OT - Bend, OR

[dawgs]

A 17ing Men. couldn't agree more. I'll never forget spending a summer back in '86 in NYC and took several trips to Maine. Had never lived anywhere else other than MS prior to that.

any of those yankees that think they know heat, they don't know dick. I'll never forget listening to the radio (Howard Stern) in the a.m. before I left for the streets and talking about how miserable it was going to be because the temp was going to be in the mid 80's. LOL. I thought it was in the low 70's. it was total jerk off weather. watching those yanks going ape shit crazy and complaining made me laugh my ass off.

I lived in DC for 4.5 years and the peak summer weather there was as bad as MS. Difference was the peak summer weather was a shorter window. I remember going to phish shows in Wisconsin back in summer 03-04 and people up there talking about the heat and humidity. We all thought it was perfect, ha.

I will say for the handful of days in Portland that the temps are in the mid 90s or higher and the temps don't drop to around 60 or lower like normal, it can get rough without A/C, but that's only a couple days per summer. Most days that the temps hit 95+, it still gets down to 60 at night to give some relief.

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

Lived in Ft. Worth in '94 & '95. Texas is as hot if not hotter than the Deep South. What I remember about Ft. Worth was the damn breeze that ALWAYS blew. In the summer, it was like someone turned on the heater and in the winter it was like someone had turned on the AC.

[Bully13]

I lived in DC for 4.5 years and the peak summer weather there was as bad as MS. Difference was the peak summer weather was a shorter window. I remember going to phish shows in Wisconsin back in summer 03-04 and people up there talking about the heat and humidity. We all thought it was perfect, ha.

good point about the window. it works both ways. it can get cold as shit down here but it doesn't pound your ass for 3 straight months like it does up there. same as the heat down here.

[iPat09]

Oh, and don't let anyone from the "real south" tell you Texas ain't as hot as the "real south".

Trust be brah, it's 17ing hot in Fort Worth, seriously. it's 17ing hot.

Every year, I usually head over to Longview to help out with the Great Texas Balloon Race (although I'm not going this year). It's in late July and that might be the hottest weekend of the year for me. East Texas heat is no joke.