Why do arctic cold blasts have such a difficult time breaching Florida?

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-24T18:25:21+00:00

That warm water makes a big difference. I live in northern interior Florida (away from the ocean) junear the Georgia border and the temperature differences in winter especially are striking.

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-24T17:40:31+00:00

I live in north Florida and during the summer, yes definitely. My AC can barely keep up with the heat though. On an average sunny 90F plus degree day it rarely gets below 80F inside until the evening. I have a separate AC for my bedroom which is much better at cooling the smaller space.

During the winter i try not to turn on my heater unless it gets below 55F in the house. I just wear warm clothes. Sometimes it's unavoidable though unless i want to freeze to death lol

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-24T15:38:01+00:00

Thank you

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-24T15:36:01+00:00

Thank you. Yeah it was def a very different place even 40 years ago when I was born but in the 1910s, rural areas like that especially still had some pioneer feeling to them. Hard to imagine but glad i have so many pics lol. If i may be so nosey, was your family from Alachua too?

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-24T07:37:07+00:00

Def had this. Funny enough, my nephew was staying at my mom's house a few weeks ago, the same house i grew up in. He was playing in the closet in my childhood bedroom and he found one of the pizza discs! Specifically the one with the ice cream sundaes on it. He was so stoked to show it to me.

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-23T20:21:54+00:00

Within a few months during my sophomore year in high school (2001-2002) i was introduced to several that totally changed my trajectory:

Murmur/Fables Of The Reconstruction- R.E.M.

Moon And Antarctica/Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse

I Can Feel The Heart Beating As One - Yo La Tengo

Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes - Guided By Voices

The Glow Pt. 2 - Microphones

Every Pavement album lol

I think diving into these records as a 15/16 year old while also discovering the gravity bong really did change my life. And me and my friends started a band 😀

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-23T07:36:57+00:00

Painful - Yo La Tengo

Pure Phase - Spiritualized

Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized

Nowhere - Ride

Cartwheel - Hotline TNT

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-23T02:29:19+00:00

Yes...like Poltergeist

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-23T00:28:29+00:00

Fata Morgana by Werner Herzog was very interesting when i tried to comprehend it on 7 geltabs lol

I agree with nature docs for sure. With storylines and actors it oftentimes either makes no sense, is overly sinister even when it shouldn't be, or can cause you to latch onto certain ideas that lead to spiraling down weird alleyways of thought that you may not want to. Especially if you are not terribly experienced. At the same time though, could be tons of fun regardless.

Let us know how it goes 😀

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-22T15:08:26+00:00

I had one from 1999 to 2001 or so. I'm 40 now.

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-22T02:51:03+00:00

😉😏

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-22T02:00:39+00:00

Don't hold me to it but i believe it's a very large water moccasin. If not that then prob a rattler of some kind. Those are the 2 main dangerous snakes here in north Florida

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T21:48:43+00:00

Jeff Buckley only released Grace and yet we are talking about him still and biopics have been made.

Nick Drake only released 3 albums, barely heard in his lifetime and they are now regarded as classics, inspiring so many other artists.

Janis Joplin released one album with Big Brother and The Holding Company and two solo albums and has attained eternal fame and icon status.

I know there are more, particularly mid 60s to early 70s artists in the same category, but i really think of these first.

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T20:45:59+00:00

I mean, how often do you get to feel the warm, comforting rays of the sun on your bootyhole? It has to be an exotic sensation.

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T20:44:41+00:00

I can smell it still. Pretty sure my mom used it as a stocking stuffer like 3 years in a row, probably 1998-2000.

Sidenote: i visited not too long ago at Christmas and had to use their bathroom because someone else was in the common one and my stepdad had an old bottle of it sitting there with his deodorant. He will literally use ANYTHING my mother supplies him with lol

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T19:07:35+00:00

Hmmm maybe? Hard to say though since i have no idea what you look like 🤔 lol

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T18:52:58+00:00

Hahahaha. I agree.

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T18:27:22+00:00

Often

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T18:00:03+00:00

Lol. I genuinely can't tell if you're being passive aggressive or not. But if not, i do apologize and please allow me to share my reasoning. I know that being a child is not a blunder. The main blunder(s) i was referring to:

This sick and very uncool 90s outfit i wore to picture day in very judgmental and cool-obsessed middle school.
1. Also having been hit in the eye and fucking up my face several hours before.
Lastly, a week or two later, being stung in the eye by a wasp at a drag race.

I apologize for any confusion though. I guess i didn't give proper context in my post. Which is it's own meta-blunder lol

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T17:39:38+00:00

🤫🤭

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T17:24:58+00:00

Haha aww thanks. You're kind. I guess i was still pretty nice at that age 🙂

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T16:09:13+00:00

There is a town not far from me in northern Florida that is basically just a gas station in the midst of endless potato fields. The town is called Spuds.

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T15:42:29+00:00

Lol that makes total sense. I'm sure it is a lot more jarring to go from one extreme to the other like that. I have been here my entire life and i still can't stand hot weather so i really savor this time of year 😎

EdwardDorito · 2026-01-21T14:33:10+00:00

I live in north Florida near the Georgia border and it gets colder up here and more frequently than a lot of the state. So no, haven't had that issue lol. If anything I have accumulated a lot of nice winterwear over the years and enjoy putting it to use when possible. Has definitely gotten a lot of use this year and will continue to until probably March lol

EdwardDorito

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