I now understand the saying, "At least it's a dry heat!"

[curse10]

I never knew how blessed I was to live in Colorado and have no humidity.

August in Boston is torture. You can't escape the heat. I don't have AC and the fans do nothing!

**sweating like a pig**

[Bertha Venation]

1. I never got it either until I moved to Maryland

Boy, those Founding Fathers were something, weren't they? "Here's an ideal spot! Let's put the nation's capital here, in the midst of a great swamp!" :eyes:

[curse10]

2. LoL

I sometimes wonder why anyone thought this place was a good place to land. The west coast? Okay. That's cool. But you gotta go way inland from the east for decent habitation. (Maybe South Carolina being the exception... beautiful beaches, I've heard)

[JohnKleeb]

3. I believe it was done because the swamp was near Virginia

Hard to believe but at one point, Virginia was how New York, Texas, California are nowadays, in fact for a while it was the largest state in the union but yeah pretty illogical, then again there's lots of stupid things out there.

[Not Me]

9. I invite any of you to come to Orlando...

I have been here two years, and still no sign of acclimating to this heat/humidity.

But the good thing is that the worst of the heat only lasts 3 months...the other 9 months are GREAT!

[indepat]

4. A daughter recently moved to Montana and stated the 30 degrees below

zero wasn't all that bad because it was a "dry cold."

[SoCalDem]

5. Now.. Imagine this

Imagine you are 50-something and your hot flashes bring your core body temp to ...just below molten lava..

On the good side.. Boston will be cooling off soon :) and you are young :)

[curse10]

6. LoL

thanks for giving me something to look forward too :-) The joys of womanhood!

[LWolf]

7. Someday I'd like to visit the east coast.

I've only been there once, and I was 4 years old at the time.

But as far as living goes, I'll stay out west. After 24 years of living in the desert, even LA seems humid to me.

[mondo joe]

8. The sleep trick: put on a wet t shirt and sleep w/ fan blowing on you

It's been a while since I've lived in that sort of humidity but that's the trick I remember some using.

[shrike]

10. A dry heat? Hah!

Never been to Colorado in the summer, but hot is hot. Arizona is the land of dry heat. The reason no one minds it in the summer is because no one is outside in the summer. They all stay indoors in air conditioning.

[Courtesy Flush]

11. Boston is dry. Try coming to the Gulf Coast

[Dookus]

12. yuh huh

I grew up on Long Island. HATED the summers. Winters were fine. When it's cold, put on a sweater. When it's hot, you're just fucked.

I've lived in California for 20 years now and can't imagine going back. It's been foggy here for 3 days and I LOVE it.

[No2W2004]

13. I used to live in Houston,

once I was in Phoenix, and couldn't believe it when I saw it was 100. Where was the sweat coming from every pore? Where was the oppressive, choking humidity? Where was the kind of heat that beats you down so rapidly it sends you fleeing for any kind of shade?

Give me 100 degrees without humidity any day!

[curse10]

16. I was born in Houston

it's just as nasty here. It's been awhile since I was there, but I remember the humidity. Blech!

[flamingyouth]

14. I once spent August in Rome

I thought I was going to die. I did pass out briefly at Castel Sant' Angelo. It is not pleasant. Being from Seattle, I don't take heat (especially humid heat) very well. I tend to get heat stroke and pass out in embarrassing and dramatic ways. :(

[sam sarrha]

15. I just move to TN from El Paso Texass, so dry in El Paso i got nose bleeds

it is so humid here it is hard to breath there is so much water in the air..

[SoCalDem]

17. Got you ALL beat...

I spent EIGHT YEARS in Panama..NO A/C...just jungle and rain and mildew everywhere:)

Rainy season.. it rained all day every day..

Dry season.. it only rained twice a day (for several hrs a day):)