Back when this all started, just about
everyone agreed to a 6:30 a.m. wake up time. Recently, those wake-up times have
shifted and people are often up and already getting things accomplished at 5:30
a.m. The reason is because of this oppressive f**king heat. This crap is
unreal. If you want to do something, it is best to do it early in the morning
before the sun climbs too high in the sky and starts cooking everything. So the
early morning hours are the best.
Unfortunately, temperatures are
remaining in the 90s even after the sun has gone down. Thank God for Joe. His
job before everything devolved into the apocalypse was working for his dad’s
heating and cooling business. It was one of those small local three-truck
businesses that mainly did repairs but his skills have proven invaluable when
it comes to keeping us up and running. Do not ask me to even begin to explain
all the stuff that he does. I can’t tell you the difference between a pair of
vice grips and a pair of pliers so I will not even begin to try to explain
anything on here.
We have thermometers that the store
sold out so we can keep an eye on the temperatures but with no meteorologists
cutting into your favorite show to tell you about a tornado bearing down
somewhere opposite to you in their viewing area, if we want to know the
weather, we just have to stick our head out on the roof.
Geez, remember that? If you do not
live in Oklahoma, you may not experience this but the weathermen on the local
news just used to love cutting in during commercial breaks to tell you about
possible rotation that had the potential to become a hurricane. And then if the
weather got really bad, they would just say screw it and cut in during your
show – usually right when they were about to reveal who the killer was on LAW
& ORDER: SVU – and they would have this six foot erection because this was
the moment they had trained for! “You need to seek shelter immediately. Get to
the first floor of your house, interior room, stay away from outer windows…”
and it was always in some county that was nowhere even near you.
And I would get pissed, yelling at
them, saying, “I am trying to watch COMMUNITY! I am missing jokes from a
sit-com! Your next broadcast better have bodies scattered across lawns because
of tornados!” But then it would be a false alarm and there would be no damage.
I mean, one F5 wipes out a town and suddenly we have to be on guard.
Okay, I am joking. I hope everyone
realizes that. But now, with no weather channels or said meteorologists, we
just kind of have to guess. Is there an end to this heat wave in sight? All we
can do is wait it out.
I guess we should be happy that we
have halfway decent air conditioning in our favor and people have broken out
every box fan that we had for sale to keep the air moving. I am not certain
what it would be like if we didn’t have power and no way to keep the air flowing
in here.
I wonder why we still have power. /knockwood. I wonder
if it has anything to do with the fact that we are so close to the Pensacola
Dam and GRDA? I am not going to question. Question may make it go away. So
everyone, shhhhh….
