[lit-ideas] Re: Summer in the south.
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:31:17 -0500
I know, from the Almanac, that it's been as hot 10 or 20 years ago as it has
been this summer. But I don't remember being as incapacitated by the heat.
There has to be something about growing older that decreases one's
tolerance.
Julie Krueger
Triple digit heat indices for a month or so -- the only thing the
thunderstorms do is increase the steam-room effect. Too hot to go swimming,
you know.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:59 AM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I hear you, man. Even Boston has had a few 100-plus days this year, and you
> haven't been properly steam-broiled unless you've experienced Corpus
> Christi.
>
> John
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Mike Geary <
> jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The heat here has been brutal. The only hotter time I can remember was
>> 1980 when for 17 days straight the temperature (real temperature) was over
>> 100 degrees. Carol K. can probably top that with Fresno's summers. I spent
>> several weeks in Salt Lake City one summer and it was immensely hot, usually
>> something like 103, but the humidity was low and that made all the
>> difference in the world. Roofs of commercial buildings get up to 135+
>> degrees -- I spend a lot of time up there. Home attics get over 200 degrees
>> -- I won't go up there except in early morning or night.. For the first
>> time in my life I had a serious heat exhaustion episode a month ago. Scared
>> me good. God, I hate the South in summer. But, you know what? I grew up
>> without air conditioning. I was in high school before we ever got a window
>> unit. I don't ever remember being as miserable as I get now -- was I just
>> younger and not so sensitive, or does knowing you CAN BE cool change one's
>> psychology-physiology. Home air condidtioning has only been around for 50
>> years or so -- no wonder the South is so much slower than the rest of the
>> country. Survival first. Slow down.
>>
>> Just bitching,
>> Mike Geary
>> Memphis
>>
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