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In reply to the discussion: I feel IMPRISONED by this heat. [View all]mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)13. Try living in Phoenix ...
Granted everyplace is A/C'd (or at least w/a swamp cooler), but you end up not wanting to do much of anything for like 3 months.
Fortunately the rest of the time it's not bad. But summer SUCKS.
Been about 4 straight weeks now of highs over 105, had a few days earlier this week over 110 ... but at least, yeah, it's a dry heat, usually under 20%. Makes it more bearable.
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My sympathies (as useless as this is). All I can offer is a suggestion; I use an icepack and put it
alwaysinasnit
Jul 2019
#3
I'm also indoors due to heat. Going to watch last yrs Stan and Ollie biopic shortly...
Dennis Donovan
Jul 2019
#5
People talk about winter but when I lived in hot places 5 months out of the year,
silentEcho
Jul 2019
#16
We had a couple days of 90's early on but mostly wearing a jacket in the mornings
silentEcho
Jul 2019
#17
Sitting here having Dubliner cheese and wine wishing that I were back in Donegal! We fell
cornball 24
Jul 2019
#36
We stayed in Malin Head for a few days, the northernmost place in Ireland. The village of Malin
cornball 24
Jul 2019
#44
Unless we begin to deal with Global Warming then there will be no retreat. It gets down to
walkingman
Jul 2019
#27
East Coast and Southern heat is A LOT worse than West Coast and Southwest heat.
Progressive Law
Jul 2019
#29