Super User Raul Posted August 28, 2007 Super User Posted August 28, 2007 A Diary Review: Moving South, 2007 May 30, 2007 : Just moved to Nashville, Tennessee from Chicago, Illinois Now, this is a city that knows how to live! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a park while lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here. June 14, 2007 : Really heating up. Got to 100 degrees today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper. June 30, 2007: Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. The yard is a breeze to maintain! No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love living in Nashville. July 10, 2007 : The temperature hasn't been below 100 degrees all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy, but getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected. July 15, 2007: Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.) Missed 3 days of work What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson, though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this. July 20, 2007: Morgan (our cat) sneaked into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2,000 leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and shi**. I learned my lesson, though. No more pets in this heat. July 25, 2007: The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer! And it's hot as hell! The home air-conditioner is on the fritz, and the AC repairman charged $200 just to dri ve by and tell me he needed to order the parts. July 30, 2007: Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. The monthly house payment is $1,500 and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here? August 5, 2007: It's 105 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today for a cost of $900. The temperature gets down to 78 degrees, but this freaking humidity makes the house feel like it's about 95 degrees. I hate this stupid city. August 8, 2007: If another wise *** person cracks, "Hot enough for you today?ââ'¬ I'm going to strangle him. **** heat. By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat! August 9, 2007: Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought I disagree was on fire. I lost two layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ***. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ***, and baked cat. August 10, 2007: The weather report might as well be a **** recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do anything for two **** months, and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this **** desert? Water rationing will be next, so I might as well watch $1,700 worth of cactus just dry up and blow into the **** pool. Not even cactus can live in this **** heat. August 14, 2007: Welcome to HELL!!! The temperature got to 105 degrees today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the **** windshield out of the car . The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $1,500 house payment to bail me out of jail. And he didn 't say anything about the food. Quote
frogtog Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Dam that was good, welcome to the south. ;D Quote
Super User grimlin Posted August 28, 2007 Super User Posted August 28, 2007 Dude i'm laughing hard over here.That's great! Quote
Super User Raul Posted August 28, 2007 Author Super User Posted August 28, 2007 However let 's make a warning on this subject, the southest you move south the earlier it begins and the later it ends, for me it begins around March the 1st and ends by October 31st. Btw, today the temps are chilly down here, in the vecinity of the lower 90 's, it 's cloudy and most probably it 's going to rain, which is rather normal considering it 's the hurricane season, no you know why I have to mow the lawn twice a week or it turns into a jungle in a couple of weeks, I don 't want my kids to get lost there. Quote
Super User roadwarrior Posted August 28, 2007 Super User Posted August 28, 2007 Nothing has changed, but by Friday the temperatures are forcast to plunge into the mid-90's. Last Satuday it rained enough to bring my three month total up to nearly 2". :-? We are currently 22" below average for the year! Autumn is 24 days away. ;D ;D Quote
Super User Raul Posted August 28, 2007 Author Super User Posted August 28, 2007 Nothing has changed, but by Friday the temperatures are forcast to plunge into the mid-90's. Really, man better get them sweaters on, you don 't want to ketch pneumonia or sumthin. ;D Quote
Super User burleytog Posted August 28, 2007 Super User Posted August 28, 2007 Cacti in Nashville? :-? Quote
Super User Hookemdown. Posted August 28, 2007 Super User Posted August 28, 2007 We havn't had rain in what seems like months. SERIOUSLY. We can't even get a T-storm to pop up. Haven't mowed our yard in 4 weeks Everything is dead except the cacti Quote
skillet Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 The whole time I sat reading that I was thinking, if I moved to where Raul lives I would probably be keeping pretty much the same diary. Then get to the part about the weather in his neck of the woods and it's NICER than the weather here ;D... As Ever, skillet Quote
michbass Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 You guys in the south are lucky. It is starting to get cold here at night and soon it will be in the day. Someday I will be in the mid-south : Would love to live somewhere I can fish year round. I don't mind the cold but the snow and the ice stink. Quote
BassHunter69 Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 welcome to the south buddy wanna go fishing? ;D Quote
bassboy1 Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 The real great thing is to be fishing, when all of yall are griping about waiting for ice out, and organizing, and reorganizing your tackle. Then, our spring spawn is before yalls ice out. ;D Plus, I love the heat. Much below 80 is chilly, below 65 is real nippy, and below 50 is downright freezing. I hate the cold. These frigid Georgia winters are killers. Quote
BassHunter69 Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 awwwwww naw its not lmao i was raised in illinios thats cold comparing to here in alabama ;D ;D ;D Quote
fish-fighting-illini Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 Raul, Been meaning to ask you but never got around to it you bio vs this post has me confused. You info says GTO LEON mexico but Chicago? Nashville? Quote
Super User Raul Posted November 28, 2007 Author Super User Posted November 28, 2007 That 's what heppens when you move from Chicago to Nashville, in my case ........ you really don 't wanna move from Chicago to where I live. ;D Quote
fish-fighting-illini Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 That 's what heppens when you move from Chicago to Nashville, in my case ........ you really don 't wanna move from Chicago to where I live. ;D I figured that if you were from Mexico at one point that Nashville heat would be no big deal. Fig'd Chicago cold would be the problem Quote
Super User Tin Posted November 29, 2007 Super User Posted November 29, 2007 I'll take 105 over -15 with a windchill ANYDAY! Just a few more years, and I'm out of RI Quote
bassdocktor Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 Right now you don't wanna be in Chicago. I see ice almost every morning now. Probably won't be long till it sticks arund all day. It's even tried to snow. bassdocktor Quote
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