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To: Gauguin who wrote (36985)	9/2/1999 1:27:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Hot and wet doesn't make people crazy. It makes them lazy. There's no urgency to do anything, really. I think winter makes people feel, or have, urgency. Northerners run around in the summer getting things taken care of before the winter comes and you can't do all the things that need to be done. I guess that's what does it. New Orleans is called the Big Easy, because people take it easy all the time. In Louisiana, summer starts in May, and ends in October. October and November are autumn, and feel wonderful. December and January are winter, and it might freeze for a week or two in late December, early January, down into the teens, or it might not. Never snow. Almost never. A freak cold spell might put some light snow dust. Once in a decade, maybe an inch. February, March and April are spring, and are wonderful again. And then it's summer again. And it rains a lot. Monsoons. The streets flood. But then they drain. You learn to drive through water up to the bottom of your doors. I can't count how many times I've had to do that. If it's deeper, you have to drive up onto the curb and park your car, and come back and collect it later. But after the rain stops, the sun comes out. And all the rain rises back into the sky, slowly, and collects, and will be rained down again the next day. So the air is always wet, especially in the summer. In the spring and fall, it rains constantly, for days on end. Not in the winter, not as much, anyway. And it's always green. The oaks are called live oaks, they don't lose their leaves in the fall. The grass is always green, even in the winter. And everywhere you go, there are bodies of water. Rivers, lakes, creeks, bayous, marshes. But everyone seems to be cheerful. I mean, so what if your house is a shack, you aren't going to freeze to death. I never heard of someone freezing to death, anyway. It's just easier there. People take it easier.