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Quakertrucker · 70-79, M
My favorite temperature range is from 55F to 70F. If it is the cooler temperature, I can put on a long sleeve shirt, such as a Rugby shirt, and can push the sleeves up as the temperature rises. When it gets much above 70F, I tend to sweat a lot - I am 5' 10" by the way and only weigh 165 - and I lose electrolytes and get bad really muscle cramps, even with eating bananas and drinking Gatorade or Powerade and sometimes, AMA, taking potassium tablets.
I live in the northern tip of Michigan. My favorite season is Fall - coolish temperatures with subdued light - and Spring is a close second - just a bit bright at times. I can always put on warm clothes and survive - and even enjoy - Winter, but I HATE Summer with a passion.
Maybe I should move to Nunavut!
Quakertrucker
I live in the northern tip of Michigan. My favorite season is Fall - coolish temperatures with subdued light - and Spring is a close second - just a bit bright at times. I can always put on warm clothes and survive - and even enjoy - Winter, but I HATE Summer with a passion.
Maybe I should move to Nunavut!
Quakertrucker
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@Quakertrucker i hate summer too! *high five*
Quakertrucker · 70-79, M
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When I was 12, my family moved to Paducah, Kentucky - just about the western end of the state - from Ashtabula, Ohio on Lake Erie.
My younger brother and I both graduated from the University of Kentucky - in state tuition being a fraction of out of state.
I taught high school in Costa Rica for two years, then went to law school at U.K., and then - long story - started working as a mover/truck driver. The physical job and the heat and humidity just about killed me for about six months every year - I would be up about four hours or more every night with horrendous leg, side, arm, etc. cramps, so, in 1987, I moved to the northern tip of Michigan.
My brother graduated as a mechanical engineer about the same time that I got out of law school, and he moved to Destrahan, Louisiana - about 25 miles north of New Orleans. He lived there through several hurricanes, only leaving a couple of years after Katrina.
My wife flew out of Traverse City - a 150 miles south of our home - in April around 2003. When we left TC, it was about 65F; when we landed at New Orleans, it was almost 100F and extremely humid. We thought we were going to die. We had to run from the house to the car to the restaurant to the World War II museum, to the whatever just so we weren't drenched in sweat.
He has never understood how I can live where I do, and I could never understand how he could live there.
Like I told him: It is lucky that there are people like him and people like my wife and I - and you - or half of this country would be empty.
Now that we are both retired, and with hotter weather due to global warming, and with the prospect of another four years of Trump, my wife and I are both seriously considering moving to Canada, and have even talked about either the Northwest or Yukon Territories. Nunavut was a joke because there is basically nothing there.
I am something of a hermit - and, was only going into our closest town of 5,000 people about 35 miles away around once a week even before the coronavirus - so would love the desolate beauty offered by northern Canada.
All I need to be content are my wife, and our two beagles.
Best wishes, and stay cool
When I was 12, my family moved to Paducah, Kentucky - just about the western end of the state - from Ashtabula, Ohio on Lake Erie.
My younger brother and I both graduated from the University of Kentucky - in state tuition being a fraction of out of state.
I taught high school in Costa Rica for two years, then went to law school at U.K., and then - long story - started working as a mover/truck driver. The physical job and the heat and humidity just about killed me for about six months every year - I would be up about four hours or more every night with horrendous leg, side, arm, etc. cramps, so, in 1987, I moved to the northern tip of Michigan.
My brother graduated as a mechanical engineer about the same time that I got out of law school, and he moved to Destrahan, Louisiana - about 25 miles north of New Orleans. He lived there through several hurricanes, only leaving a couple of years after Katrina.
My wife flew out of Traverse City - a 150 miles south of our home - in April around 2003. When we left TC, it was about 65F; when we landed at New Orleans, it was almost 100F and extremely humid. We thought we were going to die. We had to run from the house to the car to the restaurant to the World War II museum, to the whatever just so we weren't drenched in sweat.
He has never understood how I can live where I do, and I could never understand how he could live there.
Like I told him: It is lucky that there are people like him and people like my wife and I - and you - or half of this country would be empty.
Now that we are both retired, and with hotter weather due to global warming, and with the prospect of another four years of Trump, my wife and I are both seriously considering moving to Canada, and have even talked about either the Northwest or Yukon Territories. Nunavut was a joke because there is basically nothing there.
I am something of a hermit - and, was only going into our closest town of 5,000 people about 35 miles away around once a week even before the coronavirus - so would love the desolate beauty offered by northern Canada.
All I need to be content are my wife, and our two beagles.
Best wishes, and stay cool
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@Quakertrucker what a storied life you've lead. and i thoroughly enjoyed reading about it. :)
i'm in Florida, and just survived hurricane Sally. up to that point, i had managed to stay cool all this past summer. i thought i would die of heat exhaustion the first three days after, then the temps plunged to upper sixties. thank goodness, because i was without electricity for just over 5 days. i'm trying to get up north since earlier this year -covid putting a crimp in those plans, and have been dreaming of it for many years. Canada is a fine country. i hope you and the Mrs. can make it come true. the older i get, the more i can't take this southern heat. i've only stayed because i feel guilty leaving my aging mom alone. since she's hanging on by her toenails, i feel i must give her the option to come along, or stay behind. i just can't take another deep south summer, i tell ya.
i'm in Florida, and just survived hurricane Sally. up to that point, i had managed to stay cool all this past summer. i thought i would die of heat exhaustion the first three days after, then the temps plunged to upper sixties. thank goodness, because i was without electricity for just over 5 days. i'm trying to get up north since earlier this year -covid putting a crimp in those plans, and have been dreaming of it for many years. Canada is a fine country. i hope you and the Mrs. can make it come true. the older i get, the more i can't take this southern heat. i've only stayed because i feel guilty leaving my aging mom alone. since she's hanging on by her toenails, i feel i must give her the option to come along, or stay behind. i just can't take another deep south summer, i tell ya.
Quakertrucker · 70-79, M
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The weather in Costa Rica was great. I taught in San Jose - which, being in the Central Plateau at around 7,000 feet elevation - stayed around 70F most of the time.
It has a six month rainy season and a six month dry season. But, generally in the rainy season, it would only rain about an hour or two a day in the late morning or early afternoon so you could plan to be indoors. A few days, it would rain lightly all day.
I just checked the 10 day forecast there on Weather Bug. The temperature range is from 55F to 75F every day, and there is a 70 to 80% chance of rain every day. Obviously, the rainy season is in progress.
I am impressed with your commitment to your mom. If you can talk her into the move, a somewhat cooler climate may be good for her as well.
As I tell my younger sister: the median temperature where you don't really feel it is about 70F. In the deep winter in Minnesota or North Dakota, there are days where the temperature is 40 or even 50 degrees below zero - or 110 to 120 degrees colder than that median temperature - and few people die from the cold. However, if you added 110 to 120 degrees to that 70F, it would be 180 to 190F, and no one would survive. So, obviously heat is more of a killer than cold. You can always put on warmer clothes; you can only take so much off.
So, stay cool, and stay safe!
Quakertrucker
The weather in Costa Rica was great. I taught in San Jose - which, being in the Central Plateau at around 7,000 feet elevation - stayed around 70F most of the time.
It has a six month rainy season and a six month dry season. But, generally in the rainy season, it would only rain about an hour or two a day in the late morning or early afternoon so you could plan to be indoors. A few days, it would rain lightly all day.
I just checked the 10 day forecast there on Weather Bug. The temperature range is from 55F to 75F every day, and there is a 70 to 80% chance of rain every day. Obviously, the rainy season is in progress.
I am impressed with your commitment to your mom. If you can talk her into the move, a somewhat cooler climate may be good for her as well.
As I tell my younger sister: the median temperature where you don't really feel it is about 70F. In the deep winter in Minnesota or North Dakota, there are days where the temperature is 40 or even 50 degrees below zero - or 110 to 120 degrees colder than that median temperature - and few people die from the cold. However, if you added 110 to 120 degrees to that 70F, it would be 180 to 190F, and no one would survive. So, obviously heat is more of a killer than cold. You can always put on warmer clothes; you can only take so much off.
So, stay cool, and stay safe!
Quakertrucker
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@Quakertrucker very interesting about Costa Rica. i never knew much about the weather there, but i've heard people describe it as "paradise".
[quote] You can always put on warmer clothes; you can only take so much off.[/quote] this is something i say near the end of every summer! sometimes the only way i can cool off to my core is by going swimming, or taking a cold shower. the heat just zaps me. i don't know how i'm still alive after residing down here for so long.
thanks, Quakertrucker. 🤗 you do the same!
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[quote] You can always put on warmer clothes; you can only take so much off.[/quote] this is something i say near the end of every summer! sometimes the only way i can cool off to my core is by going swimming, or taking a cold shower. the heat just zaps me. i don't know how i'm still alive after residing down here for so long.
thanks, Quakertrucker. 🤗 you do the same!
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Quakertrucker · 70-79, M
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I am changing my favorite temperature range.
It is 45F here today - overcast and occasionally drizzling - and I am wearing a Rugby shirt with the sleeves pushed under, and I am LOVING it!
I have decided that my ideal range is actually 45F to 60F.
My wife and I - in our soon to be 23 years of marriage - have always kept our household thermostat set on 60F. Actually, we used to turn it down to 50F at night, but after we had to repair our hot-water heater boiler, we were told to never turn it below 60F, as that allowed condensate to collect which would damage the boiler.
What is the temperature like in your section of Florida today? And, how is your Mom?
Best wishes!
Quakertrucker
I am changing my favorite temperature range.
It is 45F here today - overcast and occasionally drizzling - and I am wearing a Rugby shirt with the sleeves pushed under, and I am LOVING it!
I have decided that my ideal range is actually 45F to 60F.
My wife and I - in our soon to be 23 years of marriage - have always kept our household thermostat set on 60F. Actually, we used to turn it down to 50F at night, but after we had to repair our hot-water heater boiler, we were told to never turn it below 60F, as that allowed condensate to collect which would damage the boiler.
What is the temperature like in your section of Florida today? And, how is your Mom?
Best wishes!
Quakertrucker