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soonest_mended

A Year In Texas

Sep 25, 2010 12:53

It has recently come to my attention that some of you fellow Northern-Hemisphere punks are ALREADY HAVING FALL. At the end of September? What are you thinkingThen I realized that not everyone has spent a full year in Texas, and that most of you probably think it's normal to stop getting sunburns in August. So I'm gonna walk you through a year of ( Read more... )

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serenemiss September 25 2010, 21:08:28 UTC

LOL ILU. This is all so true. I'm from the Austin area, but I'm living in Lubbock now for school.

It kinda makes me laugh that right around the first day of fall, the low 80s/high 70s temperatures settled in. I hope it doesn't go back up to the 90s. I'm looking forward to mid/late-October when it really starts to cool off. It's been 60s/some 50s at night here for a couple of weeks, but I'm looking forward to those temperatures during the day! :) Also, it's drier here, so the humidity doesn't exacerbate the cold like it does at home. It can be in the 20s and all the outerwear I need (for walking to class, etc, anyway) is a hoodie. I'm hoping for snow this winter but I've heard this area (whole Panhandle?) is in for a pretty dry winter. Poo.

soonest_mended September 25 2010, 21:14:58 UTC

I have, like, no experience with the panhandle, other than tearing through it at 75 mph on sudden summer road trips. Kinda sounds like heaven, though, with temps like that!

Also I envy your ability to survive in a hoodie in sub-freezing weather. I might hate the heat, but I looooove to be warm. 20s cold finds me huddled in my house, diluting alcohol with hot chocolate.

serenemiss September 26 2010, 04:53:02 UTC

Well, I wouldn't stay outside for longer than, say, 30 minutes with only a hoodie on, but it's really not bad. I was here in February for an admitted students visit day, and it was in the low 20s when I got up that morning to come to campus. It probably warmed up to low/mid 30s at most. My hands and legs were cold (from sitting on a bench outside for a while), but otherwise I was fine. When I was going to school in San Angelo, I wore flip flops to class one morning when it was like 25 degrees or something. When it's dry it's really not anywhere near as bad ( ... )

dextrosinistral September 26 2010, 06:44:39 UTC

Yeah, pretty much the whole panhandle has dry winters. This past one was weird, though -- we got a shit-tonne of snow from mid-December until the beginning of February (including one storm that made my drive back from TXK look like a post-apocalyptic zombie nuclear winter).

jane_potter September 25 2010, 23:25:52 UTC

"It has recently come to my attention that some of you fellow Northern-Hemisphere punks are ALREADY HAVING FALL. At the end of September? What are you thinking?LMFAO. Maybe that we got tired of constant cloud and rain interspersed by ugly, soggy days where there are still clouds but they're just not spitting water, and decided instead we'd rather have constant cloud and snow interspersed by bitter, freezing cold days where the windchill drives temperatures down to -40 C, easily, with the occasional day where we see a bright light in the sky and vaguely remember that it used to give us heat rather than snowblindness. Give us two months, we'll snap out of it. XD ( ... )

soonest_mended September 25 2010, 23:44:54 UTC

Dang. Any chance you could send some of that down our way? Today started with a thunderstorm and is now pressing for 90.

jane_potter September 26 2010, 00:33:48 UTC

Oh, the irony. Today was the first really nice summer day we've had... well, all summer. And it's not summer any more. :| It was sunny, clear and just under 30 C (around 80 F, I think?), and we're supposed to be getting that for the next week, which I'll believe when I see it. If I could send you some of our rain, though I would. At least it would spare me the media's wailing about all the crops rotting in flooded fields. >_

soonest_mended September 26 2010, 00:38:52 UTC

ugh 30 C? that sounds delicious. okaaay, I won't steal your hoarded hours of precious sun... but I would be happy to trade you places!

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soonest_mended September 26 2010, 00:30:21 UTC

I was a little worried about all the Houston-bashing in this post, but then I thought about it and honestly, I was quite nice to the Houstonians. That place is absolute and total hell. There are a couple of nice patches off in the direction of Tomball and Hockley (which have been swallowed up by the monster city) but it sounds like you were closer to Bay City, which is like living in a pool of diarrhea.

65 degree weather in October? GET ME OUT OF THIS HELL. THIS IS PROOF THAT THERE ARE BETTER PLACES.