I hate NYC humidity!

[hrmjustin]

[NYC_SKP]

1. It's epic.

One year I finally broke down and installed a little window AC for my 360 SF apartment on East Houston.

On some days there's no relief.

[hrmjustin]

3. It is supposed to get better Tuesday.

[Billy Love]

7. And I'm leaving that day...

back to good ol' home - where the buffalo (or more accurately, the bison) roams and the air is dry.

But lately it has been humid over there, but not as bad as here.

[hrmjustin]

10. Where is home?

[tridim]

2. I did too. It makes the urine smell, urninier.

[hrmjustin]

4. I hate that as well. I got 5 cats so I go through even more liter in the summer.

[NYC_SKP]

5. You can see the humidity in the air and yes, the subway smell reaches further than usual.

No smell quite like that combination of ionized air from the third rail and human waste in the humidity.

[hrmjustin]

23. Humidity seems worse today.

[NYC_SKP]

24. On bad days, you can see the air and the colors of things changes, less bright, more grey/brown.

My first step into Manhattan back in July 1979 was one of those days, I can remember the smell, sound, and sight like it was yesterday.

The constant 360 degree din of car horns, near and far, mixed in with thousands of other sounds, the spectrum of smells that changed with every few steps, and the vistas of tall buildings lined up like soldiers on Sixth Avenue, taller than anything on the West coast at that time and far greater in number, and all the familiar landmarks scattered about, stuff only seen in magazines or on television, all made for an unforgettable and rich first day in the big city.

Additional dramatic impact was provided by the fact that on that day there was a series of bank robberies.

How exciting, and the newspapers on racks, Daily New and the Post, provided updated numbers: "Second bank robbed"; "Six"; "Ten banks"; I lost count.

It turned out that 14 banks were robbed that day.

I loved it!

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19790821&id=4e4uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ATMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4021,3373184

[hrmjustin]

25. Do you still love in NY?

[NYC_SKP]

28. I haven't been there since 1996 and I don't think I'd like it as much.

My time there, 1979-1987, was mostly before the full gentrification and Disnification of the place.

The subway cars were filled with graffiti and Times Square was dirty and interesting.

You learned lessons by throwing away $100 on three card monte and buying nickle bags of herb from strangers.

You could get an apartment for under $300 if you didn't mind living on Houston and Avenue B.

But you still might run into DeNiro or Paul Newman and it would just be an ordinary day.

I don't think I'd like what it's become under Bloomberg, but he didn't start it.

I'm due a visit back, it's been too long.

[hrmjustin]

29. I was born in 1978 and I remember Manhattan as a kid and teen being magical.

It has lost it's magic.

[Billy Love]

6. Man. The day was so humid as heck....

I went to Governor's Island to visit a festival there (Not the Electric Zoo - that's in Randall Island, and I heard it got cancelled becaue of the two deaths)

Even before we got on the ferry, the ferry service got suspended for almost an hour due to police investigation in Governor's Island (don't know what it was all about)

I got out of the island in less than an hour and back to mainland and looking for a nearest AC.. and it STILL wasn't enough.

Now I need a long shower...

[hrmjustin]

8. Well Tuesday it will get better but tomorrow will be very humid and rainy.

[Billy Love]

9. Yuck.

And we're planning a trip to Manhattan, but I hope we won't stay there too long.

[hrmjustin]

11. It might not be that bad. Don't cancel anything.

[hrmjustin]

21. Hope the trip is going well. Rain seems to be holding off.

[cilla4progress]

12. Ahhh...

eastern Washington (state) where the politics are red, but the air is dry. Yes, it gets hot here, but it's a dry heat...

I grew up in the mid-Atlantic states. I recall sitting in algebra class in high school - just sitting there --and sweating. Maybe that's when I knew I needed to head out.

We'd love to have more progressives here!

[hrmjustin]

13. Do you live in a desert area?

[cilla4progress]

19. Technical name is "shrub steppe"

Sparser, piney woods. Something like you see in old Westerns, but not total scrub. I'm on the east slope of the Cascade Mtn. range. Columbia River runs nearby. I''m in a river valley of one of its tributaries. Our property borders on national forest. Really lovely here! We do have wildfires to be mindful of!

[hrmjustin]

20. Sounds wonderful!

I sometimes wish I could live in rural country.

[gopiscrap]

14. It's really bad in Tacoma, Washington right now also

but the worse I have ever felt was when I was teaching in Honk Kong about 85 degrees with 90% humidity, you would touch the walls and your hand would be wet...we changed clothes about 3 times a day.

[hrmjustin]

15. I had a friend who lived in Bermuda and he said the Humidity was murder on his house.

[gopiscrap]

16. yeah we were told not to bring books over they would be ruined

[hrmjustin]

17. I would hate that type of humidity.

I remember going to Palm Springs CA and it was wonderful, but as we drove toward LA the humidity was horrid.

[customerserviceguy]

18. I worked in Tacoma, WA for years

I cannot possibly imagine that the humidity there has EVER been what we routinely experience here. What my mother calls "humid" (in the Portland, OR area), I call OK to pleasant.

[hrmjustin]

22. LA humidity has to be the worst.

[TexasTowelie]

26. Then you don't want to get anywhere near Houston.

Hot, humid and petrochemicals in the air.

[hrmjustin]

27. I imagine the asthma levels are very high there.

[BeyondGeography]

30. Yeah; it's like the tropics with no palm trees

And one of the biggest reasons why autumn in New York is so loved.

[hrmjustin]

31. I love Autumn! The trees changing color and election season in the air.

I can breath again because my Asthma is not as bad.

[BeyondGeography]

32. Been thinking about it all weekend

I will be ready for it, too.

[hrmjustin]

33. I heard it is supposed to be better tomorrow.

I hope so because this is killing me with my asthma. Usually my Asthma is not that bad but today it is.

[kestrel91316]

34. It's been just ghastly in Los Angeles for a while, too.

Today is improved considerably at only 95F and 65% humidity.

[hrmjustin]

35. LA has to be the worst spot in the country for humidity.

[kestrel91316]

36. This is Los Angeles, lol, but our famous "dry heat" is in pretty short supply

in recent years.

If I'd wanted this, I would have chosen to live in FL or the "other" LA or TX. We aren't used to swamplike conditions.

[hrmjustin]

37. Yeah everytime I go to LA it seems worse then the last time.

[kestrel91316]

38. It's supposed to be up over 100 all this week, but the humidity is going to drop below 40% finally.

Normally it's 5-10% this time of year.......

Actually, it is still going to be 40-60% at night (and temps in the 70s) so even that isn't going to be nice.

[hrmjustin]

39. That sounds horrible. My sympathies to you.

[hrmjustin]

40. Not as bad but still humid.