# Holy hell, I'm freakin' DYING here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790 "2010-08-10T04:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/21 "2010-08-10T05:58:59Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > Yuck, really? I hate humidity. It ruins whole days. I hate humidity too, but at low temperatures like 21C it’s far less noticeable during the day. At night it’s always worse. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/22 "2010-08-10T06:00:29Z")
I don’t think people were bashing the OP for being a crybaby, just incredulous that she found 70 degrees uncomfortable … and maybe a little jealous of her 70 degrees. And just pointing out that it could be much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/23 "2010-08-10T06:00:33Z")
Eek, eke! I can eke out some sympathy. That’s how fried my brain is, it thinks I’m eeking when I’m eking! ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/24 "2010-08-10T06:22:07Z")
I’m incredulous. It’s 88 degrees here…at 1:20 a.m. Sympathy for the op = zero percent! ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/25 "2010-08-10T06:23:05Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > Yes, GHO57, it’s like a sauna (which I hate anyway) that you cannot get out of. All freaking day long. I’m Finnish; them’s fighting words you know. We take saunas pretty seriously… and people who hate them. We usually punish those people by not letting them use the sauna… I know, it’s a bit inhumane… but they’re really scum of the earth and don’t deserve better. Btw, tried opening the door… and standing the the doorway? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/26 "2010-08-10T06:27:28Z")
This place is honestly so ridiculous sometimes. “I’m hot…” “You’re not hot enough! Why, where I’m at…” I wonder if I start a “Jesus, I’m FAT!” thread if I could get people to argue with me how much fatter they are. With pics. Wile E, it’s not the temperature that is uncomfortable so much as the moisture. It feels decent outside right now, but the inside is taking a while to catch up. It doesn’t help that my windows face west so my apartment spends the better part of the day heating up like it’s on fire. I don’t know what the humidity is like in here, but the temp is in the mid-80s. Plus, unlike all you guys who are so “But here where I’m at…” I’m not where you’re at and this is not typical for here. High humidity (which, up here, is like \>70%, not 39%) itself isn’t terribly uncommon but it’s not usually this high, it’s not usually this constant (weeks-long right now), and I’m not usually this pregnant. It’s MPSIMS, ffs, I didn’t think I’d have to measure sweat output to prove my hotness (not like “hotness” but that I’m so hot, temperature-wise… whatever). > [@GHO57](#): > > We usually punish those people by not letting them use the sauna… Oh, the unbearable horror… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/27 "2010-08-10T06:43:39Z")
Oh you poor thing! I totally feel for you! I don’t like humidity + warmth at all. Twelve years and two weeks ago, I was 9 months pregnant and our A/C went out. Here in Sacramento we don’t have the humidity, but we do have 100+ temps. High heat or humidity when you’re that far pregnant, you have every right to complain all you want about how uncomfortable you are. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/28 "2010-08-10T06:45:42Z")
I think _somebody’s_ a little cranky. Have you considered a window unit a/c? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/29 "2010-08-10T06:57:07Z")
Let me tell you what I do, OP, when I get very hot, and it gets crazy hot in my house right now with the humidity up, and I don’t have AC either, I have swamp cooling, which doesn’t work with a crap when it’s humid. I take a cold shower, as cold as our water gets, anyway, and lay down totally spread-eagled on the bed, with no skin touching any other skin. I then have all fans- ceiling, swamp, and box- blowing directly on me (luckily my bed is perfectly positioned for this). This has been known to induce goose bumps it works so well. I do hope you feel better soon and I hope you know that I, out of all these insensitive poops, was only joking. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/30 "2010-08-10T13:35:28Z")
I’m in Mississippi so I know what you are going through. It was 80 when I woke up, and I don’t really know what it feels like to not be in a humid environment. When we play golf (or whatever outside) one thing to do is either buy a “cooling” towel - I believe they are called Frogg Toggs - to wear around your neck. If you can’t, take a hand towel and roll it up with ice cubes and wear that around your neck. Drink plenty of ice water. Sorry you don’t have A/C. Maybe take in a movie mid-afternoon? ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/31 "2010-08-10T13:52:48Z")
70° and 90% is humid, but not too bad. Try 45°C (113°F) and 90%… normal Dubai day in summer. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/32 "2010-08-10T14:24:37Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Dude, why are you such a crybaby? In my state, it’s 100 F all summer long, and the state government banned air conditioning so we all just sit around and sweat all day and hate each other but WE LOVE IT because we’re totally used to it, which makes us cool and you a big giant wussy crybaby pansy. Yeah, we’ve been toasty this summer too, In Ontario Canada. It’s cooled down quite a bit, so today it’ll only be 86F and 74% humidity. We don’t use air conditioning at home either. It’s amazing how acclimatizing yourself to the heat makes it much more bearable. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/33 "2010-08-10T14:30:24Z")
I’m really irritated that the local forecast doesn’t include humidity. Great - it’s going to be 75 today. But is that a lovely, pleasant 75, or a nasty sticky sauna 75? They’re very different days. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/34 "2010-08-10T14:45:29Z")
89 F here and 58% humidity; a “heat index” of 97 F currently (“apparent” heat as determined by real heat and humidity). But the previous two working days (Monday and preceding Friday) the government declared its Heat Emergency Plan in effect. Here in my agency we didn’t know what that meant, and I guessed it meant we should all stand by to make “Hot enough for ya?” jokes. Googling, however, reveals that the [Heat Emergency Plan](http://www.dcema.dc.gov/dcema/cwp/view,a,1226,q,567661,dcemaNav,%7C31810%7C,.asp) includes distribution of fans to the vulnerable and something called “street showers,” whatever that is. The A/C is working here in the building, but some Metro (subway) cars have no working A/C; yesterday’s ride home was like being in a sauna with a lot of other people who are definitely _not_ relaxing. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/35 "2010-08-10T15:03:42Z")
I would do _anything_ for 70 outside. Seriously, I don’t even remember 70. When we do get 70 I’ll have to find a sweater. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/36 "2010-08-10T15:09:14Z")
Well, I am going to get dressed in full snow gear complete with woolly hat and mittens if the thermostat even hits _80_. You people who would put on a sweater at 70 must live in nice cool climates. I don’t know what you guys are complaining about. It is so hot I feel like an offensive racial stereotype being beaten by some racists. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/37 "2010-08-10T15:09:54Z")
The heat index is supposed to be around 112 degrees today as soon as the storm passes. Right now it’s 84, but the heat index is 98, with 79% humidity. When I pick my daughter up from school we sit in a line of cars for about thirty minutes. I have no a/c and my windows won’t roll down. When I get home my clothes will be as wet as if I’d been dancing in sprinklers. Hell if I see some I might stop and do just that. I am soooo grateful for my window unit at home. I could not bear it without air conditioning at home. I don’t know how my Mig works construction in this heat. Especially roofing. I would die of heat stroke in about ten minutes. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/38 "2010-08-10T15:17:10Z")
Sweaty. Sticky. Itchy. My HAIR is driving me mad. I drag my Vornado fan around with me, room to room. Can’t bake or cook anything major, chug iced coffee and Coke, can’t sleep well, can’t WAKE UP! I bitch a lot about ice storms and blizzards that we have half the year - this weather is the equivalent, only summertime suffering. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/39 "2010-08-10T15:24:31Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > IIRC, the OP is just entering the third trimester of pregnancy, which makes this rant totally make sense to me. 😉 Also, while the temperature doesn’t look too bad, it’s kind of lame for 11:30 at night, and that humidity level looks atrocious. That explains it then. Because that’s not bad weather my any means here in DC. 90 degrees, 90% humidity - that’s DC in the summertime. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/40 "2010-08-10T15:27:45Z")
It was 98 degrees F yesterday and humid as fuck, its going to be 98 degrees F and humid as fuck again today…90 plus degree and high humidity days forecast for the rest of the week…bring on the fall weather! -Near Cincinnati Ohio [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790.md?page=3)