Enjoying summer heatwave

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This must be you on a good day!


That is what exhausts a poor Aussie - those high overnight temperatures.
And thanks to our socialist Green dumbo Labor government with all their save the
planet nonsense - South Australia has the most expensive electricity in the world;
so we cannot afford to run either of our two split systems that we have.
Pedestal fans is all we use.

And my place is a big old farmhouse with double brick walls and 12 feet high
ceilings. So when the house is hot after a heatwave the house stays hot.

It is 23C outside at 7AM but like 30C in the house. And no breeze to displace the
hot air in the house. And it is humid due to the cloud cover as well.
The dog is outside lying on the grass.

Can't wait for winter :mad:
 
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Lol, Bunnings is a very large hardware store here in Australia.

And I know what a thong is to Americans hence why I put in the American terminology to explain what I actually meant lol
My other choice was Bunning was a town. (Wasn't right either way.) lol
 
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How hot was it for you last night?

It was 25 here, I woke up in sweat so I went to the couch and slept with the fan on at around 5am lol
Y'all need generators just to run your a/c when your government gets all silly about electric use.

#gladwequitParisAccord
 
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That is what exhausts a poor Aussie - those high overnight temperatures.
And thanks to our socialist Green dumbo Labor government with all their save the
planet nonsense - South Australia has the most expensive electricity in the world;
so we cannot afford to run either of our two split systems that we have.
Pedestal fans is all we use.

And my place is a big old farmhouse with double brick walls and 12 feet high
ceilings. So when the house is hot after a heatwave the house stays hot.

It is 23C outside at 7AM but like 30C in the house. And no breeze to displace the
hot air in the house. And it is humid due to the cloud cover as well.
The dog is outside lying on the grass.

Can't wait for winter :mad:
How about a fan in the upper most window sending the hot air out?

Or... join the dog?

(And you know, when winter comes, you're just going to long for summer again. lol)
 

Oncefallen

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It was so hot today, I had left my thongs (flip flops) to Americans in the sun outside and when I put them on I burnt my feet...
And, boy, oh boy. You do not want to know what "thongs" means here, or you'd be blushing. (Although, I suspect you know, or wouldn't have translated it to American. lol)
Interestingly enough what those plastic noisy foot cladding is called varies within the States. I know East Coaster's call them flip flops (I was born there), but where I grew up in So Cal most people called them thongs.

My other choice was Bunning was a town.
That was my assumption prior to the clarification.
 

Waggles

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Thanks to our bozo lefty sate government who have funded at taxpayer
expense windmills or wind farms that generate 40% of our electricity
but only on a windy day and only if the wind is not too strong.
Figure that out.

So not only do we have intermittent unreliable renewable energy
stuffing up the base-load grid, but we also have the most expensive
electricity in the world.

The cost to SA is that that the poor (that's me) cannot afford electricity.
No air-conditioning in summer you just suffer heatstroke.
No electric reverse cycle heating in winter you just freeze.
So poor people go to bed early and throw on a few doonas and blankets
and sleep in their trakkies with their beanies on.

In SA we have an average of 10,000 homes disconnected from the grid
at any one time because people cannot afford to pay their electricity bills.
So we have all these house fires when candles burn down or catch curtains,
and people die.

Marxists and greenies what would be do without 'em?


 

Waggles

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OH yeah - sunburn.
Can't have a summer without sunburn.
Then like me at 62 you go to the medical skin clinic and get your
melanomas (skin cancers) cut out.
Had one on the base of the throat where the v opening of a shirt exposes
the throat and upper chest to the Sun.
Had it cut out twice.



 

Angela53510

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Interestingly enough what those plastic noisy foot cladding is called varies within the States. I know East Coaster's call them flip flops (I was born there), but where I grew up in So Cal most people called them thongs.



That was my assumption prior to the clarification.
I spent summers in California and then Oregon. We called them thongs, too. Although the terminology has changed in Canada, probably due to the “other” definition of thongs. We Canadian are very polite, you know. No underwear in mixed company, or around children!
 

Angela53510

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Thanks to our bozo lefty sate government who have funded at taxpayer
expense windmills or wind farms that generate 40% of our electricity
but only on a windy day and only if the wind is not too strong.
Figure that out.

So not only do we have intermittent unreliable renewable energy
stuffing up the base-load grid, but we also have the most expensive
electricity in the world.

The cost to SA is that that the poor (that's me) cannot afford electricity.
No air-conditioning in summer you just suffer heatstroke.
No electric reverse cycle heating in winter you just freeze.
So poor people go to bed early and throw on a few doonas and blankets
and sleep in their trakkies with their beanies on.


That bolded portion is hilarious! Thus proving that Aussies speak a very different kind of English!

I have a friend in Australia who was very cold last winter. No insulation or heating in his house, and the temperatures were going down below freezing. I told him how Canadians dress for winter, which includes Ugg boots. He brightened and said maybe he could find an Ugg store and buy a pair. Turns out the store was right across the street, but he didn’t think it was a good investment, when it would be soon warm again. Although he did buy some socks!

As for Canada, I live in a semi-desert. It still freezes, but never gets really cold, below -10 C. The last few weeks it has been hovering around 0C or 32F. But snowing a LOT! The piles get 6 or 7 feet high on our driveway, melt back when the temperature goes up to 6C then more snow, piles of snow again. I moved here to get away from prairie cold, like -40C/F. Same temperature on either scale.

We live in a forest, despite the fact that it doesn’t rain much. All of BC is forest. This summer, we had 4 months without rain. Temperatures were in the high 30’s and low 40’s. (Not nearly as high as 50, for sure!). Anyway, everything was tinder dry, here and in Washington state. The new protocol is to let forest and wildfires burn, unless they are near homes, infrastructure or other buildings. The problem with that, is that it only takes one big wind to fan the flames, and BOOM! Thousands of homes burned, people evacuated, and millions of dollars in timber burnt. Last summer in July, the smoke rolled in. I woke up in the night with an asthma attack, being allergic to smoke. The smoke stayed for 2 months. I had to wear a mask to go outside I was on prednisone the whole time, and wasn’t able to garden much. I had been putting mulch under my perennials, and it was 3 months before I was able to get out and finish the last 10 foot section.

Very frustrating! And sadly, it will probably continue to happen with increasing frequency, both here and in Alberta. Oh, and those huge fires in Washington State that they don’t have the resources to put out, apparently, which gave off smoke up our valley the whole time.

I must admit, we have hydro power, our winter bills are incredibly low, and no carbon tax, because Hydro power is renewable, and our rivers never run dry. So, the A/C runs continuously, and no one cares. We have natural gas for forced air heating in winter. Not quite as cheap as electricity, but not much more. Heating and A/C is definitely a BC advantage!

I did hear something about a town in Manitoba, right in the middle of Canada running out of water, and in Alberta, we used to get watering restrictions all summer. Well, we have them here too, but no one really cares. With a lake that is 90 miles long, up to 5 miles across and incredibly deep, we are not likely to run out of water here any time soon!
 

Waggles

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Its all the wildlife and our pets that suffer the most in a heatwave
the radio shows have guest vets on that remind us to look out for
our pets and local wildlife.
Make sure there's plenty of water out for them... keep them cool
animals suffer the most in very hot conditions ...


 
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Miri

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Meanwhile over this neck of the woods it’s wet and windy.
I got to work last week looking like this.



 

Waggles

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And which way does your water spiral down your drains, again?
When I pull out the plug the water spirals down ant-clockwise.
And we have black swans.
That's why explorers referred to Australia as The Antipodes (the opposite of)

Have you tried out our yummy Vegemite on toast, yet?
 

Waggles

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Meanwhile over this neck of the woods it’s wet and windy.
I got to work last week looking like this.
Let me offer you some heart warming love.
This will cheer you lot up no end in your snow-bound homes and flooded
cities and towns.
So in brotherly love I offer you this poster.
Print it out and stick it on the wall, and you can feel the warmth flood through
you as you gaze upon this image...

 

Deade

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Hi everyone,

Waggles we are having wildfires across Oklahoma also, it has very dry and windy. My home state of California is having the same trouble. There has been just to little rain everywhere. You should see I mastered importing a picture. Again, I thank you.

Hey Depleted, you say it is unusual for men to be the household cook. I was a better cook than my wife was, but I still let her cook until I retired. Then she left me. Oh well, se la vie. I am living with my youngest son and he is a cook at a Tyson plant in SW Missouri. We live in NE Oklahoma, in Grove on Grand Lake of the Cherokees. I generally do most of the cooking here.
:p

Yours,

Deade
:cool:





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breno785au

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Thanks to our bozo lefty sate government who have funded at taxpayer
expense windmills or wind farms that generate 40% of our electricity
but only on a windy day and only if the wind is not too strong.
Figure that out.

So not only do we have intermittent unreliable renewable energy
stuffing up the base-load grid, but we also have the most expensive
electricity in the world.

The cost to SA is that that the poor (that's me) cannot afford electricity.
No air-conditioning in summer you just suffer heatstroke.
No electric reverse cycle heating in winter you just freeze.
So poor people go to bed early and throw on a few doonas and blankets
and sleep in their trakkies with their beanies on.

In SA we have an average of 10,000 homes disconnected from the grid
at any one time because people cannot afford to pay their electricity bills.
So we have all these house fires when candles burn down or catch curtains,
and people die.

Marxists and greenies what would be do without 'em?


And then our labour Green hugging government goes and shuts down a power plant before summer with no obvious contingency.
 

Waggles

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And then our labour Green hugging government goes and shuts down a power plant before summer with no obvious contingency.
With tree huggers people are expendable; and people suffering
and dying in order to save the planet is just collateral damage.

When you are on $5,000 a week plus a load of freebies then these
freeloaders are immune to the pain they inflict on deplorables.

Ya gotta love that word. Should be a perpetual video loop to share
with future generations.
 

Waggles

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Our great Labor Party government in their wisdom to force us
to embrace the future - renewable energy also caused the shut
down of our last coal fired power station at Port Augusta.
It is actually being demolished by explosives.



Now all our cheap baseload is pretty well gone leaving only
Torrens Island and Pelican Point to pick up the slack.
But under the renewable energy targets shemozzle called
an energy market the big baseload plants are uneconomical
and also subsidise the renewables sector.


 

Adstar

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I live in Northern New South Wales on the east coast and things have not been a shot here as down south.. It's odd that i am closer to the equator then you waggles but you seem to get the hottest temperatures.. Down in Melbourne they had a very hot time and the tennis open.. My Brother moved down their years ago and He syas the temperatures can vary by a wide margin during any season..

We have only had two really hot days here a 41 deg C and a 42 deg C day.. So only two days living as an Air Conditioned refugee :D ... Actually i got a new Air-con unit fitted the day before the 42 C day hit so i was fortunate thankls be to God :) ..

I loved your poster Comparing Australia with Korea LOL good one
 

Waggles

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I loved your poster Comparing Australia with Korea LOL good one
Remember when the entire state blacked out.
And our great premier Jay Weatherill declared that "the system was working
as it was intended to."
The wind turbines went out. The power transmission lines got ripped out
by a tornado. The inter-connector shut down.
Total state-wide blackout. No apologies. No rethink.
Just march forward with more renewables - with a long extension cord
to Victoria.

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