Corvette.Jeff Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 It's getting way to hot here in Texas, yesterday i went out to my car to get some stuff i had in there, and i saw that my little hula' girl was leaning over kinda funny(it was about 110 outside) so i go to straighten it out, and it came off my center console in my hand!!! I've always heard that black cars get hotter than most, but hot enough to melt the glue that was holding the spring on?!?!?! and the foam sticky thing as well!!!! I even have a window cracked open so it wont be so hot in there, dang it gonna be another hot summer in Texas I envy you guys up north p.s. i also put some glazing putty on a model yesterday when it was so hot and left the body outside so the house wouldnt get ensumed by fumes, i went out about an hour later and the putty had cracked!
Harry P. Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 So it's July and you say it's hot in Texas? I'm shocked...
Corvette.Jeff Posted July 14, 2009 Author Posted July 14, 2009 Harri, I personally invite you to come feel the heat in Tejas Last summer it stayed under 110, but it passed that mark this winter, in january it was about 114
Jon Cole Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 I know why it's getting hot in Texas... Last night we watched the Nicholas Cage movie "Knowing"... Sorry, apparently it's the end of the earth. This means I'm probably not going to get as much $$$ for my models as I was hoping for.
Fuel Coupe Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 Im down close to coast so it a wet heat. We have had heat index's well above the 100 deg for all of june and now july...
Corvette.Jeff Posted July 14, 2009 Author Posted July 14, 2009 I know why it's getting hot in Texas... Last night we watched the Nicholas Cage movie "Knowing"... Sorry, apparently it's the end of the earth. This means I'm probably not going to get as much $$$ for my models as I was hoping for. I guess the worlds been ending for longer than i've been alive, i've lived in Texas my whole life and its always been hot
Corvette.Jeff Posted July 14, 2009 Author Posted July 14, 2009 Im down close to coast so it a wet heat. We have had heat index's well above the 100 deg for all of june and now july... Thats they way it is in east Texas, we go over there every now and then to visit some family, and its always so humid and so muggy you cnat even breath I do like going to Dangerfield though
Harry P. Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 Harri, I personally invite you to come feel the heat in Tejas Sure. If you come to Illinois and feel the cold in February here... My youngest daughter is moving to Texas next month... so maybe I will get down there and see for myself...
B_rad88 Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 hey jeff, at least you have the dry heat!!!!!! i am in florida where it topping about 95* But it feels hotter with the dang humidity! it will get so hot, if i go to my car and turn on the a/c full blast right when i get in it, the cold air will crack the windows! it has happened to me before!!!!! i wish i was in washington its 60*s!
Harold Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 I lived in Houston from 1980 to '85, and the big problem was the humidity. You know how bank signs show the temp and time? In Houston, they also showed relative humidity. Hey, when you have gators and cypress trees, you can guess it's gonna be humid. Oh, Spyder, you know Berkely Breathed of 'Bloom County' fame is from Austin? And Emo, sorry 'bout the Hula Girl.
E St. Kruiser50 Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 Harri, I personally invite you to come feel the heat in Tejas Last summer it stayed under 110, but it passed that mark this winter, in january it was about 114 That's why I moved from SoCal, to Portland Oregon. Man the weather is nice here. The Northwest is the only place right now having a reasonable summer, and the evenings are really great. Fishing, camping, and the downtown Portland area are all the best. Great little town.
DR Dubois Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 I envy you guys up north Don't!! Been a terrible summer up here in Northern Ontario. Wet and cold. Wouldn't be surprised if we got some snow!! To bad about the Hula Girl though...
BigGary Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 This summer in Texas seems like Austin in 1980. It was over 107 for about 3 weeks, 135 on the ramp at D/FW airport in Dallas. Fortunately I'm so far North and West that most of the humidity is lost by the time it gets here. I'm NW of Wichita Falls. 60% humidity is high up here. Last spring the humidity was so low that there would be rain clouds overhead and on radar, but it evaporated before it hit the ground! Now its just HOT. Going outside is like walking into an oven. I stay home, close the curtains, leave lights off, don't use the oven, and try not to go outside after 11 a.m. Paint dries fast though. I paint in the evening when its cooled off some, you know, down to about 90 in the garage. Fortunately the building bench is in the spare room/office. Gary
RJWood Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 That's why I moved from SoCal, to Portland Oregon. Man the weather is nice here. The Northwest is the only place right now having a reasonable summer, and the evenings are really great. Fishing, camping, and the downtown Portland area are all the best. Great little town. OK then, I'm movin' to Portland. What ever happened to the Dead Milkmen?
Rick Schmidt Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 Pretty dagnabbed hot here in Oklahoma too was 107 today
Rob Hall Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 (edited) Was 115 here in Phoenix Sunday....15% humidity, though. It's a 'dry heat', they say. 115 is still hot, any way you look at it. But I grew up in E. Ohio and S. Florida, so I know humidity... Got to get back to Colorado some weekend soon, go up to the mountains. Last summer it was about as hot as this...about this time last year, my interior rear view mirror fell off from the heat. I had quite a weather shock last July also--went to my 20th HS reunion in Marathon, Florida---hot and humid, compared to AZ hot and dry. Fla was very uncomfortable! Edited July 15, 2009 by Rob Hall
Jon Cole Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Seriously? Illinoisy in feb?? Try New England from Dec through March (this year Dec to May) Ya boys ever hear of a Nor'easter. They taint no joke come January and February. I used to think a Nor'easter was the worse thing Ol' Man Winter could throw at us, until the Mother Of All Ice Storms nailed us in early December! Try large areas of your state without power or heat up to two weeks! So many trees down, some roads were impassable. I go by the "grass is always greener on the other side" theory. I live in New England, but in '99 we went on vacation to Vegas. It was 106º every day we were there. So everyone just walked on the shaded side of the Strip. Here, the humidity gets so bad, we swat away... fish. And the Black Flies, they fly in formation and attack by the squadron! This summer has been great. We have felt 80º only a few times, with little humidity. Everyone is complaining about the "low" temps, but I'm lovin' it! As long as the sun is out.
MrObsessive Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 I'm with ya there Jon about the cool summer! Here in South Central PA, it's usually in the '90's with the humidity being super brutal. Those on the board that live here and south know how nasty hot it can get here............there's no such thing as "dry heat"! It's only been in the mid '80's so far this summer with tolerable humidity--------we still have August and September to deal with though. Nor'easters have walloped this area in the past which make the winter months for me very annoying! I've come to hate snow, simply because I hate shoveling it!
george 53 Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Bill, getcher self a Self startin snowblower, an you'll have it made! Been here so long, I don't think I could function without snow! I REALLY DO like the stuff! My sis and Parents lived in Edinburg Texas for close to 30 years, an she ALWAYS came up in the winter to catch the snow. My folks an her moved back about 19 years ago. It was kinda ruff on my dad, but he got back inna groove pretty quick. Ya can do pretty well in the snow, ya jus gotta DRESS for it! Invest in a self starting blower, you'll be glad ya did! I am!!!
MrObsessive Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 George, I'd rather be on the inside lookin' out when it snows! In fact a long standing desire of mine is to retire to Puerto Rico where I KNOW it won't snow! But then there are those hurricanes to deal with.............
Jon Cole Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Bill! This is what us snowbelt folks need! This little “Briggs & Stratton†454 ci should move snow! Or, just leave it idling… the heat it throws will melt the stuff! 454 C.I. V-8 SNOWBLOWER:
BigGary Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 George, I'd rather be on the inside lookin' out when it snows! In fact a long standing desire of mine is to retire to Puerto Rico where I KNOW it won't snow! But then there are those hurricanes to deal with............. I recommend Texas to all of you. Very little snow, few ice storms, though I am convinced the "snowbirds" have the right idea. They haul their travel trailers down to South Texas in October and miss the winter snow in the midwest, then go back North in April to avoid the Texas summer heat. I don't know how you would do that with kids and jobs, but it sounds good to me! Gary
torinobradley Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 There is no way I can argue that it is not hot here. It's broken tripple digits pretty much every day since March... But, that's the price you pay when you live someplace that only has three days of winter....
Rob Hall Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 (edited) There is no way I can argue that it is not hot here. It's broken tripple digits pretty much every day since March... But, that's the price you pay when you live someplace that only has three days of winter.... AZ only gets the triple digits between May and Sept, with the worst being July and Aug, and it's a dry heat (was 115 w/ 15% humidity on Sunday). Tolerable, as long as you have good AC (in the office, car, home) and a pool (which I have). I'm still thinking about moving back to Denver full time, though...don't care for the desert that much, and Denver is a much more interesting city w/ a better job market for my thing. I don't mind a little snow. Edited July 15, 2009 by Rob Hall
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