I'm often asked by my family (who all live in different states) how I can stand the heat in NC. I like it fine. The only time it bothered me was when we had a hurricane that knocked out power for 3 days. Without central air in the house, that was uncomfortable! It was so hot the walls were sweating! :o)



>>>>>>Hi George.
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>>>>>>but, gee whiz, can we have a good hard freeze so all the bugs will die? I open the door and moths are flying in...
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>>>>>>< lol >!!!! That's what you get when you live way down south in dixie < s >
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>>>>See, now if you lived in the southwest instead, you wouldn't have to deal with freezes or bugs (not as many bugs anyway), just drought! ;-)
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>>>Barbara,
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>>>I couldn't take the heat though (thinking to self, I know she's going to come back with, "But it's dry heat!"< vbg >)
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>>George, that's not San Diego, that's Arizona! It really is a dry heat here! <g>
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>>The heat may be uncomfortable, but the cold hurts! ;)
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>Fred,
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>Sounds like you forget where I'm from. Here's my standard on the weather there, "I'm from Chicago and I always overdress!".
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>For me, there was only one time when the cold did "hurt". It was the mid-70's (around 1973 or 1974) and in Chicago we were walking (because of a car accident) in -75 wind chill. That hurt!:-)
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>PS: In the heat, I can take clothes off. In the cold, you have to either be "overdressed" or go inside. In the heat, if you don't have central...