Why does it seem that cold weather is actively trying to kill you, but that hot weather is just ignoring you?
When I was a yung’in. I visted relatives in the deep south. Now this was before air conditioning was in every house, the ‘low tech’ solution was to have fans placed throughout the house to cirulcate the air. Lots of fans, esp. in the attic and other areas. It was not too bad, moving hot air is better than nothing at all.
Except that they turned them off at night.
Now these days, would you turn off the AC when you need sleep so desperately? So why on earth did they switch off those fans which were the only thing keeping you from filling your lungs with water at every breath. The only thing that kept that 2000lbs gorrilla off your chest that was also known as ‘the local air’.
They turned them off at night…
The HEAT was the entire f’ing topic of Nightline last night. They had these big orange graphics (oh the sun, it’s hot, I get it). Then they’d go “Chicago 95°” and show some poor guy working outside. He’d say “It helps to drink a lot of water!” (Really, you think?) Then they’d switch to “New York City 96°” and show another guy outside saying “gotta drink lotsa water”. This was the entire program!!! Look, I know it’s a slow news time, people are on vacation, who’s watching TV anyway, but come on!
I guess I’ll have to watch Friends reruns instead, or something.
[I can’t believe how many ignorant assholes go to Tahoe to go skiing and yet don’t bring any friggin chains. What the fuck is the matter with you! It’s fucking snowing, that’s why you’re going! You don’t think that perhaps some might land on the fucking Highway?! [/QUOTE]
Chains? You guys are allowed to use chains on your roads? Must be nice.
Persephone,
born, raised, & still living in Michigan, where they haven’t allowed chains on the roads in many decades…
chains? Why would you ever want to put chains on your tires?
<ducks and runs away> :o)
I love it in New Mexico…snow? yeah, I’ve seen that once.
Freak. I lived in Tucson for 24 years, Phoenix for 1 and I hated every last minute of it. Horrible horrible place. Gah. Hated it. Did I mention I didn’t like it very much? Oh, and you “but it’s a dry heat” people can stuff it. 90 in humid weather may feel like 100, but 110 in dry weather feels like 110. And on top of that, July and August is the monsoon season in AZ, so often it IS humid.
I moved away the first opportunity I got.
HA! Don’t I wish. At least while I was growing up, most people only had a swamp cooler… on a good day, they cool it off a little and make the house smell bad. On a bad day, they just make it hot and sticky. In the monsoon season, they are basically a “fish smell distributor” for your house. It wasn’t until the last apartment I lived in there (and that for only 3 or 4 months) that I had air conditioning. And that was winter. And we still ran it almost every day.
My mom finally got air conditioning, after I’d moved out… her house still isn’t that cool. To run the A/C enough to cool the house costs about $400/month.
OOh Ooh Ooh I wanted to add something else. Arizona has the highest rate of skin cancer anywhere in the US, or did last time I knew about it. Another thing about dry heat, it’s far more dangerous than humid heat. You dehydrate faster, you die, etc. I’ve been hospitalized for dehydration and heat sickness and it’s not pretty. Getting burn bisters from touching the handle on your car isn’t nice either. 
Give me a cold, snowy climate ANY day.
Opal, I’ll take my Albuquerque NM summer over anywhere else non-tropical in the world. I love it here. I dont mind 100 degree days, and I absolutely hate it any colder than 40 in the winter. I’m never leaving this place.
Monsoon? time to go play in the rain.
I loved the monsoon storms themselves, and I’ve been known to float down flooded streets in a recycling bin before 
but the heat, I can’t stand. I start whining if it gets over 75. On the other hand, I ADORE winter. I love freezing temps, I love snow, I love bundling up for warmth. I think I could live happily in Greenland.
Opal: Partial agreement. I’m no fan of winter (“You’re living in the wrong country!” - dr_mom_mcl) but its caloric excesses are somewhat more tolerable than those of summer. I’ve never been unable to sleep because it’s too cold, let me put it that way.
yesterday here in santa barbara county it was 72 degrees, no humidity
today it was 72 degrees, no humidity
tomorrow it will be 72 degrees, no humidity
of course the MEDIAN price of a house here is around $300,000
and central air conditioning is an extra on all homes
And why is it that every summer, some poor kid has to die of heatstroke, because a neanderthal coach or know-it-all players choose not to drink enough, or run sprints for an hour at noon?
I am so tired of this, and then when you see, “We have reviewed our practice policies and now it’s in da rule book, we got to rest more in summmer.”
IT makes me need to slap someone. How can you not know that in summer? Summer comes at the same time every year, do you think that this year they’ll cancel summer?!!? God forbid, the team should even lose a preseason game!
Goodbye, Korey.
Goodbye, Marty.
I’m that same way. I can be fairly comfortabe at 100 degrees or so without A/C so long as I have plenty of fluids and moving air. But once it gets dark and I feel like going to sleep I want it to be fairly cool. But to top that off I can’t sleep without some sort of blanket. No matter how hot it is I gotta have something covering me.
Marc
I get that every day now, and I’m all the way up in Tokyo. The worst was last month, when I had to do 5 weddings when the temp was over 105. Over 250 people in full formal wear, and brides and grooms all looking like they were about to keel over. We were actually pretty lucky nobody had to be taken away in an ambulance. Or a hearse.
–sublight.