• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    My work is indoors. Next to ovens that were last built roughly in the 1960s, that shed heat like motherfuckers. In a grocery store that refuses to turn on any form of AC. In the American South.

    The air is hot water. It rains, and you just get more wet. They make up new ways to measure the humidity here. You can swing an empty cup through the air and have it come back full. You can keep varieties of tropical plant with little difficulty.

    There is no fucking escape here. Simply Damp Hell.

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      Louisiana?

      I’m from down that way and my mom still lives there. I remember getting off the plane once when I flew back down to visit her, and the wall of watery air hit me so bad I couldn’t breathe for a second cause my brain stem thought I was drowning.

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        Georgia. We get the break that our land isn’t also 90% waterlogged, but that doesn’t stop the air from hitting 100% and the temps from pushing into the 90s-100s.

        I know that exact feeling. I spent most of my life in West Virginia until coming down here to GA. We would get humid, I thought I could handle it. The moment summer even thought about rolling in, I was ready to get an oxygen tank.

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      Trapped indoor heat with no ventilation is legitimately hell, I’m so sorry.

      I worked 2 months in a place kind of like that and noped out the second the contract was up. It doesn’t get better working at night, either.

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    3 days ago

    After March until October, between the hours of 11am and 2pm, if the sky is clear, and I step outside

    I burst into flames. Because apparently the amount of melanin in my skin qualifies me as a vampire.

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    Got a high temp of 46°F here in Minnesota today, the thunderstorms brought in a cold snap. I don’t miss the Florida swamp ass at all.