artie_fufkin wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

No a/c. Some of the new homes here are being built with it, but a conversion isn't worth the expense for the 10 days every summer you really need it. We get by with a room a/c and fans.

I forget that you're in a different climate. You should've been here last week. We posted a 97 degree day, then followed it up with a few days in the low 90s.
 

 
I'd rather do heat than cold.

I am becoming more and more that way every year but walking outside into an illinois summer is like walking into a 120 degree mist.  You cant breath and get swamp ass just walking across the yard.  Wearing a vest, 20lb of gear and being dressed in more or less black doesnt help much.  I sure wouldnt like the 30 foot of snow you go but choosing between that and a humid 90 degree day is like choosing between getting choosing which kideny you want punched in. 
 

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

In my house, the closest heavy-bottomed object is usually the one being the most annoying (he types knowing his wife doesn't frequent this message board).

 
I thought about going there, but with my luck she'd find it and I'd lose some teeth.

Artie, that's terrible. I was referring to the dirty laundry basket.

And I was referring to my electric toothbrush. Those new nickel-cadmium batteries have some weight.
 

artie_fufkin wrote:

don't know where you guys get your humidity from.

I don't either. I do know I was sitting in Busch Sunday waiting for that game to start and the temperature at the stadium and on my phone said it was 79. Yet I was baking. The heat index said it was 89 and I felt it. Today was about 84, yet muggy as shit. I don't mind since I can't do cold.
 

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

 
I'd rather do heat than cold.

I am becoming more and more that way every year but walking outside into an illinois summer is like walking into a 120 degree mist. You cant breath and get swamp ass just walking across the yard. Wearing a vest, 20lb of gear and being dressed in more or less black doesnt help much. I sure wouldnt like the 30 foot of snow you go but choosing between that and a humid 90 degree day is like choosing between getting choosing which kideny you want punched in.
 

I don't know where you guys get your humidity from. I'm not disputing it exists, because I've heard enough people say it's humid in St. Louis, but I always thought you had to live near a large body of water.
I'm close enough to the ocean that I ordinarily don't get extremes, I work 15 miles inland, and sometimes there's a difference of 15 degrees between here and there on a hot summer day. The down side of that is sometimes it'll be 70 and gorgeous at work and I'll come home and it will be 55 and we're socked in with fog.
And the winters are usually milder than they are inland. The problem this past winter was we kept getting these ocean effect snow storms that would linger for a couple of days at a time. My kid had school called off so many times he doesn't start summer break until next Thursday, the day he's supposed to go to camp.
 

The temp was nice in florida.  I think it was mild weather form them as far as temp.  Upper 80s a couple days but mostly mid 80s.  We were right on the ocean so we had a breese.  It was a 85 degree ive never felt before tho.  In the early evening on the beach id want a shirt on cause it was cool.  And in the mornings id drink coffee outside.  You would never do that here.  Hot coffee in humid ass morning.  When we got back to the midwest it was like opening an oven door and the temp was the same.