It's a dry heat

[down_home]

Don't know how many times I've heard that from you Folks in and within a 600 miles of Death Valley.
My Uncle's family lived for a while in toast Az without air conditioning.
Told of taking a cakes out of the oven, or off a rock and right into the refrigerator before they dried out.
Well it is a balmy 96 today here.
So some advice for my Relatives and other Folks in the Southwest.
Don't put lotion on and go into the 125 degree heat to roof a house.
looks good on fried chicken but not so much on humans.
Don't need to dry the clothes, just walk outside and fling them around a bit or wear them for a few minutes, really.
Let's see....uh oh I've misplaced my list. Carry on.

[toedtoes]

wing_zealot wrote:

KrowNB wrote:

romore wrote:
Damp heat, dry heat, argue all you want. It is still too friggin hot. I worked in northern California where it was 100 degrees by 11am, 115+ in the afternoon. I have also experienced below -40, I don't know which is worse.

Maybe it's because I'm Canadian and used to it, but I'd take a deep freeze over extreme heat any day. No matter how cold it gets, you can dress for it.

I'm with you. You can going skiing, sledding, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, play pond hockey, all kinds of things when it's cold out. You can't do anything when it's hot out but sit inside.

I'm with you both. I'll take the cold any day. As a side note, my 5th grade teacher once asked us if we'd rather die from the heat or from the cold. Most everyone in class said "the heat". He explained that in the cold, you just fall asleep. But in the heat, you spend your last hours in agony.

[wing_zealot]

KrowNB wrote:

romore wrote:
Damp heat, dry heat, argue all you want. It is still too friggin hot. I worked in northern California where it was 100 degrees by 11am, 115+ in the afternoon. I have also experienced below -40, I don't know which is worse.

Maybe it's because I'm Canadian and used to it, but I'd take a deep freeze over extreme heat any day. No matter how cold it gets, you can dress for it.

I'm with you. You can going skiing, sledding, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, play pond hockey, all kinds of things when it's cold out. You can't do anything when it's hot out but sit inside.

[KrowNB]

romore wrote:
Damp heat, dry heat, argue all you want. It is still too friggin hot. I worked in northern California where it was 100 degrees by 11am, 115+ in the afternoon. I have also experienced below -40, I don't know which is worse.

Maybe it's because I'm Canadian and used to it, but I'd take a deep freeze over extreme heat any day. No matter how cold it gets, you can dress for it.

[2oldman]

valhalla360 wrote:

2oldman wrote:
-30 below zero is redundant.

It's not redundant...it's 2 degrees below freezing. Not that bad really.:W

hehe. I'll buy that for $1 a dollar.

[valhalla360]

2oldman wrote:
-30 below zero is redundant.

It's not redundant...it's 2 degrees below freezing. Not that bad really.:W

[kerrlakeRoo]

rockhillmanor wrote:

kerrlakeroo wrote:
Worst I can remember was when I got transferred to St Louis. I arrived around the 10th of July to about 40 days in a row of high temps near 100 with 90% humidity
And come January we had over a month that it never got warmer than the 20's with 30-40 mph winds on the river,

Misery

is the right name for that place.

A little of topic but when I was in Missouri my GPS would pronounce Missouri....Misery!! :B

I was a petty officer in the Coast Guard back then and transferred often. Slinging bouys on the western rivers up there was miserable. In most parts of the country you get either a mild summer or winter, There both were horrible, at least in 1983 and 84.

And yes, your GPS knew something.

[Hammerhead]

My uncle in Phoenix says it isn't hot until he has to wear sandals to walk down the driveway and pick up the morning paper because without burning his feet.

[rockhillmanor]

kerrlakeroo wrote:
Worst I can remember was when I got transferred to St Louis. I arrived around the 10th of July to about 40 days in a row of high temps near 100 with 90% humidity
And come January we had over a month that it never got warmer than the 20's with 30-40 mph winds on the river,

Misery

is the right name for that place.

A little of topic but when I was in Missouri my GPS would pronounce Missouri....Misery!! :B

[WackAway]

I wish I had time to respond to this thread in full, but I have to go shovel the dry heat out of the driveway so the wife can get to work. I hope they plowed the heat from the main roads too :-). Prolly should get out of the pool and get to it...

[kerrlakeRoo]

Worst I can remember was when I got transferred to St Louis. I arrived around the 10th of July to about 40 days in a row of high temps near 100 with 90% humidity
And come January we had over a month that it never got warmer than the 20's with 30-40 mph winds on the river,
Misery is the right name for that place.

[rockhillmanor]

AJBert wrote:
I've been in both "dry" and "wet" heat, same can be said for cold.

I spent a year in Iraq where the temp was 120ish in the shade. I've also spent quite a few years on the Gulf coast.

I'll take 120 in Iraq over 90 on the Gulf coast any day.

I would also take 10 degrees here in CO over 40 degrees on the Gulf coast.

For those who have never experienced high humidity versus low humidity, I suggest you try it at both extremes.

X10

Originally from Wisconsin and now in Florida.

Here to tell you that when summer comes around in Florida where its in the high 90's everyday? The HUMIDITY will kill you.

You have about 2 hours in the early morning if you plan to do anything outside. After that it's just plain life threatening.

Yup, humidity matters.......I miss Wisconsin. 😞

[2oldman]

Mortimer Brewster wrote:
People were commenting on the heat - not complaining.

x2. Even commenting can be seen as complaining.. and that's just not allowed on here! I don't recall any snide comments about the cold up north.

[Mortimer_Brewst]

travelnutz wrote:
I/we for one do not feel a tiny bit sorry for the people living or being in the SW/W USA with having over 100 to even 130 degrees F temperatures because they are constantly making snide rude comments to the people living in the north and having a couple days of zero F or below at night in deep winter in some locations. Bake people bake! Payback are he-ll aren't they? You make or made the decision to live in an oven, so tough bananas! Enjoy being cooped up inside with the A/C blasting away and we certainly wouldn't be anywhere where the outside temps even reached 90+ and is why we live where we do and sure wouldn't move away! We'll just have to put up with our 80 F daytime highs and 60 F lows at night averages and "bear" it.
Thanks for the laugh!

This is a whole lot more mean spirited than any post I've seen in the winter. People were commenting on the heat - not complaining. You might want to think about how dangerous the heat would be for someone breaking down in the desert.

[eichacsj]

Wait until late July/August and we get the humidity with the heat. Though we are lucky it gets down to a low of 100 at night :-). For people that don't understand what it feels like I tell them, take your hair dryer and put on high and hold about a foot from your face, for night turn it to low.

[travelnutz]

troubledwaters,

Used to have a nice winter place around the WPB area but no longer since 2007 and had sold all we owned down there. However, do still have a lot of family living there and on the west coast of FL too. They were mostly land developers for classy and exclusive living places, commercial developments, and also owned 7 campgrounds and a couple marinas too plus 2 golf courses. However, all are retired or retiring now except for the young'uns who have other interests/careers.

A couple of our family members finally had all they could take of the sickening heat and humidity and have moved back north. South Florida life is so much different than it used to be as it's now a jam of people everywhere and high crime levels today with a really high cost of living and there's so many homeless/drifters from all over the world. Don't set anything down because it will quickly grow legs and have new owners! Lost it's charm and why we now go farther north to stay!

We only got to go down to our place for a few weeks/yr etc as I had a business to run so it didn't make sense for 12 month a year ownership and maintenance plus all the other high expenses and virtually always drove an RV down and back anyway as we'd explore on the ways traveling. Had nor have any desire to be in Florida during about 3/4 of the calendar year and it's no secret as to why! Just fly down now or then? Very seldom because we'd both flown for so many years several times a week anyway and it got really old to the point of despise. Airports suck!

Only stay there now farther north in a FL CG resort for 2 to 2-1/2 months max for 10 years now and we only go down with one our RV's as the wife is disabled and we had long come to despise flying and airports and having a plane didn't help much as we also need to visit the spread out family living there each year too.

Now you know!