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Yesterday, I heard people talking about keeping their kids inside and not allowing them to go to youth football practice because it was too hot outside.Then, as I was getting ready to walk home (Yes, I walk to work) this woman begged me to take the metro, saying that I might die. Being from a place where 105 degree days is a regular thing, we played football, road bikes, mowed yards and drunk water out of water hoses (no cold water). It is just sad to see the further pussification of America.
(Insert lame "it's not the heat, it's the stupidity" comment here).
According to this morning's Washington Post, we may as well get used to it. washingtonpost.com
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"We are looking at above-normal temperatures through the summer," said Kevin Witt, a National Weather Service meteorologist. "I can't say we are expecting any more hundreds, but this is summer. If we have another area of high pressure move into the region . . . that might bring us more higher temperatures, if not record temperatures."
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While this is definitely on the high end of the heat spectrum, I grew up here in the DC area and most summers (though not all) have had at least short stretches of weather like this. Usually it's also been accompanied with much more oppressive humidity as well (this heat wave seems drier than usual) which produces the dense, hazy, smoggy, completely unbreathable midsummer air with the hellacious late afternoon/early evening thunderstorms we're famous for around here. I also remember I used to play outdoor basketball for hours in the middle of the day during this kind of weather as a teenager. Besides, the beach and pool are never better then when it's this hot.
One humorous example of what you're talking about happened to me the other weekend when I was watching the US/Ghana World Cup game from this trendy bar around U Street and the place was packed with metro hipsters complaining about the heat. I overheard one delicate guy tell his friend how "gross" it was that almost every person in there was sweating in this jam-packed, non air-conditioned (or at least barely working) bar.
That said, I do hope we get some rain soon. Not only are most lawns here turning to hay but I'm starting to see a lot of dying trees too.
Last edited by mikeyo321; 07-07-2010 at 08:46 AM..
Yesterday, I heard people talking about keeping their kids inside and not allowing them to go to youth football practice because it was too hot outside.Then, as I was getting ready to walk home (Yes, I walk to work) this woman begged me to take the metro, saying that I might die. Being from a place where 105 degree days is a regular thing, we played football, road bikes, mowed yards and drunk water out of water hoses (no cold water). It is just sad to see the further pussification of America.
Oops thought you might be referring to the numerous eunuchs on the Hill.
this weather really does blow though. i think you're crazy if you're physically exerting yourself in this kind of weather, but if it makes you feel tougher then who am I to stop you?
Yesterday, I heard people talking about keeping their kids inside and not allowing them to go to youth football practice because it was too hot outside.Then, as I was getting ready to walk home (Yes, I walk to work) this woman begged me to take the metro, saying that I might die. Being from a place where 105 degree days is a regular thing, we played football, road bikes, mowed yards and drunk water out of water hoses (no cold water). It is just sad to see the further pussification of America.
Geez dial it down dude... but seriously, you may have done all that stuff in 105 degrees but when and where? Surely the ozone was much thicker (protective) back then and with the auto pollution in this swamp, the air quality can be horrendous. I've played hoops and soccer in this stuff but I'll pay for it later. I call it "heat hangover," I'll feel poisoned and a bit slow the next day. Working out in this is not recommended by any doctor, even for extremely fit people.
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level in this thread is off the charts, I think i'll have to get out soon since I can't handle so much 
