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On 6/18/2024 at 12:29 PM, DaysOff said:

Zero degrees with a tornado. I'll take it, I guess. ee3f65934b4b7f2db127fbff5cf89f66.jpg

That's the wind chill working to your advantage. 

 

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Have a 2 week vacation lined up for the second half of July to mexico city so I'm hoping the next 2 weeks aren't ridiculous. Looks like dfw has a temperature break coming in 4 days too. Hopefully it lasts until.the 17th when we fly out. My tolerance has changed i think. I'll take this past June every year moving forward. Yes last week kinda sucked at right around 98-100 but it didn't feel oppressive to me. 

It's when it's 100 at 11am and 108 by 3pm where you'll hear me start screaming. So far so good. Hopefully I'll just be upset in August. I can handle 1 month a year of bullshit temps. 

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I did a 10 mile hike with a full pack yesterday morning out at Lake Georgetown.  I started about 6:45am.  The sun was behind the clouds until about 10am and it was tolerable.  When the sun came out, I was not having fun.  The last mile was brutal and I'm glad I had a car with AC.

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8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I did a 10 mile hike with a full pack yesterday morning out at Lake Georgetown.  I started about 6:45am.  The sun was behind the clouds until about 10am and it was tolerable.  When the sun came out, I was not having fun.  The last mile was brutal and I'm glad I had a car with AC.

I drank a lot of beer on Canyon Lake yesterday. The last hour wasn't that brutal because I jumped out of the boat and just floated in the water with a Mexican wide brim hat on my head.

Sunburnt and a little drunk, I stopped off at a local restaurant for some catfish, fried okra and sliced tomatoes.

I then punished myself this morning working out for the fried food and beer consumed. But seriously, drinking on the lake and fried food will get you through the summer with a smile.

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19 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

spent a week in vancouver and on the washington coast and when we landed at midnight on friday and stepped outside it was like a gut punch of humidity and heat. fuck this.

Always the worst part of Summer trips to visit my wife's friends in Aspen. After a week spent in temps ~78/48 and dry, you land back in Houston and it's 97 and 100% humidity, an extremely unpleasant sensation that hits you the second you step into the jetway. Makes you start re-thinking your life choices on the drive back home from the airport.

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ATL here but we need rain bad. My lawn is fried even with daily sprinklers and the trees have given up and are dropping leaves like it’s fall. I’m cleaning out the pool twice a day. Low humidity in June was very nice but the lack of rain really sucks. 

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1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

Always the worst part of Summer trips to visit my wife's friends in Aspen. After a week spent in temps ~78/48 and dry, you land back in Houston and it's 97 and 100% humidity, an extremely unpleasant sensation that hits you the second you step into the jetway. Makes you start re-thinking your life choices on the drive back home from the airport.

You have a lot more money in the bank because you live in Texas. 

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5 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

Always the worst part of Summer trips to visit my wife's friends in Aspen. After a week spent in temps ~78/48 and dry, you land back in Houston and it's 97 and 100% humidity, an extremely unpleasant sensation that hits you the second you step into the jetway. Makes you start re-thinking your life choices on the drive back home from the airport.

We drove back from Vail a few weeks ago, and although the temperature shift was gradual, the geography/culture shift was not.

We drove back on the back side of the Rockies through New Mexico and hit Amarillo from the west side.

Even in northern New Mexico heading east to the Texas border there were plateaus, hills, extinct volcanos, rolling high grass praries, and other lovely features.

As soon as we hit the Texas border it was a hell scape of desolate flat scrub and monoculture dotted with grain silos and Dollar Generals.

The drive got better a bit latter, but that is some bullshit up there.

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12 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

We drove back from Vail a few weeks ago, and although the temperature shift was gradual, the geography/culture shift was not.

We drove back on the back side of the Rockies through New Mexico and hit Amarillo from the west side.

Even in northern New Mexico heading east to the Texas border there were plateaus, hills, extinct volcanos, rolling high grass praries, and other lovely features.

As soon as we hit the Texas border it was a hell scape of desolate flat scrub and monoculture dotted with grain silos and Dollar Generals.

The drive got better a bit latter, but that is some bullshit up there.

That’s why I always go through big bend on way back

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On 6/26/2024 at 7:03 AM, BabaYaga said:

It's a carry over from the "Junction Boys" mentality.  The same "boys" got the absolute crap beat out of them that next season because they were so depleted.  Back in the day smaller, thinner kids could operate better in the heat.  Now that HS kids are the size of NFL players, not so much.  

Back in the day, smaller, thinner posters could operate better in the heat.

Just being honest, including myself. 

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6 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

We drove back from Vail a few weeks ago, and although the temperature shift was gradual, the geography/culture shift was not.

We drove back on the back side of the Rockies through New Mexico and hit Amarillo from the west side.

Even in northern New Mexico heading east to the Texas border there were plateaus, hills, extinct volcanos, rolling high grass praries, and other lovely features.

As soon as we hit the Texas border it was a hell scape of desolate flat scrub and monoculture dotted with grain silos and Dollar Generals.

The drive got better a bit latter, but that is some bullshit up there.

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52 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

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I had to make that trip once a month for several months for Army Reserve stuff.  There were places where you could fall asleep, drive off the road, and not realize it until you're wrecking some fence.

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3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

This could go in a couple of threads, but heard this morning that the Permian Basin uses (or is primed to use) as much energy as the Houston metro area.  I'm sure those bitcoin miners aren't a problem though.

I’m sure nobody cares that a lot of it goes back to China or other places outside of the US either.

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24 minutes ago, Okie State said:

We're in Santa Fe for the week and the weather is perfect. Summer trips like this remind me that I don't know where I'll retire, but it sure as shit won't be Houston.

My in-laws are in New Hampshire at some lakeside cabin and every few Facebook updates, I show my wife and point out that they are smiling and outside and having fun and not looking like they just stepped out of a sauna.  Just have to get the family up to that area for a Christmas to show the, it’s not as bad as it seems.

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We're in Santa Fe for the week and the weather is perfect. Summer trips like this remind me that I don't know where I'll retire, but it sure as shit won't be Houston.

Yep. We were in New Mexico and now Arizona (grand canyon/sedona /flagstaff). Not bad at all

Not looking forward to going back to Austin hellscape. But at least there may be a hurricane coming
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Yea it's cloudy and 70 in flower mound right now at 5pm in July.   A cool north breeze. Feels like Oct-Nov  Fuck ya I'll take it. Each day below 100 from July- August is a blessing. Looks like at least a week of below 95 degree temps. Unheard of recently. 

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3 hours ago, wild_turkey said:


Yeah, the weather apps are wrong. It’s sprinkling and the breeze is cool. Amazing start to the weekend.

cool front pushing through N Texas.  In fucking July.  Super jealous.  

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It's over 100f in the fucking coast mountains of Oregon right now.  113f yesterday set an all time high for my area, breaking a 120 yr old record just like in Death Valley.  I've only seen it over 100f once in 25 years before this week.  At least the ocean and rivers provide relief, but I'd still trade with Houston right now.  Never thought I'd say that about a summer day.

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20 minutes ago, OregonHorn said:

It's over 100f in the fucking coast mountains of Oregon right now.  113f yesterday set an all time high for my area, breaking a 120 yr old record just like in Death Valley.  I've only seen it over 100f once in 25 years before this week.  At least the ocean and rivers provide relief, but I'd still trade with Houston right now.  Never thought I'd say that about a summer day.

Dude, be very careful. That is some "cursed monkey paw" shit you're saying right there.

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14 hours ago, 6th Street said:

Breckenridge was slammed this week. Crowds everywhere - gondola, hiking trails, bars etc. And roughly half of it felt like people from Texas escaping the heat. 

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I wasn't in Breck but I'm slumming at 9000 feet in the mountains between Golden and Nederland. It was 40 degrees this morning. It's supposed to get hot as fuck this week in Golden, but up here, it's 80s/50s. Went on 2 hikes yesterday. Playing golf this afternoon. I get to do this for an entire month before I have to go back to the Texas shithole. 4 more years until retirement in Colorado.

 

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Gotta be good news in mid july when there has been 1 post in blastfurnace in the last 3 days and it's been about fucked up temps in Colorado. 

So far so good. This has been a decently hot summer so far but not blast furnace hot, at least with what it has been the past 2 summers. Even the 10 day is not awful and that takes us toward end of July. Then it's just worrying about August and maybe a week or 2 in Sept. One day at a time. 

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On 7/7/2024 at 6:29 PM, OregonHorn said:

It's over 100f in the fucking coast mountains of Oregon right now.  113f yesterday set an all time high for my area, breaking a 120 yr old record just like in Death Valley.  I've only seen it over 100f once in 25 years before this week.  At least the ocean and rivers provide relief, but I'd still trade with Houston right now.  Never thought I'd say that about a summer day.

If you aren’t sitting in your underwear on your new sheets that are now yellow with sweat with nothing but a box fan blowing on you, no one in Htown wants to fucking hear it. If it wasn’t 85f in your bedroom Monday night because you hadnt cleared all the tree from your window to be able to open it, I don’t want to hear it. 

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