How we holding up fellas? Drinking lots of fluid?
I see triple digits in Houston most of the week. I almost started sweating typing that out.
I see triple digits in Houston most of the week. I almost started sweating typing that out.
Texas Posters - Heat Wave
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Texas hell! The heat index is going to be over 100 in Ms all week. The humidity is brutal out there. I was on the mower at 7 am this morning.
Hotter than hell in south central Texas. 103F right now. A/C basically runs around the clock since the low is upper 70s. But it's Texas in the summer. It's going to be hot. You either live with it or move.
I told my wife now is the time all those folks thinking about moving to Texas should visit.
I told my wife now is the time all those folks thinking about moving to Texas should visit.
That why I left Dallas after 40+ years and moved to Ridgeland with its cool 90s. 
I dined outside at a fine establishment on West Alabama next week. Thank goodness they had Big *** Fans, but it was still toasty. I sympathized with my server, so I felt obliged to leave a tip that some of you cheapskates wouldn’t appreciate.
I wish AD&D insurance included heat stroke. I swear Fort Worth summers will one day be my demise.
current temp 40 miles north of Houston. The temp sensor is in the shade.
It’s what you get used to. I worked 35 years in an unair conditioned business. It was hot but not unbearable. I’ve been retired three years and I just about pass out if I go outside on days like today. Played golf Friday and there was a solid stream of sweat running off the bill of my cap every time I putted.
Born and raised there. Moved to Houston TX after graduating from State for a job.
I am just north of Austin at the edge of the hill country and sometimes it can be a little bit cooler here than in Austin. This is not one of those times. I was up looking at the weather models this morning to see when this heat was going to break and it looks like we might get some relief from 100° weather by this weekend but I'm not holding my breath
I leaving from San Antonio in a couple days and head to camp in the New Mexico mountains.
We did it last year, left SA with an actual temp of 109. Pulled up at a cafe the next morning in Cloudcroft, NM...53 degrees, highs on the mid 80s.
We decided, that is an every summer trip now.
We did it last year, left SA with an actual temp of 109. Pulled up at a cafe the next morning in Cloudcroft, NM...53 degrees, highs on the mid 80s.
We decided, that is an every summer trip now.
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Yep. The Texas summer is brutal. June1 through mid-September will wear on you here.
It's my fault. I'm a native Texican who turned my bag on this arm pit. I drove the RV down from the great potato haven and still have 6 more days before I cross the line. Texas is pissed I didn't stay and tell trying to kill me.
In Amarillo last week I saw what HBP called a "discreet supercell" that was 10 miles away and ruined my hike at Palo Duro Canyon. The next day it was the most humid morning of my life and hit 106. Here's the tornado from the supercell.
I next stopped in Frisco TX. Parked the RV at my buddies house and went to stand in line at Goldees BBQ and after sweating through a sticky hot 92 degree morning, a damn bolt of lightning nearly hit us. They made us wait in line in the pit room while it poured and then we melted after the storm passed and the sun cooked that fresh rain into a massive steam room. Later that day when I am in Dallas a massive storm comes through and nearly blows everything to hell. 70mph gust nearly took out the RV with patio furniture apparently when I was gone.
The next morning we have a 9:30 tee time and the worst golfers in America play at this course. We finished at 2:45 and it's the hottest day of my life... I have summered in Iraq and Death Valley FYI...
Sunday I wake up and we head down to Lake Livingston and it may be hotter than Frisco. The weather channel said the heat index was 115°, but it was lying. Nearly croaked leveling and hooking up the RV. The pool was 95+° and the lake was just as warm. When I woke up this morning, at sunrise, the heat index was 90°.it was unbearable.
Now I am at the beach. It's hot as 17 for around here. But at least the wind is blowing. Yet as I type this, the heat index is 95° at nearly midnight.
17 this. And 17 Texas. This place is horrible. Too hot, too crowded, and too full of suburban douchébags.
Texas peaked 10-20 years ago. It sucks and I am renouncing my citizenship in the Republic of Hot and Crowded.
7th year in Houston and the heat from May-Oct has made me all but hate the summers. Usually, it's my favorite time of year but it's hard to enjoy it here. Now with kids, it's made me realize how very little there is to do in this part of Texas with children when it's this hot outside. The beach is the closest bit of relief you'll get otherwise you need to GTFO.
Get a better job! But you may be on to something for recruiting workers to Ms. My mothers father never had an AC in his house. He also never wore a short sleeve shirt, he said that once you sweated a little and got the long sleeve shirt damp it was cooler.
Probably some truth to that. Many survival experts will tell you a long sleeve is the best bet in a hot environment. It helps keep moisture from wicking away.
At my job men have to wear long pants and shoes. Women can wear sandals and knee length skirts. I keep threatening to transition every summer over this.
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