Southerners, how in the world?

Do you survive summer? It is @ 82 here right now and @ 1100 % humidity. I am over it, ready for snow.

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Corn starch, sweet tea, and a shade tree when you can.

Corn starch?

If it wasn't for my love of fresh garden tomatoes and the family here, I think I would have moved to Alaska long ago. I am built for cold not heat.

If you don't understand this you haven't experienced heat and humidity.

Work all day in this humidity without a little corn starch and you'll be walking like you're bow legged at the end of the day.

Heat index of 105 here but it will get hotter if you go to south alabama or swamp wolf territory it's really hot.

Haha you yankees complaining about humidity. Thats cute. That goes for all of you that have posted. We have 2 seasons here. Summer and about 2 weeks of "winter" sometime in february.

We just got back from the beach in ft walton. Its significantly cooler at the beach than it is where i live an hour north.

LOL!!!

Remember this when the topic of winter comes up and one of you Northerners pipe up and remind us that we don't know what cold is.

It was 81° when I left the house at 5:30 this morning.

Mike

We say the same thing about you guys up north with your 6 month winters and subzero temps - just a matter of getting used to it. 96 today here and it was a good day of bass fishing on the river - just a typical June day here.

And ditto on the corn starch....

Mike, I've been in Norman several times and that weather is something. July and August hot and windy soon as the sun is up. But it cools off after sundown better than it does here. Winter, raw and windy when I was there. Always wanted to see what would happen if the wind stopped blowing, never did. I remember one summer evening watching scissortails flying around.

Got 3.5 inches of rain here over night. Here come the skeeters. May have to go get some more shotgun shells to fend them off.

Yankees cant handle it here in the summer and we dont want yalls winters. Dont have to drill holes in ice here to catch beavs either lol

anti monkey butt is the best available....also prevents Fromunda

Air was pretty heavy here today. Looked like the skies might open up but---no!

Lol keets. We used that when racing enduros dirt bike riding. Grew up with heat and high humidity. I don’t know how y’all yanks handle the cold.

The one thing I don’t miss is the humidity when I moved from Pennsylvania to Idaho several years ago. However, I don’t care not seeing my lawn from November to March with the constant snow on it

Purdy much nailed it

Bless you southern folks, lived there couldn't stand it. Here's my 2 cents on the south... Great manners / respect for those that earn it, food is the best beats our cooking hands down (at least for me my kids would disagree), not impressed with any of the land animals but the fishing is great, but I can't handle the heat!! Had to get out the kitchen.. Trying to convince the wife to move to Alaska as we speak. Personally I hate the summer could handle winter year round

In the 90s and humid here today. Spent a couple hours on the tractor running the finishing mower, finished paining the Jon boat, and went through three sets of clothes from being soaked with sweat. Will be this way until early October. I hate summer. It’s even too hot to fish!

Yall ought to get up on a nice big roof this time of year in the Southern Part of Texas. Combine that with me being old and out of shape I ought to get some kinda hazard pay LOL

103 and 36% humidity here today. I know 36% is nothing but if you’re used to 10% it sucks. I don’t know how you guys do 50+

It doesn't take much of that hot / humid combination and my git up and go will get up and leave me I assure you

It's the dew point that counts. When it's over 90 degrees and the dew point is over 70, you know you're in the south. You sweat, it doesn't evaporate, it just feels sticky.

Never herd of a southerner retiring in the north.

As a Kansan, I just feel fortunate that it didn't snow today! (Although it would've felt nice)

Ever notice how slow folks from the South move? Its steady movement, just slow. That is how one deals with the heat.
I spent some time in Arkansas. The folks there would come into the bar at night to tip back a few after being out in the heat all day. What I found interesting was the constant wiping of the arms from shoulder down to the hands. I asked my buddy who was from there what was that all about. He said that it was just the continuation of what those guys need to do all day out in the miserable environment which is much of Arkansas. The wiping is how they keep from dying from blood loss from mosquitoes. Just a habit, he said.

i will take cold over heat any day

I use Gold Bond on my tater sack

Cornstarch for sure or you'll end up with batwings.

At least with the cold you can always put more clothes on and work harder to stay comfortable. Above 90 degrees you run out of clothes to take off.

Lol hasn't even got warm yet

Been pretty mild here as well, mostly 80s and not to dry.

90 degrees with 96% humidity make me feel alive as much as -25 dergees with 15mph winds...

I can stand alot of heat and humidity, I just can't figure out how you guys trap around them "freakin snakes " down there. No way, not for me

Our snakes serve a purpose.

I’ll take winter any day and yes I say that in the winter also, no paved swamp for me.

This got me thinking, we learn from a real early age how to watch for snakes and to avoid places they’re likely to hide. My son turns 6 this weekend and we’ve been teaching him this over the summer. Never really thought about it being a learned behavior.

Something else that’s weird down here is the ticks. I spent 12 weeks in Virginia last spring, and the folks warned everyone about ticks. If you got one on you they suggested that you go to the medical staff to get on antibiotics! The folks from areas that don’t have them were scared to death! I was like, guys, I literally pull a tick a week off me in the summertime, it’s not a big deal. Of course I missed one a few years ago and got a case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever as a result, but it all worked out after some meds.

I agree
They keep us yankees where we belong !

See what I mean? Our younguns learn to pay attention early on.

Yup...don’t care for my testicles being stuck to my leg....We get a few of those miserable days up here...then it’s gone....And EF all those snakes and bugs down there....y’all can have it all.

Never seen a rattler in the winter here win win.

I have.

My brother was crossing the border at International Falls to go fishing. Customs guy checking his trunk grabs a zip lock bag with white powder in it.
He says what have we got here? As he opens the bag, puts his finger in it, then licks his finger and puts it to his nose.
My brother answered, "that's corn starch, I put it on my butt when it's hot to keep from getting galled. Didn't take the guy long to throw the bag back in the trunk and wipe his fingers off! Carry on!

^^^^^^^^^^^ ...would have told him ...it’s for making gravy....(This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) cheese gravy

Had something to type but cant beat the cornstarch customs.lol. thats good

I can't believe I just read a 2 page post about sweaty balls.

Happy Birthday !
Hang on, in 6 months it will be about how many hand warmers it takes to prevent shortening in the tree stand.

Us men know how it is though, if there were more women here we would have a thread about sweaty boobes. but of course most would not mined

I'm thinking about it.

What makes you think you're not already there? Anything north of the Tennessee line is suspect to me.

Especially with his Governor, lol.

Warrior, anything north of about montgomery is suspect to me.

North and south alabama folks are two different breeds. You can go to far south in florida and you end up back in yankee territory.

You can go the uptown route and get some "monkey butt" powder. Just flavored-up corn starch in a fancy shaker can.

I know it well. Mama was from Sand Mountain. Daddy from Grove Hill in Clarke. We suspected mama's people of being copperheads. Lol

We're only 90° with 66% humidity today. Good ol' SE Texas weather.

To flee and retire are not the same thing. LOL

Good golly. Been nice and hot here. Humid too. I love it. Everyone is different. I'll take heat and humidity any day over dry and cold.

I'm 61 and been cutting trees and running coyote traps all week you bunch of sissies lol.

Weather wise it has been absolutely beautiful here in Virginia this year.