PLEASE!!! help wife we need to move to AZ. for her health (Yuma: live, military)

[LordBalfor]

While I've not spent a lot of time in AZ (yet) we did spend 2 weeks in Tucson during the height of the summer monsoon season (late July & early August) and were there during quite a few thunderstorm-laden afternoons and evenings - and I have to say that we didn't generally find the humidity to be that much of a bother. One morning after some all night thunderstorms it DID feel very hot and humid (reminded me of our many trips to the tropics) first thing in the morning (8 am or so) but by 11 am things had dried out and it was back to being comfortable (warmer than earlier of course, but much less humid).

It seems to me that the upshot is, it DOES get humid that time of year - but it's not an "all day" kind of thing like it is back east or in the midwest (I've lived in both areas). It happens SOME TIMES on SOME DAYS. Usually not that frequently, and usually not for long (once the rain actually comes, it cools things off dramatically - and once the rain is over the air drys out quickly).

That's my experience anyway.

Ken

[bluebelt1234]

Originally Posted by jaada

wrong - but i will remind you of how humid it is in july with over 100 temps - no its not as bad as the east coast but i have never had humidity like this before i lived in the northern nevada desert for years and never had humidity like this- its horrible. and as for the asthma i too developed asthma after moving here, never had it in my life til i moved here - iam sure its from the spraying

It is definitely because of the spraying that we developed asthma. One of my coworkers told me last week that some of the farmers in Yuma still use agent orange on their crops. I think that Yuma is maybe more humid than other parts of Arizona perhaps. I saw on the Weather Channel a couple days ago where the humidity in Yuma got up to 71%. I usually watch a couple minutes of the Weather Channel prior to going to work and the humidity they have been showing for Yuma all week last week ranged from 60% to 75%.

I only watch the Weather Channel long enough so I know what to wear each day. I don't watch it all the time.

[jaada]

Originally Posted by bluebelt1234

It is definitely because of the spraying that we developed asthma. One of my coworkers told me last week that some of the farmers in Yuma still use agent orange on their crops. I think that Yuma is maybe more humid than other parts of Arizona perhaps. I saw on the Weather Channel a couple days ago where the humidity in Yuma got up to 71%. I usually watch a couple minutes of the Weather Channel prior to going to work and the humidity they have been showing for Yuma all week last week ranged from 60% to 75%.

I only watch the Weather Channel long enough so I know what to wear each day. I don't watch it all the time.

yes you are so right, it is humid here, and i have been told by some people here that lived next to a field and were going to sue because the farmers were using agent orange on their crops and it keep killing thier dogs.

[motormaker]

Originally Posted by jaada

yes you are so right, it is humid here, and i have been told by some people here that lived next to a field and were going to sue because the farmers were using agent orange on their crops and it keep killing thier dogs.

Think agent orange was banned a long, long time ago. Might have been something else.

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by motormaker

Think agent orange was banned a long, long time ago. Might have been something else.

Yeah, it wouldn't have been Agent Orange.
Agent Orange is a herbicide - and would KILL the crops.

Ken

[kevenlm]

Agent Orange? Now we stray from topic. It only goes to show "It's always something"
:}O "smiley gotee!"

[jaada]

Originally Posted by motormaker

Think agent orange was banned a long, long time ago. Might have been something else.

yeah i know but that is what i heard from the lady who told me about her dogs dieing, i also heard it around from other people that since we live so close to the border that they bring it from mexico. no one regulates it very closely. also i heard they use it on the cotton crops here and in mexico. not the food crops.

[country pride]

Originally Posted by bluebelt1234

It can be pretty humid here especially in August. Definitely visit first. My health actually got worse after moving to Arizona because I developed severe asthma that I never had in Indiana. I live in Yuma where they spray pesticides pretty heavily. Today, near the school where I teach, the air smelled so bad I was gagging. I was also having pretty bad asthma attacks today.

Ive heard of a lot of people who have asthma who had moved to Az and their condition worsoned. Mostly probably due to the dry dusty particulants? So that old wives tale of Az being better for people with asthma isnt always entirely true.
BUT.....I can say though, from living there 12 years that it does have its positives as well, in many areas. Guess its just a matter of what you are looking for, work isnt exactly blossoming in the construction trade. But that is everywhere, not just Az.. I left there and came back to Calif because when I moved there it was family related and my living there wasnt going to be permanent, and that was talked about from day one. I also meet many customers at work who too, have moved to Az over the years and they came back for one reason or other.
But again, Id definately visit first, get a fel for the climate, the work, the people, the wages/cost of living, a couple of times.

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by jaada

yeah i know but that is what i heard from the lady who told me about her dogs dieing, i also heard it around from other people that since we live so close to the border that they bring it from mexico. no one regulates it very closely. also i heard they use it on the cotton crops here and in mexico. not the food crops.

It doesn't matter where you heard it - it's still total nonsensical BS. Agent Orange is a defoliant - not an insecticide. It KILLS plants. That's why the military used it in Viet Nam (to kill the jungle and thus deprive the Viet Cong of cover).
NO ONE is going to spray that on their crops.
NO ONE.
Ever.
Not unless they want to KILL their crop.

IF the woman's dogs died from something sprayed on the plants it would have been from an insecticide - NOT Agent Orange.

Ken

[RamblinRoseRanch]

Kevin,
If humidity bothers your wife, STAY AWAY from TN. I have developed humidity intolerant asthma here in TN. Two different specialist have told me the same thing, move away from TN. So we're headed for NM. The humidity here is pretty high and makes the cold colder and the heat unbearable. Here's a run down of humidity levels by state and month:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/...ccd/relhum.txt

It's a bit awkward to follow, but invaluable in determining *livability* when humidity is a factor.