Originally Posted by Bearcat:
Yeah, I get enough cold that I don't think I'll lose tolerance for it.. hell, even Phoenix has 40 degree mornings and Anthem will get snow every year or three.
It did only take ~5 months for me to acclimate to the lack of humidity and become a total wuss about it when I go back to KC. And I would laugh at people in LA talking about 30% humidity being high... but, now anything above about 40-50% when it's warm out annoys the shit out of me. :-)
Oh man I too have lost all humidity tolerance. When I go back to Iowa each summer it hits me like a hammer the minute I get off the plane. After a few days I get more used to it. It’s nice on the skin but I like the dry heat. [Reply]
We go to Vegas every year in January and it's T-Shirt and shorts time. People are awesome, they'll be wearing heavy coats and ask us "You guys are from the Midwest aren't you?!"
Never fails they are from Arizona or Cali. It's a great conversation starter. [Reply]
Originally Posted by notorious:
We go to Vegas every year in January and it's T-Shirt and shorts time. People are awesome, they'll be wearing heavy coats and ask us "You guys are from the Midwest aren't you?!"
Never fails they are from Arizona or Cali. It's a great conversation starter.
Its still fucking cold in Vegas in January. At least too cold to wear shorts but they did seem rather bundled up when I was there a few weeks ago. [Reply]
Originally Posted by notorious:
We go to Vegas every year in January and it's T-Shirt and shorts time. People are awesome, they'll be wearing heavy coats and ask us "You guys are from the Midwest aren't you?!"
Never fails they are from Arizona or Cali. It's a great conversation starter.
Look how many posts we have on cold.. weather is the best conversation starter [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
Yeah, I get enough cold that I don't think I'll lose tolerance for it.. hell, even Phoenix has 40 degree mornings and Anthem will get snow every year or three.
It did only take ~5 months for me to acclimate to the lack of humidity and become a total wuss about it when I go back to KC. And I would laugh at people in LA talking about 30% humidity being high... but, now anything above about 40-50% when it's warm out annoys the shit out of me. :-)
Welcome to the dark side. When I went to college people kept saying you’ll get used to it. I didn’t. Brought the wife out here and she got used to no humidity and hates going back when it’s warm. We’re just not bred to be swamp people. Once people get a taste for the good life there’s no going back [Reply]
Rained all night at 35 degrees and I was getting water falls over the gutters from the block of ice in them. Sun coming out at 11 and a high of 49!! Woo hoo! Then tonight down to 14 degrees :-) and 8 more inches of snow Thursday. I am so sick of this shit. [Reply]
We got an additional 5 or 6 inches overnight. Normally snowfall totals are much lower the closer you get to Lake Michigan, but not this time. Chicago got blasted with a foot or more of fresh snow. Works for me.
Still it's pretty gruesome. Had to drive the wife to work a bit ago and nearly got stuck at the base of the driveway in the plow wake from the single pass they made at some point in the middle of the night. It's also garbage day, but I don't want to put my trash bin out until the snow removal guys have done their thing with the driveways. Of course, many of my neighbors who are either really fucking stupid or don't have the luxury of staying home have theirs out already.
Going to be a real shit show for the bobcat guys and the trash guys. Poor bastards. [Reply]
Originally Posted by GloryDayz:
Yeah, but let the rain hard with a little wind and the whole nation will be asked to send-in support for them.
:-) a cat 5 hurricane is more than "a little wind". Your house will still be standing after a little cold spell, same can't be said after a Hurricane. [Reply]
Originally Posted by FlaChief58: :-) a cat 5 hurricane is more than "a little wind". Your house will still be standing after a little cold spell, same can't be said after a Hurricane.
I would much rather have a deep freeze than a hurricane. Trees down everywhere and on houses and downed power lines and no power for weeks, not hours or a day or two. During Sandy you had to wait two hours in line to fill a 5gl gas can for your generator. The gas stations either ran out of gas or had no generator. Yeah, that shit don’t happen in a cold spell. A Blizzard isn’t as bad as a hurricane [Reply]
Originally Posted by FlaChief58: :-) a cat 5 hurricane is more than "a little wind". Your house will still be standing after a little cold spell, same can't be said after a Hurricane.
One of my buddies posted a snarky "love watching the snow from California" meme on Facebook. He lives in Paradise. The same Paradise that was destroyed by a wildfire a year after they thought it was going to get wiped out by a flash flood from an unstable earthen dam.
Needless to say the irony was not lost on me. [Reply]
