[NLRS] Places to live in Texas

[BARRY MALOWANCHUK]

I think W3XO lives in what would be considered to be southern Texas ...close to the Mexican border

Barry VE4MA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj at weather.net>
Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:36 pm
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Places to live in Texas
To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net

> 
> 
> In the Dallas McKinney corridor 48 years ago, the distant 
> suburban towns 
> were mostly on hill tops. Though even then the town limits were 
> miles 
> from the town centers. I lived in Allen between Plano and 
> McKinney a 
> couple years, '64 to '66. Based on my description of where I 
> lived (a 
> town of 2000 then surrounded by farms and ranches, at least 
> 50,000 today 
> without farmland for miles) W5LUA who lives in an eastern part 
> of Allen 
> can't find where I lived. I spent some time with the satellite 
> or aerial 
> images from Google maps last month and I can find the town 
> center but I 
> can't find the road, the duplex, the water tower or the power 
> substation 
> that marked where I lived. Its all been bulldozed bare and paved 
> over 
> (though it was only 2' to solid limestone in my backyard).
> 
> Back to those hill tops. The annual rainfall at Dallas was about 
> 24 
> inches a year. The two years I was there each year half that 
> amount came 
> from one rain event. One year it was just overnight and all the 
> fanciest 
> homes built in the trees along the creeks were underwater up 
> past the 
> eaves. The other year that foot took a whole week and flooding 
> wasn't so 
> bad.
> 
> I remember mornings with a southern breeze (lots of gulf 
> humidity) when 
> it was 95 at sun up and foggy. That made for a miserable day 
> outside and 
> running the AC the first month cost more than I expected and I 
> didn't 
> run it again. I just roasted. I had an allergic reaction to the 
> plentiful and inexpensive seafood that I hadn't yet identified 
> so I was 
> fairly miserable in Texas too. Those events surely biased my 
> likes and 
> dislikes.
> 
> Like Bill Smith (was VHF editor of QST long ago) I like Iowa 
> better than 
> Texas. Bill would say you need to know the Spanish language 
> there these 
> days. He ran businesses in Dallas involving cable TV equipment.
> 
> W3XO could be a good resource about living in mid Texas, since 
> he's 
> lived there a decade or more.
> 
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/19/2011 7:52 PM, Donn wrote:
> >
> >
> > A couple of times I've driven between Austin and San 
> Antonio... NOT along I-35
> > but farther west, along US281.  This is in or at least 
> along the edge of the
> > "Hill Country."  I thought it was beautiful country... 
> not too unlike central NY
> > although no where near as wet and no lakes.  :-)
> >
> > Tommy, K5VH, lives in Dripping Springs, west of Austin.  
> Appears to be a nice
> > little town.  I'm guessing its a reasonable commute into 
> Austin, but don't know.
> >
> > I remember some decent hills along US281 between Marble Falls 
> (NW of Austin) to
> > south of Blanco (west of Austin).
> >
> > Central States In San Antonio in July 2007 was WET, but 
> normally its dry and
> > hot.  I was in Austin at the end of April in 2005 and 
> thought I'd suffocate when
> > they opened the plane door.  VERY hot and humid.  
> Later that day, a cool front
> > moved through and it was simply beautiful the rest of the long 
> weekend.>
> > 73 Donn
> > WA2VOI/0
> >
> >
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