Weather breaking; drifting from SGA

[ladyagnew]

Living in San Francisco has many advantages (one of them: fabulous burritos) and one of the best ones has to be the fog. Oh, how I have missed you, you great gray beast on little cat's feet. The heat wave never got too bad here; it topped off around 90-ish degrees, and even with the heat, it was never truly unbearable because of the breezes coming

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[ms_maree]

I grew up in a mining town in the desert, OK scrubland/desert. In summer it was hot.

And when I say hot, I mean hot, in the complete entire sense of the word, not humid, dry thick heat.

And we didn't have air conditioning except in one bedroom, and that was for Dad to sleep for shift work. So I got used to it.

Now I live further South, on the coast and in Summer it's hot, but it's a humid hot, and in winter it's cold, and I wasn't brought up to handle the cold, and at least in England they had internal heating, and they have that here.

Cold makes me miserable.

[ms_maree]

and they have that here.

They don't have that here.

[ladyagnew]

I never lived where it got cold! cold in the winter, thank goodness, but I got used to cold-ish winters pretty early. Pile on the clothes, wear gloves for everything and weirdly, I felt cozy and nice when I bundled up. But the heat.... it's utterly inescapable -- I would go down and swim in the tiny apt complex and just float there to try and bleed the heat away, even though chlorine did horrors to my hair. I think it's because I'm so unused to the heat that I felt so horrible: couldn't eat, sleep or feel at peace. I've talked to transplants who've moved here from hotter climes, and they lose the ability to bear high temps after a while, because S.F. is pretty much always breezy, cool and foggy.