Yeah the humidity has been bad all Summer. We’re hoping we get some relief this next week. Yesterday wasn’t too bad compared to what it has been. Of course I know Texas is even hotter than Georgia, but it seems this heat has hit most of the US all Summer.
We arrived in Dallas last night (wife is competing Sunday). So far, humidity here seems identical to back home. The temps here and home are within 1* as well all day and seems to be same in coming days, with same exact dew point currently too. Relative humidity is 2% worse here for the extra degree of temp.
Dallas is a very dry area of Texas, along with Austin, and then just about all of West Texas It is only Gulf Coast areas that are like swampy humidity levels. Dallas and Austin are so dry they don't even have mosquitos up there. That being the case 90 there is nothing, but here it is a hot box. Also oddly enough except for that heat wave week we had earlier this year it has actually been a very mild beginning to summer. Us seeing 80s in the afternoon during June and July is normally uncommon. However we have seen a lot of it this year. So that is odd when everyone else seems to be hitting higher than normal highs.
That would make a lot of sense - I remember being here for work 11-12 years ago and the weather reminding me exactly of STL, so that jives. Although we sure have the mosquitoes back in the Midwest! And I’ve always heard Tecas can be so brutally swampy as far as humidity, as the Gulf area in FL certainly is. It’s such a big diverse state (also like FL).
I live in Houston, so we get that gulf stream wind blowing the gulfs humidity right up directly into Houston. Around here you can sometimes see mosquitos carrying off small children it is so swampy here. I think Dallas, and Austin have more normal levels of humidity comparable to many places in the US, then it is just the high temps, and how long it stays hot like you said before.
Yeah, it can be high there, it is just nothing like the gulf coast. Those are the places we evacuate to when big storms come our way. Of course they have to be big storms. We ain't leaving for no level 3 hurricane damn the safety. We were caught in the horrible evacuation chaos for IKE right after Rita filled the fish bowl that is New Orleans. it was a nightmare, the evacuation actually killed more people than the hurricane. My dog almost died on the way to Dallas, it took us a total of 52 hours from our door to my cousins door in Dallas. We were stuck on the HOV in a 7 mile section for 17 hours alone. I was the only person with a keymap when everyone else was trying to use their phones unsuccessfully. So we finally get off the HOV, they had to come remove the barriers to get us out after the bus caught fire in the HOV. Like I said that was 17 hours, a lot of it daytime, and my dog almost overheated and died. Luckily some other people had water from melted ice they let us give her. So we finally find a gas station with gas, and I mapped out a back roads way to get to Dallas. People saw my keymap and flocked me so by the time we left the gas station I was leading a convoy of evacuees for hours taking back roads and little highways all the way to Dallas. The freeway was not even an option. So now, it has to be a serious storm for Houstonians to even consider evacuating.
Oh yeah, if you can run in that you can run almost anywhere. It is like putting a warm towel over your mouth and trying to run, or something more recently scarring wearing an N-95 mask (correctly). Oh yeah I think you asked somewhere in here if I did Airborne in Fort Benning, Yes Sir, that is where I did Boot, Advanced Infantry Training, and Airborne school. We got a week off between AIT and Airborne and had a a blast around the area! So many girls who loved the military boys!!! Almost got into a fight with a Ranger in a bar, that one could have possibly gone bad, he was trying to bully one of my squad, and I wasn't having it. We came pretty close to blows before one of the other Ranger's told him to cool it, that I was just trying to take care of my squad. We (my group) got kicked out of the bar on base and the Rangers got to stay. However the one guy bought me a beer and had them let me finish it before we had to leave. He told me I had some balls standing up to a group of Rangers and he liked my moxie. Interestingly enough, I almost signed on full time to go to Ranger school, I got the option at the end of Airborne because about 3 people got hurt, or just decided not to go. I qualified with my performance in AIT and Airborne so they asked me, and we contacted my unit back home and they said I couldn't go unless I went full time which I wasn't really planning on at the time, so I passed on it. I knew we had a few Rangers in our Airborne unit, but apparently they had to an E4 or higher to be sent from the reserves.
This!!!!Hope your wife kills it at that competition.
Yeah we both love Cajun, and really most spicy food. She is a really good cook and I’m never disappointed with her homemade dishes.
Well, we had a great birthday dinner. Well dinner is a bit loose use of the word for me. I ordered crab legs and when they came out they were so overcooked I refused to eat them, and also refused to slow the rest of the group down getting out of there by having them remake it. I mean once you taste mushy overcooked crab you don't want anything else from them. On a good note, I went home and Doordashed myself a chili burger with chili cheese fries because I knew I was starting the Sugar Diet today.Yeah we both love Cajun, and really most spicy food. She is a really good cook and I’m never disappointed with her homemade dishes.
Hope you guys enjoy the dinner, and Happy Birthday to your son.
wild!! 52 hours sounds miserable! worst I can really remember out here were when we had our earthquake, but even that was only I think 4-5 hours to get home (normally 45 minutes) and then snowmaggeddon back in 2019. that straight shut down all the roads with panic, lol. But it was super cool. at sea level where snow is rare, it snowed nearly up to my step daughters waist in depth. then switched to rain and was 90% gone by morning!
Oh man, it caused some PTSD for sure! My wife who tends to hold on to things like that longer would get anxious any time we got stopped in the HOV lane thinking we were going to be stuck another 17 hours on the HOV. I mean 7 miles in 17 hours in 100 degree heat and high humidity, it was horrible. At one point I passed out while driving a standard truck, and it rolled back into my other car behind me. It bumped very softly thank goodness, but yeah. I had passed out from heat, exhaustion, and dehydration. It was bad. By the end people were drinking the dirty water in the coolers to try to hydrate. Several people died making the trip, even up as far as Dallas the traffic was so bad an entire bus of elderly people died because it overheated and somehow burst into flames. I think they stated it was the biggest tragedy in America regarding an evacuation gone wrong.
holy ****!
Oh man that’s terrible…. I remember Ike they said had killed like over 200 people, but I didn’t realize that many of those were during the evacuation. But I could only imagine with the heat and most people ran out of gas and water, that’s about as bad as it gets. That’s definitely enough to cause some PTSD…glad you and your family survived and made it safely.
Yeah, it was the worst!
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Yeah, I told my wife it looked like something you would see on one of those videos on Ridiculousness or something.
Oh yeah, that would be a nice little cut stack.
Yeah, I do 20s, and 2 sets of 10 seems to be just right. I really like to go slow at the bottom and stretch it out. Those are actually my favorite warmup for chest and front delts. You get a good stretch, and it really shuttles in the blood flow and loosens everything up really well.
Looks like we are doin em rightYeah, I do 20s, and 2 sets of 10 seems to be just right. I really like to go slow at the bottom and stretch it out. Those are actually my favorite warmup for chest and front delts. You get a good stretch, and it really shuttles in the blood flow and loosens everything up really well.
Oh yeah, it was the perfect place to swim on a hot summer day.
Yeah, I don’t think a lot of the country realizes how beautiful the mountains are here in the South East…we have been mainly going to north Georgia and Alabama this year, but we love to go up to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina as well. We talked about planning a road trip for next year to see the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone. I guess you could say those and Alaska are on our bucket list.
you should try to keep it that way, half of Washington is from California now lol.
That is a beautiful drive through the Smokies, Tennessee to NC. Done it a few times for comps or vacations, and it can be magical (especially at sunrise).Yeah, I don’t think a lot of the country realizes how beautiful the mountains are here in the South East…we have been mainly going to north Georgia and Alabama this year, but we love to go up to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina as well. We talked about planning a road trip for next year to see the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone. I guess you could say those and Alaska are on our bucket list.
Oh yeah, Alaska is a place we would love to visit in the Summer, but definitely wouldn’t want to live there.
Nice session, sounds like a hell of a lat pump! This happens every time I work upper body! LMAO!!! Part of the benefits of not being able to train heavy, I am consistently getting one hell of a pump from the higher reps, and or negative style training creating mild occlusion during the sets.7/22/2025
Tuesday
Stretches
Warmups
Wide Mag Grip Pulldowns
130 x 10
145 x 10, 10, 10
160 x 8
Incline Supported DB Rows
80s x 8
85s x 8, 8, 8, 8
Pull Ups
8, 8, 8
Standing Barbell Curl
95 x 8
105 x 8
110x 8
115 x 8
DB Concentration Curls
45 x 10, 10, 8, 8
Got a really good pump today….you know it’s a good pump when you have a hard time getting your sweaty gym shirt off to change into a dry one.
Yeah it’s been a blessing.
I actually had to tell him not to be so obvious with his staring. Of course it didn’t help when a couple of them walked by and said hey cutie how are you? And told me he’s a cute one Pops, better watch him when he grows up. I thought that boy was going to pass out.
Who knows, maybe even competing for richest man in the world. I mean just look at the Texas, and Florida economy compared to the rest of the country. Who knows what you could have achieved there.
