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Hottest I worked in was 126, 1980s, Bullhead/Laughlin area, 12 hour day concrete work.

Phoenix and Palm Springs are twins when it comes to temps.

Drove home from Huntington Beach yesterday, left before light to beat the heat, there's a long stretch of California/Arizona that are hard on vehicles when hot.

Went to my niece's HS graduation, she's coming to ASU starting in aug and apprehensive about the heat. August is the worst time to come to the valley but we have pools and lakes and high mountain retreats... plus AC.

My family has been here since the late 1800s, long before AC... farmers, miners, ranchers, business owners. Old time californians and old time arizonians are the same breed, it's all the transient/transplants from around the nation that F'ed it up.

When I hit Pacific coast hwy at Sunset beach I saw a truck driving with a huge Trump Flag on one side and a F'u'c'k Biden on the other, saw other Trump signs/flags around, didn't wear a mask in the stores or restaurants. many people didn't. Masks were required to attend the graduation, everyone put one on to enter then immediately removed them, I saw a few older people keep one on but just a handful... all stood and said the pledge of allegiance.

I had my american flag and waved it thinking I would be controversial, I wasn't, no one disapproved.

The families I know there are old time californians, they hate their governor, Biden, liberals, illegals and what has happened to their state by transient/transplants from everywhere else.

My niece told me she's changing her major from corporate law to political science law... I said, not as a democrat I hope... teasing... OH HELL NO! I want to make a difference to save our country... she also said she can't wait to go shooting with me when she gets here. Told her I bought a couple new guns for her to shoot, got a big smile.

Some Californians we will gladly take here in AZ.

Kent

If they have any remorse it would be about 25 years old by now.

LOL

That mass exodus happened a long time ago.

Congrat's on helping to raise a good kid.
We need all of them we can get right now

Here in the southwest, 80s and 90s, you could guarantee an influx of transients from wherever the latest disaster hit... tornado, hurricane, flood, earthquake, cold...

We may get hot a few months but that's pretty much it.

The transients then feel safe and forget, move again. The transplants stay.

Been going on 50 years.

Kent

109 in Durham today.

Good thing I have a desk job.

117 and 0% humidity today... meh... the quintessential 'dry heat'...

Kent

my wife and i have had multiple conversations on what's happening to arizona.
given i own a small amount of property in various places, the influx and resulting price increases has pushed me into
territory with some zero 's attached to it.
do i like what's happened? not a chance, i prefer the old arizona, krp's people and mine go back far enough to the same time.
keep thinking of pulling the money out of the property and going some place else. where i don't know, cause the places i like are getting
screwed by the outflux from calif. and we are too old now.
it's a bitch of a problem.

They are packing up and moving to Paradise AK to Stick’s neighborhood.

not in my house, as long as the a/c doesn't break.
wife is out in the back yard dealing with the goats, God bless her.
i'd help, but still in a wheel chair.

Your niece sounds like a good young woman!

Ron you were probably like me, as a kid you would go outside and stay most of the day. Besides chores we would play in the citrus groves, out at the corrals, fish the canals, swim in the irrigation ditches, ride bikes looking for pop bottles on the sides of roads for the deposits, shoot BB guns, hunt rabbits... heat, what heat?

My wife lived in Tempe and they would be put out in the back yard to stay all day and from under foot.

Kent

I'm proud of her. When she was 6 her Dad, who sells industrial equipment, had a specialty concrete repair job at the Long Beach VA hospital needed done, so I went there a few weeks at a time for a couple years to do it. Her and I bonded when I was there. We fish, shoot, camp, ride horses, play video games and just have fun.

I always called her Diabla... now that she's going to ASU she will be a Sun Devil, she loves it.

Kent

Weren’t no air conditioning in schools in Georgia when I was a kid. Maybe up in the office.

Kids with sweaty necks, beads of sweat for a mustache. Start school in August. 95 degrees, 95% RH

1979 I was in Sherman Tx for company oil field training... working in Farmington NM... they sent us for a week in June... Holy crap! it was so humid I felt like I was swimming to walk the air was that heavy. I'll take the AZ heat anytime over that.

That's as east as I've ever been.

Kent

Hate that back east humidity.

Grew up with it with no A/C, used to leave the apartment and go down to the park by the river where there was a bit of a breeze, and we'd all sleep on the lawns there. Probably not safe to do. Or everyone would be out in lawn chairs on the sidewalks, kids running around in shorts and no shirts.

Worst part, even when I moved to NW PA in '99, to a house with no A/C, was getting out of the shower and never feeling dry.

I've gotten old and used to the cooler weather up here. Going out on a sunny day in winter in shorts and a tee shirt is common. Same way when we lived in the White Mountains in AZ. Now, I just got done cleaning the Gulag, doing the compost, and mowing the lawn. 82F and 28% humidity and with the sun shining at this elevation it was enough for me to be ready for lunch and a nap. Can't count the days on a bare ass tract lot working behind the backhoe in the ditch, that it was already 80 when we got to the job site. And we were glad it was only going to get to 95F that day.

Slummy, did y'all have fans in them schoolrooms? We Catholic kids weren't that lucky. 105-107 in a packed classroom, casement windows cranked as far as they would open, classroom door too and them nuns didn't even provide a fan for airflow. Santa Ana winds were no help either. Probably figured we kids needed a taste of the Purgatory and Hell we were going to meet up with anyhow..

They're not the ones you have to worry about. Barstow votes R.

Arizona should build a wall.

Poor boys. Spend 13 months in I Corps and you'll know hot and humid very well.

Semper Fi.

I wouldn't like 115 I don't think.

I was driving from LA to Phoenix 55 to 60 years ago. No AC in the car, windows down and stopped for gas in Barstow at midnight. It was warm and the radio guy said the temperature was 114. It felt like it.