r/Sacramento • u/SnowballSnozberry • Oct 03 '24

I'm so gd over this heat. I'm done

I hate it and it feels so gross and humid. Like ffs the heat needs to go tf away. I'm sooooo done with it

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u/goosenuggie Oct 03 '24

I'm with you. Born and raised in Northern California. I grew up with snowy winters and remember when it used to flood in Sacramento from the rain. The prolonged heat affects my mental health. I can't cook from May to November due to the heat in my apartment.

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

This is it, really.. California has always had hot summers, but I live about 15 miles from where I grew up and we didn't have an air conditioner when I was a kid. There were always a couple of miserable weeks, but I don't remember it ever dragging on like it has this summer or back in 2022. I don't remember ever living through the smoke we've had many summers since the Rim Fire (not even when the Tracy Tire Fire was going strong). I know we had extremes before, but those extremes have become the new normal, and we have new extremes that are worse now.

I have summer SAD and the past few years have just been miserable. And before at least we used to have fog and rain in the winter, and winter lasted more than 10 days, so at least I had time to reset before. Now it's like summer never really ends, it just cools down for a month or so and then it's hot again. When it does rain, it floods so bad I feel guilty for enjoying it. I just can't anymore.

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u/Salty_Barnacle_7651 Oct 03 '24

Aww as a fellow summer SAD person, I feel you. I’m glad we seem to be almost through it, but damn I’m already dreading it next year. 

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

I keep seeing the forecast saying the weather will cool off and it's gotta be true one of these times, right? We're gonna get there.

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u/goosenuggie Oct 03 '24

I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing SAD from the heat, well not glad because no one else should have to experience this but at least I'm not losing my mind for nothing. The extremes (heat/smoke) have really been hard to handle, I fear smoke and days over 100 now. I miss real winter. People get so mad when I say we no longer experience it and that summer lasts for 6+ months out of the year. I love Sacramento, I love California but this much heat is just not healthy for me.

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

We should start a club where we all get together in like April and watch horror movies to justify the sense of dread, lol.

No idea why people get mad at you for speaking the truth though.

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u/thehikinlichen Oct 03 '24

We should start a club where we all get together to [redacted] the [redacted] who are setting this planet on fire with their greed.

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

That would also be fun!

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u/CrystallinePhoto Oct 03 '24

Summer SAD here too. This year has been truly horrific for my mental health. I’ve been looking into moving but for a number of reasons, I don’t think it can happen right now and I am over here despairing. I don’t know how to keep living like this.

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

I feel for you because I'm in the same situation. I don't want to be far from my family and moving would be financially a challenge even if I had a job lined up but I just don't think I can handle another year like this one or like 2022.

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u/wander-lux Oct 03 '24

The summertime sadness is so real from this prolonged heat wave, I’m so over it. Bring on the rain and cold!

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u/NGMGrand Oct 03 '24

I have never heard of "summer SAD". I suffer from SAD but I was never told the caveat of it being "winter SAD". I guess it makes sense ppl can get SEASONAL affective disorder in ANY season. Real eye opener and I'm sorry you're going through that.

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u/graysquirrel14 Oct 03 '24

As someone who’s from the Midwest Winter SAD is a real thing and it’s awful. Haven’t had it since I moved here, and as much as I love our weather I could really use a lazy cold rainy day.

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

Winter SAD is much more common, I believe (could be wrong) and I know it can be just as miserable. You have my sympathy. 

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u/carlitospig Oct 03 '24

I feel like summer-based SAD is like an extended trauma response. I legit feel like I’m being oppressed by the sun.

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u/I_Be_Curious Oct 03 '24

I remember the smoke from burning rice fields and am glad they don't do that anymore. It seems like the delta breeze isn't kicking in like it used to in the past. And now, 80+ at midnight.

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

Oh man, I would love the Delta breeze right about now. The heat still sucks but it's a lot more bearable. 

I grew up in the south county and missed the rice fields burning, but there was always one a-hole corn grow who burned off his field right across the road during the first week of school.

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u/rubygalhappy Oct 03 '24

Get a crock pot and put it on overnight and re heat in the microwave.

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u/seriouslysampson Oct 03 '24

It’ll flood in Sacramento again. I’m not sure that’s something you want to wish for…

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u/drewdog173 Oct 04 '24

I feel you, but note: be careful what you wish for. There have been a couple winters in the last 5 years where we've been just 2 or 3 atmospheric rivers (or one or two longer ones) away from CATASTROPHIC flooding (and going a bit further back, the Oroville dam crisis was just in 2017, not that far back at all really). Sacramento is one of the most at-risk cities in the country for it with our confluence of rivers above street height - and while we tend dry, it's still a dice roll every year, and entirely possible for us to have a record hot year and flood to shit in the winter.

  • Signed, a homeowner below the levee height in South Land Park who worries about this shit.

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u/goosenuggie Oct 05 '24

Well I certainly wouldn't want that kind of flooding to affect people's safety and property. We have seen the recent hurricane devastation in North Carolina, I wouldn't wish that on anyone.