August is the cruelest month. It's miserably hot out there. I'd live in six months of winter to avoid one month of August in Texas. And I know Texas isn't the only place in the US wilting today. This is an open thread to gripe about the heat, and to talk about how you're dealing with it. I've got the air conditioner jacked way up, and a bottle of bubbly wine chilling inside a mound of ice. Julie's on her way home from the Thai take-out place with a green papaya salad (extra-spicy). We're going to cocoon in the cool darkness of our cave and drink ice-cold wine and watch movies. If anybody's heard of a film about bosomy Greek Orthodox or Italian Catholic babes opening up a gourmet restaurant in Norway, where bookish US Southern expatriates gather to drink cold, steely white wine and talk about Flannery O'Connor, send me the title quick.
It's freaking hot -- open thread
Saturday August 11, 2007
Categories: Varia
Filed Under: Heat
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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I'm a 5th-generation Southwesterner, & had to live 3 years in upstate New York, for my sins. After my husband at last got a job offer in Texas, I made a vow--one "spring" day while a stiff wind was blowing arctic cold on me over a mountain of gray ice piled up by a snowplow--that I would never complain about the southwest heat again.
Arriving in Texas that August, as the plane door opened a familiar wall of palpable heat, like an opened oven door, slammed down the jetway. It had to be 120 on the tarmac. I offered up a Te Deum in thanksgiving. Home!
Nah. September is more cruelerer because you expect it to be much cooler than August, but it ain't no dang different except you're more exhausted from the heat that you were going into August. I expect there are fewer environmentalists in Texas because the environment is just so hostile. But I choose to live here; it's cheap...and for good reason. Viva Tejas.
Really, most of us are subject to some sort of climactic torture. Where isn't the weather awful--hot, drought-ridden, muggy, blizzardy, frigid, on-fire, cloud-covered, soggy, foggy, smoggy, or monsoony--for much of the year in the US of A? Honolulu? Oooooo! Honolulu!
No way. You wouldn't trade 6 months of real winter for that.
Waiting for an El on a platform in Chicago after class at night ...
Driving to and from Rochester, Minnesota without heat ...
Car won't start in the cold since your battery isn't double the number of amps recommended ...
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