Some very high temps. What's the temp where you are?

102 with a "feels like" of 112 with the 70 percent humidity.

Down to a cozy 90 now though. Not supposed to get really hot until tomorrow.

A wall of thunderstorms and sixty to eighty mile an hour winds about thirty minutes out and headed this way. Those big trees in front of the house ain't looking so good right now.

Lost power in the first five minutes of it coming in. Then the poop hit the prop. Our co-op has 34,000 out of power so we are down for a while. I fired the gennies after it slowed down so we have A/C and of course the Internet.

I ain't even gonna go look at what happened out there until morning.

Seems like the northwest is the only part of the country with almost normal temps.

Now I see why you have a brick house BB. Got to stand up to the big bad wolf huffing and puffing. Hope the morning picture is not too bad.

Goofy how stuff works. Done a lot of winter power failures. Fire the gennies and bring the extension cords in through the windows and shut the windows on the foam. Done it many times. First summer one and standing in the kitchen with a flashlight saying "What ya gonna do now fool. The air conditioner is in the only window down here.

Worked it out but "The best laid plans..."

My first introduction to generator power was during Hurricane Diane. My dad brought home a contractor generator and fed the neighbors and our house. In the daytime we went swimming in the little creek that normally was no more than ankle deep.

My neighbor was up here a few weeks ago and he looked at the two large and two little generators in the shed and named this place BrotherBart Power and Light Company.

Just heard on the radio that 450,000 are out of power in Northern Virginia. And they don't even consider us Northern Virginia. We be the hicks in the sticks. So it takes a long time.

Just caught the story on the news. how much gas do you have on hand?

Enough to last a couple of days maybe.

This was a big storm. There are several million homes without power in the east. It's ironic because most of us think about losing power during the cold, but in this case being without power and having 100+ temps can be a life threat for some. I hope BB is doesn't have too much damage and is staying moderately cool by moving down into the basement.

They are saying this record heat is going to hang around for awhile. Stay well hydrated and drink lots of water folks.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48024138/ns/weather/#.T-8mvR2nlDQ

Hmm, knocked out power to some large data centers too.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/ne...-out-by-storm-related-power-outage-at-amazon/

Just got DSL back. The phones are toast in this area. Cell and landline. My county 911 center is offline. We dodged the major damage but it is going to be days before we get electricity back. Over a million out in the area and they can't get crews from other places because they got hit too. I just made a genny gas run. In the winter in an outage I only run the genny(s) half the day. It is 102 out right now so they are running around the clock. $36 bucks in gas a day makes that five bucks a day electric usage look like a real deal.

And now they are saying a storm just like that one coming tonight.

Film at eleven.

Man that's bad, but at least you are able to get gas. When we have a major outage local gas stations are shut down too until someone can show up with a genny. Even then the gas is rationed, but at least they fill your cans, just no full vehicle fillups. Hope you dodge the bullet again tonight.

Here's the predicted severe storm path for today:

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-severe/severe-weather-tracker