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Old 08-13-2007, 02:05 PM
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Rust? I'm not driving in the ocean...
Old 08-13-2007, 02:07 PM
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When I go SD and stay on the beach everything within 1/2mile is rusted. Cars, signs, parts of houses everthing! Even low grade 400 series stainless is eaten alive. By coast I thougt you meant you lived on or near the ocean.

Surface rust is unacceptable to me though. I have a skewed prespective I guess since I grew up in AZ where nothing rusts.
Old 08-13-2007, 02:36 PM
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Yeah, that is the downside. I lived on the coast my whole life, sometimes the air is so salty everything has a nice glaze on it. I used to have to wash and wax my bike and car weekly to prevent the polished aluminum from rotting.
I moved "over the hill" into the valley 2 years ago, I cant believe how much less maintenance i have to do!
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Well, I can't say it's 108 here, but today is suppose to reach 105 degrees. It's 3 pm now, and here in Fort Worth, TX it is 103*. We don't have the dry heat AZ has or the humidity the coasts have, we have a mixture of something inbetween... I don't care who you are or where you live, anything over 100* is hot as ****...
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try 105 degrees and 90%+ humidity, that sux, especially after 8hours of working in it.

compliments of the southeast
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"Rust? I'm not driving in the ocean..."

Thats a good one! haha

This humidity from this monsoon crap is getting annoying too! It's all good though. Only a month or two and the weather will get back to somewhat normal. Of course then I go back up to prescott for school, then I get to deal with the altitude and making my truck slow lol. It never ends. It's all good though, I love Arizona...and my truck
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Originally Posted by nightrunner
try 105 degrees and 90%+ humidity, that sux, especially after 8hours of working in it.

compliments of the southeast
thats how it is in OK, i have been drininking up to 1.5+ gallons of water at my work. 105 for the next 3 days
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I don't know why people think we don't get humidity here in AZ. From end of June/early July to the rest of the summer, we get Monsoons. The weather the rest of the country is experiencing is what happens here for at least 2 months EVERY summer. Suck it up and deal with it. After the monsoons, it's just plain hot. Phoenix is the worst though, its at a lower elevation and there's concrete and asphalt everywhere that never cools off. On a +100* day we'll at least get down to low 80's at night.

"Yeah but it's a dry heat." If some one ever says that to me again, I'm going to tell them to go **** themselves and spend a week here working outside.
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I live about 6 miles from the actual ocean. Salt isn't really an issue. There is a mountain between me and the ocean as well so the fog rarely comes in. It's like living in a normal city, but it stays cool.
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Originally Posted by Vanillagorilla
"Yeah but it's a dry heat." If some one ever says that to me again, I'm going to tell them to go **** themselves and spend a week here working outside.
Hahaha that's so true. I dont know vanilla if tucson got it last night but right in the middle of Phx where I am, it was brutal thunder and lightning. It woke me up and I am a heavy sleeper. It poured and flooded the streets in 3 minutes. I think it's supposed to do that again tonight or something. You know you're close to lightning when you hear the thunder and see the entire bolt in front of you at the same time!
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