Posted on 05/28/2014 5:19:36 AM PDT by cotton1706
but is it always hot and dry down there?”
Actually no. We have had 7 inches of rain just this last week and probably more on the way. But it is always raining somewhere in Texas - hits in a torrent but sun comes out brightly shortly thereafter. Last winter was way too cool by my standard of it should never be colder than my age and it was rare to have to turn on the A/C, even during the middle of the day.
Yankee transplants are welcome providing they have left their liberal views behind, learn to quit talking with a funny accent and understand that we are the way we are just because that’s the way it is.
I spent one summer at NTSU and the humidity was horrid.”
But we save a whole lot of money on moisturizer and lotion. I live about halfway between Houston and Galveston. Thus far this year we’ve only had one day over 90 and way tooooo many under 70 to suit me, and humidity has been almost non-existent.
In the summer, it's hot. But, it's not necessarily dry.
West Texas has an arid climate. But, south and south central Texas are humid, thanks to weather patterns that bring in moisture from the Gulf.
East and northeast Texas are heavily wooded.
We are still married, happily I might add, and have been for 36 years. Actually he had left TX two years before we met and he made the promise before we wed. It wasn’t something I pulled on him after he said “I do.”
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