A feeling of dread
 

comes upon this town as the summer draws near.

Average temp 95 degrees (although it usually seems to hover around 100 degrees) from May through August. We all turn into cave dwellars (no cellars around here!), and creep out of our air conditioned holes in the early morning, and in the evening after the sun goes down.

I'm not prying so deeply that I want to know where you live, but is it desert or semi-desert? The lady and I are wanting to move to New Mexico, probably up north a ways (maybe Santa Fe, maybe Taos). Is it that bad, or are you just a sissy?

I live in El Paso. Santa Fe and Taos are both fantastic places, but higher up, so it doesn't get as hot there (and gets a lot colder in winter there, too). El Paso isn't as bad as, say, Phoenix, or even Las Vegas, but it does get pretty darn hot.

I've lived here for 20 years, so I've adjusted, somewhat. Still--it's hard to get things done in the summer because I HATE being out in the sun.

O.K. We got one thing settled. Having lived in El Paso for twenty years, you're no sissy! Been there, like it. Like Mexico, too. But yeah, I think high and dry might just be the ticket. I'd send you some of our humidity, rain, and clouds if I could, 'cause the gods know we have plenty to spare.

Yeah, in Wisconsin we either get very humid heat or very dry cold. I love extremes.

yeah, damp & sticky + hot is surely worse than here.

I'm sure your heat is more constant than here though. We get one or two heat waves for about a total of a little over a week than it is back to comforable temperatures.

i'm not a big fan of the heat either - i swear i don't believe it got this hot when i was younger or maybe because i work in an office area and have f-o-r-e-v-e-r. i have become addicted to a/c.:)

yeah, and the ironic thing is the a/c in offices (like mine) is turned up so full blast that you're like an icicle when you leave the office. So the heat feels good then.

Until you get in your car and the surfaces burn, burn, burn!

Cloud lives in the West Texas town of El Paso and she burns, burns, burns in the ring of fire (the ring of fire)



:)

we don't have heat waves - we have heat tsunamis:D

hee!

Bless you and your strange foreign heat.

I get distressed when it goes above 20 (68) here.
Now that it regularly hits 30+ (86) in the summer I seriously think I'll have to leave my beloved England by the time I retire...

:eek:

We don't turn the air conditioning on unless the house gets above 80F.