Posted on 06/16/2004 3:40:58 PM PDT by freedom44
Come on down to the southeastern US. We'll give you some sweet tea. You'll stay forever.
I've of course heard of the odd accident here and there with your shiny new tramline (WONDERFUL name, btw!), but I'd absolutely no idea the stats were that bad. Wow.
You folks make our local tramline boondoggle, Metro-Klunk
(Their Motto: ''Metro-Link -- Leading The Way In Light Rail ... Cost Overruns!'')
look positively benign by comparison. This batch of bozos is so pathetic that they had actually begun construction into AN OPERATING CEMETERY before anyone thought to ask if perhaps this was a poor idea. The settlement for this fiasco was ''only'' a couple of million, a mere bagatelle, but this lot think that ''staying on Budget'' means ''not switching to Hertz''. (grrrr!)
Ah, yes, nothing like tax dollars at work, eh? (groan)
I'm a Houston gal, too. And hoping to get back there ASAP. Only a Texan with a secure sense of her heritage could have told it like it was! Regards, and hope to meet you one day at a Houston FReeper event!
When do you think you're comin' home? Any ETA, or just sometime not now? We will welcome you home with all the Shiner, ribs, and Blue Bell you can hold.
Like most soldiers assigned to Ft. Bliss, I came here kickin' and screamin'. However, the vast majority of people that have been here a while love it!
As far as the climate, yes its hot, but the RH is low (that's why we can use evaporative coolers (swamp coolers) instead of air conditioning units)
You know that is the only place I haven't lived yet. Visited fairly often, just not lived.
I must admit I like my tea unsweetened.
We hope to be back there permanently within the next year. In the Lake Houston area. In the meantime, I will enjoy Blue Bell vicariously through you! I've been gone from Texas since 1974, and Blue Bell is at the top of the list as one of those things I miss the very most!
I'm not even reading this thread. I live in Hershey, PA. Enough said.
Obviously the media either thinks that somehow this story will hurt President Bush, or they are too stupid and lazy to check the facts before publishing 'science' articles. El Paso's humidity is nowhere close to 70%, not even in the mornings. Try 30% on summer afternoons.
Avg. Relative Humidity charts for US cities:
http://www.met.utah.edu/jhorel/html/wx/climate/rh.html
And Dew Point is a better indicator of comfort/discomfort(though obviously related to Relative Humidity.) Average Dew Points by city:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/climate/wusaclim.htm
How embarrassing, to claim to be a 'research scientist' yet gain national publicity for a sloppy error that should have stuck out like a sore thumb. El Paso is a near desert area.
Yep, El Paso has the best climate in Texas.
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