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Hippie3180

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It's a bit warm here,high of 107, Texas is in a federal power emergency as well. 🔥



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Hippie3180 said:
If you've lived here, you know summers are always hot, but it has been ridiculously hot this summer.

I like Fall too and it's pretty none existent here.
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When My Texas friends and family heard we were moving all said but it gets cold in Virginia... I said yes yes it does. :) It's been really nice to actually see four seasons in reality not in name only. Fall is amazing here. Hope it cools down for you soon
 
showcaser said:
When My Texas friends and family heard we were moving all said but it gets cold in Virginia... I said yes yes it does. :) It's been really nice to actually see four seasons in reality not in name only. Fall is amazing here. Hope it cools down for you soon
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I would brave the cold to have real seasons + trees.
 
I grew up as a military dependent. I lived in the extremes from hot to cold. Vietnam being the hottest to North Dakota as the coldest.

You can keep the cold weather, I was born in San Angelo, Texas currently live a 100 miles away.

For every death linked to heat, nine are connected to cold. I don't see many people retiring to cold snowy climates.

I have never known or heard of a summer bird. But I have known a lot of snowbirds that rent trailer spaces every winter for our mild winters.
 
Lived in seven states: hot with humidity, hot with no humidity, cold with snow and humidity. I like cold weather: cold air holds less moisture and more oxygen which helps my asthma.
 
Velcrodog said:
I remember when I was a kid growing up in Texas I used to go barefoot in the summers. Can't tell you how many times I stepped in potholes filled with melted asphalt. Talk about hot! Took forever to get it off my feet.
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I can remember stepping on those little tar bubbles in the street and getting it all over my feet. We went around barefoot all summer. The street would be SO hot.
 
dogcatcher said:
I grew up as a military dependent. I lived in the extremes from hot to cold. Vietnam being the hottest to North Dakota as the coldest.

You can keep the cold weather, I was born in San Angelo, Texas currently live a 100 miles away.

For every death linked to heat, nine are connected to cold. I don't see many people retiring to cold snowy climates.

I have never known or heard of a summer bird. But I have known a lot of snowbirds that rent trailer spaces every winter for our mild winters.
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Winters are tolerable, but the summers can be brutal..that Hill Country heat + humidity really a lot if you're not used to it.
 
nothing like that heat but we've got about 28 to 30 C here and high humidity. Went in workshop, sweated buckets in 10 minutes came out and decided the job can wait. Ice cold fruit juice helped a lot.

really impressive high level cloud lightening last night but no thunder , so must have been really high up. Illuminating the church spire up at Masham beautifully at times. We were sat in the brewery garden enjoying the show totally dry but on the way there the rain was torrential but really localised, ie 2 miles up road not a drop fell.
 
All these memories of barefoot summers in Texas reminded me of the year we lived in a community called Fairoaks between Mexia and Jewett...
we lived at the end of the road, which was about 1 foot or more deep in what we called sugar sand... very fine and white.
We were share croppers at the time, I was about 11 or 12.... the place we lived had no well, so to get water I had to walk about a 1/4 mile up the road to the neighbor's house... I would take 2 buckets... one to carry water in, the other to splash along my path back home to keep the sand cool enough to not burn my feet.
For baths, (there was 4 of us kids) we would fill a wash tub and sit it in the sun to warm, then all would use the same water, in order of birth... I was always 2nd... my younger sister third and my brother who had cerebral palsy and was only about 2 would get a sponge bath from Mom.
Now 70 years later my younger sister still reminds us she had to bathe in dirty water.
 
TellicoTurning said:
All these memories of barefoot summers in Texas reminded me of the year we lived in a community called Fairoaks between Mexia and Jewett...
we lived at the end of the road, which was about 1 foot or more deep in what we called sugar sand... very fine and white.
We were share croppers at the time, I was about 11 or 12.... the place we lived had no well, so to get water I had to walk about a 1/4 mile up the road to the neighbor's house... I would take 2 buckets... one to carry water in, the other to splash along my path back home to keep the sand cool enough to not burn my feet.
For baths, (there was 4 of us kids) we would fill a wash tub and sit it in the sun to warm, then all would use the same water, in order of birth... I was always 2nd... my younger sister third and my brother who had cerebral palsy and was only about 2 would get a sponge bath from Mom.
Now 70 years later my younger sister still reminds us she had to bathe in dirty water.
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I can't imagine how hot that sand must've been, not to mention the walk there and home. The Waco area is certainly hot and humid.

We sure are spoiled now with running water and fresh bath water aren't we?
 
TellicoTurning said:
All these memories of barefoot summers in Texas reminded me of the year we lived in a community called Fairoaks between Mexia and Jewett...
we lived at the end of the road, which was about 1 foot or more deep in what we called sugar sand... very fine and white.
We were share croppers at the time, I was about 11 or 12.... the place we lived had no well, so to get water I had to walk about a 1/4 mile up the road to the neighbor's house... I would take 2 buckets... one to carry water in, the other to splash along my path back home to keep the sand cool enough to not burn my feet.
For baths, (there was 4 of us kids) we would fill a wash tub and sit it in the sun to warm, then all would use the same water, in order of birth... I was always 2nd... my younger sister third and my brother who had cerebral palsy and was only about 2 would get a sponge bath from Mom.
Now 70 years later my younger sister still reminds us she had to bathe in dirty water.
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I grew up in Fort Worth Texas in the fifties. We at least had running water and power and a swamp cooler. Our street was some kind of asphalt with mostly sand and a little gravel and really thin. It was OK most of the year, but when it was really hot it was bubbly and stuck to our bare feet and our bicycle tires. We cleaned it off our feet and the bike tires with gasoline on the front porch(stupid?), then rinsed in the water hose. Family moved to Denver in 69. What a change. Wife and I lived in Dallas in 1980, I think the last record setting summer. Jump in the lake in a shallow cove to cool off and felt like a hot tub. Now live in ABQ, weather is really mild most of the year, but set records this summer for most days over 100. Was 90+ in my shop today. Cooler days ahead here, high 70s to mid 80s this coming week. I read it is cooling off in Texas in the next few days as well.

Mike
 
I remember hot sand at the beach at Los Angeles. I get tickled that people say, "It's a dry heat." Been all over the SW. Hot is hot. We were in ABQ to see our grandson play baseball. Ball park at 9 PM was 101; wife took a photo with her camera.
Fellow said West Texas was like Hell. Just needed a few good people and some water.
 
We have had 17 days over 100 this year, the most since 1980 when there were 28. Many years we never hit 100. And, I agree the "dry heat" makes very little difference, 100 plus is hot. Looking forward to fall. Heading up to the San Juan river in a couple weeks for a few days. It is beautiful. and some great fishing.

Mike
 
I went to basic Army training in El Paso Texas in the mid 80's in March & April and got giant blisters on top of my ears and the back of my neck. Then on to training in San Antoinio. I liked Texas other than the blisters.
 
I wanna say we've had over 46 days over 100 this summer, it's been super hot. The garage my workspace is in has been so hot sometimes that I've not been able to be out there. My limit is about 104, we installed a new garage door opener that took us all day on one 104 degree day with the garage closed most of that time. Ugh! 🔥 Was not fun, but the door wouldn't go down, so it had to happen.
 
I agree hot is hot... I keep hearing the weather guessers telling me the temperature is XX deg with a heat index (feels like) temp of XXX..
If it's 100 degrees how do you know that it feels like 105 or 110..... I know I've heard all the arguments, but makes no sense to me.

In 1994 Dianne and I moved from Houston to Tucson in the first week in June.... it was mid 90's temp with humidity in high 90's ... don't remember exact temps, but it was 106 when we arrived in Tucson.... humidity in single digits.... it actually felt cool to us having just arrived from Houston.... Ed, Dianne's son helped us with the move then went back to Houston to his job.... a week later, he called and asked if he could move to Tucson with us...he said "It's like breathing water here"....
 
Todays temps are just such a relief after so much heat, the garage/workshop is a delight to be in

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TellicoTurning said:
I agree hot is hot... I keep hearing the weather guessers telling me the temperature is XX deg with a heat index (feels like) temp of XXX..
If it's 100 degrees how do you know that it feels like 105 or 110..... I know I've heard all the arguments, but makes no sense to me.

In 1994 Dianne and I moved from Houston to Tucson in the first week in June.... it was mid 90's temp with humidity in high 90's ... don't remember exact temps, but it was 106 when we arrived in Tucson.... humidity in single digits.... it actually felt cool to us having just arrived from Houston.... Ed, Dianne's son helped us with the move then went back to Houston to his job.... a week later, he called and asked if he could move to Tucson with us...he said "It's like breathing water here"....
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"weather guessers" Love it, I am going to use that. Only job where you can be wrong over half the time and be doing great.

It is beautiful here in ABQ yesterday and today for the first time in a couple months. Very similar to your Texas weather Michelle.
I think a cigar and glass of bourbon on the patio are on the agenda for this evening. I was going to finish my cutting board but I think it can wait until tomorrow.

Mike
 
Mike said:
"weather guessers" Love it, I am going to use that. Only job where you can be wrong over half the time and be doing great.

It is beautiful here in ABQ yesterday and today for the first time in a couple months. Very similar to your Texas weather Michelle.
I think a cigar and glass of bourbon on the patio are on the agenda for this evening. I was going to finish my cutting board but I think it can wait until tomorrow.

Mike
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You've got to appreciate the good weather days, right? 😂
 
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