[plainsman48]

First positive I've read this week. Mentone, eh? Will have to do further research. No n-plants around I hope?

[bluebeard]

Originally Posted by plainsman48

First positive I've read this week. Mentone, eh? Will have to do further research. No n-plants around I hope?

What's an n-plant?
I didn't say it wasn't a place you'd like. Just that it tends to be on the humid side. The NE corner may be less humid, comparatively, but I'd still consider it humid, and no less humid than northern GA.

[Southlander]

No n-plant?
Brother, you need to do more research.
You may not be near one, but your electricity will be supplied by one. Or two, when Bellefonte comes online.
See TVA.

[skinem]

Originally Posted by plainsman48

First positive I've read this week. Mentone, eh? Will have to do further research. No n-plants around I hope?

Don't get too excited...it's all relative. Mentone may be a "dry" area for Alabama, but it is far from being non-humid. I've spent about half of my life in high desert/semi-arid areas of the west and the other half down here, and to say Mentone is dry would be a stretch. It will seem tough compared to where you are. Alabama is just too dang close to the Gulf and with prevailing winds coming up from there much of the year, it's damp, damp, damp. I've been in the South 30 years and I'm still not used to the humidity. But my wife says I'm a humidity wimp...I'll agree.

I would recommend that you visit the area in say, mid-July to mid-August and see what you think. (I have arthritis, too, and can sure tell a difference when I'm out west to visit...a good difference.)

I'm really not trying to be negative, but I don't want you thinking there's any where in Alabama comparable to where you are humidity-wise.

[i8bugs]

Originally Posted by skinem

(I have arthritis, too, and can sure tell a difference when I'm out west to visit...a good difference.)

I don't question that you're feeling a difference, but wouldn't that have more to do with barometric pressure than humidity?

bugs

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by skinem

I have arthritis, too, and can sure tell a difference when I'm out west to visit...a good difference.

Originally Posted by i8bugs

I don't question that you're feeling a difference, but wouldn't that have more to do with barometric pressure than humidity?bugs

I think that's the difference. When we go out to Colorado and New Mexico, I hurt! Elevation is higher...barometric pressure is different. Humidity -or lack thereof - has little to do with it...it seems to me.

[plainsman48]

Originally Posted by Southlander

No n-plant?
Brother, you need to do more research.
You may not be near one, but your electricity will be supplied by one. Or two, when Bellefonte comes online.
See TVA.

I don't care if it's supplied by one, I just don't want to be within 30 miles of one or downriver of one......I was in Harrisburg when TMI nearly dissolved.

[Southlander]

Then you're in luck! 33 miles from Hollywood AL (location of Bellefonte) to Fort Payne. Of course, Bellefonte's still under construction.

[skinem]

Originally Posted by i8bugs

I don't question that you're feeling a difference, but wouldn't that have more to do with barometric pressure than humidity?

bugs

All I know is that I feel better in drier climates...haven't been able to tell a difference due to elevation...and I've lived in elevations of my all time low (presently) of about 800 ft. to over 5000. All my dry or desert living places but one have been at considerably higher altitudes. The two differences I can see have been wet and/or cold makes a difference in how old arthur feels.

Since it's north Alabama that plainsman has been looking at, isn't Brown's Ferry near Athens the closest existing nuke plant? I guess technically, if there was an absolutely catastrophic event there, likely most of Alabama east of Athens could have a problem (east due to prevailing winds---or north of there.)