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Originally Posted by Carolina_native
The summer is hot and humid, anyone who says different hasnt lived in NC during the summer. Highs typically range around 90, and there is quite a bit of humidity.
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Yabbut, you are talking to people moving in from other parts of the country. Summers here in the Piedmont are nothing compared to the Hades that is some parts of the Midwest. We were gasping like landed fish when family obligations meant that we had to spend a week in the St. Louis area last August. My MIL, who had spent her entire 80 years in that area, had the windows open with a box fan stirring the hot air. She was telling us "now, you kids were born and
raised in this area. It can't be THAT bad" as we were sitting there passing ice packs over our foreheads. Being away from that area for a couple of decades; more acclimated to the less severe Piedmont summers; yeah, it
was that bad. We used the excuse that we had our two small dogs with us (MIL's remark at seeing them sprawled, panting, on the floor "oh, poor puppies. they sure do look hot.") to leave early. (Well... that and the fact that the woman was an incessant yapper
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We were glad to get back to our Piedmont summer.
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