Oh, yes, I remember those nights, especially after hurricanes when the power is out. I would burn some gas when it got really bad and go out to the car and start it up to charge the laptop, cell phone, and rest in the air conditioning.

Heh. Yeah, I didn’t have air conditioning until I was a teenager, and after that thought it was the best thing since indoor plumbing. Life with an attic fan and open windows was miserable. Especially on those hot muggy nights where it never got below 80F, you can’t friggin’ *sleep* when it’s so hot, even with air moving across you as rapidly as the fan at the foot of the bed can shove it your way. I once traded a car in because the air conditioning broke down and two days driving in 100 degree weather with 100% humidity convinced me that while it was survivable, I didn’t *want* to survive it… given that I’d bought that particular car for $850, and the cost of fixing the air conditioner would have been twice that, it was a no-brainer :).

CC was hand-raised by my Mother, and lives with my neighbor. She is strange [she likes to take showers], but she isn’t feral.

Yeah, when the heat follows the rains, the humidity shoots to the sky, and the air doesn’t move.

You can live here without air conditioning, but you don’t want to.

Last night we got a sound and light show with a trace of rain.

I think the Rio Grande/Bravo valley is probably in bigger trouble than Houston, and a tropical storm from the Gulf of California wouldn’t be regretted by West Texas.

Invest 93 did help to reduce the fires in the Okefenokee Swamp, but it didn’t put them out.

There’s a system developing in the Caribbean, Invest 94, but there is still a high pressure ridge that is keeping things from coming to the North coast of the Gulf.

This evening we has some thunderstorms come through, which is normal at this time of year, but … they came from the Northeast. Our weather doesn’t come from the Northeast – it goes to the Northeast. I don’t look inland for storms, they are supposed to come ashore from the Gulf, especially in the afternoon and evening when we are supposed to have the onshore flow.

Here in the land of Wildfire Food, our temperature is all over the place. Hot then HOT + WINDY then Freezing + WINDY now just plain muggy with rain on the way.

At this point, we just pray for no big fires or really torrential rain storms and are satisfied if the day’s weather falls somewhere in between. However, the wind has been gusts up to 70mph. Fierce. Not “good times” for allergy sufferers.

– Badtux the Damp Penguin

PS: one of your neighbors is in the news. Am I seeing things, or does “sovereign citizen” translate to the same thing as “psychotic tweaker”?