus typical air conditioning.www.nytimes.com
Why do men in pictures of Africa wear Safari hats? I assume to keep direct sun off their heads and maybe to retain sweat? Someone who knows can tell me. Is it the same reason Texans wear Ten Gallon Hats?I don't get the hat thing? When I lived up north the thought was wear a hat in the winter it help to keep as much as ten percent of your body heat in your body. If that's true how does wearing a hat help to keep one cool? I live in florida where in general we average a ton of ninety plus degree days with heat indexes over a hundred, day in and day out. This year has been a bit unusual because of all of the rain we've been getting.
A very good question.They don't work worth a crap in florida. I wonder why they call them swamp coolers when they work best in very dry conditions?
hat in the summer in AZ is more for sun protection (UV rays), than it is to keep you cool.I don't get the hat thing? When I lived up north the thought was wear a hat in the winter it help to keep as much as ten percent of your body heat in your body. If that's true how does wearing a hat help to keep one cool? I live in florida where in general we average a ton of ninety plus degree days with heat indexes over a hundred, day in and day out. This year has been a bit unusual because of all of the rain we've been getting.
Depends on the type of hat, in texas the cowboy hat is common, which was a mod of a sombrero. Both the cowboy hat and sombrero keep the sun off your head and keep it shaded, they were built with workers in mind not fashion, they also work great it the rain.I don't get the hat thing? When I lived up north the thought was wear a hat in the winter it help to keep as much as ten percent of your body heat in your body. If that's true how does wearing a hat help to keep one cool? I live in florida where in general we average a ton of ninety plus degree days with heat indexes over a hundred, day in and day out. This year has been a bit unusual because of all of the rain we've been getting.
I have a simple question here.
How?
I honestly think I'd die in that heat as the UK can become unbearably hot and that's nothing compared to what you guys get.
We had a guy at work who had lived in the Texas for 20 years and was moving back to the UK and bringing his wife and kids who were born in Texas with him and for them, this place will feel like living in a fridge I imagine.
How do you manage?
I don't manage, that is why I live in Southern California. Shitty politics, but best climate in the nation, if not most of the world.I have a simple question here.
How?
I honestly think I'd die in that heat as the UK can become unbearably hot and that's nothing compared to what you guys get.
We had a guy at work who had lived in the Texas for 20 years and was moving back to the UK and bringing his wife and kids who were born in Texas with him and for them, this place will feel like living in a fridge I imagine.
How do you manage?
What do people do there when the power goes out?Arizona.
in the desert it is going to be 113 to 117 range most of next week. Bad news it will only cool off to the high 80's low 90's at night.
A/C a must.
stay hydrated.
When outside, hats are a must, stay in shade as much as possible.
Any yard work is done real early in the morning.
But hey, so far its a dry heat.
What do people do there when the power goes out?
I have been in Phoenix in 100+ temps but at a conf with ac, shopping in ac.
OTOH, have camped many times in Tucson arena, spring and fall and we had to be out of our tent when the sun came up and we hiked in the desert (was with the herpetologist, if you remember) and it was nuts hot. Drank constantly and never had to pee.
I hope you got a second key for her to carry for those "just in case" moments.We didn't.
My wife has MS and she does not manage well in super hot weather.
One day she drove to Walmart in Mansfield TX.
Gets out of the store, rolls back to the van, rolls up the ramp and then shuts the door and accidentally dropped her keys in a spot she couldn't reach while in the wheelchair.
The paramedics said she was five minutes from death when they got to her. I arrived about two minutes later.
She was a prisoner in the house five months out of every year and we finally decided we'd had enough, so we moved back to Southern California.
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We didn't.
My wife has MS and she does not manage well in super hot weather.
One day she drove to Walmart in Mansfield TX.
Gets out of the store, rolls back to the van, rolls up the ramp and then shuts the door and accidentally dropped her keys in a spot she couldn't reach while in the wheelchair.
The paramedics said she was five minutes from death when they got to her. I arrived about two minutes later.
She was a prisoner in the house five months out of every year and we finally decided we'd had enough, so we moved back to Southern California.
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The problem is you were hiking during the day. You only exert yourself from 3 or 4 am to noon and then it’s time for Siesta until the evening. Think like the indigenous people did.What do people do there when the power goes out?
I have been in Phoenix in 100+ temps but at a conf with ac, shopping in ac.
OTOH, have camped many times in Tucson arena, spring and fall and we had to be out of our tent when the sun came up and we hiked in the desert (was with the herpetologist, if you remember) and it was nuts hot. Drank constantly and never had to pee.
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