EDSBS SUMMER PRESS RELEASE: TO HELL WITH HUMIDITY
by Spencer Hall on Aug 17, 2010 12:34 PM EDT
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PrintLately we've been pondering moving. Not seriously moving, since we've got a house and it's easier to unload a potentially bed-bug infested couch than it is to sell a house in 2010. We know this because we just had a bed bug scare, threw our couch out to the curb in a frenzy, and had someone roll up and take it despite being told it could be infested with the very bloodsucking harbingers of filth, poverty, and social ostracism themselves. Their response: "That's cool, we've got bleach."
This is now going to be the EDSBS response to everything. "Hey, we just hired Lane Kiffin as our coach? THAT'S OKAY WE'VE GOT BLEACH."
(BTW, the exterminator asked "So you really did just throw your couch into the street before you saw an exterminator?" Us: "Yes." Exterminator, verbatim: "That's a bit drastic." Pestilence never sleeps, exterminator guy, and we like throwing furniture around. You and reason can't stifle simple joys. )
The reason for thinking about moving is the same every summer: the punishing ass-sweat of Satan himself, humidity. The goddamn motherfucking piss-swilling humidity in this goddamn forsaken crimepit of a cesspool of inefficiency and walking ignorance is currently at fucking EIGHTY-EIGHT PERCENT at eighty eight motherfucking degrees Fahrenheit. Shitballs and shinola, that is just goddamn unreasonable even when all one is expected to do in a day is:
a.) type
b.) check mail
c.) get 70s Big
d.) bounce baby on knee
e.) take walk with baby.
That's all we have to do in a day, and it's still oppressive even at a near sedentary level of activity. If the Big Ten really, really wants to emphasize one advantage they have over the SEC in recruiting, it would be the words "You will never have to practice on an open field in Gainesville in 85 degrees with 85 percent humidity." Since SEC schools don't recruit 250 pound running backs with 5.3 speed that won't happen, but we're just saying that it would be a persuasive argument in the hypothetical.
Football players are actually out moving in this suffocating diarrheal elephant fart of an environment. Big ones like Carl Johnson, for example, whose thoughts slid toward the satanic in summing up what it's like to practice in this ridiculous shit:
I seen the devil out there today. He was wearing a white hat."
OMG THE DALAI LAMA IS AT FLORIDA PRACTICE. Or Ellis Johnson and his freaking huge hat. Or Urban Meyer. So hard to tell the difference when you're hallucinating crazily from the heat, which may happen in humidity since the body's thermoregulation is thrown completely off by the inability of sweat to evaporate. No sweat evaporates, your temperature rises, and that's how you end up throwing up in the bushes, stricken with heat exhaustion, or stripping off all of your clothes and taking a bus back to Pittsburgh.
In short, fuck this fucking humidity, and stay hydrated and safe, football warrior-poets. There are many things to envy about being strong, fast, agile, and potentially bound for NFL millions. Running wind sprints when Mother Nature has shoved a potato in the exhaust pipe of your personal HVAC system is not one of them.*
*We are officially negative on bed bugs. AWAY, POOR PEOPLE GERMS!
**This is a metaphor. We are not saying they are literally running around with potatoes in their asses. Unless we are talking about Florida State, since this has been an integral part of their conditioning program for years, as evidenced by the famous Chuck Amato quote "If you can run a mile with a potato in your ass, then you can win eight games in the ACC."
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You recruited a convicted felon as your quarterback?
Nutt: That’s okay, we’ve got bleach.
by Infield Elephant on Aug 17, 2010 12:43 PM EDT reply actions
Bless you for the shot of Schnelly in his glory days at Da U.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
After much deliberation, I've decided that the best weather in this country is found
around Charlotte, North Carolina. Yes, you’re still in the South and the summers are still hot and humid. But it’s much, much cooler than Atlanta (and I’ve spent significant time around both). The winters aren’t bad (maybe 1-2 serious snows a year and some 30 degree days).
Weather here in Kentucky gets real hot and average humidity. However, NC is superior because they don’t have Kentucky’s Big 10-esque winters.
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by Old South on Aug 17, 2010 12:45 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
See the happy medium. East Tennessee
Nothing ever happens here. People walk around moaning about the EXTREME humidity (20%) or during the winter, every person swears they heard that the next flurry about to roll into town will be the next “Blizzard of 1993”. They have no clue how good they have it.
What do we do if somehow Colt McCoy ends up on an NFL team starting against Vince Young?
by inVINCEable on Aug 17, 2010 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Sorry
But reasonable proximity to SEC football is a prerequisite.
As for East Tennessee, that sounds great except for one thing: it’s East Tennessee. Too much orange, skoal, and Kenny Chesney. That said, I enjoy your smokies for hiking and Ridgewood Barbeque is absolutely awesome.
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I don't know...
…first kick-off of the day at 9 am is pretty sweet. And you don’t have to stick toothpicks under your eyelids to catch the last ditch Pac10 game on Fox Sports Northwest (or some such).
not drunk, just overserved
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Aug 17, 2010 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions
indeed !
Given enough velocity even a pig will fly
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 17, 2010 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions
California
Either you have to live in the city with Californians, or in the woods, with the meth heads
"Voetbal is pas totaal als je wint"- Coach Adun
"The greatest sin is to spurn the gift"- Coach Alistair
Humidity is just rain at Big-10 speed.
by blanx73 on Aug 17, 2010 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions 10 recs
I refuse to live anywhere
that can have lows of 48 in mid-August.
The average high this July in SF was something like 63.5 F. AVERAGE freaking HIGH IN motherlovin’ JULY is only in the 60s.
Couple that with the earthquakes and… well, enough said.
by An 'eer with a beer on Aug 17, 2010 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Earthquakes
Are unacceptable. The ground should stay where I put it.
by blanx73 on Aug 17, 2010 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Earthquakes are fun!
You’ve never seen titties jiggle until you sit through a 6.4 on teh richter scale
and I’ll take an earthquake over a hurricane any time
by Spartan D on Aug 17, 2010 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
A real man
would cause his own “earthquake.” Just sayin’
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
Went to a SF Giants game on July 3rd last year...
they had guys walking around with Hot Chocolate Dispensers…. yeah it was like 50 w/ a strong wind coming off the bay.
"It’s not Disneyland, people. Get the hell out of the way." NYC Firefighter
by jokastrength on Aug 17, 2010 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions
NoCal summer doesn't start til September.....
“The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco” – Mark Twain
by Spartan D on Aug 17, 2010 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
How about mudslide?
Is that a season?
by Albino Tornado on Aug 17, 2010 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Only in Italy, Pakistan and Southern California
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions
That's my kinda weather!
Although it seems a little cool for San Diego this time of year
/fuck I miss SoCal
Too dry
Too cold, too. You need SOME humidity, to keep from looking like a dried-out prune at 40. Plus, Californians suck. They’re Iowans, only smug.
by Golden Hand on Aug 17, 2010 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Years ago I met a gal named Sunshine from LA
who I would have sworn was over 45 — going on 70. Skin wrinkled like old leather. Yet we were meeting her on the occasion of the announcement of a good friend’s 20-something brother to marry said lady.
As my wife and I sent telepathic messages of “WTF” to each other, “Sunshine” chirped up with “I don’t know what it’ll be like living here in the East — it’ll be the first time in my 27 years that I haven’t been able to tan year-round.”
Ack. Twenty-seven and she looked that. Poor gal.
by An 'eer with a beer on Aug 19, 2010 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions
Being from Charlotte, and Back there again
I completely and one hundred percent agree. Aint anywhere as hot as being in Oconee or Pickens County, plus there are enough watering holes around here to continue exsistence.
Don't give up, don't ever give up ~ Jim Valvano
I did one season of preseason there
and it was pretty bad (but that’s the point of preseason, to suck)… but not nearly as bad as it was in Greenville apparently
"Voetbal is pas totaal als je wint"- Coach Adun
"The greatest sin is to spurn the gift"- Coach Alistair
It's funny...
As a kid growing up in the swamp lands of Florida, I always figured the general Charlotte type area would be about perfect for me weather wise for exactly these reasons. Never figured on actually living here, but don’t knock it if it works.
Also, getting to watch loads of SEC ball while getting to cherry pick the games worth watching in the ACC with ease is a nice plus.
If you're going to the Carolina's, you might as well be by the ocean...
I’d go with Beaufort, SC, myself, but I can see Charleston or some other places. That ocean breeze makes it nicer in the summer, and you get the same winters as CLT
"I think so, Brain, but how are we going to get the bacon flavoring into the pencils?"
Agreed
/lives in Charleston
/has more fun things to do than Beaufort
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Noooo
South Carolina is all full. And it’s boring here. And we’re illiterate… and whatever else will help devidee sleep at night and slow the flood of refugees from failing states.
by GwinnettGamecock on Aug 17, 2010 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Kailua, HI
High 70s to mid 80s and surprisingly mild humidity given that it’s about 3000 miles from any reasonable-size land mass. All year long.
I believe Paul "Bear" Bryant
first used the “potato in the ass” technique in Junction, TX, 1954.
“Now, men, I know it’s going to be uncomfortable at first. But by God, a man who will quit on me with an Idaho Gold up his poop chute will quit on me in the 4th quarter. Y’all ain’t quitters, are ya?”
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
Humdity is how i know I'm alive
every summer we hit %90+ humidity in 90 degree heat for a few days with little rain. that’s literally the scientific equivalent to walking through a glass of warm water.
However, having it experienced the gates of hell 110+ dry heat in phoenix one summer, I’ll say it’s not the worst in the world.
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I once met a 90-year-old New Orleans landlady
She was 90% deaf but otherwise the picture of health. She never used air conditioning her entire life and apparently got along fine with the heat and humidity of a Louisiana summer.
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you get acclimated over time i think
my grandfather is the same way. Used to think he was just trying to save on the ‘lectric bill but he just doesn’t mind it. Despite our worries, he still cuts his own grass at high noon, in slacks and an undershirt. Toughest sumbitch I’ve ever met.
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I agree
I grew up in SE Asia without air conditioning, and still don’t use it very much in NC. You get used to sweating.
"Voetbal is pas totaal als je wint"- Coach Adun
"The greatest sin is to spurn the gift"- Coach Alistair
Oh yeah – you haven’t lived ‘till you’ve seen a Sri Lankan summer. I particularly enjoyed the year a prolonged drought dried up the reservoirs, leading to rolling blackouts, and finally breaking in the biggest motherfucking storm ever the night before we flew home for vacation. That was such a joy, though I guess it could have broken the day after, in which we would have come back to find a holy mess on the ground floor.
My grandfather would do the same
and would be mighty pissed at any offer to mow for him. I think he was at least 82 or 83 before the first time he let me mow his lawn for him, and even that was only in the summer. Granted, that was also the only time I was around since I was off at school the rest of the time, but I doubt he’d have said yes if I had been there to offer.
This summer has been a little different here in Charleston, SC
It’s been hot (90 or over on 39 of the last 45 days), but in place of our normal stultifying humidity we’re getting rain. Last month we were about 3-3/4 inches over normal. In August we’re already 5-1/4 inches over normal with two weeks left in the month.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I was in your hood last week, MtnEer
Beautiful as always, and someday I need to find me a CofC girl to call my wife.
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My friend owns a sorority house (their house) down there
we crash in the basement when we go down there- nice girls all of them. CofC, they may not be smart, but their nice and good looking
"Voetbal is pas totaal als je wint"- Coach Adun
"The greatest sin is to spurn the gift"- Coach Alistair
and our bitches in basketball
socon smackdown!
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Yeah, the C of C girls are quite lovely...
and a lot of them are now my friends’ daughters. Please be careful with them.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Baton Rouge in late July 1998-2001
Everyday, at approximately 3pm usually when I was leaving some summer school class, the sky would open and a frog strangling torrent would just plaster the ground. It would be like God took PodKatt’s glass of warm water and poured karo in it. I had to quit wearing flip flops because the lack of coefficient of friction on my entire body made me a hazard to myself. Summer school in BR was the teats by the by.
by haveagreatday on Aug 17, 2010 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
There are plusses to 20 straight days of 90/90 or higher
Practicing every day means you can stay at 6% body fat despite being at an age where your body doesn’t want to happen. Also, when the season starts, we tend to run everybody off the field except for the other Carolina teams. Thankfully, God built most soccer players for speed, not comfort (would not want to be Marvin Austin right now, f’r instance).
"Voetbal is pas totaal als je wint"- Coach Adun
"The greatest sin is to spurn the gift"- Coach Alistair
Lived in ATL and S. Fla
for many, many years and couldn’t stand it any more….now I’m a west coaster, and the summers cannot be grander. Salmon fishing on the Columbia river is teh awesome. Very little snow in winter, but it’s close by if you want it. And being on Pacific time fucking rocks. Housing prices are still ridiculous though…
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Aug 17, 2010 12:56 PM EDT reply actions
Part of me wants to do this as well. Not California so much, but one of those places close to mountains and coast.
not drunk, just overserved
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Aug 17, 2010 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I was in northern Cali for a while, and it was great, but too expensive. You can find great places in Oregon/Washington for a lot lower cost of living. If I could find work there, I’d move to Hood River in a second…close to Portland and awesome fishing nearby and close to Mt Hood.
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Aug 17, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions
This would be a good choice
Plus Hood River area is exploding with whineries as most places in eastern WA/Or are now.
I’m heading to my parents house just across the River from Hood River this weekend. Stealhead fishing on the Columbia by 5am on Sat. I can’t wait.
Given enough velocity even a pig will fly
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 17, 2010 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I did some steelhead fishing this past weekend at the Deschutes/Columbia area. It was incredible. A bit windy on Saturday, but Friday was really nice. I heard fall Chinook at Buoy 10 by Astoria is the place to be this year.
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Aug 17, 2010 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
AWESOME!!!
Did you get a Deschutes river steely, or were you close to the mouth and could get some of the big Snake river stealheads?
We’re going to put the boat in near the mouth of the Klickitat and sit out next to a sand bar.
They like to rest in that area.
The Klickitat is downstream from the Deschutes on the WA side.
Love that area for fishing.
"Fall in line and witness punishment." -Will Ebner, probably
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 17, 2010 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Caught one native Deschutes steelhead about 13 lbs, put up a hell of a fight. Only wish I could have kept it. Another guy on our boat caught a nice hatchery fish that we kept, but didn’t fight nearly as much. We were on the water early too, but around 10-11am was prime time. Steelhead counts through Bonneville are pretty good this year (>1500 steelhead through yesterday and fall Chinook are ramping up as well), so you should do well. We were using Heddon Tadpolly lures which run a bit shallower at slower trolling speeds with some success.
Check here before your trip:
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Aug 17, 2010 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions
That is brilliant!
Thanks. It almost feels like cheating when you have so much potential data on where in the river the fish can be.
"Fall in line and witness punishment." -Will Ebner, probably
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 17, 2010 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Having a decent fish finder helps too. ;) Besides spots at the mouth of a feeding river, it’s pretty good action near the fish ladders on the various Columbia dams. All the salmon are funneling out of the same spot, which is nice.
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Aug 17, 2010 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I would also like to add
Though Hood River would be nice, there is an alarming amount of college-know-it-all-hippies in the area, what with the wind surfing, and the like.
Nope, can’t have it. I would try and pick a smaller town in the area than that, though there is zero job markets there. So…….
Given enough velocity even a pig will fly
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 17, 2010 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions
is bobby bowden the exterminator in your infestation parable?
Eat what the monkey eats, then eat the monkey. -U.S. Navy survival guidance
Should've burned the couch
I don’t care if you live in, I assume, suburban ATL and it’s the offseason. Couch should’ve been LIT ON FIRE.
Disappointed I am.
We are THE tigersthatsaywareagle
Yeah, I gotta go with that too
Couch FIRE, COUCH Fire, COUCH FIRE!
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Yep
We woulda made you an honorary West F’n Virginian for that one.
by An 'eer with a beer on Aug 17, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I think the same of anyone who thinks a low in the mid-20s qualifies as "fucking cold"
Which means, now that I’m in Texas, that I spend most of the “winter” laughing maniacally at the people wearing four layers when I consider it T-shirt weather.
I remember being in law school at Michigan with a guy from Houston. It was one of those crisp November days, beautiful, right? I was wearing a thin sweater. He came out of his room wearing everything he owned, and his warmest coat- one of those full length things that swim team guys wear- fleece lined. He looked at me and said “This is as cold as it gets, right?”
Of course I said yes, and laughed maniacally.
Bed bugs are no joke yo
I live in NYC and they are an epidemic. My roommate recently brought home some and I almost threw her off my roof. The extermination process lasts 2-3 weeks while living out of trashbags.
As for poor people bugs I say nay! as they attack all social brackets (see 30 Rock episode which Jack gets them and a Wall Street firm)
For those that care
McSweeney’s has a good set of writings about bed bugs.
"It’s not Disneyland, people. Get the hell out of the way." NYC Firefighter
by jokastrength on Aug 17, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Second the motion on Charlotte
Four seasons, with winter and summer being the shortest. Beautiful falls and glorious springs, and the best BBQ east of Memphis.
I wouldn't say Charlotte in particular
but NC does have the best pulled pork BBQ. Even if the hushpuppies on the side look like cat turds.
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Can get behind that
notice the map skips Charlotte
by Call Me the Breeze on Aug 17, 2010 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions
the map also skips "The Pit" in Durham
which might be the best place in the country- it’s been on the Travel Channel a couple of times
"Voetbal is pas totaal als je wint"- Coach Adun
"The greatest sin is to spurn the gift"- Coach Alistair
It skips Asheville too
However, 12 Bones is the only BBQ worth eating in Asheville anyway. But it is very worth eating.
I have no idea what BBQ the map is referencing in Murphy (map doesn’t work properly on my puter).
The best I’ve had in NC was in Goldsboro.
We are THE tigersthatsaywareagle
You let the cat out of the bag
Them’s fightin’ words.
My ideal barbeque is whole-hog pulled pork with just a taste of a nice, thin mustard-based sauce with some vinegar thrown in.
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88/88 is only a heat index of 112, ya sissy
There were days last week in flyover country where the heat index hit 117.
And we get actual winters, with snowfall and -40 wind chills, too.
Isn't the goal to live in a pleasant environment?
I’d take my life before I lived in a place like that
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It's pleasant, on average
However, the outliers are a bitch. I like having all four distinct seasons. Having 117 makes you look forward to winter; having 8 inches of snow makes you look forward to summer. Living in Georgia or Sakeralina means you get seasons of “Damn Hot, Too Damn Hot, Back to Just Damn Hot, and We Gonna Freeze Because We Don’t Own Clothes for This Weather.”
by Albino Tornado on Aug 17, 2010 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That kinda sounds like when I moved here
except I moved here from Wf’nV and HAD clothes for the winter.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
We Gonna Freeze...? Not really.
I’m an Ohio transplant in NC, and it doesn’t get cold enough here to freeze. Heck, I haven’t had to get out a winter coat in years.
Still haven’t really acclimated to the summers after 12 years, though.
Freeze is a relative term
If you’re east of I-95 and south of DC, morning frost means an ice age, and a half inch of slush is cause for widespread panic.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 17, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I lived outside of Philadelphia last winter
Yawn. Their lows are no colder than back home, just more snow and less ice.
by GwinnettGamecock on Aug 17, 2010 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
The ground froze 18 inches in the NC mountains this winter
I did not like it. Nope not one bit.
We are THE tigersthatsaywareagle
KU practiced on a 140 FCUKING DEGREE field last week
Apparently cleats were melting.
/Do we win this pissing contest?
//Or are we disqualified because it all evaporated before ever touching the ground?
"Got a bill that's big enough to twist the Tiger's tail. Husked some corn and made those SORRY HUSKERS BAIL!"
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Aug 17, 2010 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I can say without hesitation
I do not miss midwest summers. Not one bit.
Given enough velocity even a pig will fly
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 17, 2010 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Kansas:
Three days ago: 105 degrees, heat index 118.
Today: 75 degrees, drizzly, humid.
This weekend: Back up to mid 90s with 70% humidity.
And in winter we have ice storms.
And in between we are stuck with Kansas football.
No wonder most intelligent people fled the prairie long ago, leaving Sam Brownback, a few Lawrence hippies, and me.
At least you have kickball season
or some other sport with a round orange ball that Nebraskans are completely unfamiliar with.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 17, 2010 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ve lived all over this fine country of ours, and I must say Kansas City has, hands down, the worst weather of anywhere I’ve been. Summers are brutally hot and humid, winters are cold and windy as hell, without much snow (except for this past winter). I wonder where all the humidity comes from, considering there’s no large bodies of water within a thousand fucking miles!
Of course, I’m stuck here for another 10 years til my kid goes to college, so I’m trying to be positive……
Dude,
I’ve been in KC during the summer. FWIW, you win my sympathy vote.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
85 degrees?!?
That’s a joke, right? See: summer in Austin, Texas circa 2009. 100+ from June to September.
being in San Antonio
I can testify to this statement.
by bambakophobia on Aug 17, 2010 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Be careful what you wish for,
because you might get it.
Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Aug 17, 2010 2:10 PM EDT reply actions
Must be close to football season
When half the posts are bitching/complaining/comparing weather.
September, where the fuck are you?!!
16 days
16 days ’til first games. 18 ’til my Mountaineers play.
Stay safe, brah.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions
big 10 summers: overrated
Having spent 3 summers in [TOWN REDACTED], it’s no better than ATL. And whereas central A/C is commonplace in ATL, up here, it isn’t.
I grew up in Minnesota
At least it’s not the devil’s sauna for most of the summer – but when it does get bad, it’s just as bad as it is in the South.
Don't forget the state bird.
Actual size. Not kidding.
/kidding
//not really
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
Is that thing wearing sunglasses?
by An 'eer with a beer on Aug 22, 2010 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Midwest summers are not great.
Comparing Dallas to Omaha, overall Dallas has the longer, shittier summer, but there will be approximately 4 days per summer in a place like Omaha where you will be begging to be in 105F central Texas.
Upper Midwest summers are surreal...
Went to the headwaters of the Mississippi a few years back. People were wearing hoodies … at the end of July.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 17, 2010 3:41 PM EDT reply actions
Lubbock weather pretty awful
35 mph winds, 109º summers, 4º winters, pungent stench of mixed cow shit & oil, flash floods, droughts, ice, and frequent dust storms:
by Infield Elephant on Aug 17, 2010 4:01 PM EDT reply actions
yes, but
no humidity. ever. I’ll take the smell of cow shit over humidity any day of the week.
/checks Dallas weather
// heat index 105
/// air pollution warning – nice.
It also rains hot sluts in Lubbock too...
which is nice.
by Uncle Earmuffs on Aug 19, 2010 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions
Couch FIRE, COUCH Fire, COUCH FIRE!
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
well...
I live in South Carolina and I get swamp ass from sitting in my 67°F AC cooled office, while staring at a computer screen all day, but that may just be my body’s chemistry… i dunno.
and Billy, that happened to me this morning
It was 84 degrees / 76 dewpoint at 6:30 when I was filling my car. I’m pretty sure that’s close to southern LA as I spent six months working at Naval Air Station Belle Chasse one year (Late April through early October)
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 17, 2010 8:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Damn right
I worked outside of Lafayette, LA in August years ago, worst ever, people down there should get pay from the governement for living in that.
Atlanta is paradise, weatherwise
Try living in Macon for nine years. It makes Atlanta heat/humidity seem like Shangri-La.
OTOH, yesterday, in the 85-degree heat, 90-percent humidity, I climbed an oak tree with lumberjack gear and cut big giant branches off it with a chainsaw. I had to come inside three times for an hour break each time, just to stop sweating so hard that I looked like a sprinkler.
BTW, I now know how to use a chainsaw properly (pro tip: fill the chain oil reservoir, and TAKE THE CHAIN BRAKE OFF), and am totally up to speed with the climbing gear. If you need a tree cut down REAL CHEAP, Orson, let me know. Otherwise, all this lumberjack equipment’s just gonna mildew up in my 120-degree attic, after I finish with this one lil’ 50-foot oak.
Arkansas's Summer this year with no A/C.
It’s been…interesting.
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