Got thirty seconds of mist this morning. My water bill is gonna suck. <\/p>\n
I love people who complain about the weather in texas, or florida. You want hardy motherfuckers? Come to the midwest. The lake effect dumps tons of snow, and we have winters that can get down into the -30 temps. The cold grips you like a vise, and you won’t see shit until spring, and due to the effects of global warming, spring is in JUNE. When summer finally hits. the only word to describe it is “oppressive”. jean Shepherd described indiana summers as “a 500 lb woman sitting on a camp stool” which just about does it, weighty, damp, oppressive. You sweat like a pig walking from your air conditioned office to your air conditioned car, and if you want to work outside or play outside make damned sure you have a garden hose, those pussy little quart bottles of Gatorade ain’t gonna help your ass at all. <\/p>\n
When I was in Zambia we saw people dropping off from the heat left and right. “Oh, it is so hot! Everyone is suffering!” it was eighty degrees. EIGHTY!! And practically no humidity. <\/p>\n
Texas in the summer is hot. But the temperature extremes are what, maybe a couple days a year it gets to 40 degrees? California almost never has days where you couldn’t, if you wanted, sleep outdoors. Florida gets plenty humid but never cold to contrast it- it’s either horribly humid or it’s pretty nice. <\/p>\n
In Indiana, if the pretty nice day falls on a weekend, we have a picnic. <\/p>\n
yeah, yeah, I know there are a lot of other places that get extremes of temperature, but when you combine the 100 degree plus spread of temperatures you experience in the course of ANY NORMAL YEAR, and the mind-sucking horror of the commute you must make unless you live at work, and the soul destroying political climate of the Chicagoland\/Northwest Indiana region, this is the toughest place to live I know. Throw in a couple random shootings, as you regularly get in Chicago, and it’s probably statistically safer in Kuwait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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