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Heat Dome - June 2024

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Oh, my point was on that balloon. It's way over your head :p
Well my point was on your face. It's dumb.

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Well we do typically assume Jon is a furry werewolf lover, and dogs don't sweat, so... Makes sense.

I don't know what Vash's solution is. Probably the absorptive properties of cookie crumbs.

Dude’s a Masshole that moved to Florida. Who does that? Who willingly wants to fry like that?

Listen, I'm subject to heat like the rest of you.

All I was saying is it's not every day Florida is 95 while most of the rest of the country is 105.

Nah. I like my version better. You’ve evolved. Or mutated. Like Swamp Thing.

At least in southern Florida you get mild winters.

That’s called a “consolation prize”, dude.

Yes, I agree we are a dumpster-fire.

In my defense, i didn't move here for the politics. :puke

Translation: He moved there for the moisture.
 
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I have absolutely no idea how to comprehend this sentence. Nice in the same sentence as 95? Everything I've ever known that was 95 sucks. The temperature. The highway. The old people.

You have good heat tolerance. Were you born down there?
In 95, Sony released the original Playstation. It's also the year Chrono Trigger, Yoshi's Island, Secret of Evermore, and Twisted Metal were released, as well as the first Heroes of Might and Magic game (though that's only notable because it started the series...II and III were the fantastic games).

So I found some good ways to describe 95 as nice.
 
In 95, Sony released the original Playstation. It's also the year Chrono Trigger, Yoshi's Island, Secret of Evermore, and Twisted Metal were released, as well as the first Heroes of Might and Magic game (though that's only notable because it started the series...II and III were the fantastic games).

So I found some good ways to describe 95 as nice.
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I have absolutely no idea how to comprehend this sentence. Nice in the same sentence as 95? Everything I've ever known that was 95 sucks. The temperature. The highway. The old people.

You have good heat tolerance. Were you born down there?

We were already having a shitty time talking about the weather and you had to go and bring up I-95?

Dick.
 

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Exactly the case. CT is the buffer zone.

Dude, easily the absolute worst drivers I have ever encountered reside in that state.

I see your I-95 and raise you I-4.

I’ve heard about that one from a few people I know down there.

I drove through CT once. It rained as I entered the state and stopped right as I left.

I remember at one point seeing a sign for Swansea and thinking "why the fuck did I bother crossing the Atlantic?"

It was pouring my first time through, which is probably what set my rage off towards those drivers.
 
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Dude, easily the absolute worst drivers I have ever encountered reside in that state.



I’ve heard about that one from a few people I know down there.



It was pouring my first time through, which is probably what set my rage off towards those drivers.
The drivers being from Connecticut is probably what set your rage off towards them
 

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North of Boston isn't so bad. Everything south of Boston is very bad though.
Only thing I can really say is that I-95 once you cross into Maine is an endless corridor of trees with absolutely nothing to look at.

I traded a 4 hour round-trip drive to get my son down I-95 for a 4 hour round-trip along I-90, and I'm always so much fucking happier going through the Berkshires than that tunnel of snore.

I-95 North of Bangor Maine is a no-mans-land where they just jack the speed limit WAY up. I think it was 85 last I went through. There's basically nothing until you get to Houlton at the border, so they don't give a shit if you fly off a cliff.

I'm feeling bad just imagining a teenage you navigating a South Carolina summer.

No wonder you stayed up so late online - you were escaping the heat!
To be fair, I was an insomniac teenager in England. I didn't move to the US until 17, and my nocturnalness just continued because Isis worked the night shift at the hospital, but yeah, I guess I was ultimately hiding from the sun.
 

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Still nothing on them sending a tech out to fix anything, nor on giving us anything to help in the interim.

We just grabbed a stand-alone unit that the wife saw discounted at ALDI, because fuck being uncomfortable because of someone else's apathy.

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Not ideal because there's literally only 1 window on my ground floor, tucked in the bathroom, but it's working well enough to vent heat outside with a few box fans to move the cool air flow into the main areas. I'm just keeping the blinds on the screen doors closed to keep the sun out on the other side of the house.

It's sitting around 72° inside again, so at least the kids aren't complaining anymore.
 

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They JUST sent someone to fix my A/C yesterday. Conveniently after I went in to the office to ask what the fuck they were playing at.

So I'm thankfully sitting at 70°F inside again.

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Outdoor sensor is in the shade. In the sun, it's frigging horrible and the air feels thick.

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38C with humdity today, and we're expected to have these temperatures up until next week.

Fuck summer.

Damn near all of North America is hot as fuck. We gon die.

They JUST sent someone to fix my A/C yesterday. Conveniently after I went in to the office to ask what the fuck they were playing at.

So I'm thankfully sitting at 70°F inside again.

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Outdoor sensor is in the shade. In the sun, it's frigging horrible and the air feels thick.

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Speaking of upstate NY… is this your doing?

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You mean the sale, or the corpse..?

Because not the sale, no.

I knew it was going to be about the reservoir as soon as I saw Rochester and corpse together, though. That's where my partners family are, so I definitely heard about the story.
 
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