Intense humidity is turning NYC into a swampy hellscape

NY Post ^ | August 5, 2018 | Tamar Lapin

[Sans-Culotte]

It’s been in the 90s and 100s all summer here in San Antonio except for a day or two of rain. C’mon Yankees, toughen up. And don’t be thinking of coming to Texas. We don’t want ya.

Same here in Houston. And summer lasts from May and goes into at least October. Maybe NYC isn't as air-conditioned as we are? I remember visiting relatives who used to live in the Bay area, and they did not bother installing A/C's in their cars. Can't imagine doing that.

[butlerweave]

The Mayor should turn on the Dehumidifier

[dead]

I’m in Manhattan right now. Ferry in was beautiful, but it’s getting hot and sticky. The city is very clean, no smell of garbage. And I’ve never seen human excrement on the street, ever. Lots of annoying liberals and con men targeting tourists, but otherwise little crime. Air conditioning solves the heat problem nicely.

[onedoug]

OMG! This has never happened in NY before! There goes that populace.

[HotHunt]

".... NYC Florida sucks in the summer. Hot, humid, and odor from garbage the dairy cows next door...."

Poor New York City. Welcome to my world in rural Florida, you bunch of whiney commie liberals.

[xrmusn]

There’ll be highs in the 90s on Monday and Tuesday
That’s a cold front around here.
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REMEMBER

Don’t confuse a Canadian low with a Mexican High.

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dark this evening, darker in middle of night, lighter in morning

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George Carlin, The Hippy Dippy Weather Man

Why do they lock gas station restrooms?
Are they afraid someone will go in and clean it?

I had a friend that was (supposedly) of Mexican heritage and he said the last words of advice when they left Mexico were:

“Pay attention, obey the laws and do what you are told”

the trip to Virginia took 6 months because every time they passed a gas station they had to get out of the car, get the mops and buckets etc etc etc

(Gas station USED to advertise’Clean RestRooms’, so THEY ‘cleaned the rest room’)

[Afterguard]

Swampy hellscape?! Here in NE Florida we call that beach weather. (Come to think of it, I’m gonna take a dip in the pool.)

[heterosupremacist]

AccuDan Pydynowski, "hellscape"? Really??

[C19fan]

Going off topic. How are the beaches up there? We are going to FL in two weeks and my wife is freaking out over the Red tide and algae blooms. From what I have read the red tide is Sarasota and south on the Gulf coast and the recent algae blooms are south of Vero Beach.

[Afterguard]

We’re getting a bit of algae bloom (not red tide) in the St. Johns and Doctors Lake, but the beaches are clear, or at least I haven’t heard anything about it on the news. Sounds like the Gulf coast has the worst of it. We’re planning to head to Little Talbot Island Beach later this week. If I can find the thread I’ll report back.

[ClearBlueSky]

Boo hoo! That’s daily life for MONTHS in the deep South. New York and other Yankee states will have cool fall, winter, snow and ice. Our AC’s will still be running on Thanksgiving! Poor babies- go to fewer Broadway shows and buy a window AC. Come Thanksgiving lets trade homes- you can experience real, prolonged misery when your turkey is baking while you sweat watching the Macy’s parade.

[montag813]

Was there last week. the ENTIRE city STINKS of PEE. Horrible, and it was only 87 degrees.

[SamAdams76]

It’s been in the 90s and 100s all summer here in San Antonio except for a day or two of rain. C’mon Yankees, toughen up. And don’t be thinking of coming to Texas. We don’t want ya.

Not every Yankee is a limp-wristed liberal and considering the way you are letting the Mexicans come over your border, you might someday wish that a few more of us came down there to help keep the state red (and American).

Also, not all Texans are rough-and-tough hardbitten rock-solid conservatives as you seem to imply. Ever been to Austin? They are well on their way to becoming the Portland Oregon of Texas if you know what I mean. So maybe you should get your own house in order instead of casting stones elsewhere.

[SamAdams76]

The Northeast, while cool or cold most of the year, does get some hot and muggy weather during the summer. This is normal for August. Lived here most of my life and I can't remember one August where we did not have at least one period of intense heat and humidity.

I actually like this weather. Probably because it's a once-a-year novelty. It does change your routine. I bring a change of clothes to work so I can change into shorts and sandals before going home. When the sun sets, I like to sit out on my patio with a pitcher of homemade margaritas and listen to the crickets for a while (mosquitoes are mostly gone by August) and then go for a walk around the neighborhood. Then I go into the air-conditioned house and it feels heavenly.

It does get very smelly in the big cities however, especially New York City. Sometimes the rank smell takes your breath away. Down in the subways is even worse! I would rather walk across town on a hot day than to go down into the subways.

During the summer of 1979, when I was still a teenager, I had a job at a restaurant at Logan Airport and it was my job to take the garbage into the elevator and toss it into the dumpster. Sometimes one of those bags would break before it got into the dumpster and it would be my job to clean up the mess. I'll never forget that experience of dry-heaving and gagging while picking up rotting garbage with a shovel and dustpan out on the Logan tarmac with a hundred thousand flies buzzing around me.

[jmacusa]

Worked many summer in NYC. It’s awful. The subways stink of urine from one end to another.

[catnipman]

it makes sense ... it was never humid in NYT in August umtil Trump started climate change ...