Record Setting

It's 103 and counting in Seattle today. In 119 years of weather keeping, this is unheard of for the temperate climate of the Pacific Northwest better known for its near daily rain. Prior to today, the record was 100 degrees set in 1941 and matched degree for degree on July 20th, 1994.

Now, I know there are those of you who live in areas that regularly hit the 100's and then some, and you may be thinking "What a bunch of whiners - we deal with that all the time!!". But there's one thing you gotta understand:

We don't have air conditioning.

At least not at home. Just as we have no snow plows to handle the freakish amount of snow we got last winter, none of us are prepared for the unseasonably hot weather we're experiencing now. Why would we? Year round, the weather here is normally between 40 and 80 degrees. Fluctuations outside this zone are anomolous freaks of nature.

In the immortal words of L. Frank Baum's infamous Wicked Witch of the West...I'm melting!