Subj : Re: Heating Up Again
To   : n2qfd
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Jul 02 2024 17:54:00

-=> n2qfd wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> You might not like it here in Florida... lately (in northern FL) we've
 Ga> had 95F and 70-80% humidity.  Walking out to check the mail produces
 Ga> sweat.  ;-)

 n2>   No I'm not a Florida guy,
 n2>    I mean you guys have some great stuff, I love the Kennedy Space
 n2> Center. I was a fan of Santibel Island, super place to hide away while
 n2> on vacation and feel like you were in 1998..
 n2>    Funny you mention the dry parts of the world too. My spouse
 n2> complains about the dry too for the same reasons. I love it. I loved
 n2> live in the Adirondacks during the winders when it would be -39/40F and
 n2> the air couldn't hold any moisture. Summer might still hit 90 F and so
 n2> keeping paint on a wooden house was a chore... That's a bit range to
 n2> flex through. The kitchen cabinets would not stay closed in the summers
 n2> for the wood swelling and would not say closed in the winter for the
 n2> wood shrinking! I was a COOP weather observer for the NWS and we fed
 n2> our data to the Forecasting Office in Albany. They were using us mostly
 n2> to tune out wind turbines, turns out they were something of an issue
 n2> for Doppler radar once upon a time. But I'd go out and read the
 n2> recording thermometer, my rain gauge, snow on the ground and new snow
 n2> winters and even take snow cores to melt for the liquid equivalent to
 n2> help predict run off in the springs. We didn't have ticks, too dry, too
 n2> cold. We hardly had earthworms, then again we didn't have much earth,
 n2> it was mostly sand. We did have black flies and mosquitoes, it wasn't
 n2> perfect.

 n2>   But I'll take the cold.

Yep, I'm familiar with that weather scenario too.  All places have their 
pluses and minuses, I guess.  I grew up in northern Vermont so I know 
what cold is.  Great stuff when you're a kid, sledding/skiing/skating, 
even making money in the winters shoveling people's driveways.  As you 
become an adult and have to drive/work in it, it becomes less fun in 
some ways.  As I've gotten older I find I do not miss the cold one 
little bit.  I do enjoy visiting up there at all times of year, but will 
not live in a cold place again.



.... Auntie Em, Hate Kansas, Hate You, Taking the dog...Dorothy
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