When I started working in downtown DC I took public transportation. The first time the area had snowfall I took the bus as normal and quickly decided that on future inclement weather days I would drive. I came to this conclusion while pressed into the window looking at one lone car creeping along behind my overpacked bus. The bus was more than over packed because people who normally drove took public transit instead. On snow days, I could drive to my office in less than 20 minutes...on normal days that same drive was at least an hour.
Same. I'm just not a beach person at all, and I'd generally rather be cold where I can bundle up more, than hot where there's only so much you can take off. I can almost always find enough clothes to stay warm.
Luckily with global warming we have far less of it to worry about. Feel bad for kids missing less school but I hear a lot of places don’t do snow days anymore because of digital learning. Just suck every last bit of fun out of snow for the kids. Shit. Im pretty sure hypothermia can kill you a lot faster than hyperthermia. I guess misery is relative. I’m just less miserable in heat than cold. Summers are getting longer and mid 80s into October is weird but tolerable. Not sure if I’d like Florida or Texas heat but I’ve thought about moving. I’m also the guy that’s never had a working ac in any of my cars and have had zero issues just rolling my windows down.
My time as a truck driver had me driving in conditions that would have regular drivers curl into a ball and wait for rescue. Snow coming down so thick I had to creep along at 15 mph while riding on the rumble strips to know I was on the road. Only time I stopped was in a rare Louisiana snow storm. Not because I couldn't drive in it, because I knew everyone else couldn't and I didn't want to get hit. I woke up at midnight and took off on empty roads.
I'm genuinely curious what could happen if the AMOC collapses. It's what brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico up to the European coast and keeps their climate mild. Spain is at the same latitude as Nova Scotia. London at the same latitude as Winnipeg. Edinburgh is farther North than Edmonton. Without the AMOC, we'd suddenly see Mediterranean cultures dealing with a Canadian climate. Shit could get ugly fast.
Sure, obviously. But it's usually not the people living in the tropics who are complaining about snow. If you're smart about things, you're far more likely to die of heatstroke when running or hiking in intense heat than you are to freeze to death. Layering will keep you warm on the coldest days; once you're down to your shorts, you'll never get any cooler. Not coincidentally, those are activities I enjoy. The worst part of living in NC was the couple months of 100 degree heat (and 70% humidity) where doing anything other than swimming was absolutely miserable.
The one and only thing I think cold weather has over heat is that you can sleep in cold. You just blankets on you until you’re comfy. But if it’s hot, it’s going to becc be a lonnnnnnnng night. If so had the option of living in Arizona or New Mexico, I would. That is my kind of climate.
It's all about what you acclimate to over time. Like those silly, life-long Florida folk that keep the A/C on 80f. I can sit fine in that during the day, but now I struggle to sleep in anything above 70f. A decade ago when we lived on the boat, I could easily sleep in 80f.
I recall one miserable summer back in Bama, living in a house with poor insulation and window AC units, the heat and humidity was so bad, for so long, that hubs took me on a special surprise trip to the corner store with the walk in beer cooler. I stood in it for probably 15 min and almost cried with relief.
this is the first time I can remember us having a Fall in Texas. There are trees turning colors that I didn't know could turn colors. Normally down here it would just go from "devil's asshole hot," to "jacket and shorts cold" for like two months, then back to hotter than fuck again. I'm not sure what the trees turning colors means, but I'm worried that, in combination with the deer dropping their fawns earlier and the squirrels and coons being abnormally fat this time of year, it doesn't bode well for us having a mild winter.
I’m a freak of nature as I sleep deeper the hotter I am. House at 73 and pjs with a blanket and I’m having a good night. My dad was a hot sleeper that would sweat the bed like monsoon hit it. Grossed my mom out something fierce.
Counterintuitive but I actually sleep much colder in SoCal than most of you do elsewhere. In the summer the AC is on, and in the winter I never turn on the heat, so the only thing between me and low 40s at night is the residual heat from the day and some blankets.
I had some friends in San Diego that didn't have heat in their house. They didn't even have space heaters. This is when I was used to sleeping in hotter houses. I slept with my boots on, fully clothed, under a couple of blankets. It had to have been the coldest time of year for the area. They said it didn't stay cold enough, long enough to invest in heat. These were motocross friends. Full blown, race till you're broke, family of four. The dad was a veteran class hero, fast as hell for his age.
I was born in CT, grew up in Bethel, AK, and now live in IL. I'll take the cold. I've had an existential crisis when my wife complains about driving in the winter(I get more because her 2000 Jeep is a POS) but I cannot fathom letting the weather dictate my life. I learned to drive on snow/ice/sleet, in a stick-shift Subaru Loyale. She panics when sliding, and I think I just need to take her to an empty lot and drift her new car to figure it out. Snow days-We didn't have "Snow days", but we had "Chill-days". -50 wind chill meant every bus needed to warm up before being fired up, and it put the schedule too far behind. No school. I drove our Polaris 500 anyways. Hot-you can only get SO naked, then it's just miserable. Cold, there's layers you can add.. My favorite part of a sauna is leaving.
You are spot on. The whole damn state shuts down, store shelves empty, and the words "hunker down" are used by every weather forecaster. Absolutely no one is prepared for it and for sure no one knows how to drive in it. During one of the freak occurrence "snow days" a few years back (2017?) we were sent home early from work due to the incoming weather. Headed home (at a moderate 45 mph on the interstate) I hit 2 very small patches of black ice on an overpass... like less than a half-second each time of sliding/drifting and that is enough for me for the rest of my life. It's already snowed twice since we moved to Northwest Ark. and I see no need to be out on the road for it. It seems at some point in the next 10 days we're going to experience some real cold in NWA - single digit temps are not something I or my wife have ever experienced.
Would you end a relationship because your partner has proven themselves to be very stoopid? My cousin's boyfriend crashed her car into her house. Why, what caused him to do that? He bought her weathertech floor mats. He installed them... over the brake and accelerator pedals of the car. He started it, somehow didn't notice, put it in gear and it immediately went into the house. There are mistakes, and there are people that make more mistakes than others, and that's all okay. Then there are people that drag the collective intelligence of humanity down just by existing and being allowed to procreate. I think I would seriously start planning an exit after this. Especially early in a relationship, like any time before marriage. How can you trust someone with any important tasks that come up in a relationship when they fuck up floor mat installation so badly that your car drives into your house?