re: How do people in the deep south get blindsided by summer heat every year??

Cause it’s fricking hot

Spend the 6 months between October and March forgetting about just how bad it is.

I think it’s because we never get acclimated to the heat because of widespread air conditioning.I grew up without ac,didn’t have it at home,car or school.I never realized how hot and miserable Louisiana is in the summer until I went in the Navy.I came home on leave in July from California and I was blindsided by the heat and humidity when I got off airplane.It’s the humidity more than the heat,California was hot but dry and when the sun went down it got cool.
I also think the older I get the less I can tolerate it,I know my wife can’t tolerate it at all,She’s not a fatty,5’2”” and 110 lbs( no pics).After 10 am,20 minutes outside and she’s wiped out.

I remember between 2012-14 we had 3 straight beautiful low humidity 4th of July holidays. September always seems to be the month where summer makes a last stand and fall seems like it’ll never arrive.

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I also think the older I get the less I can tolerate it,I know my wife can’t tolerate it at all,She’s not a fatty,5’2”” and 110 lbs( no pics).After 10 am,20 minutes outside and she’s wiped out.

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I've been working in the ac for over 20 years now and I think that has something to do with it.

My first year playing football I was 7. The peewee league I played in was 7-10. I was one of the youngest and smallest and they stuck me on the dline. When the ball snapped I prepared my scrawny arse as much as possible but the big ol baws trucked me. Same goes for our summers. I’m as prepared as possible but I still get steam rolled.

Every year it gets a little warmer or I’m getting older who knows

This summer has been particularly hot

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I remember in 2006 my wife and I bought our first house. It was a little cookie cutter with the bare minimum sized ac and no shade.

That summer we had something like two weeks straight over 100 degrees. It was 80+ degrees in the house everyday until the sun went down and my wife was pregnant.

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Exact same thing happened to me! Except the house we bought was 40 years old and we bought it from the original owner. So I just assumed that must be how the house is, since why would anyone willingly live in a hot house for 40 yrs?

After a few weeks of 78 deg inside the house and my wife 6mos preg I called an AC guy and he cut out a new return air vent. The AC just couldn’t suck in enough air. All it had was one small return vent. And that solved the problem. I’m amazed that fairly easy fix hadn’t been done all that time.

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One of the least educated states might have something to do with that

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People complain about the heat Bc they lack college degrees?