On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:03:30 -0600, dpb wrote:

On 11/16/2018 10:41 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:33:25 -0600, dpb wrote:

On 11/14/2018 8:02 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:57:47 -0600, dpb wrote:
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The whole thing can sag; it would need at least one intermediate support
over the 6-ft span from what I've observed in town here. If weather not
so extreme as SW KS and the like, "maybe" it'd be ok.

I live in NW GA (Atlanta), so the maximum temperature isn't likely
worse that what you see. Just more days above ~90F (and more humidity,
which is irrelevant in this case).
...

Not even close -- data I just looked up showed Atlanta mean at 30
days/yr, we were 73.

That's surprising.

Extreme temp's not even close, either, either high or low.

That's not. It's rarely 100F here. The all-time record is 106, IIRC.
Hell, we had that in Vermont. The low part, well, we do get a week
with the lows in the high-teens.

Anything east of Mississippi is much less extreme and generally far
quieter than High Plains.

That's pretty benign, comparatively, other than the humidity that's a
killer (spent almost 30 yr in Oak Ridge, TN which is closer albeit
somewhat colder as comparison to Atlanta. The humid-a-dee-doo I never
did adjust to...

Yeah but even the humidity isn't all that bad in Atlanta. We lived
just 70mi SW (down I85) from here, in Auburn AL and the difference,
even in that short distance was amazing. It was far more humid. Really
oppressive nights.

Oh, yes, there are even worse places by far, but in comparison to what I
was used to and think is oppressive, it's more than I care to deal
with... Used to have to consult in Aiken and Houston and DC area
some so indeed there's worse, by far. Tulsa area ain't far off because
it is closer to our temperatures and far enough east to have more water...

What I missed most were two things --
1) There was no wind to stir the air up at all so what heat/humidity
there was was even more oppressive, and

There is very little wind here, other than storms, of course. A
little wind plays hell on the trees, particularly if the ground is
wet. They just aren't hardened to it and it'll pull them right out of
the ground.

2) Cloudy but not rainy much of winter months--not having sun if isn't
going to rain is just wrong!

Ditto that. The thing that really got me about Vermont wasn't the
cold or even the snow (though that was a RPITA), rather the gray
Winters. From November to May (or June), unless the temperature was
-10F it was overcast. About February it got really depressing,
especially knowing that Winter was only half over. A rainy summer (we
had 30 days of rain one June) would really cap things off. It's a
beautiful place to visit, at the appropriate time, but a terrible
place to live.