I want to move to TX

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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited July 2011
    gdb wrote: »
    If I move to TX, I'd want to be around San Antonio or Austin, not Dallas:wink:

    Both of which are more humid than DC:tongue:

    I'd much rather be hot than cold. I'll stick with Texas...despite the high humidity:biggrin:
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  • aviator
    aviator Posts: 159
    edited July 2011
    DMara wrote: »
    ...no snow...

    Don't remember if it was in early 1979 or 80; but, you would have been completely amazed at how much snow there was in Alvin down below Houston.
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited July 2011
    decal wrote: »
    Yes it snows (occasioally),Yes they have tornados (urban areas are not immune to them), earthquakes can happen anywhere, and you didn't even mention the "H" word (as in hurricane) or the gang problems. :eek:

    Sorry but you can't call a few minutes of white powder every 5-10 years "snow" :tongue: I've lived here since 1993 and have never experienced any tornado, so another sorry :tongue: Hurricane? Maybe some trees falling once in a while in other areas, but my Katy home didn't even lose power because of any hurricane, final sorry to you :tongue:


    aviator wrote: »
    Don't remember if it was in early 1979 or 80; but, you would have been completely amazed at how much snow there was in Alvin down below Houston.

    Maybe, Larry, but I'd call that a miracle rather than the norm. I've been here since 1993 and may have seen itty bitty snow within a day for 4-5 times max.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited July 2011
    In Texas they call snow tires "mudgrips" .:biggrin:
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  • miner
    miner Posts: 1,305
    edited July 2011
    My Katy home lost power during H. Ike. 36 hrs worth.
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  • newbie308
    newbie308 Posts: 767
    edited July 2011
    One thing I do lack for TX life, is a jacked up Texas truck! I saw some stellar examples of realy nice American made trucks on some realy big agressive tires! Gotta get me one of those!!
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  • aviator
    aviator Posts: 159
    edited July 2011
    [QUOTE=...but I'd call that a miracle rather than the norm....[/QUOTE]

    Not norm but how 'bout this miracle from Galveston: A History by McCcombs, University of Texas Press

    "At times Galveston Bay has frozen. Jane Long experienced such a condition during her fruitless, lonely vigil on Bolivar in 1820-1821 waiting for her husband to return. In 1886, with temperatures a few degrees above zero, the bay froze five miles out to a thickness of two and-a-half inches. Several schooners were caught and one captain died. A twelve-hour snowfall resulted in five-foot drifts...."

    Or how Frozen Point in Galveston Bay got its name in 1895:

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/outdoors/tompkins/6819590.html
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    edited July 2011
    Does anyone remember when it snowed here in Houston on Christmas Eve 2004?
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited July 2011
    Polkie2009 wrote: »
    Does anyone remember when it snowed here in Houston on Christmas Eve 2004?

    Sure do. I have pictures, too. We had spent Christmas Eve day up in DFW and drove back to Katy in the snow. The kids slept, the wife was white-knuckled, and I grew up in South Dakato and just chuckled...
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited July 2011
    yup...i was in corpus at the time with my family. People were sledding on the sand dunes in garbage can lids...i had my first ever snowball fight and got to pee my name in the snow. I have pictures somewhere..haha
    -Cody
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