Have you been affected by the recent heat waves sweeping across a great area of the U.S.?

Nope.

Not unless you count sweating and being mildly irritable.

Yes, my electric bill has went up and I spend more time out on the lake and in the water.
It's been in the low 100s here for the last month.

Yes.
It's been uncomfortably hot. Nasty, really.

No, I'm one of them 'dang furiners' that come from one of the 192 countries on the planet that isn't the USA.

Given that I only live about 30km from the US border and weather patterns don't tend to pay much attention to international boundaries, I think I can safely include myself.

Although the weather for the past week has been a little milder, late July was quite uncharacteristically hot. We had several days with temperatures in the mid-thirties. That isn't normal.

Oh yes. I stay inside by my A/C.

No; I live in San Francisco. It's winter here (July and August are usually cold, foggy months). The heat waves have meant that it's been a little warmer and sunnier some of the time, so I suppose I have been slightly positively affected. But I will assume that that is not what the question is asking.

My air conditioning ran 6 days straight without ever shutting off. First time that ever happened. I sweated my ass off in 113 degree heat working outside. Other than that, no.

Yes, I have been affected, my a/c is working overtime and I'm afraid of what my electric bill will look like. My Dad who is usually very active at 72 can only last 3 hours outdoors, the dogs can't stay outside, everyone is shutdown inside until the sun goes away. I went to a public pool for 2 hours last week and got fried. The UV factor is high. I even used SPF 45.

sorry for excluding you, where are you from?

No, I live in Florida. It's hot here most of the summer so you get used to it.

I'm from the UK and we've had our hottest summer for 30 years. It's nothing compared to the kind of temperatures the US has been getting I'm sure, but it's been hot enough that I've had to wait a few minutes with all the windows down before I could get into my car.

Heat wave? Here in Mississippi, we call it summer. 100 degree weather with 95% humidity is a way of life. Sure, it bothers me, makes my electric bill go through the roof, and totally sucks ass. But, it's nothing that doesn't happen every summer.

No, I have not been affected since I don't live in the US

Yes. I haven't been keeping exact records but recently there was what seemed like a straight week or so with really hot weather with NO summer fog at all to come in to cool things off. I do like warm-ish weather but I also appreciate breezes and the coolness of the fog coming in towards the evening. The heat sometimes makes it difficult to sleep and I tend to walk on the shady sides of the streets if it's really hot. Anything over 75 or so is HOT to me.

Yeah, things really suck round here, 100+ We just try to get everything early or later and stay inside during the day.

Yes, but it has only been a little higher than usual for Missouri. I think the humidity is the same, just temperature being higher. The ground has cracks in it despite some rain we got the other night. Energy saving? It is an old house but we have central air, still upstairs is still warmer & each room has a ceiling fan. We use a couple of fans too, especially for the room with my records in there. I'm getting lazy because I can't walk my dogs. They aren't having any fun because it is too hot.

Is San Francisco's weather than the rest of California? I know some one in Sacramento who is having a tough time with really high temperatures.

No, I have not been affected, due to the fact that I live in the UK, where it is currently raining and quite cold.

It was hot, but I'm fairing pretty well. It has not affected me too adversely.

San Francisco is an anomalous pocket of constant cool temperatures. It almost never gets above 85 degrees here, and it's usually closer to 75 in the summer. The eastern side of the city does get warmer than the west, but it still doesn't get that hot there. I guess the air coming off the ocean is nice and cool in the summer. It gets really foggy here because as the central valley of California heats up, it pulls the air in off the ocean, and that turns into fog, which gets stuck on our hills and keeps us nice and cool in the summer. (That, or the gay men are controlling the weather to make sure it's always perfect for wearing muscle-defining clothes without getting too sweaty.) I have to say, I love the weather here. I'm traveling later this month, and I dread leaving my protective bubble and facing the high temperatures in the rest of the hemisphere.

Man, that would be nice! When I lived in Michigan the summers weren't bad because of the lakes, but we paid for it with the winters.

Yeah, it's nice that the winters here are so mild, too. I miss the snow occasionally, but if I really want snow, I can go to Tahoe or Yosemite. Not that I've done that yet. But I could, and that's what counts!

After Iraq and heat waves of the past, this is easy

Nope.

no. Likely because I spend a good amount of time in airconditioned indoors.

The weather in Southern Ontario has been different than usual - very hot and a lot of rain in July. The weather bureau says we've had less days where the temperature has been over 30 compared to last year.

We've also had it here in the UK.

i live in england!

The heat wave made me very lethargic. I don't do well with heat. I just stayed in most the time with my A/C running. I turned off the A/C at night, slept nude, kept a cold cloth next to my bed. I drank alot of fluids. I took cool showers. My family room has overhead fans, which was nice in the evenings. I truly feel sorry for those that had no escape from the heat, no A/C.

i don't think so, i live in florida which is one big heatwave.

Seeing as I'm many a mile and ocean away from the U.S, no.