Rattlesnakes and gators...100 degree heat with 95% humidity...ticks...mosquitoes big enough to drain you dry...you gotta wonder why people ever decided to settle some places in the deep South! ;o)
(I'm dead serious. There was an article in American Heritage magazine that proposed that theory!)
When my father was young (he grew up in Rome, GA, which is in the foothills of the mountains and quite bearable compared to down here on the GA coast) the entire town cleared out in the summer and went to the mountains. His family had a cottage in Monteagle TN and they just stayed there until fall.
No wonder nothing got done!
We had quite a few thunderstorms yesterday and last night. The rain was sorely needed. Very hot and humid though.