Texas Heat!

[Bird]

Yep, that's incredible pressure. You could almost pressure wash from a hose end nozzle. I'm wondering how far Bird is from the nearest water tower?

Yep, I gave my pressure washer to a son-in-law since I have no use for it. And if it weren't for the trees across the street, I'd probably be able to see the water tower less than a mile from us, and at a higher elevation, of course.

 

[Bird]

How hot is it? Well, my brother tells me around Waco the birds are having to use potholders to pull the worms out of the ground.

 

[Western]

How hot is it? Well, my brother tells me around Waco the birds are having to use potholders to pull the worms out of the ground.

:laughing::laughing::thumbsup: Bird, you been on a roll..

Sad thing is, I could almost picture that in my head!

 

[LarryD]

And if it weren't for the trees across the street, I'd probably be able to see the water tower less than a mile from us, and at a higher elevation, of course.

Bird, I was in Dallas in May (Mom's 80th ) and while we were going from McKinney to Dallas, I remarked at how many water towers you could see from the highway. Sure is flat around there.

 

[Bird]

Bird, I was in Dallas in May (Mom's 80th ) and while we were going from McKinney to Dallas, I remarked at how many water towers you could see from the highway. Sure is flat around there.

Yep, Larry, it's pretty flat country; generally from 450' to 550' elevation although the southwest corner of Dallas gets pretty hilly with something like 300+' to 600'. And even a lot of native Texans don't know that Texas has mountains taller than anything east of the Mississippi River. Elevation in the Guadalupe Mountains in far west Texas is about 8,742'. But that's a long ways from here.

 

[300UGUY]

I was in Arizona years ago, it was 105 when I got off the plane. I was really shocked at how hot it was. But my aunt kept telling me "it's a dry heat". Dry like a freakin oven!!! If 100+ isn't ****, I don't know what is.

 

[300UGUY]

I was in Arizona years ago, it was 105 when I got off the plane. I was really shocked at how hot it was. But my aunt kept telling me "it's a dry heat". Dry like a freakin oven!!! If 100+ isn't ****, I don't know what is.

This software is pretty neat!! I used a 4 letter word, and it automatically replaced the letters with little stars. Very cool.

 

[Bird]

I was in Arizona years ago, it was 105 when I got off the plane. I was really shocked at how hot it was. But my aunt kept telling me "it's a dry heat". Dry like a freakin oven!!! If 100+ isn't ****, I don't know what is.

Of course I grew up in the days before air-conditioning became common in homes. In fact, I never lived or slept in an air-conditioned home until I bought a little house trailer when I was 19 and worked nights and had to sleep in the daytime so I bought a window unit Fedders air-conditioner.

However, from the time I was 10 or 12 years old, we had an evaporative cooler (frequently called a swamp cooler in those days) in a living room window. Of course it was only used during the day and turned off at night. Those things are still available in stores, but I've almost never seen one used in a home in this part of the country since the 1970s. However, when we spent January, 1989, in Tucson and February, 1989, in Phoenix, we saw lots of them and the odd thing to me was so many homes that had both evaporative coolers and central air or window unit air-conditioners in the same house, since the first adds humidity and the other reduces humidity.

 

[jinman]

Dennis, I was through the thriving metropolis of Springtown today on my way to Weatherford. My wife and I took a trip down to buy some peaches. They are not as big as last year and not nearly as plentiful, but quite sweet and juicy. We bought a half-bushel for $35 and will probably buy another half-bushel from someone locally in Bowie who sells peaches from East Texas. The one's from E. TX are slightly bigger and the same going price for a half-bushel. Last year we were lucky to find very ripe peaches for next to nothing ($2 or $3 per basket), but this year they don't exist. There's something really cool about eating frozen peaches on New Year's Day as we did this year. I don't know if these will last that long.:licking:

 

[pacerron]

Now your bringing back old memories. After spending many hot sweaty months in Texas completing both basic and OTS back in 1966 we were assigned to McClellan AFB in Sacremento. No base housing for new officers in those days. We bought a house trailer and put it at New Castle, CA, one of the best climates I ever lived in around the world. We had a Swamp cooler
in the roof of the hallway and due to the low humidity it did a great job of cooling and adding moisture to the air. Great adventures when not on duty in the mountains around Lake Tahoe.