This is my first full summer in Texas. It's been over 100 degrees for 12 straight days. My car steering wheel could brand cattle. I burned my hand on the seatbelt buckle. Walking from the parking lot to a building feels like crossing the Sahara.
My electric bill is out of control. My dog won't go outside. My grass died.
People who have been here for years — does it ever stop being this miserable or do you just go numb? Serious question.
You get used to it in the sense that you learn to work around it. You go outside before 10am or after 7pm. You accept that June through September is indoor season.
Pool membership was the best $200 I ever spent. June through September I'm there 4 days a week after work.
Year 8 here. You don't stop hating it. You just hate it quietly and then enjoy October through April knowing you earned it.
The key is never letting your house get hot in the first place. Blackout curtains, good insulation, and never open the doors more than necessary. Treat it like winter in reverse.
ABC-7 StormTrack Weather: Clouds increase in the Borderland with rain chances early this week
Anyone else feel like their electric bill is a second mortgage?
What's one thing you wish you knew before moving to Texas?
Texas drivers... let's talk about it
Moved here from the northeast and this culture shock is real
Tinted windows, remote start, and a good sunshade for the windshield. That's the holy trinity of surviving Texas car heat.