Humidex takes our local temperatures up into the forties. Whoo boy it’s ugly out there for elementary aged school kids, and their teachers. The un-airconditioned schools are going to be a major issue in southern Ontario as the early summer gets hotter and hotter over the next several years. It’s going to become a huge problem with children fainting, passing out, dehydrating badly, or having heat stroke whilst sat at their desks sweating onto their homework. This heat wave has got to be some kind of a June record, or near enough as to not matter the finer points. Unreal.
No wonder my kids swam for about five hours yesterday to beat the heat. Long sleeved bathing suits, hats, sunglasses, and ice cold drinks in the pool for the win. These temperatures are maniacal. Despicable. Horrendous even. It’s days like this where I am grateful for my indoor job, and lack of any sort of commute.
I do fear that a day draws near where we will have to replace our AC unit. But to upgrade to a bigger size that would offer more air flow, and a stronger cooling ability would not go amiss here. The neighbours took down a gigantic fir tree which used to shade much of the far side of our house. Now that it’s gone, our entire roof is in the full sun 24/7. I’m sure that has an adverse affect on the efficiency of our AC’s cooling ability. Now it has no help whatsoever from the surrounding environment.
However, after the Djericho that blew through here a few years ago, I’m glad that tree was gone before then, as it would have snapped and crushed either our garage and bedrooms, or the neighbours double garage. It would have been potentially deadly as we were all home when the wind storm hit. We didn’t go into the basement until one of our maple tree limbs hit the front porch. Lesson learned.
Let us hope the heat breaks by tomorrow night. Fingers, legs, and toes crossed.
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