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Is it really humid in Texas? I think it depends on what part of the state your in, but I would say for the most part, yes it is. It’s one of those places that gets hotter after it rains. It’s like being in a hot steamy shower 24/7 during the summer. Oh, let’s not forget the tornados! I can’t speak for the whole state, but I live 30 min from the north Texas border and humidity is bad here. I guess I’m used to it though because I’ve lived here all my life. I never realized just how humid it was until I went to New Mexico and I was like, “I can breathe!” Yet, I’ve heard places like Florida, Georgia, or Louisiana can be even worse in the summer than Texas. The Gulf brings up the humidity. This is a generalization here, but I’ll go out on a limb and say most of the south is pretty humid. Eck, I wish I could move north! I’ll take the cold over 107 degree tornado filled summers any day.
In the winter months with the time change, the sun starts going down as early as 5 pm here and in the summer close to our longest days, it can still be light out at 10 pm or later. I love that so I can stay out late! Although if you try and have campfires in the summer it’s tough if you want to start around 8 or 9 pm and it’s still light out. It’s so ridiculously dry here too! I am always using eye drops and body lotion. Coconut oil is great too for moisturizing skin, smells great and is good for you!
I have been to Florida a few times as I used to work on cruise ships and we would head out from the Miami port a lot and I loved the humidity there! The only thing is that it made my hair look constantly frizzy. When I straighten it here, it stays straight and has static most of the time. When I straightened it down there, the humidity would make it go wavy and puffy and have it looking crazy in a short time! I always had to wear it back or up to contain it.
The only thing about the heat and humidity I didn’t like was the stickiness and being too hot to sleep and the risk of sun burn. Especially when we worked down in the Caribbean, I would have to be very careful about too much sun exposure as I loved the heat and lying on the beach but got a bad burn the first time down there because I didn’t realize how intense the rays were being that close to the equator.
If I had a choice I would probably move to an island or somewhere like Costa Rica with mountains and beaches! I hate the cold and snow up here and I have had to deal with it for 30 years. Although I love the mountains close by here and lakes in B.C. but I only like the weather for half the year! I am trying to get a job with an airline though so I can travel more or move somewhere warmer!
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Ack, tornadoes! Alberta gets those pretty rarely so they’re not much of a concern, but they still creep me out and I have been in places when where there have been tornado warnings. I think I’ll definitely be talking to my buddy about me visiting in the cold season or spring/fall haha. I’m a lot less worried about the wildfires that we get here in summer, because you can usually get enough forewarning to flee those if you have to.
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Ack, tornadoes! Alberta gets those pretty rarely so they’re not much of a concern, but they still creep me out and I have been in places when where there have been tornado warnings. I think I’ll definitely be talking to my buddy about me visiting in the cold season or spring/fall haha. I’m a lot less worried about the wildfires that we get here in summer, because you can usually get enough forewarning to flee those if you have to.
Definitely try to visit outside of tornado season…just in case. The forecast for tornadoes this year is suppose to be the worst since 1991, they say. There’s a high chance for tornadoes this weekend stretching through most of Texas and Oklahoma. YIKES! I live in apartments so I don’t have a storm cellar to run too. :~ It always seems like they strike at night. :(( .
Oh my, if you are THAT heat intolerant, you better plan your trip around the winter time. Trust me, even their winter will feel HOT to you.
As for the ‘new things in grocery store’ ha ha ha ha! I made a comment to my best bud, when I knew I was going to visit Maryland back in the day, “I’m going to see new kinds of trees!” She looked at me so strangely, laughed and responded, “Trees, what about all that new Trim?” Which was our lingo for a good looking fella. It was at that moment that I knew I was cut from a different mold.
When my wonderfully sweet Mother and Father in laws came up here to visit from Argentina, she took PHOTOS of the inside of our grocery stores and he took photos of all the various cars and road systems we had here. So don’t feel goofy at all about that, it’s VERY normal to be excited about different things, even something as simple as how overwhelming, stocked our grocery stores are.
When I went down to Argentina to visit them, oh yeah, we are very lucky in certain regards here in the U.S. And if you’ve never experienced it for yourself, you’d really have no idea how fortunate we are here. But being from a hickville town in FL, I did appreciate their lack of road structure through their small towns and I did appreciate their sparse life style and I definitely LOVED their siesta time.
It’s such an awesome idea to shut down during the hottest part of the day for several hours and reopen at about 4 p.m. And because they did that, they usually were open MUCH later into the evening than we are here. Gaithersburg used to shut down at 9 p.m. and the only thing you had open was a 7-11 (convenient) style store and that was NOT a Podunk town.
And yes, it is very safe to assume that the south is humid, especially when compared to the northern regions. Some are just more humid for longer periods than others. I used to explain to my northern friends, as we road tripped from Maryland back into Florida, that the reason why all them southerners walk and talk slower is because it’s so damned hot down there. You can’t run around in super speed, even talk fast, because even talking burns more energy than you’d realize, because if they did, they’d all keel over from heat exhaustion.
I HAD to get out of Florida. I had acclimated so well to the temperatures (lack of humidity) of Maryland that when I returned to Florida, I experienced three minor heat strokes. It took me approximately 5 years to be able to really do the things I liked, without fear of falling over from a heat stroke. I have pictures of me out trail riding IN THE NIGHT, during a full moon, and my horse was sweaty and all we were doing was walking! Now that’s HOT. It’s the humidity, yes, it was cooler temperature wise, 80’s vs 100 degrees, but when you are walking around in air filled with moisture, well, you just can’t imagine, until you experience it yourself.
It’s like Dragoneer stated when they went to New Mexico, they could suddenly BREATH better, they were not exaggerating. I have NO idea why people think relocating to FL to retire is actually better for their health. It has a cheaper economy yes, but you give up a lot of other things for that cheaper house/piece of land. And that’s not true for the entire state. Certain areas down there are quite expensive, simply because of the influx of “Northern” retiree money and their need to have these super duper sized houses.
A true Cracker doesn’t need that much house.
As a matter of fact, we had no AC in our house or cars when I was growing up down there. Two windows down at 55 mph was our AC. A ceiling fan churning about during the night, creating a breeze as you slept, was our AC. When I was back down there, I still rarely used my AC in the car in FL, it made it worse for me, since I was mostly outdoors. In the shade, but outdoor. I had no control about the AC in the house. I used to have to put on a sweater, in the middle of summer, because 70 degrees from false AC air was chilly. Here, I run around in a shorts and a tank top in mid to high 60 degree weather. Weeeee!
I had another AH HA!! moment after relocating up North. I used to get smoker headaches as a kid. We’d go out riding all day long during the summer. Yay stupid same school schedules all across the United states. They should let kids out DURING the winter months (end of November and into December would be PERFECT for kids down there) and have school during all that super hot weather. No matter, it is what it is and although inflexibility equates to sheer stupidity in my book, we were probably way more tolerant of the temperatures and humidity back then.
Sooo, since I grew up in a real Hickville area, our road structure was all Limerock or sand trails. If you don’t know what Limerock is, it’s very white and is pulverized with chunks of white limerock stone throughout it. Very powdery if it wasn’t getting rained on and yes, if not smoothed out with equipment once a year, it became washboard central with serious pot holes throughout it. We used to joke, ‘Holy Wow, where’s the road to that hole.” And since FL lacked lots and lots of money, if you didn’t have a person down the road with the equipment, the road never got smoothed back out.
So imagine super bright sunlight, riding around all day on WHITE roads and into the woods that became WHITE sand here and there ….
It wasn’t until up here that I first heard the terminology, “Snow Blind”, oh yeah, I had that AH HA! moment. I realized that I had not had a single one of those damned debilitating headaches after relocating.
And to think, the proper hat or even sunglasses would have stopped all that, but we were kids. Who thinks like that when you’re a kid?
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