redkimba

My energy prices are pretty good & we have several electric companies here for different rates. My a/c is pretty efficient although it's really old (from 1976). I generally have a rule that the thermostat stays at 78 if I'm not home, a little lower (around 76) when I am home. I vary that depending on how often the ac turns on.

Also fans help keep the air moving.

BobbiG

Because the breeze in Texas is extremely hot and humid.

Jo Mama

It's too hot.

BellaBoo

If you live in TX you need AC day and night in the summer. No breezes to find anywhere that will be cooling.

hrtireladie11185

I grew up with ceiling and box fans with windows and entrance doors open. Back in the early 80's, my sisters and I would sleep on a pallet right next to the open sliding door at my grandmother's apt. I have been living in a home that has central air and heat for the last 13 years and have not gotten used to the cool. I much prefer to keep the front door open with the screen door bringing in the breeze except even with us being only an hour away from the coast, there is not much of a breeze and the humidity far outweighs the regular heat. Plus dh grew up in central air and heat and cannot handle a warm home.

penski

i would not want a house without a screen door, if the air conditioner broke down i would nt have a way to get air thru the house and in the spring and fall i love to have the door open to get fresh air in the house!

kathome

#1 - HEAT
#2 - Dust and dirt because it's so dry here (in my part of TX anyway) I have to wash off the glass top picnic table that's on the screened-in patio EVERY day. The rag comes up brown. Can you imagine what the inside of the house would look like? Yikes!

nativetexan

I'm from Houston and we only had fans and later an attic fan. when i was grown i moved into a house with window air conditioners, then later central air. I miss air conditioning! i only have a swamp cooler now.

rob529

In my part of Texas it is blowing dirt, dirt and more dirt. The wind never stops blowing and I mean blowing, no breezy kind of thing, so we always have blowing dirt. You can smell it in your house sometimes and you have never opened windows and it was literally 100 degrees in the shade last Sat. Most days in the summer are 100 and over.
Robin in TX

vivoaks

It's so hot down there in the summer that most places just have whole-house air conditioning. That's my guess.