Weeee are not amused....

Lakeland living

Lakeland living

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First all these people running away from the city, ok I admit if I was in the city now. I would want out. Now we have herds of people up here for months not just weeks and weekends. Now with so many here, the water table level is dropping, so now there are hoses from cottages into the lakes. Tankers are filling wells that have gone dry. Several small towns nearby are now running out of water, day on day off at this time. Some are really ticked off, ordered off their wells , onto city water. Now they are out of water.
Now , all of the above can be dealt with, but now these temperatures, two days ago I took the pic you see attached. The last two days it went higher. Today it was pinned at 60c. Maybe check out some property a couple hours north. Sort of pushes the rest of the .... going around.
Ok, so nuff of this....
 

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I’m seeing a lot more people on paths and trails that I never saw before. A lot more people are getting away from crowded places just to get some relief. Can you blame them really? I’d be doing the same if I lived in the city.
We have to get our well topped up. This is the second time in 10 years.
Our salt water softener was flushing itself everyday instead of every week and depleting our water. It’s now filling up. Thank goodness. Having no water is horrible.
 

Ample supplies of clean water is going to become an increasing problem as the climate changes, and the populations continue to increase. The aging infrastructure in many of the cities causes frequent water main breaks, and some of the older water lines are contaminated with lead. Cities that rely on lakes and rivers face increasing pollution issues. When we travel around, I am turned off by the taste of some of the drinking water in the store drinking fountains, etc.....the "chemical" taste is rather unpleasant. It's no wonder that "bottled water" is becoming a major consumer staple in so many locales.

Luckily, we have excellent, and abundant, well water. Our well is 240Ft. deep, and the water table holds fairly consistent at about 100ft.
 
Lakeland living said:
First all these people running away from the city, ok I admit if I was in the city now. I would want out.
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Keesha said:
I’m seeing a lot more people on paths and trails that I never saw before. A lot more people are getting away from crowded places just to get some relief.
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I hear you guys
pretty much the same down here in the southern Oregon outback
Rigs, cruising our logging roads
And not just on the weekend

A realtor came by a few days ago
Told me he had several buyers lined up
Told me what we could get for our place
It'd put our cash position where we could easily pay cash for a place closer to town

Kinda turned my head

Then thought better of it

Our well is on some sorta aquifer
Great pressure
Heavenly taste
We could bottle and sell it
Never not there or low, even in late summer

Been told we've tapped into some sorta massive underground lake from the Mt Mazama eruption eons ago.

I don't see myself selling....ever

Unless, well, there's always a price...
 
Don M. said:
Ample supplies of clean water is going to become an increasing problem as the climate changes, and the populations continue to increase. The aging infrastructure in many of the cities causes frequent water main breaks, and some of the older water lines are contaminated with lead. Cities that rely on lakes and rivers face increasing pollution issues. When we travel around, I am turned off by the taste of some of the drinking water in the store drinking fountains, etc.....the "chemical" taste is rather unpleasant. It's no wonder that "bottled water" is becoming a major consumer staple in so many locales.

Luckily, we have excellent, and abundant, well water. Our well is 240Ft. deep, and the water table holds fairly consistent at about 100ft.
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I am incredibly lucky, both a good well and a lake that is totally spring fed. Being at the head of the water system here. These temperatures are not however the norm up here. After 30 years up here I finally had to get some AC just to live. Like you Don I mostly push water glasses away in places down lower, sulfur in town nearby. You get a whiff of that soon as you come in the door. Anything like that down your way?
 
Gary O' said:
I hear you guys
pretty much the same down here in the southern Oregon outback
Rigs, cruising our logging roads
And not just on the weekend

A realtor came by a few days ago
Told me he had several buyers lined up
Told me what we could get for our place
It'd put our cash position where we could easily pay cash for a place closer to town

Kinda turned my head

Then thought better of it

Our well is on some sorta aquifer
Great pressure
Heavenly taste
We could bottle and sell it
Never not there or low, even in late summer

Been told we've tapped into some sorta massive underground lake from the Mt Mazama eruption eons ago.

I don't see myself selling....ever

Unless, well, there's always a price...
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Tossed two realtors off my property in the last month. The numbers did make me think briefly , but my original thought from years ago will stick with me. I have what I want and damn lucky to have it, I intend to stay put.
 
Lakeland living said:
I am incredibly lucky, both a good well and a lake that is totally spring fed. Being at the head of the water system here. These temperatures are not however the norm up here. After 30 years up here I finally had to get some AC just to live. Like you Don I mostly push water glasses away in places down lower, sulfur in town nearby. You get a whiff of that soon as you come in the door. Anything like that down your way?
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I haven't experienced any town water that actually "stinks", but I find increasing numbers of places where one "swallow" of their water is all I can stand.
With regard to heat.....I suspect that Canada will see an increasing migration of people from the U.S. as the decades pass. As the climate continues to warm, more people who can afford to move North will do so. Winter, in our Southern states is quite mild, but the Summers are becoming increasingly unbearable.
 
Don M. said:
I haven't experienced any town water that actually "stinks", but I find increasing numbers of places where one "swallow" of their water is all I can stand.
With regard to heat.....I suspect that Canada will see an increasing migration of people from the U.S. as the decades pass. As the climate continues to warm, more people who can afford to move North will do so. Winter, in our Southern states is quite mild, but the Summers are becoming increasingly unbearable.
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I have never seen temps like this up here, 3 days after I took this pic I found it at 60c. I have never seen that up here before. How hot are you down in Texas this summer? Is it normal?
 

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How hot are you down in Texas this summer? Is it normal?
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Its just beginning!!! Too many people moving down here from the West Coast!!!'
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In PA, USA, it's about par for the course, as as temps go. But, to me, the real eye opener was last winter. When I moved here in 1995, the wind used to blow the snow behind my house into these huge snow drifts. The snow would pile up to cover half my windows. Last winter, I swept the snow off my deck. The year before was also pretty snowless. And what fell, melted in a day or two.
 
Lakeland living said:
I have never seen temps like this up here, 3 days after I took this pic I found it at 60c. I have never seen that up here before. How hot are you down in Texas this summer? Is it normal?
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That’s cause it hadn’t ever been that hot here. Your thermometer must be broken. You don’t live too far from us and while we have had hot temperatures the highest it’s been has been about 36 to 38 degrees Celsius this week. Buy a new thermometer. Lol
 
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That’s cause it hadn’t ever been that hot here. Your thermostat must be broken. You don’t live too far from us and while we have had hot temperatures the highest it’s been has been about 36 to 38 degrees Celsius this week. Buy a new thermostat. Lol
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You are not as high (in altitude ) as I am, that I know for sure. Also I did check it out, the thermostat is working perfectly. What is happening is the sun which is much hotter now, also reflection. You spend time kayaking , the sun
reflects , buildings also reflect sun. Sun burn maybe?:p:ROFLMAO::devilish:
 
Lakeland living said:
You are not as high (in altitude ) as I am, that I know for sure. Also I did check it out, the thermostat is working perfectly. What is happening is the sun which is much hotter now, also reflection. You spend time kayaking , the sun
reflects , buildings also reflect sun. Sun burn maybe?:p:ROFLMAO::devilish:
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A higher altitude creates less heat not higher heat plus the highest record ever recorded in Ontario was 42.2 degrees Celsius and that was on July 20th 1919 and then July 11/12/13 in 1936.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Canada was 45 C on July 5th 1937.

Your thermometer is most likely broken. There’ is NO WAY Ontario has had heat anywhere near that.
 
Good grief, that sounds awful! Luckily for us, nothing like that, at least no so far. It's been in the 80's and 90's, hot but normal for July. It's mostly the humidity that bothers us. And we do have lots of rain, a thunderstorm almost nightly, so we are not out of water.
 
Keesha said:
A higher altitude creates less heat not higher heat plus the highest record ever recorded in Ontario was 42.2 degrees Celsius and that was on July 20th 1919 and then July 11/12/13 in 1936.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Canada was 45 C on July 5th 1937.

Your thermometer is most likely broken. There’ is NO WAY Ontario has had heat anywhere near that.
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Still wrong and I even gave you some hints.... :p
 

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