From My Email:Texan Diary

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Texan Diary

Dear Diary,

Just moved to Texas! Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. It is beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

June 14th:

Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.

June 30th:

Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:

The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least, it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:

Fell asleep by the community pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:

I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag, then popped like a water balloon. The car now smells like Kibbles and Shits. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat. Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again.

July 25th:

The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th:

Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now, $225,000 house and I can't even go inside. Lomita is the lucky one. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 4th:

Its 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85. I hate this stupid state.

Aug. 8th:

If another wise ass cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!


Aug. 9th:

Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my ass was on fire. My skin melted to the seat. I lost 2 layers of
flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass . . . Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.

Aug 10th:

The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do shit for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn state? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this damn heat.

Aug. 14th:

Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 today. Cactus are dead. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and guess what he asked me??? "Hot enough for you today?" My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail. Freaking Texas. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?? Will write later to let you know how the trial goes.
 
Hot then, huh?


Aside from that, neat writing - I especially liked how you worked Kibbles into the storyline:

The car now smells like Kibbles and Shits.
 
Oh, No.

That is NOT my work!:)

I just did not copy all the names and addresses that were forwarded.
 
Hot then, huh?


Aside from that, neat writing - I especially liked how you worked Kibbles into the storyline:

The car now smells like Kibbles and Shits.

We actually have 4 seasons here, just like anywhere else, only they are called: Almost summer, summer, still summer and Christmas.
 
We actually have 4 seasons here, just like anywhere else, only they are called: Almost summer, summer, still summer and Christmas.


And that's a whole lot less of a joke than most people realize!
 
But you get floods sometimes, too dont you? Look on the brightside. And I thought they got those big old snowstorms down there too. Guess I was all wrong :D
 
But you get floods sometimes, too dont you? Look on the brightside. And I thought they got those big old snowstorms down there too. Guess I was all wrong :D

We get floods when we have tropical storms. Snowstorms are further north of us, mostly around Dallas and the panhandle.
 
We get floods when we have tropical storms. Snowstorms are further north of us, mostly around Dallas and the panhandle.

So Dallas isnt Texas proper? Dang - it was when they showed JR getting shot

They had cows too.

The Panhandle - I had a piece published in the Panhandler Quarterly, a Texan newspaper printed by some big old uni out there for the lit/art population of its faculty
 
So Dallas isnt Texas proper? Dang - it was when they showed JR getting shot

They had cows too.

The Panhandle - I had a piece published in the Panhandler Quarterly, a Texan newspaper printed by some big old uni out there for the lit/art population of its faculty

It is, but they only get snow up there during Christmas season. Further south, we don't normally get snow.
 
Because some people just don't know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas

Part of the page.

Geography
Texas is the second largest U.S. state, behind Alaska, with an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2). It is 10% larger than France and almost twice as large as Germany or Japan, though it ranks only 27th worldwide amongst country subdivisions by size. If it were a separate country, Texas would be the 40th largest behind Chile and Zambia.

Texas is in the south-central part of the United States of America. Three of its borders are formed by rivers. The Rio Grande river forms a natural border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south. The Red River forms a natural border with Oklahoma and Arkansas to the north. The Sabine River forms a natural border with Louisiana to the east. The Texas Panhandle has an eastern border with Oklahoma at 100° W, a northern border with Oklahoma at 36°30' N and a western border with New Mexico at 103° W. El Paso lies on the state's western tip at 32° N and the Rio Grande.[62]

With 10 climatic regions, 14 soil regions, and 11 distinct ecological regions, regional classification becomes problematic with differences in soils, topography, geology, rainfall, and plant and animal communities.[82] One classification system divides Texas, in order southeast to west, into the following: Gulf Coastal Plains, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, and Basin and Range Province. The Gulf Coastal Plains region wraps around the Gulf of Mexico on the southeast section of the state. Vegetation in this region consists of thick pineywoods. The Interior Lowlands region consists of gently rolling to hilly forested land is part of a larger pine-hardwood forest. The Great Plains region in central Texas is located in spans through the state's panhandle to the state's hill country near Austin. This region is dominated by prairie and steppe. In the state's extreme west, is the state's Basin and Range Province. The most complex of the regions, this area includes Sand Hills, the Stockton Plateau, desert valleys, wooded mountain slopes and desert grasslands.

Texas has 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers.[83][84] Largest of these rivers is Rio Grande. While Texas has only one natural lake, Caddo Lake, Texans have built over 100 artificial ones[85].

Texas's size and unique history makes its regional affiliation debatable. Depending on the source, it can be fairly considered either or both a Southern or Southwestern state. The vast geographic, economic, and cultural diversity within the state itself prohibits easy categorization of the whole state into a recognized region of the United States. The East, Central, and North Texas regions have a stronger association with the American South than with the Southwest. Others, such as far West Texas and South Texas share more similarities with the latter.
 
Main article: Climate of Texas

Snow on Franklin Mountains & El Paso, causes a closure of Transmountain HighwayThe large size of Texas and its location at the intersection of multiple climate zones gives the state very variable weather. The Panhandle of the state has colder winters than North Texas, while the Gulf Coast has mild winters. Texas has wide variations in precipitation patterns. El Paso, on the western end of the state, averages as little as 8 inches (200 mm) of annual rainfall while Houston, on the southeast Texas averages as much as 54 inches (1,400 mm) per year.[89] Dallas in the North Central region averages a more moderate 37 inches (940 mm) per year.

Generally, snow falls multiple times each winter in the Panhandle and mountainous areas of West Texas, once or twice a year in North Texas, and once every few years in Central and East Texas. Snow rarely falls south of San Antonio or on the coast except in extreme circumstances, such as the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm which saw the first recorded White Christmas ever for Houston and 6 inches of snow as far south as Kingsville where the average high temperature in December is 65° F.[90]

Maximum temperatures in the summer months average from the 80s °F (26 °C) in the mountains of West Texas and on Galveston Island to around 100 °F (38 °C) in the Rio Grande Valley, but most areas of Texas see consistent summer high temperatures in the 90 °F (32 °C) range.

Night time summer temperatures range from the upper 50s °F (14 °C) in the West Texas mountains[91] to 80 °F (27 °C) in Galveston.[92]

Thunderstorms strike Texas often, especially the eastern and northern portions of the state. Tornado Alley covers the northern section of Texas. The state experiences the most tornadoes in the United States, an average of 139 a year. These strike most frequently in North Texas and the Panhandle.[93] Tornadoes in Texas generally occur in the months of April, May, and June.[94]

Some of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history have impacted Texas. A hurricane in 1875 killed approximately 400 people in Indianola, followed by another hurricane in 1886 that destroyed the town. At the time Indianola was the most important port city in the state and these events allowed Galveston to take over as the chief port city. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 subsequently devastated that city killing approximately 8,000 people (possibly as many as 12,000), making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Other devastating Texas hurricanes include the 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Hurricane Audrey in 1957 which killed over 600 people, Hurricane Carla in 1961, Hurricane Beulah in 1967, Hurricane Alicia in 1983, Hurricane Rita in 2005, and Hurricane Ike in 2008.[95] Tropical storms have also caused their share of damage: Allison in 1989 and again during 2001, and Claudette in 1979 among them.

Texas emits the most greenhouse gases in the U.S.[96][97][98] The state emits nearly 1.5 trillion pounds (680 billion kg) of carbon dioxide annually. As an independent nation, Texas would rank as the world's seventh-largest producer of greenhouse gases.[97] Causes of the state's vast greenhouse gas emissions include the state's large number of coal power plants and the state's refining and manufacturing industries.[97]
 
I lived the for four years, the heat is nothing. Fuck the humidity.
 
Well, today I used the snow rake to clear the lower portion of the roof above the gutter in hopes of preventing ice dams and climbed up to the balcony on a ladder and shoveled it off. I couldn't get to it from the bedroom because I forgot to slide the screen door to the side before winter, and the track iced up, so it wouldn't open.
Snow has continued to fall, obscuring all of the tracks I made in the snow while working on the roof and balcony.

Why did I bother? Well, the high tomorrow is supposed to be sub-zero. Didn't want the extra weight on the balcony, and didn't want to be dealing with ice dams when it isn't fit to go outside.

It is beautiful, though.
 
it was in the 60's earlier today. it is now 19.

i blame perry.
 
another bump

And to let everyone know that on Christmas Day 2019 the temperature is supposed to be in the mid 70's

warm for this time of year, usually in the mid 50's for a high
 
hey ...

BAIL???
you must be some high powered moneyed white person to get bail.
 
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