Hot on Houston?

[B.G. Smith]

Dear Diary:



May 30th: Just moved to Houston Texas. OK... Now this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! Watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.



June 14th: Really heating up. Got to 100F (38C) today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.



June 30th: Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.



July 10th: The temperature hasn't been below 100 (38C)! all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.



July 15th: Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. ) Missed 2 days of work, what a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.



July 20th: I missed Morgan (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and exploded all over the $2,000 leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and ****S. No more pets in this heat.



July 25th: The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.



July 30th: Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. $1,500 in damn house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?



Aug. 4th: It's 115F (46C) degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down a little, but this freaking humidity makes the house feel like it's about 90. Stupid repairman ****** in my pool. I hate this stupid city.



Aug. 8th: If another wise ass cracks, "Hot enough for you today?", I'm going to tear his throat out. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like a dead cat!!



Aug. 9th: Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my ass was on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass. Now my car smells like burnt ass and fried cat.



Aug. 10th: The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. ! Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do **** for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this barren damn desert?? Water rationing will be next, so $1700 worth of cactus just might dry up and blow into the damn pool. Even the cactus can't live in this heat.



Aug. 14th: Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 113F (45C) today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $1500 house payment to bail me out of jail

 

[HVAC]

YIKES!!!

Man that was a good one!



Living in AK for a spell changed my temp tolerances forever. The central valley in CA is not as bad as some areas I've been to since the humidity is nonexistant. It's still to hot for me at 90* or so. I live on the ocean and it's 71* now and the fog is in and out today.

 

[lschultz]

T E X A S

Welcome to Texas. It just don't get any better than this. You will adjust or?

 

[BV]

This was a goodn'. It's been warmer than ususal here but not that bad.

 

[Bob Wagner]

BG sorry to hear your problems

 

[Gray Ghost]

Don't tell him it gets better. Maby we can get one more to leave town. 1 less on the freeway. HE HEOo.

 

[lizzyhermit]

cool off

when you need some relief drop by Phoenix. at least there's no humidity! loved the cat thing...

 

[klenger]

Diary of a snow shoveler

 

[lgibson]

klenger, sounds like me when I moved to Alaska from Las Vegas. I lived in South Tx. , Southern Cal. , Nevada, and Az. then moved to Alaska. What a change. I had 85 degree weather in January on Padre Island, and this was after a northern blew in. I had -45 degrees in Fairbanks in January and this was before a cold front moved in. I used to think that on movies when it shown it snowing with the wind blowing it was cold. Nope how about no clouds in the sky and sunny, now that is cold.

I still love Alaska and own a house in Anchorage. I just don't care for the long winters.

You know when you drive to the store and you have to stop in a parking space and back up, go forward, back up and go forward again just to cool your tires enough so they don't freeze to the ice on the road. How about stopping at a light and have the sheet of ice your driving on break away and slide you across the intersection.

One of these days I am going back to live, This Oregon raining winter is worse than the cold. But for now I have to be here

 

[JR2]

Hello from sunny Anchorage Alaska where it is a hot 63 degrees today... ... .



There is one thing about cold, you can dress for it. With heat you can only take off so many clothes till the arrest you for being naked in the Kroger frozen food section.





I had to go to a work training class in Houston in August/Sept/Oct of 95. Working in a non airconditioned garage was hell for a guy that was born and raised in Ak.

 

[WDaniels]

Been in the high 80's for the last two, almost three weeks. Summer finally hit in Fairbanks. Of course it is unpredictable here. Had frost in alot of areas in Fairbanks on 4th of July. They said that this the coldest spring and summer on record. Now we are suppose to be moving into our rainy season. Who knows what is going to happen. Hope you guys enjoy your summer. Just be thankful. When things cool down and you start enjoying the 70's we are snowing and cold.

WD.

 

[klenger]

My father-in-law lives in Fairbanks, and my wife grew up there. You may have noticed my thread on parking an RV in Tucson. That's where we are heading. I hate to leave Colorado, but Arizona seems like a reasonable change to me. I don't want any more snow than Denver, and would like even less. I grew up in Grand Rapids Mi. Other than family and the lakes there, I don't miss it much.

 

[Wayno]

B. G. 's profile say's Port Neches? So I guess he moved from there to Houston????? Well ,welcome to Houston--------- Wonder how long it's gonna take you before you decide to move back??????????

 

[B.G. Smith]

Should have been "Hot in Houston"

Hey Wayno, I'm the one driving the white CTD pulling a fifth wheel that you followed out of Brenham a couple of years ago when we were going to Belton lake for the Dallas area chapter of the TDR get together. I still live in Port Neches, I love Houston and go there often to "chill out". This was something that someone forwarded to me, author unknown by me. It sounds pretty realistic though except the cat blowing up, I figured as tough as cats are that they would get as big as a garbage bag before going off. bg

 

[Wayno]

Ain't no Chill-in around here right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!