GTA
General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Back Room => : North Pack August 17, 2009, 07:38:33 AM
-
Don't know how folks can live "down south", ... gotta give you a LOT of credit. It's about 94* here, was yesterday - and will be 96* tomorrow, probably when all is said and done, about 100* . .... Thankfully, fall is within sight, .... and snow is just fine, NO problem. ;)
-
lol...94 to 100 degrees ? thats normal here for summer. a nice day is mid-80s, when we get the santa ana winds ( off the desert ) 100 plus is typical.
-
Don't worry, you get used to it in about 30 years.
-
I was gonna take the Blackhawk out for her first hunt today but it was 90 degrees and so humid it was awful so I decided to stay inside and hide in the central air :)
Jeff
-
You mean by 98 I'll be used to it???
-
Well guys it is not that way where I live..:) I am located in the upper part of South Carolina. Sure we have humidity but not as bad as I remember it being in Southern California.
The thing is we get periodic rain and when it is 90 degrees out the humidity is not that bad. Some may complain..:) When I lived in Indiana the humidity was just awful. Nothing like that here..:)
I call this Paradise because the weather is not extreme. Not even in the winter. It gets down to freezing but only for a week or two.
Come on down here in this part of the state of SC and enjoy shooting when ever it does not rain.
-
If you hit the sauna every now and then you can wittle that down to 25 years.
-
Mid 80's with humidity here :o and I get out in it in full camo day or night to hunt those critter's, it's like my own weight loss program lol. Ed
-
Sure glad I live in AZ. It was 93 today and if you were not in a hurry you never break a sweat. It is so dry here that sometimes the joggers set their hair on their legs on fire just by the friction of the air.
-
Thanks for the hats of:) I do the same for you guys up north, I have lived in NC now for 20years and its wonderful. I guess i got used to it, only a hand full of too hot humid days same for cold days. I'm not really that far from Gene and like him I can shoot basically year round and I like to be outside:) Tony.
-
Yep. I'm sorry. I should have mentioned that I spent a month one week while in Opal Wyoming, in January, when the high was MINUS 14!!!! AND, the wind was howling. I thought I would surely die.
That first beath I took after leaving the Hotel room was the worst breath I have ever inhaled. My nose dried up and I had to buy all kinds of sprays just so I could breath, and that was when I was inside in the climate controlled building!
NEVER AGAIN will I venture north of I-20 in the winter.
Having never driven on a block of ice before, I'm sure I *_*_*_*_*_*ed off everybody in the area creeping along at 30 MPH below the limit. 18 wheelers were passing me driving one handed with the other arm out the window(in T-shirts I might add) flipping me off.
And by the way. It's is impossible to drive wearing Artic Pack boots.........
-
I went to school in Michigan, and lived two miserable glacial years in northern Ohio. It is hot like hell in Texas sometimes, but I was never more totally disgusted than having to shovel snow, scrape windows, and stay indoors for six months of the year.
To each his own, but I HATE the long, dark, icy winters and having to drive on salty roads. Give me the heat any day. I was in Chicago last weekend, and when it hit 90 Saturday, they were wilting. Seemed cool to me.
-
It got to about 75 here today. Mid 70s to low 80s the rest of the week, the occasional shower in the afternoon. Lows around 50 at night. I might need an extra 'blankey' tonight. It you have the lungs for it, life is pretty pleasant at the foot of the "big hills." 8)
-
boy it got humid today up here in eastern Ma i was sweating just sitting at my computer reading how ed got that monster coon, my brother lived out in arizona for a few years and when he came back my dad went to pick him up and he said even though its 105 there its nothing compared to here with the humidity we have some days
-
I shoot both inside & outside year 'round, - but a bit less outside in winter. I also REALLY enjoy snowshoeing over in the Monadnock Region, - kinda tuff to do during the summer. ;)
-
Albeit I may be in Texas now(in the heat) but I've lived the majority of my life near the beach in California. My first year here I sweat bullets on a regular basis and the humidity just killed me. Well into my second year in Texas now and I've acclimated. One has to make some adjustments to such weather. Having lived in Durango, Colorado, for one of the worst winters they'd had in years I'd take the heat over that winter any day.
It isn't for everyone but the south has a pride about it for a reason!
-
Yep, we get high 90s and humidity of around 99 percent here in GA. I work outside in the sun and inside warehouses that feel like ovens. I drink over a gallon of water a day in the summer.
My buddy lived in Phoenix AZ for about 5 yrs and said the 120 degree heat with the low humidity wasn't bad. He married an AZ girl and moved back here. By April she was griping about the humidity. I told her to wait until July. They ended up moving to the North GA mountains.
-
I agree with brother Jerry and PeakChick
I will take hot over cold every time. And as for hot, when it gets too hot in Columbia, I just head for the mountains of WNC. Always 20 degrees cooler there, and always a pleasant breeze.
-
53* this morning, - nice, and going to get better as fall approaches. ;)
-
Since I live in Oceanside, San Diego area, it would not really be fair to respond. It has been a bit warm lately. The coastal area of San Diego is thermostatically controlled to be ideal weather for humans almost year 'round. It is hilarious to hear anyone here complain about the raregraydays or the very occasional quarter inch of rain in winter.
I lived most of my life in Michigan, and you don't notice winter too much if you grow up with it. Until February or March, when it seems like it will last forever.Keeps the bugs down. Germany was somewhat similar to Michigan. I have never dealt with heat very well and I thought August was the worst month in Michigan due to the high humidity, bugs, and ragweed.
Then I lived in Fresno- baking hot, not AZ but not a whole lot better. You knew it was winter because everything turned green. Weird.
To punish myself I am now moving over to the east county in the hills. I will be hot again, but in California it's what you have to do to get enough property to shoot. I will never live in an HOA again and I will not come home to a "tract house" that is identical in detail to every other home in the area, like cell blocks with pink stucco. I will trade some weather for that. It's a dry heat, as they say, and I think a happy medium between Michigan and Fresno. Then I won't feel as guilty about complaining about the weather.
-
dave...did you finally find the ideal place ? from the threads, it sounds like youll be in fallbrook ? keep in touch, we're having an "end of summer" bbq at my place on the 5th of september !!
-
I'd give up this tallahassee weather to be back in NH in a heartbeat!!
-
Things have changed, ... ;)
.
http://www.breitbart.tv/august-in-new-hampshire-temperatures-dropping-into-the-30s/
-
Jim, I found the ideal place, at least on my budget. It is in Valley Center, about 1.5 miles south of Valley View Casino, and a mile or sonorth of Lake Wohlford. 2.5 fenced acres with a well, and no city water. Mostly open pasture type stuff, at least 100 yds clear fields of fire in a couple directions, grazing for critters and plantable.
Only one problem... there are some rodent issues... gophers and ground squirrels (http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif). Whatever shall I do? (http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cool.gif)
I don't want to jinx the deal but we are headed to a mid-September close, and October 1 occupancy. Couldn't believe how fast we sold the place here, and just hoping nothing goes wrong with allthe real estate deals required to pull this off.
Julieshoot wants some goats, but she herself is due in January (that's going great, too), and I am headed back to Saudi in October, so we might taketheAnimal Farm bita little slow.She knows itmight be open to the SD fun shoot crowd a little sooner... thank goodness for shooting mommies! Hope to see you and the family up there if it all goes through. I have had a few irons in the fire but will get back up to shooting speed once we are in the new place/ranch/farm/range.