Alpine/Marathon Texas (El Paso, Abilene, Midland: house hunting, trip , job)

[ShutterWeb]

Originally Posted by leorah

The photos were great! Please post more soon. We have another year here in humid New England before we can head to the Alpine area. On our trips there we have found the people very friendly and helpful. Hope you enjoy your stay there. We're jealous!!

The New England is an area my husband and I really want to visit sometime!!

Alpine and Marathon are very humid right now, and we have decided that people out there are lying, lol, they say its never as windy as it is right now, but it is windy ALL the time there. So until we see otherwise, they are full of it, ha! Watching some of the weather clouds come in from the gulf is something else, let me tell ya. I have some camera phone pics of those that I can post.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by ShutterWeb

The New England is an area my husband and I really want to visit sometime!!

Alpine and Marathon are very humid right now, and we have decided that people out there are lying, lol, they say its never as windy as it is right now, but it is windy ALL the time there. So until we see otherwise, they are full of it, ha! Watching some of the weather clouds come in from the gulf is something else, let me tell ya. I have some camera phone pics of those that I can post.

LOL!!! Humid?? Well, right now at 9:37MDT the humidity in Alpine is 22%, Marathon, 17%...ABQ's, 26%.....

You're making me homesick.

[catman]

Alpine/Marfa/Ft Davis is my favorite part of Texas. I love that area, but if you need something that you can't get in any of those towns, you've got to go a long way to get it. Here in Ft Worth, it's 99 degrees with 30% humidity. I'm not going out for a few hours.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by catman

Alpine/Marfa/Ft Davis is my favorite part of Texas. I love that area, but if you need something that you can't get in any of those towns, you've got to go a long way to get it. Here in Ft Worth, it's 99 degrees with 30% humidity. I'm not going out for a few hours.

I wish that were not true (the isolation)....because as you know, I love it too.

It was 103 here yesterday, with 10% humidity (thank God for small favors on that). It felt like a blast furnace. I take heart in that it was not as bad as Midland, which has had record-breaking temps of 106...Wink, 112.....

I hate this. I am ready for late fall.

[leorah]

The humidity in my part of SE Massachusetts was 84% this morning, and right now it's 58%. New England is beautiful; it's green in the spring and summer and the fall colors are marvelous. However, spring and summer are humid, even at the beach. The fall is crisp and cool and delightful, but then comes winter. Damp, raw, dark, cloudy, slushy, muddy, snowy,interminable... you get the picture!

[wyatthiggins]

Originally Posted by ShutterWeb

What will your husband be doing? Will you have kids attending the school there? I am not sure if you will be looking for a job there, thogh for once I won't be working but going to school full time, I didn't see to much available, however, I wasn't looking much.

Glad you like the pictures!

My husband is in law enforcement. We are hoping that there will be an opening in Alpine come Sept. We have a 2 year old. I will be staying at home with him for a little while but I plan to eventually go back to work. If anyone has any info about the schools there, I'd be more than happy to hear about it. Good schools are very important to us.

ShutterWeb, please post more pictures when you can. I love looking at them.

[wyatthiggins]

What?? There's humidity in Alpine?? DARN!!! I was hoping to get away from the humidity. And it's windy? Does the wind ever stop?

[wyatthiggins]

According to this map, it's less humid in Alpine than where I am now (Louisiana). I just want to get away from this dang humidity...I can't breath

Regional Map : Weather Underground

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by wyatthiggins

According to this map, it's less humid in Alpine than where I am now (Louisiana). I just want to get away from this dang humidity...I can't breath

Regional Map : Weather Underground

ANY place in West Texas is going to be FAR less humid than any place in Louisiana, LOL!!

Wind is endemic to all of WT, so if you want to live there, you're going to have to get used to it!

I'll take low humidity and wind over the high humidity in Central/South/East TX and Louisiana any day. 22% is NOTHING compared to what you put up with there.

Right now...beautiful downtown Alpine, 97 degrees, with 10% humidity.

[wyatthiggins]

Thank you Cathy4017, you made me feel better I can't wait to get out of this humidity.