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Never mind scorpions, I’m gonna have nightmares about this!
Whew, that’s a relief!!Oops! I apologize. While trying to verify it, I am beginning to suspect that that picture is fake. I fell for it.
Here is a real one, in Dallas, called the High Five on account of its five-level roadway structure:
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Beryllos
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Oops! I apologize. While trying to verify it, I am beginning to suspect that that picture is fake. I fell for it.
Sorry.Here is a real one, in Dallas, called the High Five on account of its five-level roadway structure:
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Driver education is extremely important. Many people after learning to drive also take Defensive Driving. It is sad this is the only choice for many. Others, like me, were blessed to have a parent teach them the offensive version.
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pnewton
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Hobby is a cake walk, if anyone is thinking of flying in.
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Xantippe
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I totally believed it.Oops! I apologize. While trying to verify it, I am beginning to suspect that that picture is fake. I fell for it.
Here is a real one, in Dallas, called the High Five on account of its five-level roadway structure:
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1990Domer
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Those former Enron dudes had nice homes. Was in my gf’s wedding and her parents lived in that neighborhood.
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Yeah, I’m even afraid to go out because of strange people, not to mention the weather.One thing that I have heard (but that may not be true of other parts of Texas) is that you’re pretty much guaranteed to get seasonal allergies if you move here. I was talking to a pediatrician recently and he said that our ragweed season can extend to DECEMBER.
On the other hand, one can get used to 70 degree sunny January days. I think that if E_7 moves south, she will find that the number of usable days per year greatly increases. When we lived in DC, it sometimes felt that the only tolerable months to be outside were April and October (not April thru October, April AND October). Whereas in our area, even the most heat sensitive person will usually be comfy outside from October through April (and if you’re a little more heat tolerant, September through May are nice).
Girl, just move north a couple hours ¶ and we’ll hang out.
Or, again, move a little further north from DC, and only January and February are bad (even then lots of days over freezing, and more snow to play in), and unless you’re pregnant the whole summer is tolerable - summer stays mostly in the 80s.
No poisonous bugs or snakes, friendly people, low cost of living (if you get away from the coastal areas). Top notch schools. Low chance of major natural disasters. I’m telling you, Pennsylvania is nice.
(And yes, I’m a little partial.)
Oh no you didn’t! THE Texas Rangers ROCKS!Also, Texas professional sports teams are lame. Especially for hockey.
(That’s right. I said it.)
(and the St. Louis Cardinals)…
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UbiCaritas
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Ha!
I’ve lived in Texas for ten years now. (Good heavens, has it really been that long?)
In that time, I’ve been in six accidents in which I was driving. I was not at fault for any of them, I might add.
- I was driving along a feeder road when someone pulled out in front of me from a parking lot.
- Someone didn’t check their rear-view mirrors while backing up in a parking lot. Being in a line of cars, I couldn’t get out of the way.
- Rear-ended at a red light by someone who, I suspect, was texting while driving. (She got out of the car with her phone in her hand, and finished a text before we exchanged information.)
- Rear-ended by someone not paying attention. If you ever want to hear an insurance adjustor’s voice jump up an octave and a half, tell him that you’re pregnant when his insured is clearly at fault. (Baby and I were both fine.)
- Rear-ended by someone not paying attention. (In this case, a truck driver who was so worried someone might rear-end him–!!!–that he didn’t pay attention to where his truck was going or what was in front of it.)
- Rear-ended when I had to hit the brakes very hard and very suddenly in moving traffic due to someone blowing through a stop sign in front of me. Technically, yes, the other driver was following too closely, but had that $&@^! driver who pulled out in front of me obeyed the traffic signals, the accident wouldn’t have occurred.
Having said all that, I also have to point something out: in each and every one of these accidents, the other person pulled over as directed and we exchanged information in a perfectly friendly manner. They didn’t try to leave the scene, and always were cooperative with both my and their insurance companies in filing the claims. I’m not sure that you’d get that track record anywhere else. I should also add that I used to drive a lot more than most people, so my likelihood of being in an accident was increased simply because of the number of miles I put in behind the wheel.
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1990Domer
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But Dallas is NOT America’s team…
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UbiCaritas
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Yup, that’s one of the more idiotic setups in DFW. See that single-lane ramp that leads off of the main north/south freeway onto the east/west freeway?Oops! I apologize. While trying to verify it, I am beginning to suspect that that picture is fake. I fell for it.
Here is a real one, in Dallas, called the High Five on account of its five-level roadway structure:
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That east/west freeway is one of the two main east-west freeways in Dallas. Naturally, there is a single lane of traffic leading from the main north-south freeway onto it. One. Single. Lane.
I have sat in a line to get on that ramp for over an hour and a half.
There’s something comparable in Fort Worth, too.
I-35 is the main north-south freeway in Fort Worth. 121 is another freeway, leading from the airport and several mid-sized cities near it to Fort Worth/I-35.
121 merges into I-35 in one of the busiest areas of Fort Worth. Up to that merge, I-35, IIRC, has 4 or 5 lanes of traffic.
Starting 1/4 of a mile back from the merge, it narrows to two, while, of course, picking up the cars from 121.
:banghead:
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Xantippe
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Once, we were suckered into taking the kids to an outdoor ice skating rink that turned out to have a PLASTIC skating surface. This worked as terribly as you can imagine.Booooooooo.
(My husband would be so proud of me right now.)
The hockey thing is really what’s important, anyway. I have an automatic bias against teams that hail from places where you can’t have an outdoor rink.
Never again…
That said, is there anything more charming than watching ice skating at the Galleria?
galleriadallas.com/favorite-things-holidays-galleria-dallas/
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Xantippe
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I have seen that exact same move so many times.
Here’s another thing I’ve seen twice at least.
I’m slowing down to stop at for a red light. There’s a truck behind me. The driver of the truck sees that I am stopping for the red light, switches lanes to a clear lane, and then runs the red light.
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UbiCaritas
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DH and I got married a couple of weeks before Christmas. I did most of the wedding stuff myself, and by the day before, was a somewhat frantic mess.
My sister and several girlfriends kidnapped me and took me to the Galleria in order to buy me the rehearsal dinner dress I hadn’t had the time to find. I have never been especially good at shopping, and figured I’d just wear an outfit I’d worn in the past. They put the kibosh on that. Found me a stunning dress in all of two hours, and then refused to let me buy it.
sniff :bighanky:
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Xantippe
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Awwww!
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GEddie
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Ice storms are common in Northern TX and the Panhandle. Down here, such an occurrence would be a decadal or generational event.
In Austin, maybe every five years.
TX is a big place, extending from just above the tropics to 36[sup]o[/sup]30’ latitude. It has eleven climatic zones. Unless your ideal life requires skiing (and then you could cross into NM
) there is a TX climate that would suit you.ICXC NIKA.
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GEddie
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The Houstonian road system has long been known as “Spaghetti Bowl.”That’s kind of like Spaghetti Junction in the ATL.
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