Posted on 07/01/2011 5:42:50 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
I have rubber received one that was accurate ☺
It might have to do with the North Texas Council of Governments not wanting the tourist to know how hot it is in the Summer.
No one needs them as they are all in the mirrors or dashes these days. Mine has melted.
Just north of Dallas a few years ago, the “1” as in 100 on the sign was stuck on so the temp that moment was 197.
Weather Channel calling for 114 here today (California - general vicinity of Palm Sproings) and 118 tomorrow.....urk
Same here when we took our vehicle to Colorado to go skiing. What is this hyphen to the left of the numbers?
The thermometer on the side of my hot tub building has been pegged for about 8 years now (NE of Dallas)
The bimetal spring has sprung. It went so far around it wont rotate back LoL
I leave it there as a testament to “WTF was I thinking”
A hot tub? In Texas?
Did you move? I thought you were west of Dallas in SW Fort Worth.
Here’s a true weather story......
I grew up on the coast of North Carolina, where it’s hot and humid in the summer, and if we got one snow during the winter that covered the shoes, that ws a lot.
I enlisted in the Navy, left for boot camp on April 26, 1978.
The day I left it was sunny and 78 degrees in Raleigh. Wasn’t thinking, wore jeans, sneakers, t-shirt, and carried a few toiletries in a bag. No coat.
Got on the plane at RDU, flew into Chicago O’Hare. Got there about dark. There are only two seasons in Chicago, winter and the 4th of July. It definitely was NOT the 4th of July. And it’s not called the “Windy City” for nothing. Taxi took me and another guy (who was smart enough to wear a coat) and dumped us off at the gate of Recruit Training Center, Great Lakes, IL. We were told to wait (outide of course) and someone would come get us.
Finally, after almost forever (cold and shivering) we were taken to a barracks. We were issued an ugly raincoat stencilled “Receiving Company” to wear until we got our uniforms the next day. That raincoat was the most beautiful piece of clothing I had ever seen.
Fast forward 7 weeks near the end of boot camp to when we found out where we were going for our training. I wanted to be an Aviation Electronics Tech, which had the schools in first Orlando and then Memphis. What did I get?
Electronics Tech, 10 more months at Great Lakes. And I thought it was cold there in April. I never want to see winter anywhere near Chicago. Lake effect snow SUCKS!!! Shovelling snow every duty day from sidewalks onto piles higher than my head. We used the inside windowsill as a refrigerator, and the outside windowsill as a freezer!!!! Snow drifts chest deep. Nowhere to go, no way to get there.
Luckily, I spent the next 19 years at duty stations or on ships homported in Norfolk, VA. Weather more like home.
BTW, don’t try to swim in Lake Michigan, EVER!!! Went in the water in AUGUST and it took two days for me to find my cajones.
As if being the “Windy City” isn’t bad enough, the wind is always in your face.
I like it
A couple years back we went to Chicago so my wife could run the Chicago Marathon. We stayed with friends in a highrise and the weather was nice. I commented to our Chicago friend that it must be hell commuting to work in the winter. Well, she said she goes down the elevator to the underground garage, gets in her car and drives to the underground garage at her work. Then takes the elevator up to work. Basically, never has to be outside at all.
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