94 has been so far the hottest recorded here in Florida this year. And people are complaining!

I hope that whatever your "stuff" is, it'll be resolved soon. My thoughts and prayers for you and Alan.

Take care.

Mary

Hi Dr. Smith.

I have never seen this kind of a heat wave in such a long time. Since I was a kid. This is really bad. The air is thick. No relief. The trees do not move. No rain in a week. We REALLY need a good rain to cool everything off.

Melody

HI Mary:

I used to go to Florida all the time when my parents moved there when I was 24. That was over 40 years ago. I will NEVER forget my first experience when I arrived at their home in Port Richey. This flying thing came out of nowhere and landed on my father's car door. I screamed and said "what the H is that?" My father promptly announced "Oh these are Palmetto Bugs". I said 'Palmetto WHAT??" He said "They are like flying waterbugs. That is all I had to hear. I then ran into the house (which I had never seen) and all I saw was that everything was in pastel colors. I then went into the backyard and sat on a chaise lounge and these lizards started flying over me. I screamed again and my father started laughing and said "what's the matter, are you afraid of little lizards".???? My father was putting down tiles on the outside and he was taking his hands and swatting hundreds of these little lizards. One got in the house and my mother was chasing after it with her broom. I then announced "You all are mentally ill, you have flying waterbugs and lizards". They never stopped laughing and I flew home as soon as I could. I will NEVER forget that experience. And don't get me started on the Love Bugs and the special screen my father had on the car. It's like this happened yesterday and it's over 40 years.

lol

Melody

we had a blackout today for 3 1/2 hours. i have a pool and the water was 96 today. thats it im going to sarasota to cool down.

Gosh...this has been brutal weather for everyone, it seems.

We used to have a pool (I called it the money pit ) and come July the water was like bath water. Not cooling at all. And we had to keep the chemical level up all summer or the water would turn green! We probably got two good months of use out of the whole year......thus the term "money pit"!

There was a thunderstorm here Friday night. Saturday, there was a tree in our backyard that wasn't there before (horizontal). No reports of tornados, nor explanations for how/why the tree got there. Brutal weather indeed (and strange... )

Doc

I think this is all man made. I one read about HAARP and that they can control the weather. It's a fascinating website. You found a tree in your backyard that wasn't there. No reports of tornadoes, no explanations, yet you found a tree in your backyard. Someone made a tornado and it uprooted a tree and it landed in your backyard. Scary stuff, no???

Mel

We're not supposed to discuss religion.

Doc

One storm season when I was living in Guam, a typhoon came and knocked over a 20-25 foot tree in my yard. As it was going to be a big job to clean up, I left it sitting for a week or two. Then the strangest thing happened, a second typhoon came through and stood the tree right back up and like it was before the first storm!