Who has MOVED from their home state ? How difficult was it for you?

[moparedtn]

A woman has been taken into custody after she was found partially naked and wielding an axe Tuesday inside a Knoxville Walmart...... At least in St Louis we use hand guns and never leave witnesses !!

Sadly, both states also have serious issue with meth - and I believe yours actually had ours beat, at least last
time I saw statistics.

 

[barbee6043]

Goober peas.
I love boiled peanuts but I came from peanut country in S W Ga. Everyone native to there was raised on them and love them. I used to tell Missouri guys about them, brought them back from Ga on Aug visits. They said " what is a BALD peanut? I guess that is how I pronounced boiled!!!! Some guys in Mo o them some hated them, was raised on them just LIKE grits. BUT then again, some people in SW Ga do not consider anything North of the Fall Line to still be the "real" South. Just like Tx is not the real South... IT is TEXAS!!
The absolute fanciest and all time seafood restaurant in big ole Houston, has a dish called 7 cheese baked grits casserole. I have had very few things better!!
I have been thru Pa. 4 times I remember. Great state in the country. Real country and that is a compliment.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas.

 

[66/440]

By the way that green grass is probably Fescue, a cool season grass that will go somewhat dormant in the middle (July Aug) of summer if hot and especially dry. Then green back up in fall as it cools off.
Up in Ky there is also Bluegrass that is also cool season grass.

As far as grass I prefer St. Augustine, no chiggers, no grass burrs, mostly no weeds but, needs a lot of water!

Tennessee and North Georgia are both great places!
Growing up my scope of the U.S. was limited. I thought the only hillbillies were in Arkansas and Tennessee. I knew you couldn't get Dr. Pepper once you got past Texarkana so why go any further? My grand parents retired and bought a farm in Arkansas. Would go to visit in the summer and met the real hillbillies I had heard about. The neighbors house was on a built up foundation about 6 feet high. All the windows were always open and had no screens. All the dogs, 10 or more lived under the house and the younger children played there as well, btw they had 13 kids.
The only things they bought at the store was flour, coffee, salt and pepper. They raised, caught or hunted for the rest. Anything else they needed came from the Sears catalog and the mail man brought it. I remember they had the biggest cast iron skillet I had ever seen, I think it was at least 36" across. It took me a while to acclimate to the crazy crowd but once I did you couldn't pry me away the rest of the summer. That summer I figured out that there were a whole lot of people way different from me and that most were probably really good hard working folks that had just been raised differently, not better just different.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Y'all are gonna have to give up on that whole "grits" thing....
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, that I know around here eats the damn things.
They offer 'em down at the Waffle House beside the interstate, but nobody's chowing down on them
over here in the real world.

Funny, I was in Newport Tn years ago for work & the Awful House charged extra to remove the grits from your plate...

 

[moparedtn]

Funny, I was in Newport Tn years ago for work & the Awful House charged extra to remove the grits from your plate...

Officially, the menu gives you the option of grits or their world famous
hash browns (scattered, smothered, covered for me, thanks).
None of the meals has MANDATORY GRITS lol.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Officially, the menu gives you the option of grits or their world famous
hash browns (scattered, smothered, covered for me, thanks).
None of the meals has MANDATORY GRITS lol.

I solved it... Only had breakfast there once... I was in Newport for ten days... Theres better breakfast places than Awful House.... But it was right outside my hotel...

 

[Kern Dog]

Todays weather here....

It was hot, I was sweaty but it didn't feel all that bad. I was out there cutting back tree limbs and washing a truck.
Is a 109 with 10% number comparable to a 90 with 80% ? Is there any sort of scale to compare?

 

[DeltaV]

Todays weather here....

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It was hot, I was sweaty but it didn't feel all that bad. I was out there cutting back tree limbs and washing a truck.
Is a 109 with 10% number comparable to a 90 with 80% ? Is there any sort of scale to compare?

Here's a calculator for playing with the numbers.

https://www.calculator.net/heat-ind...reunit=fahrenheit&humidity=75&ctype=1&x=0&y=0


https://www.calculator.net/heat-ind...unit=fahrenheit&humidity=10&ctype=1&x=51&y=18

 

[DeltaV]

...drink lots of water, eat some salt tablets, and stay out of the direct sunlight.

 

[moparedtn]

I solved it... Only had breakfast there once... I was in Newport for ten days... Theres better breakfast places than Awful House.... But it was right outside my hotel...

I try not to loiter in Newport for more than a few hours at a time. It has a certain "history", shall we say...

 

[DeltaV]

Officially, the menu gives you the option of grits or their world famous
hash browns (scattered, smothered, covered for me, thanks).
None of the meals has MANDATORY GRITS lol.

 

[moparedtn]

Todays weather here....

View attachment 1126096

It was hot, I was sweaty but it didn't feel all that bad. I was out there cutting back tree limbs and washing a truck.
Is a 109 with 10% number comparable to a 90 with 80% ? Is there any sort of scale to compare?

I guess that's what the (in?)famous "feels like" scale is supposed to reflect?
No, let me clear this up a bit for ya - 109F is FREAKING HOT.
We got toasty here today as well - upper 80's with increased humidity, a good representative sample of
SE summer humidity that will be with us until early next week, when things return to "normal".

 

[moparedtn]

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[DeltaV]

Y'all are gonna have to give up on that whole "grits" thing....
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, that I know around here eats the damn things.
They offer 'em down at the Waffle House beside the interstate, but nobody's chowing down on them
over here in the real world.
I can live with most the rest of your statement, I suppose... and the BBQ is NC style naturally, with half the
guys I know having elaborate equipment for the production of same, some even competing in contests with
theirs.
Oh, and that would be yes MA'AM!
You can also fly the stars and bars, the American flag, whatever flag and people don't get butthurt about it
either way for the most part....can you guess why that is?
This part of TN was surprisingly neutral during "The War of Northern Aggression" - we had both Union and
Confederate HQ located in downtown buildings at one point or the other during the war.
Oddly, the northern HQ faced north, the southern one in a southerly direction - but they both were on the
"wrong" side of Main Street when they were here!
Weird...

This is great! Started eating them last year. Anything else is not worth a flip.

 

[moparedtn]

This is great! Started eating them last year. Anything else is not worth a flip.
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I'd be making me some cornbread outta that.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

I try not to loiter in Newport for more than a few hours at a time. It has a certain "history", shall we say...

I thought I heard Banjos....

 

[moparedtn]

I thought I heard Banjos....

Down there, it's more like cockfights and "ladies of the night"....but you can look that lore up ye self.

 

[Kern Dog]

...drink lots of water, eat some salt tablets, and stay out of the direct sunlight.

I do drink water and Gatorade when it is warm and especially when hot. Salt? Hmmm...A boss of mine suggested Dill Pickles and pickle juice. I like that....A good pickle and a cold bottle of water.

 

[Kern Dog]

Here's a calculator for playing with the numbers.

https://www.calculator.net/heat-ind...reunit=fahrenheit&humidity=75&ctype=1&x=0&y=0

Hmm....
Using that link....

Use Relative Humidity
Result
Heat Index Temperature: 109°F (43°C or 316K)
Air Temperature 90
Relative Humidity 75%

Saturday morning stepping out of the hotel in Murfreesboro, it was 89 with 74% and it did feel hot. As that day wore on, the temp went up and the humidity went down, making it feel almost the same most of the day.
Thank you for that link, it is very helpful.