Have had heat stress many timed at the races. Had heat stroke twice. That is nothing to play with. Second one doc said the more you get that the less tolerant you get to heat. Pretty sure I got a little mild heat stress last week at work. Clammy, kinda cool feeling, not sweating much. Went inside and sat down in front of the open fridge and had a couple glasses of water. Started feeling better, about that time the boss walks in and says why is the fridge open? Well captain, because your A/C in this building SUCKS and I am having a little heat stress, trying to cool off. Luckily he understood. Actual air temp 104 and heat index 117. In 2012 I believe it was, I saw heat index over 120 for about a week straight and no a/c in that shop at all. Just a port-a-cool which is a joke in humid air like we have here.

I think the doc is right because I'm a lot less tolerant than I was when I was in my 20's and 30's.

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Had heat stroke twice. That is nothing to play with.

Observed a guy suffering from heat stroke. This was on a remote location in a second world country. The ambulance took hours to get there. There was a guy under both arms and he could barely navigate, again, after sever hours waiting in A/C. As you said, nothing to play with.

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Originally posted by Big Steve:
The NHRA D4 bracket finals is moving back to the TX Motorplex, but because of the late venue change it is running August 14th-17th due to track scheduling, its the hottest part of the year in Texas. 4 days of 100* temps is going to be really hard on both the racers and track workers

The Motorplex in August is brutal.

At the Bracket finals this past weekend racing was stopped 3 times that I know of so the ambulance crew could tend to someone who had passed out or suffering heat stress from the brutal heat and humidity. Also racing was stopped due to a collision between a electric scooter and golf cart, a girl suffered a broken leg and other injuries.
Me personally couldn't wait to get my helmet and fire suit off after a run and drench myself with ice water Rough weekend for sure

We're headed to Bakersfield this weekend. Only going to be 108 and 105. It's insane. We're running at night, but qualifying will be @ 5pm.. the hottest part of the day. Hopefully we survive. You think they would re-schedule.... We will spend some quality time in the RV for sure.

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...suffering heat stress from the brutal heat and humidity.

Pretty much a testament to the softening of society. I don't ever recall hearing about heat stress/stroke when, as a kid, I lived on a farm with my grandparents. Cut hay, bail hay, pickup hay, put hay in the barn, again never heard of it. If it did happen there wasn't any A/C or ice refuge. Just a pleasant shade tree at best.

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...suffering heat stress from the brutal heat and humidity.

Pretty much a testament to the softening of society. I don't ever recall hearing about heat stress/stroke when, as a kid, I lived on a farm with my grandparents. Cut hay, bail hay, pickup hay, put hay in the barn, again never heard of it. If it did happen there wasn't any A/C or ice refuge. Just a pleasant shade tree at best.

Coach gave us salt tablets for the two a day football practices....never saw a drop of water or Gatorade, it hadn't been invented yet.

In my advanced age, I've gotten really dehydrated a couple of times, it sucks.

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...suffering heat stress from the brutal heat and humidity.

Pretty much a testament to the softening of society. I don't ever recall hearing about heat stress/stroke when, as a kid, I lived on a farm with my grandparents. Cut hay, bail hay, pickup hay, put hay in the barn, again never heard of it. If it did happen there wasn't any A/C or ice refuge. Just a pleasant shade tree at best.

Coach gave us salt tablets for the two a day football practices....never saw a drop of water or Gatorade, it hadn't been invented yet.

In my advanced age, I've gotten really dehydrated a couple of times, it sucks.

So water had not been invented? Damn how old are you? LOL

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Coach gave us salt tablets...

I worked in a factory that was beastly hot and they had salt tablet dispensers... take as many as you want. Table salt is, of course, sodium chloride, the sodium is a major electrolyte which is required for hydration to occur.

But you need water too there Coach. Sounds like he was following the bad advice of the day, seems I recall Bear Bryant (or one of the major FB coaches) not allowing water. Gotta tough em up!

I should have [posted this earlier the week after I did it has been pretty nice, Mid 80 for highs less humidity.

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Coach gave us salt tablets for the two a day football practices....never saw a drop of water or Gatorade, it hadn't been invented yet.

Same here when I played high school football back in the late 70's. We all got a turn drinking out of a garden hose after one hour, then again when practice was over. That was it.

That said, those were different times. The house I grew up in didn't have A/C until dad got a window unit when I was a teenager. None of the schools I went to had A/C until I started high school (it was a new building). Dad didn't get a car with A/C until I was 9 years old (a 71 Impala) and he rarely tuned it on because he said "that just wastes gas."

How many of us do our own yard work anymore? I don't. If you spend little to no time outside, then yes, the heat is difficult. I'm making an effort to get outside every day and get some exercise, even if it's hot and humid. It's the only way to survive a hot day at the track.

Sonoma is planned to run a National Event on July 17-19 on the just released 2026 schedule.

Not likely to run a LODRS race though. SAD!

Big change: no early 2026 LVMS event this year! Just the end of year Oct.29 - Nov. 1 event!

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How many of us do our own yard work anymore? I don't. If you spend little to no time outside, then yes, the heat is difficult.

yep if you sit in the a/c all day and then go outside, you're gonna die. If you spend time outside in the heat it's a lot less noticeable.

Dallas in July IS brutal. Same climate we have here at the house. I spent 30 years working in a shop that had one fan on the ceiling and nothing else. 2011 I believe, actual air temp 114 and index was on up around 130-and was similar for every day of the first 3 weeks of august. That was rough but as long as we stayed outside, it wasn't too bad. Soon as you go into the a/c, and then back out? Forget it. Your day is over.

Cold on the other hand, I can't do cold no matter what I try. I can put on 40 layers and still get cold. Feet and hands mostly but once their cold, I'm done. I used to go fishing a lot and went one cool fall day in November (IIRC it was on thanksgiving day?). About 40 for the high temp. Fished all morning and was mostly fine. Got into the truck, put the key in, couldn't turn the key. Fingers just wouldn't work. Tried my foot, even tried with my teeth and ended up just having to sit there on my hands for a while until they warmed up enough to get the key turned to start (and the heater cranked up). Embarassing just having to sit there while another boater was trying to use the one-lane ramp but after I explained to him what the deal was, he was fine....and sat in the truck with me to warm up before getting in his to load. For that reason I'm NOT looking forward to winter; shop is 60 degrees in the winter and it's still too cool for me. 65, ehh, ok but I'd rather it be 70 or so.

I work outside every day and nothing easy about it. I hate hpt weather. Loving the 50 and 60's we are having right now.

high 30 Sat. morning when climbed into tree stand was oh so wonderful.

We are all getting older and softer and next generations will be worse. We did not have air conditioning in our house until maybe 1965 and most of our cars did not have air conditioning until mid 70's. Now I would not even think of buying a car or house that did not have good air conditioning.

Internet.

Internet has changed our lives and one of the ways is you can watch racing, fishing, hunting or what ever you want anytime you want with out leaving your house. You can do all of your shopping over internet and not even have to leave.

Sometimes the struggle is not to win the race or catch that fish but to handle the weather and it is getting harder as we get softer. As a kid we stayed outdoors running around all day in the heat. Would kill most all of us now. And there are so many of the younger generation who are so out of shape they can not keep up with me as old as I am. That is sad and when they get old it is going to be a problem.

Starting to turn from Newsome brown to green here now. Tree trimming etc..