Yes, Toff, but you live in hell Houston has to be the worst city in the world for combination heat/humidity. I work for big oil and so I've been to Houston several times and it's always terrible.
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I despise heat. I loathe humidity. I so dread the summer months. Humidity just drains me totally. It is vastly easier to warm up than it is to cool off. You can keep adding layers to get warm, but you can only strip so far down to keep cool.
I used to have a similar mentality before I spent 14 winters in Michigan. Now I'd rather be hot than have to deal with the triple whammy of cold, snow, and ice.
Vastly easier to warm up? Try working out at a gym when it's 55 degrees inside the building.
It's been baking in NYC. Steady 85-95 every day. The only saving grace is that there has been virtually no humidity, which is very odd for this area. Being from Texas, I can generally handle heat, but heat+humidity is a killer.
Plus since you walk so much here, you can't escape it. When I lived in Dallas, sure it was 112 outside, but I got up in my air conditioned apartment, walked in an air conditioned hallway, spent maybe 15 seconds in the un-air conditioned parking garage, drove in my air conditioned car, got out in my office's un-air conditioned parking garage and spent another 15 seconds there, then spent all day in my air conditioned office.
Here I have a 10 minute walk to the subway, the platforms aren't air conditioned and the cars are about 50/50 on if it is working, then I get off on another un-air conditioned platform, walk up three flights of stairs then another 10 minute walk to my office. Thank God I don't have to wear suits to work everyday anymore!
What I once observed is that when the human body is exposed to heat during a longer time, the body adapts to it.
I see it how I sewat. In the first time, when the heat is "fresh", I sweat very much.
But later, I think I observe a kind of shift : My body just adapts to the heat somehow. It doesn't sweat that much anymore. It's … almost as if it decided not to loose too much water. I can stand heat much better, then. But I haven't had too any occations to really test and prove my observation - so it's rather a kin of theory right now, based on experimental observations.
But heat + humidity = bah !
If there was no A/C, Texas would be completely empty.
I knew it. Not all technical achievements are good.
pibbur, from his hiding place.