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[nibot]

Louisiana summer ... "feels like 108°F" ... the condensation beads up and drips off our cold beers. Afternoon at at the LIGO lab picnic at White Oak Plantation. Sweating, sweating. Feet in flip flops, feet on the grass.

In the early afternoon we got a table, a table and chairs, the table transported on top of my VW Golf, ridiculously but successfully. Dining room table, evidence of civility. The oak did not buckle on its trip through the Humidity. Walking is like swimming.

Sitting on the back stoop ... 9 pm ... "feels like 100°F". I'm drinking rum and coke. Emily's smoking a cigarette. The neighbor's sprinkler is faithfully watering the asphalt. Lightning in the distance. Ten minutes of rain, raindrops the size of grapes. Raindrops the size of grapes and the neighbor's sprinkler continues to water the asphalt. Emily's smoking a cigarette. The rain subsides. I'm drinking a rum and coke. The asphalt steams. Louisiana summer.

Comments

[in-alaska.livejournal.com]

Nice. I mean, nice to read. (And: wtf. I just converted it to Celsius! That's mighty hot.)

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I have spent my life in Southern California. High temperatures--nineties, hundreds, hundred and eight-- are familiar in Fahrenheit. I have spent a bit of time in Norway--in winter. For cold temps to make any sense I have to convert to Celsius. I'm sure nibot would say the same thing.

[bom.livejournal.com]

I went river rafting this weekend and it was about 95 degrees. Way too hot I thought, until I thought of crazies like you living in a sauna. Yeesh. I wouldn't last an hour there.

[riemann-sphere.livejournal.com]

I feel ya on the heat. We were in the Smokies last week, and it was at least 10 degrees cooler and lacked the humidity AND had a nice breeze. We got home to Mobile and immediately felt the humidity. Thank goodness for working air-conditioning. Also, you're lucky to be getting those grape-sized rain drops. We're having a bit of a drought further east on the Gulf Coast, which is strange, because usually Mobile summers include a daily afternoon downpour. Ah, well, it will come.

I like the way you wrote this post, also.