And don’t put “the” in front of interstate/freeway numbers because then we’ll all know you’re from California and make fun of you. 
The SO of 12 years has talked about moving to Texas “in a few years” to be closer to his daughter. I told him it’s been nice knowing him.
I’m in the PNW, and this summer has been miserable. June broke every heat record for the area. We’re also a bunch of whiners up here, because we are accustomed to mild weather year round. Can’t wait for our cool, rainy weather to come back!
It’s also heat, humidity, bugs, pulling weeds, mowing lawns and other stupid ass shit. I can hate summer just fine, thanks.
Of course, in exchange for that all you have to do is…have to live in SoCal.
Sorry, I’m ripping on everyone’s towns today I guess. But fuck Southern California. I mean, fuck Dallas first, but then fuck LaLa Land.
Bite your tongue. We get nine damn months of cool and rainy already; I’m in no hurry to get back to it just yet.
Although…yeah, the past three weeks in PDX have been bullshit on top of bullshit. Thank Juju I have a basement, but it was getting warm there too.
Oh, no… not really. I’m from Houston originally, and had a couple of summers in College Station, and spent a lot of weekends in Austin (where my in-laws are from).
It’s damned hot in any/all of the above during that stretch of the year; it’s just a question of whether you’re being roasted in a dry heat (Austin, Dallas), or steamed in a sauna (Houston, College Station).
And if you don’t religiously use one of those windshield sun-shades, you get the “Kung-Fu” like test of fortitude of having to hold onto your 170 degree steering wheel while trying to drive. That cauldron of hot coals couldn’t have been too much worse…
Plus, there’s always some sort of large scale high pressure which causes air stagnation and all sorts of air quality issues in Dallas and Austin; Houston’s close enough to the coast to get some Gulf influence, causing some rain and wind.
FWIW I’m from here, my family lives here, and probably 10 months out of the year, I really like it here weather-wise. I just really don’t enjoy the high summer part; from about Memorial Day to the 4th of July is awesome- hot enough to swim and do stuff outside, but not oppressively so.
Up here anyway, summer doesn’t mean fresh veggies; it’s too damn hot for most; they either go dormant or die, unless they’re some kind of tropical plant like peppers, okra or cucumbers, all of which you have to water obscenely to prevent them from dying. Tomatoes bear in early-mid June, and then don’t set fruit again until sometime in September when it cools off enough. Stuff like lettuce, spinach, broccoli, etc… don’t grow terribly well here- it gets too hot too fast in the spring and they tend to bolt.
Meh. Having lived in Australia, you’re getting off easy in Dallas.
bump, I’m trying to start some shit here, and you’re being all reasonable. Stoppit.
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83? That would be on the warm side for a low temperature during this stretch of the year I’m talking about. Our lows are somewhere between about 77-80 typically, and go up from there.
That was the summer that so many trees died, wasn’t it? That was a baaaaaad one.
A race war?
You’ve clearly never been within ten feet of real pizza or you would not assert such insanity.
I grant you that NJ has excellent Italian food. Please ask the large man in the leisure suit to quit banging on my door. :eek:
Isnt it a Southern California thing? I think they laugh at us in the Bay Area too.
I do. It doesn’t help. cries
West of the Cascades you mean. There is plenty of wet cold east of the 405 up there.
I spent the first 35 years of my life in various places on the west coast of Washington. Never again will I live someplace where they have seasons that are anything other than summer and not summer. Living two miles from the oceans as the crow flies in S Cal is totally worth the ridiculous mortgage prices.
Yeah, I think saying the 405 instead of I 405 is a southern thing.
Died in the Dallas area, but elsewhere in the state, there were terrible wildfires that summer.
Well, we do get our revenge on the Zonies (Arizona and east folks) who come here for a vacation. Living in a beach area you learn to easily tell who they are because they are bright white at 10AM, and red as a beet at 2PM, on the first day of their summer beach vacation. By the time they go home they are covered in the grunge of peeling skin and zinc oxide. Y’all come back now y’hear.
I like pulling weeds and mowing lawns. What I hate is fucking shoveling 4 foot snow drifts, and frigid cold from November to April.
Some of you people are just SICK.