Its Cold!

Brrrr! Its been chilly down here, in typically the warmest part of the country!  Everyone is on edge and is acting like it is the end of the world.  The high the past few days has been in the low 60s, but dropping down to the 40s and 30s at night.  For Bobby and I, it feels like fall and we are loving it.  For everyone else, it is an arctic blast.  I do however feel for those who have citrus crops, seeing we had a frost yesterday and things aren't looking too good. 

Winter jackets, scarves, ugg boots, and hats are the attire right now in the office.  It is also the talk of the office. Every few minutes someone makes a comment about the weather, usually with a shocked or irritated tone. 

People were calling into the radio station today about how their heat decided to not work at home and they are probably going to freeze to death in the 63 degree weather. 

The weather has actually been a headache for me at work.  We are having issues with our heating and cooling system. Because the heat is on in the building it means our relative humidity will drop.  Our system is supposed to counteract this, adding humidity to the air.  But of course it's not working. Our RH in a controlled environment is usually at 55% (yes this was a shock coming from a state with no humidity) and it is now reading at 27%!  This is not good news for the objects, meaning they could react, causing them to crack or expand due to these large fluctuations.

Tuesday we took a field trip to "town" to look for humidifiers.  Apparently this is a foreign object down here.  Home Depot had no idea what we were talking about.

"you mean you want a de-humidifier."
"no a humidifier"
"are you sure you don't want to be taking moisture out of the air?"

We've got them all set up over the collection areas trying to raise the humidity.  So far its working a little bit, but we're anxious to get the HVAC people out here to fix the problem.

So in the end I guess I'm ready for the warm weather to come back.  Hopefully though, I won't be turning into a whiney Floridian anytime soon, bundling up the minute it drops to a freezing 68 degrees.

My coworker bought her dog a snuggie so it won't die from hypothermia.