Not taxes ....Texas.... and we don't have state income taxes in Texas.

Tonight in Lubbock, Texas it will be down to 25 F with winds from the NE blowing at 20 to 30 mph. Wind chills tonight will be in the teens or single digits. In some years in Lubbock temperatures have dropped below zero.

Corpus Christi, TX - my home town .... the last time it snowed there was Christmas Day, 2004 (4"). People there thought an Ice Age was upon us.

Texas map
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.3466197,-100.3461549,7z

Interesting. I would have thought that Texas was reasonably warm all year. Lubbock is rather north in the state but I am still surprised that you are getting temps that low.

Lubbock area is reasonably flat country with the eastern edge of the Chihuahua desert not far away. Temperatures in Lubbock can drop quickly after sunset and when it does rain it often floods with poor drainage. During heavy rains in Lubbock classes at Texas Tech in Lubbock are often canceled.

the Chihuahua desert runs from Northern Mexico through W.Texas and into New Mexico

the 4 deserts of the United States


I've always called it the "Chihuahua" desert instead of "Chihuahuan"..... cause when i was young i suspected that wild groups of vicious little chihuahuas roamed the desert regions at night

I have only been to the west side of the country twice. Denver and San Francisco. I had no idea that it got that cold and wet.

By coincidence, one my best friend from high school went to Texas Tech to get into aviation.

In England we know it is very big, everything there is bigger than everywhere else, it's where cowboys and ZZ Top come from. That's about it.

I only know that - at least (deep) in the heart of Texas - the stars at night are big and bright.

All my exes live in Texas.

Heh, basically the entire state of Nevada is a desert.

My wife went to high school in Texas.

Geography Teacher- "Where you from little lady"

Wife- "Salem Oregon"

Geography Teacher- "What part of Texas is that?"

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Wife- "where is the Chemistry Class"

Teacher- "On the other side of the football field. They keep blowing it up."

Texas is the only place I know where you would be called a "Yankee" if you are from out of State. Even if that State is like Georgia or South Carolina. lol

Well, I know a lot of asteroid impacts and solar flares are always X times the size of Texas...

Didn't know you could have snow there... but as an outsider I'm an excused for my ignorance.

I live just below where the 'x' in Texas is on that map. Right now the temp is 33 and dropping. We have a chance of snow, sleet, and freezing rain today and tonight.

Back in 1983 we had a two week long cold spell with temps as low as 5 degrees F and never got above freezing. Local lakes froze over from one side to the other for the first time in nearly 100 years. We have had as much as eighteen inches of snow here, but that was back in the early '70s.

Texas is large enough that it can be below zero in the north and in the 80s in the far south.

http://www.lovefortexas.com/lore/amazing-texas-facts/

Texas is just over half the size of Ontario.

Canada probably has the lowest population density in the world or close to it since it is the 2nd largest country in the world with a population of only about 36 million.

Wait what? Well, that's another thing I didn't know. Tons of cities there seem to have Spanish names... I always thought it was called "Roof Tiles" (tejas) for some obscure reason.

This is the site in Texas where John Wayne directed and starred in the film, "The Alamo", in 1960.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Village#/media/File:Alamo_Village.jpg

"The set was built by James T. "Happy" Shahan of Brackettville,TX who in 1995 was named the "Father of the Texas movie industry" by Governor George W. Bush. Shahan began building the set on his ranch in September, 1957 for Wayne, who had tried for years to make a movie about the Battle of the Alamo for Republic Pictures, before finally breaking away to form Batjac Productions. Filming began in August, 1959."

"The set includes a full-scale re-creation of the Alamo compound as it would have appeared in 1836 (the real Alamo is in the middle of what is now Downtown San Antonio and is surrounded by modern skyscrapers). The set also includes a representation of the village of San Antonio de B�xar of the same time period. The building of the set required over 1.5 million adobe bricks (which were manufactured on site), 14 miles of gravel road and a 4,000-foot runway."

With air support the Texans should not have lost at the Alamo.


Wheels

lol !

Well, what I know about Texas is that it's full of guns and tornados and that Jennifer Love Hewitt is from there but apart from this not much more...

My favorite Texan: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
My absolute worst Texan: LBJ