Too damn hot in Fl

Today @ 10:30 the heat index will be 103, if this keeps up, will send my gun barrel out to Robar for a roguard treatment and the receiver for an NP3 coating--wouldn't be shooting till mid Sept.--this way it will be impervious to my screw ups and it will never have to be lubed

 

This is why we're looking for a summer place in Northern Wisconsin for about 4 months a year. The heat index here has been 102-108 for a few weeks now. Love the Gulf Coast except in the summer, it's brutal.

 

Went to Highlands,NC -2 years ago for 2 months--where in Wisconsin, do you stay?

 

Hasn't been too good where 635-G lives either in Central Florida.

He was probably more comfortable in the Tin Can years ago.

 

I'm retired. Thought about the idea of the Villages. Like getting around everywhere on a golf cart, I play a little golf, draft beer capital of Florida I hear, something to do every day - like everything about The Villages except the weather. Or I should say the 6 - 8 months of weather (heat and humidity) down there. It's too dam hot and humid for me now in Indiana - no way would I survive Florida.

Wisconsin is great but check the dam property tax. 5 years ago I found a "cabin" on a lake in Wisconsin. No running water, no sewer, just out house. Still I thought - I can get water out of lake - filter it to shower with, drink bottled water, it would be perfect for June, July, August, September then close it down for rest of year. The asking price was $80K. I was ready to pull the trigger then I asked about property tax. The crazy sobs taxed that place at $450 a MONTH. A place with no water, no sewer, less than 1000 square feet????

I think we pay too much in property tax here in Indiana but after talking to other people across the country we got it made. So $450 a month might be a bargain for some people but to me it was a shocker.

 

No property for this guy. MFG home in a park on a lake for me. Pay someone to take care of the maintenance. Just like the silver Dollar but a lot cheaper HOA. Lots of shooting around the Rhinelander area so I've been told.

 

Bama - Still time to head north --Wisconsin state shoot July 9 - 14 at Nekoosa -- Three or four world class golf courses next door and if you win some money a casino just across the river to lose it -- .Hit 85 for the first time this week --Ice is off all the lakes --Beer is cold -- ELSIE The magic words for Wisconsin taxes are- ON A LAKE - 99%of the lakes have public access-- They love taxing lake properties

 

Sorry to you all. But I can't help it.
Today in San Diego its 71 degrees with blue skies and a gentle breeze. Thing is, it is that way about 340 days a year with the occasional storm or weather condition changing it for a few days.
Sigh.

 

About the hardest decision we ever have to make about the weather in San Diego is "what short sleeve shirt am I going to wear today?"

 

Everything is a trade off -- Elsie is having a problem with Wisconsin taxes --How are the taxes in San Diego ? Not to mention your very restrictive gun laws! Must admit your weather report sure looks good! Problem is I wouldn't have a excuse for a bad day of shooting.

 

Jakearoo, that weather doesn't sound like it is very conducive to producing much snow. How you going to sled in weather like that? And you gotta buy ice year round, while I cool my beer with free ice for almost half the year.

 

The greatest weather in the world, for sure. But, maybe the worse state to live in if one is a conservative, and shooting enthusiast. Miramar was a great trap club. I spent 20 years shooting there a couple of times a week. But, it's gone and so am I, to a much better conservative environment, much lower taxes, and a great 2nd amendment state.

 

The only thing I remember about San Diego, when I was going to navy school--there must have been a law --"no ugly women allowed outdoors during daylight'--most attractive, healthy girls--but this was 1961

 

635, It may have been 1961 but that "law" seems to be permanently on the books. I have been here about 35 years and that is a constant.
I have a theory. I think all across America when young people grow up in a place they don't like, including for weather reasons, they often leave home and pick a place like lovely San Diego. When the young ladies get here, if they are "attractive, healthy girls" they fit right in. If they are not, they feel uncomfortable and leave to go to somewhere else. So, the population of attractive women just grows and grows. Heck, its been going on so long that many of those young attractive transplants have now raised families and their "healthy" children are the predominant base population.
It doesn't hurt that everyone is outdoors all the time (365 days a year more or less) biking, hiking, swimming, surfing, rollerblading, etc.

 

BAMA, I was President of Miramar for 4 years in the early 90s. Its loss was a REAL loss to clay target sports. I was up close on this one. It was lost because the folks then running the club lost touch with the Marines who ran the base and leased the club. Ignoring your landlord in that kind of situation is perilous to say the least.
And only last year or so we lost the shotgun trap and skeet range on Camp Pendleton for, in my opinion, the same reason. At least we still have Lemon Grove which is a great club in many ways and as cheap for a member to shoot as clubs where you and others now live.
Glad you like living in what I assume is Alabama. I don't think I would like to trade living here for it. I personally like the lifestyle available here in almost all ways. Nothing is perfect.
Regards, Jake

 

Jake -- Nothing is perfect is right --But where you live it keeps getting more restrictive --Isn't it today that proposition 63 kicks in? Back ground checks on all ammunition sales -- $1.00 on each ammo sale after a $20.00 initial screening? You can have that state - Even with 635G's beautiful girls and your 70 degree weather -- I will keep putting up with my Winters in Wisconsin

 

Did you all see the story that Anchorage, Alaska hit 90?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weathe...0-degrees-record-shattering-heatwave-n1026876
Sigh.
Still in the low 70s and blue sky here.

 

Friday I was out in the direct sunshine building stairs on the back patio. High temperature of 93 degrees. That was not even the bad part. Dew point was 78 degrees. Last I seen there was not a rain forest within several thousand miles of Wisconsin. The humidity is becoming unbearable. I lost five pounds in five hours, and that was with drinking a half gallon of water. I can't wait for winter! It has been like that for three days. Have time restrictions set because the mother in-law is coming next week. Up until now the temps. have been generally below normal. I mean like furnace kicking in at the end of June. I knew this would come. Right from heat to air conditioning. Can't open the windows in this state until October anymore. Then that lasts about a week at most and the furnace goes back into full operation again for the next eight months.

I found myself asking, would I rather die from heat exhaustion or freeze to death. I guess right now I will take the eight months of winter.

 

Having moved from upstate New York to Florida, we tell people we just switched summer and winter months 180 degrees.

Now instead of having 9 months of crappy weather that we had in New York, we only have 3 months to contend with staying inside. That being said, we don't have to shovel SNOW if we decide to get out and do something during the hot season.

Then we have roughly 9 months of lovely sunshine with no snow, rain, or mud to contend with.

It has rained so much up in the Finger Lakes region of NY this year the farmers are having a terrible time planting crops, and when they do get them in, most seeds are rotting in the mud. I'll take the afternoon showers we have here in Florida any time over that situation up north.

I can only hope that the NY STATE home grounds in the Cicero Swamp outside Syracuse don't get the rains this week during their State shoot. It is a muddy mess when it rains up there.

635G will be able to shoot in comfort from September until the following June (9 months), while northerners only get in a few months of nice weather to shoot in.

I guess it's all a personal preference.

 

The only reason Floridians complain so much about the heat and humidity is to do their part to keep the Yankees and Californicans back home where they belong. Florida REALLY sucks. Y'all will be totally miserable if you come here.

 

The heat index on the Gulf Coast for the last several weeks has been 101-112 degrees. Now a tropical storm is headed our way. Great place to live 8 months out of the year....Wisconsin is looking real good for the summers.

 

Look this up. Miami, is one of the few cities in the US that has never had a 100 degree day. Roger C.

 

That's because the fore-sighted City Fathers didn't want their rescue squad volunteers to have to administer Mouth-to-Mouth resuscitation to all the Gay Pride Attendees when they fell out with heat stroke.

 

Temp & humidity equals the heat index and is the only thing that counts.

 

Is Miami even part of the United States? Last time I was there (and it is going to be the last time) it looked like something you would find in some 3rd world hellhole, 3rd world? Even people in the 3rd world consider Miami to be a step down to 4th world.

 

Miami is an extension of Spanarico & South Beach is a Russian mafia rip off haven--gotta be nuts to step foot in either

Either way no registered for me in Fl till Nov

 

July 18 Wisconsin state shoot 77 degrees low humidity -- Beer is cold

 

I lived in Wisconsin for a few years. Big government state and taxes were absurd.

 

Sorry, Jake. I lived in San Diego for 30 years. It's that way for about 250 days a year, not 340. That's still pretty good if you ask me.

 

Well mudpack, you may be technically correct. But you gotta admit that in San Diego if its not sunny, 72 degrees and light wind its still pretty darn nice. And that is AT LEAST 340 days a year. I don't mind clouds or grey, a bit or more rain or those few brutally cold 48 degree nights in the winter months. There are even those occasional weeks with high pressure in August or September when it might get up to 86 degrees or so with calm air and seems pretty hot.
Heck, most of the time we get any real weather its a very good thing. Makes for greener hills.
Cheers. Jake

 

I experienced plenty of days, Jake, when it was close to 100 and plenty of days when there was frost on the windows when I left for work (I lived in Poway, not in Carlsbad). Now, "plenty of days" equates to a handful per year so, yes, you are right; even the 'bad' days were pretty good in SD county compared to where most of us are now.
In some ways I miss the good weather, in other ways I like the seasonal changes during the year that other parts of the USA experience. I miss my good friends back in San Diego, too, but other than those things I prefer where I am now.