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People said that it gets hot here.<\/p>\n
I thought that I understood hot. “I’ve lived in hot places before”, I said to myself.<\/p>\n
Sure, Sacramento gets pretty warm in the summer. Maybe one or two weeks of 100+ weather in August.<\/p>\n
But never have I experienced anything like this.<\/p>\n
In January, we had snow one week and 70 degree weather the next. By February it was in the 80s, March and April in the mid-90s. By May, we had our first 100 degree day, and I suspect that it has only dipped below 100 briefly a couple times since.<\/p>\n
The house AC has been running constantly, I’m scared to open the power bill every month, the lawn is dead (we’ve had just over 4 inches of rain so far this year), and I pretty much hide indoors anytime before midnight.<\/p>\n
I guess the good thing is that unlike last August, when we first moved to Austin, the temps have been dipping down into the 70s at night. I remember when we first moved here, it was 100+ during the day and 95 at night.<\/p>\n
That was rough.<\/p>\n
Amusingly, when it’s this hot for this long, you do sort of get used to it. Kylie and I have gone out a few times lately and said to each other “wow, it’s nice out tonight”, then checked the weather:<\/p>\n
95 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
People said that it gets hot here. I thought that I understood hot. “I’ve lived in hot places before”, I said to myself. Sure, Sacramento gets pretty warm in the summer. Maybe one or two weeks of 100+ weather in August. But never have I experienced anything like this. In January, we had snow one … Continue reading I was not prepared for this.<\/span>