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SOUTHERN HEAT

South Louisiana has the two distinct seasons, Hot and Not As Hot.

Summertime is a literal steam bath. I learned to buy nothing but cotton and linen clothing, and stopped wearing underpants except for the, oh, about six to eight weeks it was a little less humid down there. Absolutely no pun intended, but it was funny how that came out, wasn’t it?

I am sure Louisiana natives wore underpants, only I was a transplanted Northerner who didn’t see any sense in wearing sweaty undergarments that stuck to me, making my outer clothes all sweaty and wet in return. So off they came. The undergarments, not my The humidity is so intense, you can walk outside and get wet, whether it is raining or not. My unofficial name for Louisiana was The Crotch Rot State.