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It's hot here. Hot as fuck. Hotter than fuck. Fuck can only dream of being this hot. Mum sent me an email saying that she saw a news report about the possibility of rain in Chicago, but I think the rain decided Chicago was too hot and detoured.

There is no breeze, there is no shade, there is no God.

But then I think about the fact that this heat will end by no later than September, while it is a year-round function in Austin, and I'm okay. When I moved to Chicago I noticed that the primary topic of small talk here was the weather, which makes sense in retrospect. There's no point in talking about the weather in Austin (hot) or Oregon (wet) or California (mild) because it's always the same, but here the weather is a neverending variable.

They say the motto of Chicago is "Urbs In Horto" which means "City in a garden" but I suspect the real motto is Et Hoc Transibit: THIS TOO SHALL PASS.

It might be Adfatimne calidus est prote, "Hot enough for you?"

Appropriately, jenna_thorn has tips on how to stay safe and stay cool.

Comments

[off_coloratura]

Oh, GREAT.

I'm on my way out the door to run a 5K.

At least it rained yesterday.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

It is hotter than a blast furnace in the depths of Hell in New Haven. I'm putting out a hit on whoever up on Olympus is responsible for this heat.

[shane-mayhem.livejournal.com]

1. I'm in Oregon and it's 97 bloody degrees out, no cloud in the sky. god only knows how hellish it is in eastern Oregon which is essentially high grassland/desert.
Oregon's weather is probably not as crazy as Chicago's but it's crazy enough...crazy....enough....

2. Thankfully in Portland we have a coffee shop every two and a half feet. That's where I'm hiding now.

3. HAHAHA...I need to come up with a Latin motto for Portland.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, "Crazy enough" would be Adfatim Delirus Est ("It is sufficiently crazy").

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Heh, sounds like a good motto for NYC (97-99 before; 88 now. *crosses fingers*

greetings from Moscow

[joe-chasmtons.livejournal.com]

God definitely died. There just was a thunderstorm dedicated to it, but tomorrow will be hot and dangerous as well :/

[moonflowerkc.livejournal.com]

I'm about an hour away from Chicago and it's getting dark and I hear thunder. Maybe it'll get to the city soon.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

...this heat will end by no later than September, while it is a year-round function in Austin...

Warmth is a reason I'm ecstatic to be moving to Austin. (Oh, hai, I'm moving to Austin!)

After growing up in NYC, going to Uni in Rochester, NY, and living back in NYC since, moving to a place where I don't really need to worry about coats is really exciting.

I'll take care of the warms. You can have the colds. (Temperature, not like, rhino virus. That's just not nice.)

[cobweb-diamond.livejournal.com]

That motto sounds about as image-appropriate as Glasgow's "Dear Green Place".

[thorinsmistress.livejournal.com]

Hi newcomer to Austin! Enjoy the warmth - while yes it is hot, it is great that it is never cold enough to freeze your nosehairs!!!

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I'm back in NYC right now to pack (I helped my boyfriend move his stuff last month), and it's freaking hotter here than it is in Texas.

And the a/c in my apartment in Austin is FAR SUPERIOR to the one I have in NY.

::pout::

[daizy2k2.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, it's only about 85 in my corner of Texas (College Station), mainly due to approaching storms from the Gulf. However, I could do without the 70% humidity.

Gloat gloat gloat

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It is 73 in beautiful downtown Burbank ... we've had such a marine layer this year, I tell you. I am currently wearing a sweater because someone neglected to inform the building managers that 73 is room temperature and we do not, in fact, need the air conditioning to be on.

On the other hand it hasn't rained in months and I can't remember the last thunderstorm we had. I don't think we've had a proper thunderstorm since I moved here.

Someone should make a Chicago daily weather graph that goes from 'hot as fuck' to 'cold as cold ass balls.' I don't know what any of the temperatures in between would be, but ... it would be funny. Then they could give it to people who've just moved to the city. "Welcome to Chicago! This is what you can look forward to!"

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

It is hotter than a blast furnace in the depths of Hell in New Haven.

Same goes for NJ. And PA, which is where I'm heading next. I can't friggin' believe I came back from a trip to Israel and Barcelona only to find that it's hotter in the States.

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Actually God is probably OK; after all, there is air conditioning. Unless that's just people fighting back. We too have the nasty hot. About an hour ago there were maybe 17 drops of rain, to taunt us.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks, Olympus. I'm going to PA on Friday. *sigh* And then (I must be out of my mind) FLORIDA.

Out. Of. My. Mind.

[shane-mayhem.livejournal.com]

I LIKE IT.
I'm just not sure that Portland is yet sufficiently crazy, though.

Apparently, Portland's current motto is either "In Livable Cities is the Preservation of the Wild" or "The City that Works," both of which are unimaginably stupid and the former of which I've never even heard before.

I do like Oregon's state motto, though, which is "Alis Volat Propriis."

Re: Gloat gloat gloat

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

I don't think Chicago does in-between. It didn't last time I lived there.

At the least the graph would be simple to read, heh.

[888mph.livejournal.com]

The entire northern hemisphere is melting! Everyone around this side of the globe in my flist is complaining.
Here it's 35ºC, also. *gets cooked*

[a-mae-zing.livejournal.com]

I hear you. It's been sticky-hot here, especially on the one day I had to leave the house/wonderful world of air conditioning and run around town in a car with no AC. D:

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

I think plate tectonics shifted us around when no one was looking, because I think it's moved southern Ontario to places usually reserved for tropical forests. I'm from the prairies, we don't do humidity.

*dies in a sweaty puddle of melted human*

And the topic of weather is nearly the national conversation in Canada. ;)

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

May the gods of air conditioning be kind to you.

[florahart]

Today it is dry and hot in Oregon (western; eastern is always dry and often hot). Just sayin'.

*is happy about basement office on 95° (95F is ~35C) day, but is about to have to go get In Car. WOE.*

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

Yeah, its weird when its hotter in the North of the country than it is in FLORIDA. I'm all YAY I'm moving north away from heat, and then this.

[violet-prose.livejournal.com]

Oh, just wait 'til August in Austin. When it's 110 degrees F and 99.9% humidity, and you're panting for a breath of clean air the moment you leave the comfort of your air-conditioned home, and you open the car door only to be greeted by a furnace-blast straight from the bowels of hell... Oh, you will weep to be back in NYC. Bitter, bitter tears.

(No love, Austin. No love!)