Blog 3218 – 08.24.2024

A Cool Breeze

Four almost three years I have lived continuously in Houston, Texas my adopted home town since I first came here in January of 1973 to attend Bible College. After three years of that and another year just working I moved back to Chattanooga, Tennessee, the city of my birth where I spent the first eighteen years of my life and the three years after I completed a two year and nine month hitch on active duty in the United Stares Army. Of that two years and nine month hitch I spent a long hot summer (eleven months) in the Republic of South Vietnam. There were few if any cool breezes there.

Houston is mostly hot and humid. I have said many times that had not air conditioning come to town in 1929 that Houston would have stayed a one horse town. Fun fact: I read yesterday that for many years in Texas history there was another port city south of Galveston and before you get to Corpus Christi called Indianola:

In the article I read it said that Indianola was once the second most popular Texas port of call and that many emigrants from Europe came to settle Texas through that port especially the many Germans who came. The article also said that except for those two hurricanes that Indianola would have most likely become the largest city in Texas instead of Houston.

The point I started out to make is that twelve years ago I started actively seeking out and taking work assignment mostly far north of Houston to enjoy the cooler climate. Many people including my son like it mostly hot. I am just the opposite, I prefer it mostly cool and ideally would prefer a four month long winter and a cool spring and fall with a very brief if any summer. The two places that I have had almost two month work assignments in, Aberdeen, Scotland and Kenai, Alaska, both had the ideal climate, I think. I was in both of them in June and July, their warmest months, and it was “jacket weather” and I loved it.

I have live and worked through winters in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, and Wyoming and I must say that I prefer the minus 26 degrees F to the brutal months of over a hundred degrees F in Houston with it sweltering humidity. Different strokes for different folks, but who doesn’t appreciate a cool breeze?

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White