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[wavescrashdown]

There's this cute little church on the corner as I drive to work in the morning, and it always puts silly little quotes on its messageboard. Today's made me giggle

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[lapinguina]

The tops of mountains are closer to the sun too, but they're colder than the bottoms... :P

[lapinguina]

You don't know why everyone's complaining about the heat?

Hmmm let's see, could it be that this is the second-highest I have ever seen my thermometer go in eighteen and a half years of life, and the absolute highest I've ever seen at home? Could it be that I'm about to pass out just walking across the parking lot? Could it be that it never. ever. ever. gets this hot here?

Please don't try to tell me "it's not that bad", you're from California and seem to lack understanding that the rest of the US is not also from California. I've grown up in New Hampshire. I am accustomed to -10 winters and 80 summers. The fact that it is 97 out is absolutely mindblowing to me.

[wavescrashdown]

Uh, I don't follow your logic.

You're used to -10 winters and 80 summers. So am I. Back home, 350 of our days each year are between 55 and 75 degrees. Only I've never dealth with anything like humidity before either--so shouldn't I be even MORE "mindblown" by triple digit temperatures?

[lapinguina]

The fact remains that it actually gets hot in California. Not so here.

[swtflgidget]

I know you've lived there a long time (according to your previous post) but I did spend a summer in NH back in 2003 and I quite distinctly remember temps going into the mid to upper 90's for about a week or two that summer (at least in Manchester). I believe it was in July. And my friends who live there are quite complacent about the fact that about 2 weeks of every year the temps hit the 90's with heat indexes that are higher

[tommygirl22898]

It's 90 here, 57% humidity, feels like 99. And it's not up to the high yet today. I hate Texas...even though its just as bad at home. At least home has snow balls....mmmmm...I'm hungry.

[swtflgidget]

You are silly. No snow cones!? Damn Texas. You'd think they would have bigger ones lol

[tommygirl22898]

Also, I wanted to add I once saw a great slogan on a church board like that: God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.

[swtflgidget]

Love it.

And thank you Karen for letting me totally co-opt your post ;-)

[paradoxal_me]

AHHH!! everyone keeps talking about the heat, and I'M SO FREAKIN COLD up here in Alaska!! there was one day when it *might* have reached eighty ... normal has been below seventy and cloudy ... i'm frozen! send me your sunshine, please! i miss my Cali summers ...

[wavescrashdown]

I went on a cruise to Alaska one August...it was depressing how cold it was! I wore my winter coat (granted, it was a "Santa Barbara" winter coat, but still!

[swtflgidget]

I'm sorry but I have to agree with you. I understand that people are "hot." I understand that people are "not used to it." But I've always been amazed at people who spend most of the day in the air conditioning are the people who complain the loudest while walking across the parking lot. I know, I know, I grew up in Florida. I'm used to seeing our thermometer reach above 100 in the shade (even when the news stations reported highs in the 90's) and I know how to fry an egg on the sidewalk. But I also lived in a house that until last year didnt have air conditionsing. Not even a wall unit. That's hot. People who have to work outside all day, or are too poor to afford air conditioning are the people who have the right to bitch, but you generally just see them muddling along with an occasional "whew, nother hot one today

[wavescrashdown]

Hahaha, I love how people act like the world is ending. It reaches the upper 90's one weekend of the year EVERY year back here. If you don't like it, leave. Stop acting like this year is "soooooo much worse" because it's 98 and last year it was only 95.

People just enjoy whining.