Hope you like HOT weather Re: <VV> CORSA Convention - weather

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Ned,
    I appreciate your thoughtful and well stated  reply.
    Of course it's "logical" for CORSA to  hold EVERY Convention during the 
summer months when they feel they can get  the largest attendance of families 
with school age children.  The same way  it's "logical" for all but one of the 
FM radio stations in the entire  metropolitan New York City area to broadcast 
what I call "modern" music.   But that doesn't mean I have to conform to 
EITHER of these decisions.
    While working I had to travel to a number of hot  regions of the country, 
including Houston and west Texas.  I've also been  in south Florida a number 
ot times visiting my late father.  Even northern  NJ gets hot and humid on 
some days in the summer so I prefer to stay in A/C  and avoid the outdoors on 
those days.
    I still remember being in Houston on a business  trip in February one 
year and having to run both the hotel room A/C and the car  A/C on full cold all 
the time I was there.  When I got back to Newark,  NJ airport I had to clean 4 
inches of SNOW off my 66  Corvair before I could drive home!!
    Now, of course, I just stay inside and watch the  snow fall and plan on 
shoveling it gradually over the following week.  I  still prefer a few inches 
of snow rather than 80 to 100 deg  weather and 80+ percent humidity.
    Best regards,
    Frank "marches to the tune of a different drummer"  Burkhard
     
 
In a message dated 7/20/2007 8:42:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
AeroNed at aol.com writes:

Frank,

Your absolutely correct nice weather all depends on your  opinion, like just  
about everything. I spent the first 18 years of  my life right down the road 
from  you in Pompton Plains, so I know  exactly what your summers are like 
(except for  the recent global  warming). It doesn't seem like MI is any 
warmer or 
more humid  than  NJ, maybe even a bit cooler. Once all the Corvair get to 
town 
it will  be  quite a bit cooler. Anyhow, here in Kansas it's getting to the  
triple digit time  of year, so mid 80s is looking real good to  me.

As far as having the convention in July, it's then because that's  the best  
month to have it. If for no other reason than school is out  (except where 
they  
go all year, poor kids). It is already difficult  to plan a family vacation  
around the convention, let's not make it  more difficult. If we had the  
convention during the fall or spring  we would also have a greater risk of 
bad  
weather. I know it can rain  in July, but not usually as much as other times 
of  the  
year.

The bottom line is that the convention is going to be in the  summer, when  
it's hot. This particular convention is nearly as far  north as possible in 
the  
continental US. So it should be cooler than  most of the rest of the country. 
 
Throw on top of that Detroit, home  of American automobiles, car show on  
Chevrolet's front yard  (literally), the Heritage Center and a bunch of my  
Corvair 
friends  and you couldn't keep me away.

Ned







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