College Station, Texas?

[Colton]

Heading there on Saturday for a week.

Having never been to the Lone Star State, just how bad is the heat there the first week of August compared to Fla., etc.?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Write-brained]

Heading there on Saturday for a week.

Having never been to the Lone Star State, just how bad is the heat there the first week of August compared to Fla., etc.?

Thanks in advance.

Next time you're in a public bathroom stand under an air dryer. That's what Texas weather feels like.

 

[audreyld]

Good luck. I moved to central Texas last year in the August heat and it was unpleasant.

 

[Colton]

Write & UT: Thank God I'm only there for a week, then!

 

[Mystery_Meat]

You'd better hope there's no hurricanes around. They don't do a good job preparing for them:

 

[audreyld]

I don't know about College Station, but if it's any comfort, Austin's having one of the coolest summer's one record... they're also all under water.

 

[Angola!]

I thought the entire state was having a really cool summer? We've only been in the 105-110 range a couple of times this summer, after having it for 20 consecutive days last summer.

 

[Write-brained]

I thought the entire state was having a really cool summer? We've only been in the 105-110 range a couple of times this summer, after having it for 20 consecutive days last summer.

See, that's ****ed up. I live in a southern state that's been 98, 99 for the last few months now and I thought that was hot until I got on a plane and landed in Texas. That's ****ing hot.

 

[Angola!]

I thought the entire state was having a really cool summer? We've only been in the 105-110 range a couple of times this summer, after having it for 20 consecutive days last summer.

See, that's ****ed up. I live in a southern state that's been 98, 99 for the last few months now and I thought that was hot until I got on a plane and landed in Texas. That's ****ing hot.

Well, in West Texas we have one thing going for us: little, to no humidity. Though there has been so much ****ing rain this summer it has seemed humid to those of us not used to it. Plus, I have had to get use to mosquitoes again after leaving them behind in Idaho.

 

[Write-brained]

I thought the entire state was having a really cool summer? We've only been in the 105-110 range a couple of times this summer, after having it for 20 consecutive days last summer.

See, that's ****ed up. I live in a southern state that's been 98, 99 for the last few months now and I thought that was hot until I got on a plane and landed in Texas. That's ****ing hot.

Well, in West Texas we have one thing going for us: little, to no humidity. Though there has been so much ****ing rain this summer it has seemed humid to those of us not used to it. Plus, I have had to get use to mosquitoes again after leaving them behind in Idaho.

True. It rained the other day and instead of cooling everything off I felt like I was in a ****ing sauna.

 

[audreyld]

The first time it rained after I moved, I was thrilled. Surely, it was finally going to cool off, at least for a few hours.

Not so much. It was so humid, it was like being steamed alive. I was dismayed.

 

[ServeItUp]

Go to Dixie Chicken. Repeatedly. Have Shiner Bock. Walk on the grass. Refer to the college there as "M&A" in honor of the Ags calling the college in Austin "TU." And bring two shirts for every day you'll be there because you'll sweat a lot.

Oh and read that.

http://www.geocities.com/longhorn6482/JimRome.html

 

[Tiger16]

Thumbs up to Dixie Chicken

Other than College Station is pretty much a cult

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Oh and read that.

http://www.geocities.com/longhorn6482/JimRome.html

Now that's funny, and I hate Rome.

But not as much as I hate A&M. The Sherrill-era team was playing my school on national TV and kicked an onside kick, after scoring a touchdown, with a 60-point lead in the fourth quarter. I've wanted nothing but their destruction ever since.

 

[Angola!]

Oh and read that.

http://www.geocities.com/longhorn6482/JimRome.html

Now that's funny, and I hate Rome.

But not as much as I hate A&M. The Sherrill-era team was playing my school on national TV and kicked an onside kick, after scoring a touchdown, with a 60-point lead in the fourth quarter. I've wanted nothing but their destruction ever since.

You should try hanging out with some of their insufferable fans. Between the Aggies faithful and the Longhorns bandwagoners it is pretty freaking awful.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

I covered an NCAA baseball regional there one year, and the A&M fanboys in the press box just couldn't believe what was happening to their team. And a future co-worker reveled in every, last second.

I did the Dixie Chicken. Only downside: when they say last call, they really mean it. It's like Bourbon Street at midnight on Fat Tuesday. Start at the back and force you out, basically.

 

[ServeItUp]

I'll testify for 'Gola. Aggie fans are a bizarre lot. Longhorn fans are generally pretty arrogant. And no one has a bigger inferiority complex than Red Raider fans, who are desperate for someone, ANYONE to consider Tech a rival.

By the way, the Aggies have never, EVER lost a game. They just got outscored. It's in the Fish handbook. Really.

 

[Football_Bat]

You'd better hope there's no hurricanes around. They don't do a good job preparing for them:

I love Aggie jokes. Especially the visual ones.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Say what you will about the Aggie fans, but when they get Kyle Field swaying in unison it's a pretty damned cool thing to see ... provided you don't get motion sick from it.

 

[Angola!]

Say what you will about the Aggie fans, but when they get Kyle Field swaying in unison it's a pretty damned cool thing to see ... provided you don't get motion sick from it.

That is what I have heard. I want to see a game there before I move away from Texas.
The most annoying thing is when you are in Austin and you decide to be obnoxious by flashing the hook 'em Horns symbol downard and they all assume you went to Tech.
I just continue to pimp the Pac-10 and even went so far to, God forgive me, pimp the SEC last year to get the college football fans in this state to shutup.