[lit-ideas] Re: The end? btw

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 01:04:33 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

My attic has dry heat in the summer.  Don't think I'd want to live in it.  Arizona breezes are like a hair dryer blowing on you.  Plus they have scorpions and tarantulas and great big man eating big jelly fish.  Too much like Australia.  I'll pass.

 
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From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
Sent: Feb 5, 2007 12:17 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The end? btw

humid heat and dry heat are very different animals.
 
110 in the shade in AZ feels cooler than 80 in MO.

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Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The end?
Date: 2/4/2007 9:59:57 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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They said on the Weather Channel that heat kills more people than all other weather events combined, including cold, tornados, hurricanes, everything put together.  I hate both extremes but I think I hate extreme heat worse.  It's so limiting.  In extreme cold one can bundle up and do something outside, but in extreme heat what can you do?  I kind of pride myself on (probably stupidly) having done the lawn when it was in the 90's in the shade and humid.  It's almost like a challenge, but it's also a great way to become dangerously overheated.  I figure I can handle it but I think I'll wait until late in the day from now on.  I can't see how anybody could live in Florida, but Florida and Arizona are the fastest growing states I think.  People love heat.  It give them an excuse to sit in the a/c.


-----Original Message-----
From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
Sent: Feb 4, 2007 10:20 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The end?

And you people live these places on purpose?!  I become stultified, paralyzed, immobile, can't think, walking in a fog with lead feet, when it is cold (read below 60 degrees F).  Cold pushes me into hibernation mode.  My husband?  Warmth does not, incredibly, bring him to life, energize him.  It makes him sleepy.  Stupefies him.  He becomes nearly comatose.  Exactly as the frozen-in-cold does me.  We talked today about whether genetic pre-dispositions are to blame.  Considering that my parents came from rather cold locations, that my Mother suffered from heat stroke in AZ, that my brothers both adore the cold and come alive in it, I'm doubting that.  The fact that I spent the first 6 years of my life in Phoenix, Arizona, and my husband spent the first 6 years of his life in Minnesota ..... I'm guessing formative years trump genetic markers.  Anyone else?
 
Julie Krueger
 

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Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The end?
Date: 2/4/2007 4:45:00 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: ursula@xxxxxxxxxx
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About -35 in Chicago.   I can vouch for it at least 40 years ago.   And
that was mini-skirt time. 
Ursula
on the shores of Lake Nipissing
where it was -24 this morning
and the wind chill at this moment is -31
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