Hot, hot, hot.

[alexandraerin]

At some point in the not-too-distant point, I found myself comparing the temperatures in Hagerstown, MD to the temperatures in Omaha, NE, and found that while Omaha tended to be slightly more extreme... a few degrees hotter in the summer, a few degrees cooler in the winter... they weren't all that different.

Of course, temperature is only part of the story. This past winter, pictures from Omaha and other parts of the great plains region were being used as the face of the snowpocalypse on national news sites. And the summer? Well, today I checked the weather conditions in both Omaha and Hagerstown. Omaha: 95 degrees. Hagerstown: 93 degrees. Not that different, right? Hagerstown heat index: 96 degrees. Omaha heat index: 111 degrees That's 1-1-1. Three ones.

When the effective temperature can also double as a pretty good poker hand, something's seriously wrong.

Comments

[gamingdragon.livejournal.com]

And to make it even better lexy today about 6 pm sebetha had a power shortage the lights barley came on and no air or fans for about a hour and a half which I spent in a tub of cold water btw

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

People live in this place by choice????
Was the climate different when it was founded, or something?

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was much different.

When Nebraska was first surveyed, it was a desert.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm lost. They had an enormous empty continent to choose from. Why did they choose to live in a desert? Is there a diamond mine there, or something? Off to Wikipedia.... ah, only crossing point on a major river. That would do it. Though if you've got unbearably hot desert both sides.... why bother? Why go there at all?

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

"Manifest Destiny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny)".

[moofable.livejournal.com]

Omaha is both the hottest and coldest part of hell.

[baroque-n-roll.livejournal.com]

That's 1-1-1. Three ones.

And that's terrible.

[moofable.livejournal.com]

Oh Amerikai.

[gamingdragon.livejournal.com]

the government was giving land away to anyone desperate enough to want it ( as lexy said Manifest Destiny) and alot of people who settled in the medwest were from colder climbs so the heat sounded good at the time

[stormcaller3801.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. The true history of the world, summed up in six words:

It sounded good at the time.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks. I thought it sounded like insanity. This is a specific form of insanity I hadn't heard of before.