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We had a front move through SE Louisiana yesterday that dropped the humidity down to around 60%. That made the low 80s enjoyable and comfortable enough to sit outside and have four bowls of good tobacco today.
One of my sisters and her husband have a camp on the Neches River north of Vidor. The camp is 12 feet off the ground so it's stayed dry but the road getting there has been impassable for 7 out of the last 12 months. I think they had over 6 feet of water under the camp at one time.
Dear Texans: Find a way to reservoir up all that excessive rainwater and export it to Arizona, California, and Nevada. It could be your next big economic boom. California should be an especially lucrative market, since they have decided that the best way to deal with drought is to encourage mass immigration into the state. A higher population always improves dwindling resources.
I wouldn't sell spit to those liberal socialist asshats. Wait. Please don't ban me for saying that.
Here in Vegas we usually get a week in the summer where the over night low is still in the low 100s. It's crazy. I have my morning pipe at around 6:15AM when it's only 85F.
au contraire Perduabo. I'm perfectly happy dealing with the heat and humidity of SE Louisiana. Otherwise I would be living someplace else. Simply fact is no matter where you go, there are weather conditions that are going to drive people nuts. Despite what everyone may believe, Western Washington can get hotter than blazes and since it's near the coast or the Puget Sound, the humidity can get up there. Eastern Washington can be as dry as a desert with daytime temperatures over 100 during the summer but you can freeze you rocks off during the winter.
The gulf coast has hurricanes but the mid west has tornadoes. At least with hurricanes you have enough warning to get out of the way if you're smart.
I spent 6 years in New York and New Jersey. Still can't find anything good to say about that area.
The gulf coast has hurricanes but the mid west has tornadoes. At least with hurricanes you have enough warning to get out of the way if you're smart.
I spent 6 years in New York and New Jersey. Still can't find anything good to say about that area.
Perfection exists only in God and theory. In the meantime, these people in the Texas heat will not be experiencing long grey winters.
There's some beautiful country up there but the culture is weird, the taxes high, and the food often execrable. I would not make a good Yankee.
Growing up in upstate New York was amazing. All the open space you could ever want, woods, mountains, rivers, lakes. Hunting, hiking, fishing, canoeing, snowmobiling and sledding in winter. Dairy farming was the main occupation, and if that's not an honest, hardworking way to make a living, I don't know what is. So, a lot of good people around, in my opinion. Now, NYC (or any other city for that matter), I can't say I liked as much.
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I did 6 years in Washington State including two years being stationed on an icebreaker and making 2 trips to the frozen Bering Sea and 1 trip to Antarctica. 2 years in New Jersery and 3 years in New York City. I've seen the cold and snow and survived (there is no place more miserable to be than on an island off the tip of Lower Manhatten during the winter.)
I gladly retired where snowfall is measured by millimeters once every 10 years or so.
I did 6 years in Washington State including two years being stationed on an icebreaker and making 2 trips to the frozen Bering Sea and 1 trip to Antarctica. 2 years in New Jersery and 3 years in New York City. I've seen the cold and snow and survived (there is no place more miserable to be than on an island off the tip of Lower Manhatten during the winter.)
I gladly retired where snowfall is measured by millimeters once every 10 years or so.
Central Florida heat makes being outdoors from 8 am until about 9 pm almost unbearable without a pool. My vote is a cold beer, a cheap cob, and a floaty in the pool. This time of year, it's a job perk to work where smoking indoors is encouraged. 
Another Floridian chiming in. The heat is intense but I don't mind it. I grew up here and worked outside in my youth. A cold beer and a good pipe in a comfy chair in the sun suits me just fine.
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