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Rep retirement lodge CC - greetings from heathrow

Rep retirement lodge CC - greetings from heathrow

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Re: Rep retirement lodge CC - greetings from heathrow

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Can some weather guru explain why the upper Midwest sometimes gets shafted with the swamp humidity of Florida & Southern Georgia?
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It doesn't.

I hear Michiganders complaining of humidity, and I always look at them like they are crazy. Ya'll don't know humidity up here.

Having been born and raised South of the Mason-Dixon, I reserve the right to use the word "ya'll" and to be an authority on humidity
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
It doesn't.

I hear Michiganders complaining of humidity, and I always look at them like they are crazy. Ya'll don't know humidity up here.

Having been born and raised South of the Mason-Dixon, I reserve the right to use the word "ya'll" and to be an authority on humidity
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Yeah, having been to Florida in late June and early July, I never want to do that again. It also makes me very thankful that my parents moved me to MN from MD when I was just a few months old.
 
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Good morning Lodge. Hazy, hot and kinda humid here today. I let my hair air dry this morning. No hot hair dryer on me.

Been trying to start walking more. Over the weekend I got up and walked outside. I prefer that over walking on a treadmill, especially at this time of year. This morning I had to get up extra early to do the same route, takes about 40 minutes. There's a nice walking path along the river. Trying to add more greens into my meals, put some spinach in my scrambled eggs and ate with a whole wheat English muffin. Who have I become????? Hopefully someone a bit healthier. For some reason I didn't sleep well last night so even though I started my day on a good note, I feel tired. I'm going to have to go to bed early tonight. Thankfully there really isn't anything on to keep me up.
 
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Good Morning Lodge!

HHH in 978 land. Humid. Blech.
 
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Scarlet said:
Good morning Lodge. Hazy, hot and kinda humid here today. I let my hair air dry this morning. No hot hair dryer on me.

Been trying to start walking more. Over the weekend I got up and walked outside. I prefer that over walking on a treadmill, especially at this time of year. This morning I had to get up extra early to do the same route, takes about 40 minutes. There's a nice walking path along the river. Trying to add more greens into my meals, put some spinach in my scrambled eggs and ate with a whole wheat English muffin. Who have I become????? Hopefully someone a bit healthier. For some reason I didn't sleep well last night so even though I started my day on a good note, I feel tired. I'm going to have to go to bed early tonight. Thankfully there really isn't anything on to keep me up.
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I've made a huge effort to step up the walking. I've alternated between the local college campus and their athletic facilities. Thankfully I have access to their track. If I do one lap around each lane of the track, it's somewhere around 2 1/8 miles, so by the time I'm done with the entire walk, I've covered 3 miles and change. I think it's doing good.

The rest of it, well, there's some work to do. Label reading is crucial. The English muffins and whole wheat bagels were NOT as healthy as I thought they were.
 
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Sigh. I had been doing well- out every day to do something. Was just getting back into it after the end of the semester when I was hit by the plague 3 weeks ago. Now to walk up steps gets me out of breath and every time I cough I am dizzier than heck. I want to go out and just toddle but with the heat and humidity I am scared I won't make it back. sigh
 
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Oh, and I now have A/C again. It was 85 in the house when I went to bed last night, and 78 when I left for the office. The tech guy just left. The air and the furnace were running at the same time. When I had an emergency call this winter because I had no heat, I had a broken wire between the furnace and the thermostat. A different tech guy fixed that, but apparently cobbled the job together, causing the problem I had today. It's a miracle something didn't get fried.

At the moment I don't have heat, but given the fact that the calendar says mid-June, that is not a concern. I can deal with the existing wiring issues during vacation next month.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
It doesn't.

I hear Michiganders complaining of humidity, and I always look at them like they are crazy. Ya'll don't know humidity up here.

Having been born and raised South of the Mason-Dixon, I reserve the right to use the word "ya'll" and to be an authority on humidity
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OK, that was hyperbole. I've been to Savannah in May, and that is what heat/humidity in Michigan during August is like.

You probably have the exact look that I gave the Denverites (?) that joined me on-site last week, and were complaining about the humidity when it was maybe 50%. That's how dry the high desert is.
 
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It gets hot and humid in MN, although not nearly as often as down south. We do run into "matching numbers" (dew point/temp) quite a bit, though, and even at 60 degrees, I hate it. I have a hard time dealing with humidity/dew point.

Pretty good storm rolled through today, although the really bad stuff hit south of the metro. This weekend looks gorgeous.
 
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Good Morning, MEUSA! :)


Good Morning to the rest of tLodge! :)


Is it too late to yawn?
 
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Active day in here! Melting in 978 land. Air quality stinks and the respiratory status isn't helping.

Good Morning Lodge!
 
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Now that I live in the south, heat and humidity is the norm. Just like snow and cold was in MN.

So now you're a sissy if you can't handle 90F and 85% humidity! :D

I think today the humidity is only reaching into the mid-60s.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
It doesn't.

I hear Michiganders complaining of humidity, and I always look at them like they are crazy. Ya'll don't know humidity up here.

Having been born and raised South of the Mason-Dixon, I reserve the right to use the word "ya'll" and to be an authority on humidity
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Bal'more / DC area may be the worst for humidity, when I've been there in July/Aug it seems even worse than many areas of the deep south.
 
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Very humid today here. My building runs about 15 degrees cooler than the main building, and it was tough at times. I can't imagine what the main building was like (more people, forklifts, power conveyors, etc, all generating more heat).
 
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Nice round of storms last night, wind was wicked in Capital City, MN.
As the front was moving through heard some popping and then noticed a weird smell. Could not place the smell at first but finally realized it was electrical first then another smell I could not place (it's 1AM - cut me some slack!). Checked our attic and it was fine and noticed the houses across the street seemed dark. Five minutes later the sirens got louder and louder and pulled into our street and stopped in front of our house. :eek:

Turns out the transformer in the alley across the street blew - probably due to tree limbs. Guy across the street said he saw the first one pop then the wire turned red hot and was melting some before the next transformer in line blew. Turns out the smell I could not place was the plastic (rubber?) insulation on the outside of the power line.

No damage to any homes, just some excitement at 1:30AM. :)
 
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