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Moving To Texas.......

gibson-r8

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Mine read slightly different.

1996

June 14th - closed on the house
July 4th - Moved in. Record heat streak and drought. 105 every day that week.
Aug 1st - Began looking for places in Wyoming to retire to.

I can relate to that. In 1998 I moved from Albuquerque to Houston around the end of may. Next 23 days or so it NEVER GOT BELOW 100. I learned that air conditioning is life support. lasted 15 years, did some incredible stuff, and moved back to Albuquerque. But Texas can grow on you.. I miss Mike Fuller's Vintage Guitar's nd Bart Witrock's Rockin Robin... I surely do..
 

Pat Boyack

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My first day in Dallas (Aug 17th, 1991) it got up to 107 degrees. I survived.

As far as music in Temple, good luck. Not much it anything there but you are just an hour from Austin.

The good news is that you will be 5 miles or less from Belton, Texas which is the home of Schoepf's BBQ!! Right off I35.
 

Stephens

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My first day in Dallas (Aug 17th, 1991) it got up to 107 degrees. I survived.

As far as music in Temple, good luck. Not much it anything there but you are just an hour from Austin.

The good news is that you will be 5 miles or less from Belton, Texas which is the home of Schoepf's BBQ!! Right off I35.

Thanks for the tip! We drove by Schoepf's when we were house hunting a few weeks ago. We will definitely give it a try.
 

Monica

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A classic tale about moving to Texas [Dallas].

May 30th:

Just moved to Dallas. Now this is a city that knows how to

live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I

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 100 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 lawn for me.

Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:

The temperature hasn't been below 100 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 3 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 died and

swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2,000 leather

upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like

Kibbles and shits. I learned my lesson though. 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 not working 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 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today.

It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85, but this freaking

humidity makes the house feel like it's about 95. Stupid repairman. I hate this stupid city.

Aug. 8th:

If another wise ass asks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going

to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is

boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked 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 hair, fried ass, and baked cat.

Aug. 10th:

The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and

sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do shit for 2

damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week.

Doesn't it ever rain in this damn desert? Water rationing now, so my

$1700 worth of cactus just dried up and blew into the damn pool. Even

the cactus can't live in this damn heat.

Aug. 14th:

Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 115 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.

Freaking Texas. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?

:laugh2: quite true about Texas. have been living there for 3 years.
 

CastaMario

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mattnew33

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I travel to Austin Texas and Rochester Minnesota quite often for work. I have 2 rules...

Don't go to Rochester in January
Don't go to Austin in August.



I broke rule 2 this year and was there the last week of August, as we were walking out of the office a local co-worker said to me...."You picked a good week to come down, its cool this week..." I looked at her funny and went and got in my car.... the temperature gauge read 101....
 
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