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[ThatPlace928]

I hate the cold, even though I was born and raised in a country town in northern NSW. Winter temps there were always around zero deg C to minus 12~18 deg C. The record there was 94 days in-a-row of below zero.

Since I've moved to Adelaide temps in winter are around 4 deg c to 20 deg c.

Summer in Adelaide is a very different story though.

Sounds like Adelaide might be nice to visit but I could never live there. Brrrrrrrrrr......... When I lived in Kentucky, I left in January. It was just too much for me, the constant cold. I'm a warm weather person that doesn't mind the higher AZ temps, as long as I can get out of it once in awhile.

 

[ThatPlace928]

I embrace the cold, hate the heat. There is only a certain number of clothing that one can remove until arrested.

Shorts, tank tops, flip flops and a pony tail holder or two for me, even in Spring and Fall......... Winters in Bullhead do get chilly in the mornings, though. I live right at the river and the water makes it colder in Winter than it is a little bit inland. By the same token, there's more humidity where I'm at in Summer than inland.

 

[britechguy]

There is only a certain number of clothing that one can remove until arrested.

While I agree, entirely, and have said this myself, conversely, there is only so much you can layer on before any form of natural movement becomes well nigh impossible. I've been in that kind of extreme cold, too.

Extremes of almost any kind are a PITA to deal with.

 

[NETWizz]

I actually drove through Arizona in my 2013 Infiniti G37; specifically, I-10 East from New Mexico all the way through Arizona into California.

This was taken Friday July 14th near New Hope, AZ at 2:22 PM Mountain Standard Time (because Arizona also doesn't participate in Daylight-Savings-Time, so in the summer they are on California time and the Winter New Mexico time...)

I had at or about 5 gallons of fuel in the tank (25%) but decided to get gasoline because I wasn't going to risk the fuel pump not being fully submerged in this heat. It was the craziest heat I EVER experienced. It's like a blow dryer outside. The moment you get out of the car you realize the ground is hot enough to cook meat and the outdoor air should dry clothes on an outdoor line in probably 5 minutes.

 

[ThatPlace928]

I actually drove through Arizona in my 2013 Infiniti G37; specifically, I-10 East from New Mexico all the way through Arizona into California.

This was taken Friday July 14th near New Hope, AZ at 2:22 PM Mountain Standard Time (because Arizona also doesn't participate in Daylight-Savings-Time, so in the summer they are on California time and the Winter New Mexico time...)

I had at or about 5 gallons of fuel in the tank (25%) but decided to get gasoline because I wasn't going to risk the fuel pump not being fully submerged in this heat. It was the craziest heat I EVER experienced. It's like a blow dryer outside. The moment you get out of the car you realize the ground is hot enough to cook meat and the outdoor air should dry clothes on an outdoor line in probably 5 minutes.

Arizona's heat is definitely not for the faint of heart. When I lived in California, I've visited Laughlin [just across the river from Bullhead], when it was recorded at 126 degrees and the concrete in front of the casinos radiates heat up to about 160-170+ degrees. Even a short walk from the parking structure can leave you gasping for air and makes your legs feel like jelly.

Bullhead has a really bad homeless problem and there are not enough shelters or cooling stations. Instead of them going down to the river where they can cool off as needed, they prefer to stay inland under the trees. And they are dropping like flies, suffering heat stroke and death.

Mohave County has a lot of beautiful hiking trails, as does southern Arizona and Las Vegas. People don't hydrate, because they underestimate how early it gets into the high temps. Search and rescue are constantly out there. If they would hike at first light, just before 5 am, and get back by 9 am at the latest, there wouldn't be so many people falling out. Even experienced hikers are suffering this year more than ever.

When it was 122 degrees Saturday before last, it was 127 degrees in my car. I don't have a/c but I'm only about 8 minutes from the shop, 10 minutes in heavier traffic. By the time I get home, I've already begun to feel it.

 

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Staring right out into one's own safe space so one does not implode...

 

[HCHTech]

Hahaha. I had one of these the other day, and I just ad-libbed "Ok, well, I'm going to do a special reboot now - that sometimes fixes things." Followed by opening a command prompt and typing shutdown.exe /r. "Ooh, I like that!" they exclaimed. "Can you show me how to do that?" I put a desktop icon with the command in it. They thanked me profusely. Oh, and the reboot fixed the problem.

 

[britechguy]

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Precisely why people "love it so," particularly for things like their Starbucks and Kroger accounts (random faked examples, but it's shocking just how many places are requiring MFA on stuff that doesn't really need it).

It, like encryption, should be applied on a thoughful and "as needed" basis.

 

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