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The perpetual droughts of the last decade have worn out this family to the point where we're throwing in the towel and looking for somewhere else to live. Even in the Austin area, which has had a good reputation, you see miles and miles of dying trees due to constant drought, no flowers, little or no ability to garden or have a nice lawn for 4 to 6 months per year, and frequent water shortages. All the live music and bar scene in the world isn't enough any more to keep us here. Last evening we were at a dinner party, and the discussion around the table centered on how many of the approximate 30 attendees were making plans to leave. Some are tied to jobs, of course, and can't just close up shop and move easily. Others of us can. Overall, uncontained growth has meant such water shortages that we are forced to choose between saving our homes' concrete foundations and saving our shade trees (what's what happens when you're limited to very short periods when you're allowed to use water outside).
A group at a dinner party is certainly not a large enough data set from which to draw a conclusion that people are leaving or about to leave in droves. But it got us to wondering whether others are feeling the same way we are.
We're seriously looking at the Carolinas, Georgia, or Virginia due to mild enough climates, reliable precipitation, and a pretty good quality of life.
that sucks, but this is an unpresidented drought. To leave just for a drought may not be the best idea, since the eastern south was in a drought just as bad right before we started ours. cities like Atlanta, charlotte were in a terrible drought a few yrs ago. Honestly rain isn't something that east texas is known for lacking, we usually had a fairly wet climate, and not nearly as hot. But this has been a terrible summer tho.
We have NEVER had as bad a drought that TEXAS is having, not even close. I mean you are still topping 100 and Atlanta has had highs in the 60's and 70's already.
Gee, Dallas hit 107 today, ridiculous, poor Texas.................Houston was 104 with a heat index of 122................This is a total nightmare for them...........
Gee, Dallas hit 107 today, ridiculous, poor Texas.................Houston was 104 with a heat index of 122................This is a total nightmare for them...........
Gee, Dallas hit 107 today, ridiculous, poor Texas.................Houston was 104 with a heat index of 122................This is a total nightmare for them...........
Umm.......Temperatures hit a 102 in Houston today but nowhere near the heat index of 122. I'm not sure where you got this data. It was more like 102 or 103 because of the low humidity right now. Still hot nonetheless, but as others have pointed out, this is an unprecedented summer (or year for that matter). Normally depending on where you live in the Houston area, we have about four days of 100 degrees or higher a year. We have shattered that this year and then some with number 45 today. One of the local news stations stated that this was the hottest summer since the mid-1700s according to tree-ring dating. One of the downsides of living in Houston are the hot temperatures from mid-May to the end of September. But on the flip side, temperatures rest of the year have highs that stay between 60-85, which is quite comfortable. Every area besides coastal California and Hawaii in the US are going to have some form of bad weather that affects them sometime during the year, so Houston nor Texas is alone in this regard. Humans have been adjusting to mother nature since are existence, and bad weather didn't strike this decade all of the sudden.
Umm.......Temperatures hit a 102 in Houston today but nowhere near the heat index of 122. I'm not sure where you got this data. It was more like 102 or 103 because of the low humidity right now. Still hot nonetheless, but as others have pointed out, this is an unprecedented summer (or year for that matter). Normally depending on where you live in the Houston area, we have about four days of 100 degrees or higher a year. We have shattered that this year and then some with number 45 today. One of the local news stations stated that this was the hottest summer since the mid-1700s according to tree-ring dating. One of the downsides of living in Houston are the hot temperatures from mid-May to the end of September. But on the flip side, temperatures rest of the year have highs that stay between 60-85, which is quite comfortable. Every area besides coastal California and Hawaii in the US are going to have some form of bad weather that affects them sometime during the year, so Houston nor Texas is alone in this regard. Humans have been adjusting to mother nature since are existence, and bad weather didn't strike this decade all of the sudden.
I hate to tell you but it will be this way for the next year, you (Houston) might not get below freezing this winter as the patterns are not going to allow it..
Umm.......Temperatures hit a 102 in Houston today but nowhere near the heat index of 122. I'm not sure where you got this data. It was more like 102 or 103 because of the low humidity right now. Still hot nonetheless, but as others have pointed out, this is an unprecedented summer (or year for that matter). Normally depending on where you live in the Houston area, we have about four days of 100 degrees or higher a year. We have shattered that this year and then some with number 45 today. One of the local news stations stated that this was the hottest summer since the mid-1700s according to tree-ring dating. One of the downsides of living in Houston are the hot temperatures from mid-May to the end of September. But on the flip side, temperatures rest of the year have highs that stay between 60-85, which is quite comfortable. Every area besides coastal California and Hawaii in the US are going to have some form of bad weather that affects them sometime during the year, so Houston nor Texas is alone in this regard. Humans have been adjusting to mother nature since are existence, and bad weather didn't strike this decade all of the sudden.
You are talking to a brick wall. Brent has a negative and exaggerated agenda against Texas. We've already told him that this summer was unprecedented and not normal but he refuses to listen. To the op or anyone else, this summer again is not normal. Houston is usually in the lower to mid 90s in the summer. Dallas can have hot summers. But this is the hottest in 3 decades.
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