[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Halloween - Miserable Brit Post

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Halloween night in north Texas: something like 80 degrees at sundown,
> when the little candy thieves began venturing out. The weather report
> says we will soon see more seasonable temperatures, and I hear a
> collective sigh of relief across the state. But I can't figure out
> why people are *complaining* about it being warm at the first of
> November! This is awesome!
> Ms. Tattersall


I don't like it at 80 deg. here in northern Alabama.  My body puts out too
many BTUs, partly because I wear a fur coat year round that's only slightly
less dense than that possessed by Robin Williams.  The humidity down here
keeps all that heat in my body, so I begin to overheat down here at about 70
deg...

I come from central California on the coast, so there's virtually no
humidity where I grew up.  90 deg is easy to take there, and 45 deg is
freezing.  I'm still trying to get used to it down here.

On the good side, I have an electric blanket on the bed, and my wife and I
have never used it since I heat the bed up all by myself well enough.  I can
walk outside down here when it's 12 deg. (and have done so) in boots, jeans,
and a tee shirt and be perfectly comfortable.


The other reason people here hate 80 deg. this late in the year, and warm
winters, is because the mosquito population will be a lot worse the next
summer... and the thunder storms and chances of tornados will also be a lot
worse during the next spring and summer as well.

(I'm scared to death of tornados, even though I've never seen one.  On the
other hand, after being 15 miles from the Loma Prietta quake epicenter in
Santa Cruz county when that thing hit in 1989, I can take a 6.5 quake
without even blinking.  I was on the third floor of a wooden house at the
time.  Not a fun experience.)


Iggy McSnurd