A feeling of dread
 

comes upon this town as the summer draws near.

Average temp 95 degrees (although it usually seems to hover around 100 degrees) from May through August. We all turn into cave dwellars (no cellars around here!), and creep out of our air conditioned holes in the early morning, and in the evening after the sun goes down.

I'm not prying so deeply that I want to know where you live, but is it desert or semi-desert? The lady and I are wanting to move to New Mexico, probably up north a ways (maybe Santa Fe, maybe Taos). Is it that bad, or are you just a sissy?

I live in El Paso. Santa Fe and Taos are both fantastic places, but higher up, so it doesn't get as hot there (and gets a lot colder in winter there, too). El Paso isn't as bad as, say, Phoenix, or even Las Vegas, but it does get pretty darn hot.

I've lived here for 20 years, so I've adjusted, somewhat. Still--it's hard to get things done in the summer because I HATE being out in the sun.

O.K. We got one thing settled. Having lived in El Paso for twenty years, you're no sissy! Been there, like it. Like Mexico, too. But yeah, I think high and dry might just be the ticket. I'd send you some of our humidity, rain, and clouds if I could, 'cause the gods know we have plenty to spare.

Yeah, in Wisconsin we either get very humid heat or very dry cold. I love extremes.

yeah, damp & sticky + hot is surely worse than here.

I'm sure your heat is more constant than here though. We get one or two heat waves for about a total of a little over a week than it is back to comforable temperatures.

i'm not a big fan of the heat either - i swear i don't believe it got this hot when i was younger or maybe because i work in an office area and have f-o-r-e-v-e-r. i have become addicted to a/c.:)

yeah, and the ironic thing is the a/c in offices (like mine) is turned up so full blast that you're like an icicle when you leave the office. So the heat feels good then.

Until you get in your car and the surfaces burn, burn, burn!

Cloud lives in the West Texas town of El Paso and she burns, burns, burns in the ring of fire (the ring of fire)



:)

we don't have heat waves - we have heat tsunamis:D

hee!

Bless you and your strange foreign heat.

I get distressed when it goes above 20 (68) here.
Now that it regularly hits 30+ (86) in the summer I seriously think I'll have to leave my beloved England by the time I retire...

:eek:

We don't turn the air conditioning on unless the house gets above 80F.

I've been to London, Leeds, York, and Aberdeen some ten years past. Most days were overcast with misting rain and this was mid-July. I've never seen such beautifully green countryside. The locals crabbed about being pissed on yet again, but I enjoyed it.

So they're like seattle, the people don't tan, they rust.

Surely you know this one. And yes, I'll stop calling you Shirley.

Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come you get a tan
from standing in the English rain

I can't complain too much, 'cause we don't have earthquakes, tornados, forest fires, hurricanes . . . all we have is a few dust storms.

And, oh yeah, last summer it rained for 6 days straight and the entire town FLOODED! I mean, canoes on the streets, streets collapsing, buildings demolished flooded. We're still trying to recover.

Cloud, I would stop somewhere in west Texas but I have every intention of being my own contractor. Our for-sale-righteous-right Governor Rick has made that an impossibilty, thanks to an $800 K campaign contribution from Pulte Homes. Being a licensed engineer in this once great state, I could obtain the title of contractor for a steep fee, but no bank in the country would provide financing. Born and raised in Texas, but I'm forced to look out of state.

If you're ever up Taos/Santa Fe way in the not too distant future we'll have you over for cabrito y fajita!

El Paso, land of the drug lords? well right over the border.

yep. Most people I know here don't go into Juarez much anymore, for social purposes. Plus, women get mass murdered over there, and there's still no satisfactory explanation.

Doesn't much impact the weather, though.

Holy hell! the folks that I know that are stationed there say you don't need to cross the border to experience the chaos. A good buddy of mine, a senior Army officer at the post down there had his car/truck stolen 4 times before he finally bought a beater truck that had windows that would never roll up. He never locked it. It was never stolen again. My wife was born there. I have never lived there, but from what I hear it has all the problems of any major city in the us, only about 5 fold. I am just talking about 2nd and 3rd hand info here....

Aw, no, it's not that bad at all. In fact, I really like it here. there's property crime, certainly, but not as much violent crime as many other similar cities. Juarez is another city (and country) and has its problems.

Did they clean her up with windshield washer fluid?

No, they use the polluted water from the river. Does that make her a Wet Back?

Clouds of suspicion, but no reign of terror or hail of bullets.

cute.

OR

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl
Nighttime would find me in Rosa's cantina
Music would play and Feleena would whirl

From El Paso


OK, the Wikipedia for this song states:

Can anyone provide a link to this version on-line. I just want to hear a piece of it to see how the Dead interpreted it.

I think there's actually a Rosa's Cantina here for the tourists.

All 3 of them.

aw, Rich--you looked up my town. I feel speshul! Here's a link to Amazon that supposedly has a little listen:

http://www.amazon.com/Fillmore-East-.../dp/B00004YRGK

or maybe this one:
http://www.plime.com/entertainment/webvideo/l/17281/1/

my audio controller is broke on my 'puter, so I can't listen.

And Hyoi, you be sure to let me know if you get up there. I've been to Santa Fe many times (got my back tattoo done there over a year and a half); but have never made it up to Taos yet. It's on my list.

I heard the tail-end of an interview on NPR by a woman who just wrote a book about that. Fascinating and horrifying at the same time. She was pretty sure that the Mexican government - or someone in it- knew/knows who's behind it and is protecting them. Every time someone gets close to solving the mystery, they become a mystery too.

like Jack the Ripper

More like Jose the reaper.

And Hyoi, you be sure to let me know if you get up there. I've been to Santa Fe many times (got my back tattoo done there over a year and a half); but have never made it up to Taos yet. It's on my list.......Cloud

Will do. :thumb:

Thanks. The second link had the whole song. It sucks that you can't listen to this. It's a great cover. Since it was actually a YouTube link, I've put it here.

thanks! I was actually aware--or had forgotten--that the Dead had covered El Paso, even though I've seen them perform several times, etc.

I'm sending the link to Daughter No. 2, who will enjoy it.

Keep meaning to fix that darn computer thing!

I think I'd rather die than have to live in El Paso. Hell, I don't even prefer the salsa that's made in New York City!

I meant to say I DO prefer the salsa that's made in NYC. Sorry about that.

Hey, maybe I should make it a practice of having to make "correction" posts. I suppose that's one way to get my post count up there.

I'd rather die than live in New York. Almost.

I wouldn't want to live in NY either. But El Paso, uhhhgggghhh - I would die in that hot sun!

nope, kansas was hot and cold enough...

well, it's supposed to be 99 to 101 degrees all week. And so it starts. Basically we hover around 100 (unless it rains) for the next 2 or 3 months.

I tend to hibernate a lot during the summer. :(

:biggrinba (waves to BrianR, who I just noticed also lives in El Paso)

Americans are often amused at what the English call a terribly hot day -- just ghastly. Americans are used to that being where the hot weather is only barely beginning to get serious -- "What'samatter with you guys? It's nice and warm!" It's our lower latitudes.

It takes a day to make Australians wilt -- 43 C in the waterbag -- to really impress the Americans, and even then this only means some of the Americans. Las Vegas born and bred would feel right at home in, say, Coober Peedee. Though they'd reckon it's definitely hot enough for them.

Just went there, and it's summertime for sure. The dry lake south of town is the abode of dust devils. Drove through one of those once, right there as it was crossing the road, and the whole car bounced and jigged. Startled the wife -- "What was that?"

AGREED. I thought I would die in the heat out there. And then our air conditioner broke.

Hi Cloud!

I should have noticed earlier, we could have had lunch or something.

I roll out of here tomorrow (Tuesday) for Dallas and a new truck, then who knows? However I do know that I will be coming back through soon to pick up some stuff I can't take with me as well as my dog.

Perhaps then? I will be at the truck stops in I10 at exit 37.

Cloud, change three...I don't leave until Thursday morning. The Doctor I need to see isn't in on Wednesday this week.

So, gonna be around at all?

Brian

what happened to the woman you were moving to the desert for, hmm?

It's warm & sticky here today (and not just under my skirt).

I just went to the shop and there's a warm but lively wind rising. We're due a storm but it's not going to hit Leicester until about midnight, so I might be projecting - but am hoping for a real ground shaker.

Here comes the rain!
And the wind just shook the door of the shop hard enough for me to think my boss had stopped by.

My heart is just about recovered.

In the next room as I type. She would likely accompany me just to get out of the house. She's a lurker here anyway.

I see El Paso has made the list of the top 10 fastest growing cities. hmm.

Does that include illegals?

most assuredly. We all melt equally here. It was 106 on Tuesday.

Cave girl flies again!
 

It. Has. Begun. 100 degrees tomorrow.

Thus, the start of several months of hiding in my cave. Venturing forth only in the early morning, and after the sun goes down each eve. I hunker in my bunker with my fans, wearing nothing, 'cept the short cape my friends insist no true Cave Girl would be without.

Fan a little our way. The pool opens Saturday and we're only looking at 74. 80 would be beter.....

The snow is finally starting to melt here, but there's still two or three feet on the trails.

oh gee, guys, I'll glad waft a few degrees your way.

Where are you HLJ, that you still have snow?