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First of all, let me tell you that I am originally from Michigan.  I was born there and lived the first thirty years of my life in “normal” temperatures.  Most of the winter was filled with snow, ice, freezing rain and any other nasty weather condition you can think of.  It started warming up around May, got up to maybe 90 degrees by July and cooled back off to the 60’s by September.  I had to bundle the kids in snow pants to go Trick-or-Treating and by Christmas there was at least a foot of snow on the ground.  Some winters the weather man even suggested that you don’t go outside unless it was unavoidable due to the wind chill being 20 degrees below zero!  When I told everyone I was moving to South Texas they told me it got up to 120 degrees.  I was quite skeptical of this due to the fact that I had never seen temperatures so high.  Imagine my surprise when my first summer in South Texas was spent with me being pregnant and the temperatures reaching 126 degrees!  I could hardly breathe when I stepped out of the house, the air conditioner had to run on high 24/7 and I had the fan blowing on me full blast.  My family and I spent New Year’s Day cooking on the grill and cleaning the yard to prepare for summer.  My baby was born in January and the temperatures were still in the 50’s.  I can’t understand how these Texans can put on pants and long-sleeved shirts to go out and mow the lawn in the middle of July or how they think they are freezing when it drops to 40 degrees and rains.