The excessive Texas heat and humidity here in North Texas area have kept me pretty well out of my workshop. I can spend a few hours there with the fans blowing but then I want to escape to the air conditioning. The heat ~100 degrees is not too bad when the humidity is low, but we have been getting Houston like weather for a few weeks. Year 2010’s first hurricane Alex was a big part...
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Weather or Not
Forget what I said on the 10th! The weather in Dallas Texas hasn’t been very nice this winter. We just set an all-time winter snowfall record of 12 inches (and more) in the area. Temperatures have been cold and the fuel bills high. Houses here are optimized for air conditioning (cooling) with return and supply air grills and registers located high. Heat rises and cold falls, making floors cold in winter. My garage workshop is...
Continue reading...The Weather Change
This winter has been fairly amazing with the amount of storms. Here in Dallas we got a little bit of snow but a lot of rain. The Central and Eastern regions have been getting more than their share of snow. We went through a few years of drought here in Texas but now the scale is fully tipped the other way. That just teaches that nothing is the same forever. Sometimes it seems like bad...
Continue reading...Christmas Snow of ’09
Just like the song, we had a white Christmas this year in Frisco, Texas. This is enough snow to pretty much stop everything in its track here near Dallas. Thank God it is not as bad as the rest of the USA had to endure. In fact, the folks in my birth state of Ohio and cousin David in Buffalo, NY are probably rolling on the floor laughing at this “sprinkle”! But for us in North Texas, the...
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