A little reverse logic and other odd bits

I've come across something down here that just doesn't make sense at first. When one is hot, you want a cold shower right? (now if you're Megan it'd be warm not scalding as usual). The idea being cooler water to cool you down. The thing is down here that logic does not work. Trust me, I've tried it again and again. "What's not to work about this?" you ask? Well you take a cold shower, which does feel REALLY great, but the second you hop out your body goes into shock due to the massive temperature increase and starts sweating profusely. Note this all happens in less time then it takes for you to even grab your towel to start drying off. So you finish a nice cold shower only to be covered in sweat... again. Even though it sounds crazy I've learned to take (fairly) hot showers. It's not exactly inviting but getting your self warmer makes the air feel cooler when you get out. It's a little bit of madness but the reverse logic works well. I get a good... oh.. 2 minutes or so before i am covered in sweat, which is much nicer then the .002 seconds with a cold shower. :) If you go straight from the hot shower (dry off) then just flop onto your bed, you can get a good 10 or 15 minutes of dry skin. The act of getting dressed always works up a good sweat. Aren't the tropics fun?
Jumping tracks to a totally different topic, I get asked many times what time zone Grenada is in. When I mention that it's in the Atlantic time zone, which is EST +1, everyone seems to be confused. Everyone pictures the entire lot of Caribbean islands directly south of Florida and curving west from their. Sorry to burst all your bubbles but your way off! To facilitate explaining this I took a snapshot of stormpulse.com's website because it does a good job of showing the US and all the little islands. (Note that the little spec of sand and dirt we live on is smaller then the bullet point to label it... comforting?) So see below...
You might have to click on it to enlarge it to see the details but essentially i drew a circle around NYC and drew a line straight down. As you can see Grenada (also in a red circle) is FAR to the east, hence the next time zone over. So does it make sense now? Hopefully it does... if not grab your self a globe with time zones on it, if THAT doesn't work then just forget it, those two or three brain cells left are probably put to better use.
The red circle on the far left of the US is about where Ventura/Santa Barbara CA is, our second home.
Oh and as you've probably noticed the large Gustav hurricane in the middle of the picture. This is as of 11pm Sat night. Gustav only gave us a tiny bit of rain and nothing interesting other then that. SGU and many others said Grenada is too far south for most the hurricanes and I am finding it to be very true. Everything seems to form off the coast of Africa at about 16 degrees north, near the Cape Verde Islands, then it moves west/north-west. Grenada is at 12 degrees north which means everything starts above us and moves further north. Very little to worry about. As strange as it sounds I do actually hope for SOME minor storm activity our way because the rain feels GREAT and drops the temps quite a bit.

Update: One thing I forgot to mention about the time zone difference. In Grenada, we don't observe Daylight Savings. So during the summer months when EST moves forward an hour we are at the same time, (such as right now). Come October when the time changes again for the US we'll be an hour ahead of EST.