The Heat Is On

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in The Heat Is On:

I grew up without A/C for the first 12 years (?) of my life. I must've been eight when we got a window air conditioner that was parked in the kitchen, with the hope of cooling the main level. Bedrooms were upstairs.

Goodness, I remember the sweaty sheets, tossing and turning, fighting the humidity.

So … does global warming climate change feel real to you?

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in The Heat Is On:

I grew up without A/C for the first 12 years (?) of my life. I must've been eight when we got a window air conditioner that was parked in the kitchen, with the hope of cooling the main level. Bedrooms were upstairs.

Goodness, I remember the sweaty sheets, tossing and turning, fighting the humidity.

For me?

I'll take 40 degrees over 100 degrees any day.

Gimme another blanket, but you can only get so naked.

I did too. When I was ~ 8, my asthma was really bad and my parents acquired a used HUGE window AC unit that they put in my bedroom that was way too overpowered for a small bedroom. After a few weeks they realized that it helped the best to have it in the dining room and it could help most of the downstairs. On nights when my asthma was bad, I would sleep on the couch that we would pull into the dining room.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@Mik said in The Heat Is On:

I think I’d prefer too hot to too damn cold.

SAME.

Would you rather be camping/backpacking when it’s 20 degrees at night or 90 degrees at night?

I’ve done both. I would rather the 20 degree nights. The 90 degree nights were miserable.

[Mik]

You need better judgement on when to go backpacking.

[George K]

@Axtremus said in The Heat Is On:

So … does global warming climate change feel real to you?

No.

[George K]

Didja ever have to sleep in the basement because it was too hot?

Done that too.

[jon-nyc]

We had no AC in TEXAS when I was born, none in Ohio, where I lived 2-9. We had it in Florida where I lived 9-14 (but my school didn't, and we started in August). No AC in upstate NY where I went to High School either. None in the dorms in college.

So I had AC for 5 years of my first 20.

Oddly, my maternal grandfather worked for the Air Conditioning division of GE in the 30s through the 70s. It was later sold to Carrier.

[Doctor Phibes]

I too had no AC growing up, unless you count the hard, bleak wind coming in from the Irish sea.

Sure, it was cold, but you know what, it was a wet cold.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Heat Is On:

Sure, it was cold, but you know what, it was a wet cold.

I'll take your wet British cold over my wet Midwestern heat.

Every time.

[Copper]

We had no AC growing up.

Hot is better.

If the temperature is in the low 30s or less at sunrise, there will be a frost delay. That temperature inversion is going to happen.

You can't play on frost on greens.

There is no frost at 100 degrees.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in The Heat Is On:

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Heat Is On:

Sure, it was cold, but you know what, it was a wet cold.

I'll take your wet British cold over my wet Midwestern heat.

Every time.

It’s funny I never thought I’d miss the Lancashire drizzle, but I do

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in The Heat Is On:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@Mik said in The Heat Is On:

I think I’d prefer too hot to too damn cold.

SAME.

Would you rather be camping/backpacking when it’s 20 degrees at night or 90 degrees at night?

I’ve done both. I would rather the 20 degree nights. The 90 degree nights were miserable.

I've humped it 38 miles without drinking water because it froze.
I've pissed on my hands so that I'd have enough dexterity to start a fire.

Gimme the heat.

[jon-nyc]

Several of you don’t know when to go camping.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in The Heat Is On:

Several of you don’t know when to go camping.

"Everything went great, the end" is the worst possible outcome for a hiking trip.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@LuFins-Dad said in The Heat Is On:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@Mik said in The Heat Is On:

I think I’d prefer too hot to too damn cold.

SAME.

Would you rather be camping/backpacking when it’s 20 degrees at night or 90 degrees at night?

I’ve done both. I would rather the 20 degree nights. The 90 degree nights were miserable.

I've pissed on my hands so that I'd have enough dexterity to start a fire.

See? You found a way to stay warm…

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in The Heat Is On:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@LuFins-Dad said in The Heat Is On:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@Mik said in The Heat Is On:

I think I’d prefer too hot to too damn cold.

SAME.

Would you rather be camping/backpacking when it’s 20 degrees at night or 90 degrees at night?

I’ve done both. I would rather the 20 degree nights. The 90 degree nights were miserable.

I've pissed on my hands so that I'd have enough dexterity to start a fire.

See? You found a way to stay warm…

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@LuFins-Dad said in The Heat Is On:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@Mik said in The Heat Is On:

I think I’d prefer too hot to too damn cold.

SAME.

Would you rather be camping/backpacking when it’s 20 degrees at night or 90 degrees at night?

I’ve done both. I would rather the 20 degree nights. The 90 degree nights were miserable.

I've humped it 38 miles without drinking water because it froze.

Seriously, though, was this the water you carried with you or the pool able refill spots that were frozen? I assume you mean the refill spots?

[George K]

OK...

Lemme direct the narrative a bit.

Cold outdoors, in a tent, might be worse than heat outdoors in a tent.

But, in a house? Gimme cold and unlimited blankets.

Camping outdoors ≠ being in a house in frigid/sweltering weather. My theory is that you can always get warmer, but it's damn hard to get cooler.

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in The Heat Is On:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@LuFins-Dad said in The Heat Is On:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Heat Is On:

@Mik said in The Heat Is On:

I think I’d prefer too hot to too damn cold.

SAME.

Would you rather be camping/backpacking when it’s 20 degrees at night or 90 degrees at night?

I’ve done both. I would rather the 20 degree nights. The 90 degree nights were miserable.

I've humped it 38 miles without drinking water because it froze.

Seriously, though, was this the water you carried with you or the pool able refill spots that were frozen? I assume you mean the refill spots?

No, the water I carried with me. As for refill spots, do you mean streams and the like? Everything was frozen. There was one hiker's pavillion we got to that had a pump, but no bueno.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in The Heat Is On:

OK...

Lemme direct the narrative a bit.

Cold outdoors, in a tent, might be worse than heat outdoors in a tent.

But, in a house? Gimme cold and unlimited blankets.

Camping outdoors ≠ being in a house in frigid/sweltering weather. My theory is that you can always get warmer, but it's damn hard to get cooler.

In terms of uncomfort, sure. But in terms of extremes, which can still happen indoors depending on where you live, it's easier for the cold to kill you.