Our group at the factory in Tyler, with 2750 degree molten cast iron being poured in the background. The folks working there are amazing.

Love the helmets!

quote:

Originally posted by chbibc:
The folks working there are amazing.

A said to be one of the most dangerous places to work or at one time was not long ago.

We live in a Dallas suburb—-glad you came and had a good time!

Does it get hot in Texas?? I have a cousin in New Orleans. He says for three or for months
leave your A/C house, to your A/C car, to your A/C job, and don't set foot outside!
I hate hot humid weather.

quote:

Originally posted by Schmelby:
Does it get hot in Texas??

Does it get hot in Texas? As Cheech and Chong used to say, "Does Howdy Doody have wooden balls?"

Well, summer starts officially June 20th or so? We saw a hundo a few days ago. Yeah, it gets hot.

It was 100° Thursday here. It’s been very humid because of all the rain we’ve gotten. So, yeah it gets hot here Schmelby.

Hot? It's a special kind of hot. 100+ temps with 85%+ humidity.

quote:

Originally posted by Schmelby:
Does it get hot in Texas?? I have a cousin in New Orleans. He says for three or for months
leave your A/C house, to your A/C car, to your A/C job, and don't set foot outside!
I hate hot humid weather.

It’s Satan’s ass hole from May to the end of September. Humidity is high, 80-90%, and last summer we had 106 degree days + that humidity for a few months on end. Peaked at 98 today, still 96 as I type this at 5:45pm CST. It won’t go under 80 degrees until 1am. And this is just June. July and August are much worse. Your cousin is right. The joke here is say you walk out of your front door to your vehicle. You’ll be sweating before you can even get the AC cranked up good. Same from a brick and mortar to your vehicle. Yes it’s that hot. When I mow the yard, I need a good hour for my body temp to come down enough so that I can take a shower and not keep sweating. If I take a shower after I mow, I’ll still be sweating through fresh clean clothes for an hour. I can deal with the heat on a motorcycle, in my full suit because it’s perfed, and I ride pretty hard and fast. So with the wind constantly flowing through the perforated holes in the suit I’m good for a few hours but need to stop and hammer Gatorade. On the lake, I can do maybe 2 hours on the ski. I’ll take breaks, and hang off the back of it in the water to try and get my body temp down. Even hammering Gatorade the entire time, my body can’t keep up so after 2 short hours I’m fried, and have to get off the lake. Don’t want to take the risk of heat stroking out on a supercharged ski that goes 72 mph. Too dangerous.

There are no mountains here. Not in the major metros, it’s all flat. We have no ocean. The Gulf doesn’t count as it’s a shithole. The water quality between the Pacific and the Gulf is night/day. Plus you can drive to the beach in Galveston or Corpus areas and you get out of the truck, and millions of mosquitoes. The lakes are green, all mud bottoms. Then we have extreme weather. Flood rain, hail, tornadoes. We are in the South End of what is referred to as “Tornado Alley”. It runs all the way through OK, into Kansas. It’s an extreme weather state that has extreme weather homeowners insurance. Mine has gone up 1k per year each of the last several years.

And with millions flooding in from other states, the last thing we had going for us was cost of living. It used to be good here. Not anymore. It’s gone for good. House, anything decent, is 500k+ now. House on my street just sold for $540k. Californians bought it. Big surprise there. I was born here, I grew here, and I can’t wait to leave. I used to be able to drive across the metroplex to see friends in Fort Worth, in 50-55 minutes. Now that’s 1.5 hours. For DFW, at least, the projections are 2028 we will tie the Chicago area for the third largest metro area in the USA. By 2030, we will tie Los Angeles for #2 in the USA. I hope to be long gone before either occurs. The only positivity of living here now, will be when I can sell the house and leave. I’ll make enough profit on the house to completely pay for my Morton, finished out, where I have rural land out of state.

If you want to visit, and plan on doing anything, at all, outside, do not come here from March to September. The Springs, just have extreme weather in and out the whole time. 20+ mph winds, flood rain, extreme storms. 2 weeks ago a tornado touched down close to Lake Ray Roberts. People were scared and pulled into a gas station. The gas station imploded. Killed 4 people IIRC, 2 of them children. I had thunder rattling the house, physically, and flood rain, standing water all over the property for 2 weeks that just gone done. And the water has finally evaporated. That’s just the Spring. Satan’s ass hole all summer, so September-November is the only good time of year, but that’s only if the humidity stays down. Some years humidity is way up and we don’t get a break until Thanksgiving.

I don’t and never will get the “hype” that people do. It just makes me laugh. My friends, most of them, and I, all want out. This is not the Texas we grew up living in. A fuck ton of H1B Visas here too now, everywhere. Best of luck!

quote:

Originally posted by Schmelby:
Does it get hot in Texas?? I have a cousin in New Orleans. He says for three or for months
leave your A/C house, to your A/C car, to your A/C job, and don't set foot outside!
I hate hot humid weather.

Seasons in SETX are December, short spring, summer & August

Growing up in the 'Golden Triangle' Beaumont area, weeks of 100% humidity were the norm

quote:

Originally posted by P250UA5:

quote:

Originally posted by Schmelby:
Does it get hot in Texas?? I have a cousin in New Orleans. He says for three or for months
leave your A/C house, to your A/C car, to your A/C job, and don't set foot outside!
I hate hot humid weather.

Seasons in SETX are December, short spring, summer & August

Growing up in the 'Golden Triangle' Beaumont area, weeks of 100% humidity were the norm

Down here in the coastal bend, we have two seasons. Summer and February.