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gammerus @ 5/20/2008 4:34:40 AM

I curse my parents every summer for raising a family in Arizona.

You shouldn't be able to get a sunburn going to the gas station!

sholom22 @ 5/20/2008 4:19:36 AM

Saw this posted at my favorite local sub shop:

The devil wanted a place on earth
Sort of a summer home.
A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.
So he picked out Arizona
A place both wretched and rough.
Where the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys hardened and tough.
He dried up the streams in the canyons
And ordered no rain to fall.
He dried up the lakes in the valleys,
Than baked and scorched it all.
Then over his barren desert
He transplanted shrubs from hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear,
The climate suited them well.
Now, the home was much to his liking,
But animal life, he had none.
So he created crawling creatures,
That all mankind would shun.
First he made the Rattlesnake
With its forked poisonous tongue;
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow its young.
Then he made Scorpions and Lizards
And the ugly old Horned Toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.
Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter,
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted,
And the old Horned Toad looked ill.
Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom
As any creator would.
He chuckled a little up his sleeve
And admitted that it was good.
Twas summer now and Satan lay,
By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his swarthy brow,
So he took off his coat and vest.
"By Golly," he finally panted,
"I did my job too well, I'm going
Back where I came from,
Arizona is hotter than Hell."
-Anonymous

sholom22 @ 5/20/2008 4:18:53 AM

« CleopatraReborn : I'm in here in Phoenix too, and if I hear one more family member of mine in other states complain about the "unbearable" 80° weather I think I'll cry. We're breaking records again this year!

113 here in Havasu and my truck's AC is broken

CleopatraReborn @ 5/20/2008 3:15:48 AM

« Moe : So it was 105° yesterday and 110° today. 109° tomorrow, but then it's going to cool cool off to the high 90's.

I'm in here in Phoenix too, and if I hear one more family member of mine in other states complain about the "unbearable" 80° weather I think I'll cry. We're breaking records again this year!

haven @ 5/20/2008 2:09:47 AM

My AC is broken. I am dying. I'm thinking about sleeping in the freezer tonight.

sholom22 @ 5/20/2008 2:05:38 AM

What now?

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4850/05192008225746mr1.jpg

Moe @ 5/19/2008 10:35:24 PM

So it was 105° yesterday and 110° today. 109° tomorrow, but then it's going to cool cool off to the high 90's.

maven @ 5/15/2008 8:08:07 PM

It's 86F here right now.

Bornbad...I blame you.

*looks for fan to dust off and plug in*

chinook @ 5/15/2008 8:06:26 PM

So now that my NU trip is nice and cancelled (thank-you, crappy weather in NU!!), I'm sitting at home in my underwear sipping a cold beer because it's freaking hot here.

It's 23C and sunny, and after my 5.5k walk home from work, I'm a hot and very, very sweaty girl.

I'm so glad I'll be north when the real hot weather starts!!

suebe @ 5/14/2008 10:45:42 PM

Fan's self...

punthe @ 5/14/2008 10:14:28 PM

« Moe:Yea but it's a dry heat!

heh heh

'Knock it off, Hudson!'

chinook @ 5/14/2008 4:23:56 PM

« Moe : Damn those damned dam projects.

Well.... now we know what the fish said when he hit a wall!

pocksucket @ 5/14/2008 3:59:45 PM

Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
Galileo (Galileo)
Galileo (Galileo)
Galileo Figaro-Magnifico

All of which is to say the just now there was a massive flash of lightning and a crack of thunder.

I love storms.

Moe @ 5/14/2008 3:57:18 PM

« chinook : No, the dam projects were for power.

Damn those damned dam projects.

Maven @ 5/14/2008 12:25:12 PM

And they have a really cool life cycle!

chinook @ 5/14/2008 12:23:28 PM

No, the dam projects were for power.

Either way, char are yummy.

Maven @ 5/14/2008 12:04:27 PM

The dam projects weren't for char, were they? I know he spent time in Nunavat, I know he worked on stair projects to restore Arctic char populations to help with the native food populations. Sorry--it was a few years back that he gave a presentation on it, so my memory is a little fuzzy.

chinook @ 5/14/2008 11:57:34 AM

« Maven : It is...I worked with a fisheries biologist who helped build the stairs for the char to return to their breeding waters. He loved it up there, complained about Wyoming never getting cold enough.

Yeah, for some of us, it's like a drug and you need to keep going back to get your 'fix' of the North. I'm counting down the hours until I return (26.5!!).

Out of curiosity, was this biologist in Arviat building stairs or was he working with one of the major dam projects in the Hudson Bay area?

eLJay @ 5/14/2008 11:55:04 AM

Our forecast is 90+ today, 100 tomorrow, 102 Friday. Yes, I DO live in the desert, and I am FROM California and darn proud of it! Be nice to the CA Girl! :D hehehe.

JOHNDX @ 5/14/2008 11:46:34 AM

This thread is making me hot.

Maven @ 5/14/2008 11:34:50 AM

It is...I worked with a fisheries biologist who helped build the stairs for the char to return to their breeding waters. He loved it up there, complained about Wyoming never getting cold enough.

chinook @ 5/14/2008 11:28:43 AM

« badbud : Sub-zero temperatures! You really should move, for your own safety. People die at temps.

Well, it's not as though I live there. Permanently.

Although, with that forecast, I'm packing a few pairs of clean undies for my "day" trip, because I know Nunavut weather well enough to not trust it. Wouldn't that be just luverly - spending my May Long up in NU. On the plus side, I'd get paid for the weekend, and the fishing there is supposed to be incredible.

badbud @ 5/14/2008 7:54:00 AM

« chinook : Right.... I'm actually glad I don't have your forecast.

Here's mine for the rest of the week. It's warming up for me (I'm only visiting Nunavut on Thursday/Friday). I'm not going to Arviat, but it's the closest place to where I'll be that has a weather forecast.

Oh look! It gets really nice right as I head out back south to Thompson!

Sub-zero temperatures! You really should move, for your own safety. People die at temps.

Bornbad @ 5/14/2008 2:29:08 AM

« suckersklub : What you deserve is what you get.

(In my case, it's a double post.)

You get my vote for jet lag.Or whatever made you have a better time than me...Jealous...(you better believe it).

suckersklub @ 5/14/2008 2:22:49 AM

What you deserve is what you get.

(In my case, it's a double post.)

suckersklub @ 5/14/2008 2:22:49 AM

What you deserve is what you get.

Moe @ 5/14/2008 1:33:01 AM

« Bornbad : It's not the humidity...we have none. 8%. Walk outside and get chapped lips.

8% is like raining in Phoenix.

maven @ 5/14/2008 1:26:47 AM

Scootch over, dear, you're hogging the pillows again.

Sleep well.

Bornbad @ 5/14/2008 1:20:08 AM

« maven : I just live here. I'm not 'from' here...

I have room for you...Oh, it's getting late. The meds are kicking in...Godnight and goodbless. Turn your A/C on first thing tomorrow. *<3*

Bornbad @ 5/14/2008 1:17:33 AM

« Moe : Yea probably. You California types tend to get that way a lot I hear. Must be the heat.

It's not the humidity...we have none. 8%. Walk outside and get chapped lips.

maven @ 5/14/2008 1:17:22 AM

I just live here. I'm not 'from' here...

Moe @ 5/14/2008 1:15:33 AM

« maven : I think I should be indignant now, yes?

Yea probably. You California types tend to get that way a lot I hear. Must be the heat.

Bornbad @ 5/14/2008 1:13:45 AM

« Moe : Indeed. And come this summer I shall bake cookies in my car using the power of the sun. Bet you can't do that in snowville or wherever the hell it is you live.

Busted on that one, Moe.

maven @ 5/14/2008 1:13:44 AM

I think I should be indignant now, yes?

Moe @ 5/14/2008 1:12:20 AM

« maven : I'm in California.

That explains a lot, actually.

maven @ 5/14/2008 1:11:44 AM

I'm in California. :p So I could, I'd just have to go inland.

Moe @ 5/14/2008 1:09:17 AM

Indeed. And come this summer I shall bake cookies in my car using the power of the sun. Bet you can't do that in snowville or wherever the hell it is you live.

maven @ 5/14/2008 1:04:44 AM

Dry baked is still baked, my friend.

Moe @ 5/14/2008 12:53:46 AM

« maven : I'm so happy the highs here seldom hit 80.

Y'all's brains are baked.

Yea but it's a dry heat!

chinook @ 5/14/2008 12:53:45 AM

Right.... I'm actually glad I don't have your forecast.

Here's mine for the rest of the week. It's warming up for me (I'm only visiting Nunavut on Thursday/Friday). I'm not going to Arviat, but it's the closest place to where I'll be that has a weather forecast.

Oh look! It gets really nice right as I head out back south to Thompson!

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg12/prairie_chinook/arviatweather.jpg

maven @ 5/14/2008 12:52:22 AM

I'm so happy the highs here seldom hit 80.

Y'all's brains are baked.

Moe @ 5/14/2008 12:47:35 AM

We get hot winds with cactus needles in them.

Pantywaist.

Bornbad @ 5/14/2008 12:42:30 AM

« Moe : Noooo, he lives in Sacramento. I live in the desert.

When it is 120° here, it will be a namby pamby 108° there. Pshaw.

Pussy! We get the delta breeze.

Moe @ 5/14/2008 12:41:21 AM

Noooo, he lives in Sacramento. I live in the desert.

When it is 120° here, it will be a namby pamby 108° there. Pshaw.

Bornbad @ 5/14/2008 12:39:50 AM

« drstrangelove : Well, you do live in the desert don't you?

The Valley, Dude!

drstrangelove @ 5/14/2008 12:39:04 AM

Well, you do live in the desert don't you?

Bornbad @ 5/14/2008 12:33:08 AM

http://images.ibsys.com/sac/images/weather/auto/5day_640x480.jpg