WOW......how do you deal with the HOT weather? (Houston: how much, move to)

[Ron.]

Gee thanks.......

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

I'd be very surprised if they don't. I don't live there, so I don't know about all of them (heck, I live in the Austin area and don't know about all the ones just outside my front door!), but I do try to make a few down that way - RenFest, International Quilt Festival, sometimes the rodeo, and a few others.

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[Cathy4017]

I don't deal with it any more in Texas, and it won't be too long before I don't deal as much with it in NM, either!!

Refrigerated air, car AC, staying indoors as much as possible during the hottest parts of the day...and ice-cold beer.

Having said all that, I will take 102 or more in TX over a Chicago winter. I have NEVER been that cold in my life, and the high humidity has a LOT to do with it. Both areas you have named are not only hot in the summer, they're like a sauna because of the humidity. In both cases, the higher humidity worsens the perception of either hot or cold.

Dry heat in the Panhandle and West Texas is more bearable, but still a lot hotter than I like. I look back and wonder how I stood it for 50+ years. I suppose it's because I still love Texas--and always will, hot weather notwithstanding.

[Rakin]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

I look back and wonder how I stood it for 50+ years. I suppose it's because I still love Texas--and always will, hot weather notwithstanding.

There is a direct correlation between the heat & your age. The older you are the hotter a 100 degree day feels.

I think the Aggies actually proved this a few years back.

[Philip T]

Go to Colorado or Canada for the Summer?

People seem a lot dumber than the animals that used to roam here. Even the Canadian Geese and Bison understand migration.

[D-Towner]

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

Ask Stan4 as he is the one that said it. Of course, you can't; I believe he was just kidding, but some people really do run them awfully cold which is ridiculous and a waste of energy. They must be wimps when it comes to the brutal heat.

Hmmm...judging from some of your posts that defame Texas solely on its summertime heat and humidity and the need to use the a/c much more than other parts of the country, I thought you might actually be saying that people could get frostbite from an a/c unit because they had to use it so much in this state

[WillysB]

I had lived in Houston for about 25 adult years and decided I wanted a break from the heat, so I moved to Dallas.

At one time I had no appreciation for Houston's heat and humidity other than being good outdoor weather. Then I read Larry McMurtry's book, 'All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers' and at once became native with the weather. ('Terms of Endearment' is said to be a follow up to the above McMurtry book).

But to cope? A breeze, a shade tree and a collllllllllllllllld beer.

[stan4]

Originally Posted by D-Towner

Hmmm...judging from some of your posts that defame Texas solely on its summertime heat and humidity and the need to use the a/c much more than other parts of the country, I thought you might actually be saying that people could get frostbite from an a/c unit because they had to use it so much in this state

Yes. 78 is cool enough for me, but I have friends who have to take cardigans and jackets to work in the summer b/c they keep the office buildings so cold! No thanks!

[awecelot]

Check out the thread about Texas Rivers...there's no better way to cool off in the summer than to take a weekend trip and tube down a river.

[texasdreamin]

Originally Posted by awecelot

Check out the thread about Texas Rivers...there's no better way to cool off in the summer than to take a weekend trip and tube down a river.

Yeah, but it's kinda hard to do that when you are in your 60's

I'm not living there, yet, because I have to retire, first...but when I do come, I will be building my new home. I hope to build it so that I can be comfortable without running the ac so high. I actually hope to build solar, but won't know until that time comes. As far as the outdoors, I am originally from Indiana. When I was young, summer felt blazing AND humid. You'd wake up at 5am and it was hot. You go to bed and it is still hot at midnight. We'd sweat all night. We didn't have any air. I don't even remember having a fan, at night. It was miserable, but we would play outside all day. That was when I was a child. In my older age, I'm an indoor person, so that part won't be too hard. It's just when I have the need to go out somewhere. Which two months are your absolute hottest? I think I may spend those with my kids on the west coast.

[stan4]

I would say July and August. In Dallas. Can't speak for Houston. Houston always seems humid to me.