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The Gender Race v5.something

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donavannj said:
You say this, but you'd probably sing a different tune if you had the weather that's here right now for any period longer than a day. It's true you can typically add enough layers to compensate, but at that point the limiting becomes mobility and visibility. With the windchill levels we had here this morning, frostbite sets in within 15 minutes for exposed skin, and with tomorrow's, it'll be somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes.

And I know 100F is definitely not fun. I roast in anything above 85F unless it's a dry heat.
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Oh, and another thing about this heat is that all the spiders and mosquitoes come out and crawl around everywhere in the house/bite you. And it's the worst when the air conditioning is blowing hot air for 2 minutes before it starts blowing cool air. Wait, I forgot the worst part: it is so difficult to get to sleep in the heat, and when you wake up you feel awful if it was hot all night.

I just wish it was still winter here. It usually gets cold, but not "you can't go out" level of cold, unless it's raining (which it does a fair amount in winter). I think I hate most of the sticky heat, and the windy heat, and the heat while it's raining, and the heat is just ANNOYING.

The only time it's not annoying is when you can go to the beach and have epic waves for surfing those body-boards (if that's what they're called) and not be uncomfortably hot.


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GreenFlame said:
Oh, and another thing about this heat is that all the spiders and mosquitoes come out and crawl around everywhere in the house/bite you. And it's the worst when the air conditioning is blowing hot air for 2 minutes before it starts blowing cool air. Wait, I forgot the worst part: it is so difficult to get to sleep in the heat, and when you wake up you feel awful if it was hot all night.

I just wish it was still winter here. It usually gets cold, but not "you can't go out" level of cold, unless it's raining (which it does a fair amount in winter). I think I hate most of the sticky heat, and the windy heat, and the heat while it's raining, and the heat is just ANNOYING.

The only time it's not annoying is when you can go to the beach and have epic waves for surfing those body-boards (if that's what they're called) and not be uncomfortably hot.


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I'm aware you have things that are very, very dangerous, as well as mosquitoes (we have those, too, but usually only in the summer at night because our winter freeze kills them off before they overrun us).

You and I experience opposite ends of the extreme human "tolerable" range of temperatures. You experience temps in excess of 40C with some regularity, which I know will induce heat-exhaustion with prolonged exposure and should not be considered fit for human habitation, yet you call it January. I experience temperatures colder than -15C with some regularity, which will induce hypothermia after a short period of time even if wearing protective gear. It's a level of cold that you can feel even through multiple layers of clothing. Most people would call that not fit for human habitation. I call that January, and people in Manitoba call it December and February. Most of us spend in excess of 10 minutes having our cars warm up so we can actually not freeze our fingers off while driving.

Point is, it's damn hot where you are (so hot that I wouldn't want to live there), and it's damn cold where I am, colder than you might realize.

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In Iowa, we commonly have temperatures at or above 90F during the summer, so I hear you about the heat. But, I'd rather have heat, even if it wasn't winter right now, simply because it's more bearable, at least to me, someone who is used to sub-zero temperatures. And, ice is a major problem when traveling using any form of ground transportation.
 
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243. For reasons beyond my comprehension, the schools in my town are not closing despite the ridiculous wind chills tomorrow. My sister now has to sit at the bus stop in these temperatures. I will have to probably de-ice my car in these temperatures (but I would have had to do that anyway whether school was in session or not, since I am no longer a student).
 
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Everyone knew that they canceled school for tomorrow before 8th period today.
 
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I know! Getting up at 7 AM yesterday was like living on another planet, 'cause I'd regularly been waking up at 1 PM during winter break.
 
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Oh, we already had one of those yesterday, if you consider a snowstorm that produces 7 inches of snow massive. The worst thing is our city did a horrible job plowing the streets :/
 
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noooo you're so lucky I want that here! We only got about 1 inch the other day and I was so annoyed. So wait... why were you guys still going to school if there was that much snow on the ground? >_>
 
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Because I live in Iowa. We're used to it. Also, I just checked the weather, today's high is -4F.
 
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