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Originally Posted by kazbates
That happened to us a few times when we lived in South Florida. It was AWFUL! Of course, the biggest problem was the humidity which you don't have to deal with since your heat is so dry and all.  I always thought it was funny when people would say, "yeah, but it's a dry heat". Heat is heat and it's no fun when the digits on the thermometer hit in the triple digits. |
Humidity does make a difference. My then employer sent me to New Mexico some years ago because we were opening a facility in Alamogordo, and I was part of the tech team making it live.
When they first told me I was going, I said "You want to send me to
New Mexico in
July?" I got there, and the heat was 90 - 100 degrees, but the relative humidity was about 15%. It was hot, but bearable. I called back home, and the SO said it was 90 degrees and 100 percent humidity, and she was dying. I thought "You know, I think I got the better deal..." (As long as all you ever wanted to eat was Tex Mex. There was a local Italian place whose idea of high cuisine was spaghetti with marinara sauce...)
One of my co-workers along on the trip
loved cold weather. He said "People call me a polar bear, and think I don't feel the cold. That's not true. I
do feel it. But when the weather is cold enough your fingers turn blue, I
like that!" Mind you, this guy spent a couple of weeks of his summer vacation each year in Mexico with members of his church group, helping really
poor Mexicans, in an area where the temperature
dropping to 100 degrees was considered balmy weather. Don't ask me...
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Dennis