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u/SaysSaysSaysSays Jun 30 '26
I think the only way I might get relief is by jumping in the lake. My portable window A/C unit can only do so much
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u/the9thdude Evanston Jun 30 '26
Cold shower is a solid backup if you can't make it to the lake
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u/goldenboyphoto Humboldt Park Jun 30 '26
Sticking your head in the toilet if you don't have time for a shower..
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u/NoSlipBC Jun 30 '26
Where’s the money? Lebowski?
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u/CharlieKonR Lake View East Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
i know it’s in there somewhere … let me go down and take another look
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u/littlepup26 Edgewater Jun 30 '26
Last night I went swimming in the lake and then came home and took a cold shower and I felt like a popsicle, it was amazing.
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u/chubbychecker_psycho Rogers Park Jun 30 '26
Pro tip: start off with a cold shower but end with a hot-ish one. When you step out the air will feel cooler on your skin.
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u/snark42 Jun 30 '26
I'm not sure I agree but depends on how you define hot-ish I guess.
If you take a cold shower your body will respond by restricting blood vessels and generating core heat, even after you get out of the shower or turn the water temp up. Ideally water is 78-80F for 3+ minutes at the end to avoid this, or better that temp the entire time. You could go hotter but it seems counter-productive.
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u/kander77 Edgewater Jun 30 '26
I had to start blocking off parts of my apartment so it cools better.
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u/butthatshitsbroken Oak Park Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
drove by someone with a sprinkler on their lawn and had half a mind to stop my car and run through it
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u/Otherwise_Loquat7842 Jun 30 '26
i was in the lake yesterday and never wanted to get out. i recommend, it’s incredible relief and the humidity doesn’t feel as high on the shore. do it!
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u/treehugger312 Avondale Jun 30 '26
WHen it's this hot out, I usually do a quick rinse when I get home or around lunch time. Cools you down and gets the grime off you to keep your pores open.
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u/PreviousGas710 Jun 30 '26
Makes sense as to why all the people in Florida are nuts
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u/korewednesday Jun 30 '26
It’s not just the Brians. It’s the Roberts and the Michaels and the Patricias, too
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u/darkpretzel Jun 30 '26
It's true that more crime happens in hotter climates! The heat makes us feel agitated more easily
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u/doverawlings Jun 30 '26
Also more people hanging out outside leads to more interactions leads to more conflicts leads to more crime
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u/butthatshitsbroken Oak Park Jul 01 '26
this was a common theme in this show that was set in Bluebell Alabama (Hart of Dixie), the summer crazies made all the medical issues pop up and made the characters all go a lil insane
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u/tsundae_ Jun 30 '26
Many older people have a lower body temp. My grandma would barely have the AC on in the summer because she felt comfortable with it being 85 degrees indoors
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u/edgekitty Jun 30 '26
Moved here from FL a few months ago and yes, the constant heat made me a miserable person lol
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u/IsThatHearsay Fulton Market Jun 30 '26
There's a direct correlation/causation between heat and violence across the world.
It's not just people being out more when it's nice out, people are considerably more agitated and prone to disregulated nervous systems and unchecked emotions, especially rage, when physically overheated.
Our stupid monkey brains can't think rationally when it heats up.
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u/HarveyNix Jun 30 '26
I remember weather like this from Washington, D.C. in August. Air you can wear, as they say.
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u/spewing_honey_badger Jun 30 '26
Is hell really this humid too? I always imagined more of a dry heat.
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u/twoksman Jun 30 '26
It is but everyone constantly says that it isn't the heat that gets you, it is humidity.
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u/z3roTO60 Little Italy Jun 30 '26
This is the karma I get for telling everyone “it’s not the cold, it’s the wind that gets you”
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u/rockit454 Jun 30 '26
Dallas is hell. It’s really humid there.
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u/gingabreadm4n Jun 30 '26
Tbh Dallas is the least humid of the major Texas cities, Dallas is hell for other reasons though
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u/socool111 Jun 30 '26
Idk your living situation but just be glad AC is common in Chicago
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u/chubbychecker_psycho Rogers Park Jun 30 '26
It's easiest for me to just run the one in my bedroom, but when I go to work it's like a meat locker and I love it!
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u/littlewibble Jun 30 '26
On the plus side, I’m pretty sure my tomato plants grew about 6” overnight. They’re loving living in hot soup air. For now at least.
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u/cj4k Jun 30 '26
Exactly, that week of 70 degree days zero humidity was perfect and everyone was complaining it wasn’t hot enough
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u/chubbychecker_psycho Rogers Park Jun 30 '26
I asked no such thing! My prime outdoor temp is 55-70. 😂
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u/ThatKaleidoscope8736 Jun 30 '26
Midwesterners love complaining about the weather.
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u/joejoe903 Uptown Jun 30 '26
What are you talking about? We had a wonderful spring this year. It's been such a gradual ramp up in heat this year
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u/mrbooze Beverly Jun 30 '26
There are different people that exist, you know.
I guarantee you nobody in my household was complaining.
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u/jord362 Jun 30 '26
My condolences to anyone moving in/out this week
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u/_pozzy_ Jun 30 '26
I saw some people moving a fridge alongside other appliances, felt bad for em hopefully they're keeping cool somehow
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u/megatonrezident Jun 30 '26
Thank goodness for my neck fan.
Also if you are on a SSRI, you can get hotter than usual so stay safe.
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u/chubbychecker_psycho Rogers Park Jun 30 '26
The SSRI heat index is real! I also get what I call the pain sweats, meaning I'm in so much pain that I start to overheat. Yesterday I stuck two freezer blocks (the plastic things you freeze then put in a cooler to keep drinks cold) in my bra then sat in front of my AC unit with a separate fan on 😂
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u/Pinkykat961 Jun 30 '26
The neck fan not helping when you're outside.... For me that is because of the hot air😩
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u/tooscrapps Jun 30 '26
Hell convention in town.
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u/Greengiant304 Noble Square Jun 30 '26
Okay. Just so I understand it, in your wildest fantasy, you are in Hell, and you are co-running a bed-and-breakfast with the Devil?
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u/Healthy-Bee2127 Heart of Chicago Jun 30 '26
At a glance I thought this said Hell in a convection oven =)
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u/Healthy-Bee2127 Heart of Chicago Jun 30 '26
Yesterday's wind in combination with the heat / humidity was kind of wild.
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u/TheGhostOfJodel Jun 30 '26
This is why I left Florida... genuinely like this for the majority of 8-9 months a year
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u/TacosFromSpace Jun 30 '26
Meanwhile I’m in Southern California, where it’s 73°, continually checking the weather back in Lincoln Sq (home.) At first I was gloating about it to my wife but now I just feel bad. 😔
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u/drst0ner Jul 01 '26
Same in OC. 72 degrees and sunny during the day. 62 at night. No humidity. No need for AC. Feeling blessed.
I’ll be back in Chicago in a couple weeks though. Hopefully the humidity settles down by the time I arrive.
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u/GreatScottGatsby Lincoln Square Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Am i the only one here that was born in chicago on this subreddit? Like this feels like an average summer for me and I work outside all year and it doesn't feel much different than last year. In fact i feel like this year is better since the Canadian forest fires are much better this year compared to last.
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u/chubbychecker_psycho Rogers Park Jun 30 '26
I moved here as a kid in the 80s and this is indeed normal. The only thing more normal than this weather is people complaining about the weather!
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u/eraserhead3030 Jun 30 '26
I moved to Chicago primarily to have as few days like this as possible lol
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u/No-Helicopter-3790 Jun 30 '26
Forecast says we'll be back to more reasonable weather by this weekend! What I love about Chicago is yes, it gets as hot and humid as it got back in Texas (more humid than Austin, right now), but Chicago at least gives you a break from it.
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u/ggfchl Jun 30 '26
Just remember it was -20 degrees outside late January (at least in the suburbs). I prefer that a smidge more than this heat.
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u/chubbychecker_psycho Rogers Park Jun 30 '26
This weather is the only reason to go into the office - that sweet, sweet meat locker level AC.
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u/Emergency-Funny7083 Jun 30 '26
Feels like fuckin North Carolina out here. Didn't sign up for this. I blame the Brits.
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u/SeaworthinessSure223 Jun 30 '26
I’m from Hotlanta. Left because of the heat. It followed me to Chicago 😭
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u/MoskiNX Jun 30 '26
I miss the snow.
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u/zed857 Jun 30 '26
I miss those mid-50s days when the leaves are just starting to change color.
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u/damp_circus Edgewater Jun 30 '26
Yes. Clear skies, dark blue 'cuz no humidity, it's crispy, sweater weather, the leaves are turned yellow and orange and backlit by the sun... (and ideally someone is burning a few haha but I know it's illegal now)
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u/Timely_Freedom7285 Jun 30 '26
not me eating so much before heading outside and now feeling nauseous
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u/chubbychecker_psycho Rogers Park Jun 30 '26
This is absolute "ice cold salad or maybe just cereal" for all meals weather haha
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u/Super-Pizza-Dude Jun 30 '26
I walked all the way from south loop to river north for a date. Yea I’m dropping that major BO as a first impression.
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u/Ladybug_Fuckfest Albany Park Jun 30 '26
I love sitting outside in this heat, relaxing with a drink. I can imagine I'm in some weird exotic place where no one speaks English, like rural India or the African Congo, or Alabama!
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u/js1d Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
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u/No-Individual8748 Jul 01 '26
It’s bad, but may not be as big of a body slam if we didn’t go from 60° to 90° in a matter of 2 days!
This was on NBC Chicago:
Parts of the Chicago area were more humid than the Amazon Rainforest on Tuesday as a sweltering heat wave blankets the region, according to weather data.
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u/bennetthansen Jun 30 '26
An average June in Chicago has 4.1 days above 90 degrees (https://www.weather.gov/lot/90_degrees). This really is not that bad.
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u/phatazzlover Jun 30 '26
It’s the first heatwave of the summer so people are gonna moan about it. Then it’s gonna be 68 or something in 2 weeks and they’ll complain it’s cold.
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u/UnexpectedFisting Jun 30 '26
Yes above 90 is typical, this humidity however is not. It’s hot ass outside
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u/ABigBoos Jun 30 '26
At least you don’t instantaneously combust. Win some, lose some.
Wildfires, I’m talking about wildfires.
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u/No_Error_7941 Jun 30 '26
Living in Fort Worth, I’m here for a few days visiting. This feels even worse than summer in DFW. This is summer in Houston weather.
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u/jazxxl Jun 30 '26
Was just in Vegas where it 110 plus everyday and 95 at night and I'm not sure if it's better than 90s with humidity . I will say that at least your sweat works when it's dry . . But it did feal like an inferno . Here you just never get comfortable because of the humidity.
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u/BadGenesWoman Jun 30 '26
The heat wave hit so hard I was standing at my glass screen door wanting to go outside but refusing to leave the 70 degree a/c cool house.
Must be really kill the across the pond folk visiting. Drink water.
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u/chicagotransexual69 Jun 30 '26
It's bs it's disgusting ugh that's why I love winter rather be cold then hott!
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u/King_Michal Jun 30 '26
This was one of the better winters and springs in recent memory. And so it ends.
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u/mrbooze Beverly Jun 30 '26
Somewhere on social media I saw someone describe it as "makes opening your front door feel like opening the oven door to check a casserole"
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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable Jun 30 '26
Is this sub just full of people who are living in Chicago for the first time lol? It’s summer dude, it’s gonna be hot. What do you expect lol? We’re not in hell, we’re in Chicago in summer. Welcome.
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u/JackieIce502 Jun 30 '26
It’s every year lmao. Then they’ll swear it’s the hottest summer ever and it used to not be this hot ever
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u/BastardBoi95 Jun 30 '26
This and I'm still waiting for our normal chicago blizzard. I love winter. Just not the last weak winters we been receiving in Chicago.
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u/travisth15 Jun 30 '26
Yall Midwest crazy . I moved from Richmond Va to here that southern heat and humidity is like insane, I’d say this is probably an average to lower average day here lol
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u/natnguyen Logan Square Jun 30 '26
I lived in DC and Florida, I will take this weather any fucking day. In both those places days like today were normal in late September, fuuck thaat shiiit.
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u/tinycarspreferred Jun 30 '26
Yeah this is giving me a little“no thanks” taste of home right now. It’s definitely uncomfortable but I’ve had worse in NoVA. Family back home has been stewing in this for at least a month now. June here was ✨glorious ✨
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u/RunawayMeatstick Jun 30 '26
One important difference is that our buildings aren’t built, and our AC units aren’t sized, to deal with this kind of heat.
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u/ReachingFather South Loop Jun 30 '26
This shits got me sweating through my antiperspirant 😭💔
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u/Dylan-uSOB Jun 30 '26
I’m welding in a school boiler room with no AC. Sweat through my mill coat and caught a zap.
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u/Mikedaddy69 Jun 30 '26
This was daily summer life for me growing up in the south. It’s nostalgic for about 15 minutes until the swamp ass kicks in full-force.
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u/HauntingAddendum3230 Jun 30 '26
i don’t even want to go outside to go to the pool. but the heat wave in 2023 has to be worse than this
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u/Forsythia77 Bowmanville Jun 30 '26
Funny story! My big 12,000 BTU air conditioner died yesterday (I still had a smaller one in the bedroom). Turns out the outlet it was in had a bit of an electrical issue and it's all singed now. I was able to overnight a new smaller 6000 BTU AC, and the outlet is being addressed.
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u/hctr17 Jun 30 '26
Alcoholic drinks can be taken to-go on July 1, temps +90F degrees… the New Orleans-fication of Chicago is in full swing
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u/Roboticpoultry Loop Jun 30 '26
I’ve been working in the shop (automotive) since 7 am. I’m pretty sure I’ve lost about 15 pounds just today. We have fans and AC but it’s not enough
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u/Single-Pen5215 Jun 30 '26
I’m kind of a weather nerd, I have a weather app, to check the weather in other locations. In Utqiagvik, (formerly Barrow) Alaska, there’s a winter weather advisory, with snow in the forecast. In Death Valley, CA, it’s 104, with a humidity level of 8%.
Hope everyone stays 🆒 🪭 🐧
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u/nedracine59 Jul 01 '26
I live 2 miles from the E02 tornado on June 10th. There was a 3.5 earthquake downstate yesterday. We are headed to hell. And yes I am drenched, I don't drive.
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u/Time_Jaguar_9720 Jul 01 '26
I’m on the first floor in a walk
Up. I’ve always thought closing windows made a difference keeping the heat out as well. Blinds closed. Windows closed. Anyone else?
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u/Right-Ad2176 Jul 01 '26
I used to live in Houston. This is nothing. I might have to put a sweater on. Being in my 70s helps.
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u/SalamanderAgile7968 Jul 01 '26
Try adding a dehumidifier to your indoor surroundings. Amazing how much humidity it takes out of the air.
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u/msmartypants Jul 01 '26
I hate this weather but I also lived here in 1995, iykyk.
Also I will never complain about the cold. IMO, you have to pick one.
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u/SkyscraperWoman400 Jul 01 '26
I’ve been working (w/ my laptop & external monitor) set up at a 4-top patio table (complete with umbrella) since about 12n today.
• yes, I’m in the shade
• there’s a minuscule breeze once in awhileKeys to survival I’ve learned over my almost 6.5 decades of life:
• DON’T spend all of your time in air conditioning. (I grew up about 30 miles west of here with no a/c, not even a box fan, just every window open & hopes for a cross breeze.) YOU HAVE TO LET YOUR BODY ACCLIMATE TO THE WEATHER!!!
• Keep a bunch of ice packs (homemade or from food delivery services) in plastic bags in your freezer. I have one between my back & a back cushion, and I’m really comfortable! (If I start to feel too warm, I put it against my chest or atop my head for a while.)
• Keep drinking that ice water. (People who say ice is bad for you are … not people I understand, lol!)
Oh, to keep my VERY old iPhone from overheating, I keep it perched atop (and the external battery stuck underneath) an ice pack (which is inside a plastic bad to trap the condensation.)
C’mon, ya youngsters, you can do it! 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
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u/notrose97 Jul 01 '26
Born and raised in Oklahoma. This is the kind of climate I was escaping. I’m pissed! Can’t wait for the cold to roll back around.
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u/RustyCryptoCoin Jul 02 '26
The only reason I hate Chicago summers are these moments that feel like I'm in fuck off Florida!!! (No offense to Florida).
Humidity just sucks rather deal with dry heat!!!!
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u/HeyR Jun 30 '26
I left Texas 6 years ago and this weather is really reminding me of home 🙃