[luvdancin]

I would love advice as to how to deal with the summer weather in The Villages. I purchased my home in The Villages in March. I thought my house in CA would sell quickly and I would be moving before the extreme heat and humidity. It looks like I'll be moving there when the weather is at its worst. I haven't lived with humidity for 22 years. The humidity where I live is close to 0%. I can handle dry heat, but humidity and heat is my kryptonite!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by luvdancin

I would love advice as to how to deal with the summer weather in The Villages. I purchased my home in The Villages in March. I thought my house in CA would sell quickly and I would be moving before the extreme heat and humidity. It looks like I'll be moving there when the weather is at its worst. I haven't lived with humidity for 22 years. The humidity where I live is close to 0%. I can handle dry heat, but humidity and heat is my kryptonite!

Well....

[Chatbrat]

We have toughed it out for 6 years--but this summer=we're getting out of Dodge--going to the NC mountains, when we lived up north we were prisoners of heating systems in the winter, here we are prisoners of a/c--at another Fl location our a/c needed repair--had to check into a hotel

[manaboutown]

I have found that wherever I have lived, be it hot and humid or cold, my body adjusted after about a year. Give it time.

[graciegirl]

I remember hot August nights in our un-airconditioned house in Ohio with a damp "warshrag" to try to keep you cool enough to fall asleep. I remember the stained glass windows open at our local church in July with those fans that had a funeral home advertisement. (It may have been reason for a good many people remembering the commandments when they needed to. ) I remember when my Uncle would say occasionly that some people would "go to Hell and want Ice Water.

I remember wading in Buckeye Lake with muck up to our knees. ( I still shiver about that memory). I remember that school rooms in September were so hot that the teacher would pull down the blinds and have us rest our heads on the desk for awhile every afternoon.

It is hotter and more humid here than any place I have lived, but I still love it.

[luvdancin]

I have lived in NY, Texas, MS, GA, IL. They are all humid places. I have memories similar to yours. We would wear our new sweaters to school to show them off and about die in September! I remember many sleepless nights without air conditioning in NY.

[luvdancin]

I'll stay in a cool bathtub until then! Unpacking boxes, etc. in that heat will be difficult. Maybe I should just let the boxes all sit there until October. Ha!

[luvdancin]

Thanks for the encouragement!

[luvdancin]

Eventually I will probably do the same- find someplace cool to escape to until the worst of it is over.

[NotGolfer]

Which is why ALL the houses come equipped with air conditioners. It is said...summer here is like winter (only opposite time of year). You go from "air" to "air"...do your activities in the early part of the day or later on. Our Spring and Fall here is lovely...and sometimes the winter months too.

[luvdancin]

I'm sure it will all be worth it. I will love the rest of the year!

[Jima64]

Shopping in the morning and happy hour in the afternoon heat at your favorite patio.

[pauld315]

I have been dealing with this for many years. Outside activities in the morning and evening, indoor activities in the afternoon and early evening. Still beats the alternative of shoveling snow in winter!

[redwitch]

Having moved here from Pleasant Hill, I know your trepidation perfectly. The day I left California, it was 107. The day I arrived here, it was 83 and I KNEW I was going to die from the humidity. The next morning, I was back on the road. Figured if I had to adjust to humidity, might as well have some fun and the boxes could wait. Went to New Orleans for three days. Took my time unpacking when I got back.

Fourteen years later, I still hate the humidity but have discovered I can survive it. As has been said, don't go out the hottest part of the day, drink lots of fluids, relax and enjoy.

[Madelaine Amee]

Hate, hate, hate the humidity, but love living in TV. Spoke to a friend in Maine this morning, wet and miserable and has the wood burning stove going, and black flies are the worst in several years, quickly followed by mosquitoes. Yea, I'll take our weather.

By the time September comes around and you really think you are going to kill yourself because this humidity is never going to end, you walk outside one morning and everything has changed ............. the air itself has changed, it's cooler and smells different.

Actually this year the humidity has not been bad. Yesterday afternoon it was 91* with 27% humidity. We find that every year the weather is different.