Hotter'n Hell Here in Texas

I still, for the life of me, can not figure out why anyone who has lived in a cooler climate would want to voluntarily move to Texas. One summer here and surely they would get the message--IT'S HOT AS HELL HERE!! I don't mean slightly hot like it is right now. This is nothing but the pre-game show. When it gets really hot here you will KNOW it. Your tires stick to the newly paved roads cause the tar is melting. You can't go barefoot on the cement cause you will literally burn your feet. Jogging during the middle of the day is prohibited. Ok may not yet, but it SHOULD be!! They send out warnings for small children and the elderly to stay indoors cause it is too hot to be outside.

Now I know, people from up north will say that winter there is UNBEARABLE. Well at least when it's cold you can put on more clothes to get warmer. When it's hot like it gets here, there are only so many clothes you can take off before you're sh-- out of luck. Shade is at a premium. People parking their cars in big parking lots have been known to have fist fights over the shady spots. That's cause your car's interior heats up so much that it begins to melt by the end of the day. No KIDDING!! I had one of those airfreshener things in my car that is supposed to be like a stone or something. It's actually a plastic disc which melted in my glove compartment already this summer. And technically it's not summer yet!!


Speaking of which, summer here starts around the end of April or the beginning of May and lasts pretty much well into October, sometimes even November. That means we get hot weather approximately 9 months out of the year. I don't think there is a state in the union that gets freezing weather NINE months out of the year!!

You probably wonder why I still live here if I think it's so hot and that cold weather would be better. Well, it's like this, if you can live through the heat in Texas, Hell ain't gonna be nothing!