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Message: <blockquote data-quote="perterra" data-source="post: 3236601" data-attributes="member: 103709">I have seen the very high temps out in west Texas, here in north central 100+ is not out of the norm, we adapt. In one of my old jobs we had a sales manager show up from the northeast and lay down a new rule, jackets and ties would be required, that lasted until early August when he abandoned that foolishness and we reverted back to loose fitting shirts. Big hats and long lunch breaks are life savers while many businesses start work at 4 am and shut down at 1pm. You learn to stay in the shade, and hydrate constantly. It's when the temps never drop below mid 80's that it works me over. When it's upper 90's at 10 pm it's just miserable.I agree with you about the climate, we screw this one up theres not much of an option on going someplace else. I think global warming is easier to take as a myth when you make a bunch of money off of the things that contribute to it. I had a customer a few years ago, was a horrible polluter according to the EPA. I cleared about $2,000 a month off of that one customer, at $500 a week clear it was a lot harder for me to grasp the concept of the damage to the environment. Ashamed to say it but greed colored my view of what was bad and what wasnt. Looking back, it's obvious, but at the time the dollar signs mitigated it. Hind sight is 20/20, I just wish foresight was.</blockquote>