The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Windigo said:
Heatwave predicted until the weekend.. not a great combo with lacking a colon, being on antibiotics and very heat sensitive.. gotta be extremely careful to hydrate enough
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TastyReuben said:
Be careful, just stay inside. It’s murder here right now, heat index of 105F/41C.
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Yes - getting hotter here and predicted very hot by Friday. However, nowhere near as hot as 41C. I wouldn't survive that. I feel for you both. I will be indoors with wet flannels draped over me and a fan pointed at me.
 
TastyReuben said:
Power came back on around 1:30AM.

7AM, and it’s already 92% humidity. It’s going to be a sweaty one today.
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At 6am it was 98% humidity... But not 33°C, just 33°F! We're lucky. Down the road it's -5.1°C...

7:30am and it's still 98% humidity... temperature hasn't moved much either! Lol

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Windigo said:
That humidity is the norm for us too in summer, the joys of being below sea level
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The same issues with heat and humidity also exist with cold & humidity in that the cold is harder to withstand and cope with when the humidity is 98% than the same temperature and say 80% or 60%. The irony is that it wouldn't feel as cold if it was actually well below zero because the humidity would literally drop out off the sky.

I've camped in -20°C, waking to a layer of ice on the inside of the tent and over the top of the sleeping bag. I've solo camped wild in -15°C, again waking to ice over the sleeping bag and inside of the tent (that particular time needed holes hacking in the river before you could get to running water). We've cycled in similar conditions on more than one occasion including the day that ended our attempt to cycle around the world (it was cold enough that day for blood to freeze on the road, day time temp was around the -14°C with night time temps dropping down to below -30°C) and the irony is, this cold feels colder because it's a wet cold. I know I'd actually be warmer camping on the lawn because the tent is a smaller space to warm up.

Just to add to the fun, there is no heat on the bathroom right now. Showering or bathing is exceptionally challenging. The only reward is running from the bathroom to the sitting room to sit in front of the fire whilst you dry yourself and get dressed. But even the fire is struggling to warm the sitting room at present because the temperature isn't getting warm during the day. It is clear skies at night, so the temperature drops to zero by about 6pm which it holds until mid morning to early afternoon because it clouds over at dawn or just before, so the sun isn't warming the house during the course of the day (solar radiation on a metal tin roof really has a massive impact). So we're getting 18 hrs or so of night time temps with a slight rise in the afternoon (it made it to 5°C today) just in time for the clear skies to ensure all the little heat obtained, vanishes without a trace. It goes dark around 5pm, so we're getting 4-6 hours (today it was 4hrs) of marginally warmer weather before dropping again...

I have to confess the only time I've cycled through the Netherlands, it was the middle of May and yes, the humidity was a factor, as were frosts first thing in the morning. It didn't get really hot until we hit the middle to north of Sweden.
 
Morning Glory said:
Nobody wants to hear this but I gave up bathing ages ago. I can get in but can't get out again! I don't have a shower so... its like when I was a kid: wash at the sink. We had a bath once a month when I was a kid.
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I think the standing baked at the sink when the bathroom has a tile floor and it's only 6°C on the bathroom might also be a no no.

I don't have too many issues with the bath now I have a new hip. It's made a massive difference. I do find that the soak in hot water helps considerably with the other hip's osteoarthritis and with the muscle issues I'm having. It also helps with the lower back pain and frankly at the moment is warmer than the shower as well. Plus I don't have too play dodge in the bath with the shower seat that's in there for hubby.

As for actually full wet all over, that's only twice a week anyhow. I really don't go by this you have to shower every single day to be clean and healthy concept. Can't afford the hot water either on electricity prices at the moment or in water itself for most of the year. Mind you this month is turning out to be quite dry so far, only 21.5mm (less than an inch) of rain which proves my point... water is too valuable. If next summer is a hot dry summer, the rain I'm collecting now is all we will have period. I just wash what's needed when it's needed, but right now that's still darn cold in that bathroom... and I'm on the axe and chainsaw again tomorrow, so i will need to use it at some point tomorrow.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
As for actually full wet all over, that's only twice a week anyhow. I really don't go by this you have to shower every single day to be clean and healthy concept.
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I agree. Its nonsense - though maybe if you live in a very hot humid climate its more necessary to shower to get rid of the sweat. Personally, I dislike showers (nasty squirty things). Maybe you need a good old fashioned tin hip bath in front of the fire. :laugh:
 
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