Insurance is one great form of socialism (not delving into health care here). Of course the insurers get theirs also. But imagine being on your own and trying to save and fund just in case all your shit was destroyed.
Iowa heatwave predictions
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Insurance is one great form of socialism (not delving into health care here). Of course the insurers get theirs also. But imagine being on your own and trying to save and fund just in case all your shit was destroyed.
And yes, the day following the hail the chasers (inspectors/roofers) showed up asking to take a look.
Ree4
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I wore ski goggles to that game, had hand warmers in my shoes and was still freezing
Northside Hawk
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They got an eyeful. Especially neighborhoods near Windsor Ave and near Hempstead High School. Hence the fly by night roofing and siding companies and bodyshops coming up from Texas.
MoseSchrute
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FAKE NEWS!!! Filthy lies from the Global Warming Industrial Complex!!
EstronHawkKing
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It is frickin hot here today in E. Iowa. If this was Iowa's first home football game today, I would not be going.
EstronHawkKing
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I got up early today to jog just as the sun was coming up. It was rough then, I had to stop every now and then just to catch my breath. My socks were soaked with sweat when I was done.
C'mon, GarBar would drop the price of water to $2 for it.
Just biked in to the office (6.5 miles in 117 heat index). About to head home now. Sometimes you gotta hurt to know you're alive. Also, biking isn't near as hard as running (at least for my fat ass), and you always have a breeze.
EstronHawkKing
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I took the afternoon off and went to a local city pool. Some woman (a bit over weight) had a massive heat stroke attack. They kicked everyone out of the pool and the ambulance and firemen came. She was un-responsive, but had a pulse. She wasn't swimming, laying on a beach chair and it just hit her. It lasted about 20 minutes. It was pretty scary.
tweeterhawk
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Umm. Yes and no. A day or two after a monsoon, triple-digit heat returns and IT IS humid, very uncomfortable.
OTOH in Tucson we haven’t had rain for days. 102 now but RH barely registers. In a couple hours I’ll be ref’ing the first of three adult soccer matches. It’ll be warm but tolerable.
hawkeyebob62
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That's actually the Midwest, in general. Easily the widest range of temps. I remember Chicago area having the worst humidity in August.
EstronHawkKing
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It rained in E. Iowa at around 2pm and that ended the heat wave. Finally back to normal summer weather
hawkdrummer1
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I used to travel to North Dakota once a quarter. Fargo, Bismarck/Mandan and Minot. in 2014 I believe...I experienced a difference of 133 degrees. 101 in August and -32 in February.
okeefe4prez
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Chicago itself if you are close to the Lake usually isn't too bad. But you're right, it's the Midwest in general. It's basically anywhere around where the good and bad sides of the jet stream alternate, which is typically a band that encompasses the Dakotas, the eastern half of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, central and Northern Illinois and Indiana and half of Michigan. In the winter, those Canadian air masses push down on the jet stream and it can be -20 or colder. In the summer, the humidity from the Gulf or el Nino can move that thing way to the north and the upper Midwest will be as oppressive as Southern Louisiana.
In my time in the South, the hottest it has been is 97 (only on one day) and the coldest it has been is 23 (which was overnight and it was above freezing once the sun was up for a few hours). The coldest overnight temp in the past several years was 9 degrees. The extremes on both ends in the Midwest are totally insane.
