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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2009, 01:55:55 PM »
Let me just add that it's -9c here and I HATE YOU ALL!

Did I mention I have about 3 feet of snow around my house...    ^.^

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2009, 04:33:07 PM »
Let me just add that it's -9c here and I HATE YOU ALL!

Did I mention I have about 3 feet of snow around my house...    ^.^

Do you want to trade places? I'll take -9c over +44c any day!  *%*

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2009, 06:22:47 PM »
Let me just add that it's -9c here and I HATE YOU ALL!

Did I mention I have about 3 feet of snow around my house...    ^.^

32 Degrees until next week...

SEND ME YOUR SNOW

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2009, 06:49:12 PM »
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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2009, 01:47:50 AM »
While I was travelling to the new house (got the keys a day early) this morning and the temp said 46 Idecided it must be wrong - rthat radio said 43. Turns out Geelong was hooter than Melbourne, officially 45.3 and the hottest day on record.

Might be something in that global warming BS after all.

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2009, 08:56:57 AM »
Well the all time record in Adelaide was 46.1. That was 70 years ago so I guess we must have had global warming back then also. And this bloody day light savings just fades my curtains.  %$%

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2009, 09:22:35 AM »
About 10 years ago I went on a company sponsored reward event for good employees.  I was a manager and I took a few of my employees along.  It was in Chicago and we decided we wanted to go to an amusement park.  It was 46c and not one hint of a breeze.  We were outside for 4 hours.  I almost passed out.  One of my employees did for a second on a coaster.  I was pouring $4 bottles of water on my head :P  We drove back to the hotel and the power water was out.  Something about generators overloading due to a huge spike in power demand.  So I couldn't shower. Now, I'm a guy who does sweat and in 46c i sweated like a horse outside of a glue factory.  We had a dinner to go to and there was no way I was going in my current condition.  The owner called me and told me I had to go right away (I think I got some award or trinket that collected dust on my desk.)  So I took bottled water and washed the stinkiest bits and went. 

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2009, 02:14:53 PM »

If today reaches 43 degrees - then it will break a long standing record of two consecutive days over 43 degrees.  That is THREE DAYS..

There was no "Global Warming" in 1908 - It is just a 100 year cycle

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2009, 02:44:03 PM »

If today reaches 43 degrees - then it will break a long standing record of two consecutive days over 43 degrees.  That is THREE DAYS..

There was no "Global Warming" in 1908 - It is just a 100 year cycle

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Yep, I agree totally with that Nino... Hence why I'm staying in the A/C'd office and on AP all day...

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2009, 06:29:09 PM »
Its days like this for I.T guys where you need to stay in the server rooms and re-colour code your patch leads, or just monitor the ground for any dropped packets ! (to tell those non-I.T)!

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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2009, 06:37:50 PM »
Its days like this for I.T guys where you need to stay in the server rooms and re-colour code your patch leads, or just monitor the ground for any dropped packets ! (to tell those non-I.T)!

There was some "unplanned" outages today that required prolonged periods in the sever room where it was a cool steady 21 degrees.

The room was full of dropped packets  #*#
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Re: What a heat wave
« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2009, 06:39:00 PM »
Its days like this for I.T guys where you need to stay in the server rooms and re-colour code your patch leads, or just monitor the ground for any dropped packets ! (to tell those non-I.T)!

Dropped packets :lol  I think I can see some coming out of my computer today...

Apparently it got to 44.9c in Melbourne today... and so much for my plan of staying in A/C'd comfort... the A/C compressor failed a couple of hours ago! DAMN! !*!