Hot times

[SeaCat]

LOLOLOLOL

I was just talking with a friend of mine and mentioned our local weather. Okay so it got a little warm today, it reached 88°F. They didn't believe they could deal with it.

To me that sounded funny. I moved down here from New England where it got a touch cold at times. It took me a little time but I got used to it. This year so far we still haven't closed the windows or fired up the Air Conditioner. We're doing just fine with open windows and fans.

I'm wondering when I'll finally relent and turn to the A/C for comfort rather than mother nature.

Cat

 

[entitled]

Oh shaddup.

You have to remember, it gets really cond in winter and really hot in summer where i'm from, but that 40% humidity you were talking about is considered fairly high. i would roast.

 

[SeaCat]

Oh shaddup.

You have to remember, it gets really cond in winter and really hot in summer where i'm from, but that 40% humidity you were talking about is considered fairly high. i would roast.

LOLOLOLOL

40% humidity is about as close to bone dry as it gets here. Most times it hovers at around 80%.

I remember the cold. I come from Cape Cod remember. I remember having to chip the ice of the rigging on the fishing boat so it didn't get too top heavy.

I remember tossing two Turkeys in the barrel smoker, getting it going nicely at six in the morning two days before Christmas then going to work. When I got home the turkeys were not only well smoked but frozen hard as well.

Now when it gets below 60° I look for my coat.

Cat

 

[entitled]

LOLOLOLOL

40% humidity is about as close to bone dry as it gets here. Most times it hovers at around 80%.

I remember the cold. I come from Cape Cod remember. I remember having to chip the ice of the rigging on the fishing boat so it didn't get too top heavy.

I remember tossing two Turkeys in the barrel smoker, getting it going nicely at six in the morning two days before Christmas then going to work. When I got home the turkeys were not only well smoked but frozen hard as well.

Now when it gets below 60° I look for my coat.

Cat

i remember winters like that sans humidity. 11 foot snodrifts agains houses and barns, with the roads blown clean. The occasional storm that dropped enough snow to make us dig upward to find the roof. Wind chills dropping to 40 below or colder, though once it gets to about ten below it just doesn't matter anymore.

 

[Liar]

88? I had 95°F today. That's about as hot as it gets here. But it can also nose-dive down to -30°F in the winter.

Actually, that was how it looked a month ago. Spring here is a brief riot of pollen. And then it's summer.

 

[entitled]

i would fry.

 

[blackhaus7]

i would fry.

Sunny side up or over easy?

 

[Liar]

i would fry.

It's a little unberarble-ish at the moment. that's why I'm up browsing at 3 in the morning. Cooler now.

 

[entitled]

Sunny side up or over easy?

i'll never be over easy.

 

[entitled]

It's a little unberarble-ish at the moment. that's why I'm up browsing at 3 in the morning. Cooler now.

Don't much blame you there.

 

[blackhaus7]

i'll never be over easy.

Over hard, perhaps?

 

[entitled]

Over hard, perhaps?

Over medium?

 

[blackhaus7]

Over medium?

I do that frequently.

 

[Liar]

Over medium?

http://www.madison.com/images/articles/tct/2005/01/03/11186_thumb.jpg

Over, under, whatever.

 

[Guest]

LOLOLOLOL

I was just talking with a friend of mine and mentioned our local weather. Okay so it got a little warm today, it reached 88°F. They didn't believe they could deal with it.

To me that sounded funny. I moved down here from New England where it got a touch cold at times. It took me a little time but I got used to it. This year so far we still haven't closed the windows or fired up the Air Conditioner. We're doing just fine with open windows and fans.

I'm wondering when I'll finally relent and turn to the A/C for comfort rather than mother nature.

Cat

We already succumbed to the A/C because, being midstate, the humidy starts piling up more. Not as much breeze to move it around and the house gets really mildewy. And it actually RAINED this morning! Whoo HOOO! It's been far too dry and the fires were getting a little closer each day. Don't care for brush fires.

People occasionally make fun of my Florida born ass because, well, they think I don't know what cold is. As a matter of fact, I DO know what cold is. I've been in Maine in both February and August -- the difference was there was no snow in August. I've been to Colorado in the winter several times. I've been to New York in November.

Which is why I live in Florida. At this point, the heat has never locked my car into place until a snowplow hit it.

 

[cantdog]

The snow is not a difficulty, except that it always means a lot of work to manage it. The heat doesn't need to be shoveled, chipped and scraped.

 

[Guest]

The snow is not a difficulty, except that it always means a lot of work to manage it. The heat doesn't need to be shoveled, chipped and scraped.

Heat, no. Humidity, occasionally

 

[SeaCat]

LOLOLOL

The heat I can deal with.
The humidity makes it a bit tougher. (Although I do remember many times on Cape when it was around 20°F with a humidity of 100%. That made it tough.)
What really makes it difficult are those two or three day times with winds over 100 MPH. (That and the Q-Tips on the highways.)

Cat

 

[shereads]

The hurricanes will put out the brush fires. That's good, right?

 

[Guest]

The hurricanes will put out the brush fires. That's good, right?

Not if the brush fires last long enough for the hurricanes to show up and put them out.

It's all in the timing, yaknow.

 

[SeaCat]

Not if the brush fires last long enough for the hurricanes to show up and put them out.

It's all in the timing, yaknow.

Everytime I make the comment we need rain my wife nails me in the back of the head. The past two years I made that comment and look what we got.

Once again it was hot today, although the humidity was up. Tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter. Good thing I'll be in work.

I had to laugh at the local news this evening. It seems there was a smallish brushfire about three miles away from where i live. That wasn't a big surrise but the reactions of the people who live in the area seemed to shock the news reporters. It seems the kids from that neighborhood banded together, (with their parents help I'm sure.) Went out and bought several cases of bottled water. They then went among the firefighters handing this water out. When it reached five in the evening and the firefighters were doing clean up and watching for hot spots these same kids went and ordered several dozen pizzas and handed these out to the firefighters. When the reporter on sight asked them why they were doing this the kids, all in their teens looked at the reporter as if he was nuts and commented that these guys were out there cooking themselves saving their homes.

Sometimes people surprise even me.
(Oh and this was in one of the worst neighborhoods of this lovely city. A neighborhood where even the police travel in doubles.)

Cat

 

[shereads]

Everytime I make the comment we need rain my wife nails me in the back of the head. The past two years I made that comment and look what we got.

Once again it was hot today, although the humidity was up. Tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter. Good thing I'll be in work.

I had to laugh at the local news this evening. It seems there was a smallish brushfire about three miles away from where i live. That wasn't a big surrise but the reactions of the people who live in the area seemed to shock the news reporters. It seems the kids from that neighborhood banded together, (with their parents help I'm sure.) Went out and bought several cases of bottled water. They then went among the firefighters handing this water out. When it reached five in the evening and the firefighters were doing clean up and watching for hot spots these same kids went and ordered several dozen pizzas and handed these out to the firefighters. When the reporter on sight asked them why they were doing this the kids, all in their teens looked at the reporter as if he was nuts and commented that these guys were out there cooking themselves saving their homes.

Sometimes people surprise even me.
(Oh and this was in one of the worst neighborhoods of this lovely city. A neighborhood where even the police travel in doubles.)

Cat

If one of the pizzas fell on the dry grass and started a new fire, and one of the kids put it out with bottled water he brought for the firemen, we'd have ourselves all the makings of a TV movie.

 

[shereads]

Everytime I make the comment we need rain my wife nails me in the back of the head. The past two years I made that comment and look what we got.

Dammit! Now I remember.

Indeed, I recall your saying something last year about how badly Florida needed some rain. If memory serves, a week later we were picking rebar out of our teeth, surviving on mosquitos stewed in water scooped up from our living room floors, and making our own gasoline out of spoiled food.



You, Seacat, personally kicked off a three-hits, no-misses series of weather-disaster bullseyes in my 'hood, and so many named storms that the most recent one, Hurricane Zebediah Q. Xelebes, is still in a holding pattern somewhere east of the Bahamas waiting to regroup and head for my house.

You irresponsible BASTARD! Listen to Mrs. Seacat and don't tempt fate with any more talk of rain unless you are PERSONALLY on fire; even then, please try dropping to the ground and rolling to smother the flames before you utter the "r" word. If that and screaming don't help, wish for a bottle of water or a spritz with the garden hose.

If none of that works, and you begin to smell something delicious on the grill - but there is no grill - then you will certainly be entitlted to wish for rain.

 

[shereads]

This just in:

It's not the heat or the humidity.

It's the giant rogue alligator that hangs out beside a jogging trail, snatches people out for their morning run, drags them into the water, snacks on their remains and then disappears.

Holy crap.




Summer house trade, anyone?

 

[SeaCat]

This just in:

It's not the heat or the humidity.

It's the giant rogue alligator that hangs out beside a jogging trail, snatches people out for their morning run, drags them into the water, snacks on their remains and then disappears.

Holy crap.




Summer house trade, anyone?

Hey that's just because we stopped letting them snack on those damned fluffy highbrowed Poodles. (Even though we did try to explain to the Gators that the Poodles caused food poisoning due to their high hair content and their bad attitudes.) Sheesh.

Cat