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From: Dillon Pyron on 5 Sep 2006 04:27 Thus spake "Jennifer K." <nothankyou(a)goaway.com> : >I swear to you that if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be >Dallas. I love the weather there, year round. I was there in late July. >It's a dry heat. :o) Ever been there in February when a blue norther blows in. It can be a comfy 65 at 11 and 32 at one, on it's way down to 20. In 1983, Dallas had 5 consecutive days with lows below zero and highs that didn't hit the teens. In 1980 Dallas had 89 consecutive days above 100, including more than a few above 110. Then it hit 99. And then we had another 20 days of 100+. A few years ago, I was in LV for DEFCON. The sign on Ceasar's said 113. I asked the taxi driver how many people said "but it's a dry heat" and he said "everyone from the northeast. They change their tune by the second or third day, though". 1994, two tornados in SE Dallas county. One an F3. > >Jennifer (in Delaware) > > >> I agree to an extent. Japan's main street is enclosed because of >> weather problems. 100 degree weather is not pleasant but the humidity >> has not been that of Orlando. It is a dryer heat and water mists cool >> considerably especially with a breeze. Tornados...nothing near us in >> Plano in years. OK still gets most of the tornados. > -- dillon If you can't figure out how to unmunge my address, email me and I'll explain it.
From: Dillon Pyron on 5 Sep 2006 04:35 Thus spake "Jennifer K." <nothankyou(a)goaway.com> : >When I landed in July it was 107 at DFW. I thought it was fine. We had an >outdoor family reunion two days later, I think it was 105, felt great. Then >again, I'm from a town two hour south of San Antonio, for most of my life. San Marcos or Neubraunfels? Wait! Two hours north? I can drive from Oak Hill to downtown SA in about 90 minutes. Are you saying Round Rock? > >But I think you are right that there is no real need for another Disney park >in the US. People here in Delaware mostly go down to FL to escape the cold >in the "Spring," if you can call it Spring, LOL. > >Jennifer > > >> >> Dallas is fine as long as it's under 100 degrees. Right now it's 92 >> degrees outside and it's wonderful. But let it hit triple digit and >> it's unbearable. It's like walking around with a space heater blowing >> on you all day. It just saps the energy right out of you. That can >> pretty much be what all of August into September can be. > -- dillon If you can't figure out how to unmunge my address, email me and I'll explain it.
From: Dillon Pyron on 5 Sep 2006 04:36 Thus spake Dave in Dallas - The One And Only <Daveintx(a)swbell.net> : >On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 19:10:33 -0400, "Jennifer K." ><nothankyou(a)goaway.com> wrote: > >>When I landed in July it was 107 at DFW. I thought it was fine. We had an >>outdoor family reunion two days later, I think it was 105, felt great. Then >>again, I'm from a town two hour south of San Antonio, for most of my life. > >Oh my lordie! You make me want to reach for a big glass of water just >hearing you talk about being outside in that heat. <G> Anything more >than 99 and I'm as grumpy as I can get. 96 is my limit. That's skin temperature. Anything above that and you are net importer of heat instead of an exporter. > > >Dave in Dallas - The one and only! >Accept no substitutes. -- dillon If you can't figure out how to unmunge my address, email me and I'll explain it.
From: Dillon Pyron on 5 Sep 2006 04:48 Thus spake "JRClarkJR" <jrclarkjr(a)aol.com> : > >Dllion wrote: >> >> As long as DFW reigns supreme, McKinney will never be a commercial >> airport. Besides, it's land locked and doesn't have the room to >> expand. >> > >Perhaps not a major airport on DFW scale but perhaps addison scale? The runways is too short for turbines and both ends are taken up by housing developments. I wouldn't be surprised to see the city sell the airport to a developer. Chicago did that to Meigs a few years back. The demolition team was on the runway in under 24 hours. It took a Federal court order to stop them until the planes at the airport were removed. The land at the airport is extremely valuable. > >Dilion wrote: >> >> And the one in San Antoino turned out to be a flop. The North Texas >> one is just a dream, as well. >> > >Not so fast...Manasas VA was already on paper until the locals vetoed >it. Another US park therefore has been seriously considered. Eisner >wanted a US themed park. They still have the blue prints to VA's >Disney. Many times Imagineers ideas die hard. They just get put off >until the future. The Manasas park was a totally different concept than a "traditional Disney park". That wouldn't play well in a metro area like DFW. > >> > >> >Dallas/Ft. Worth has 5 million residents (and growing) within a 100 >> >mile radius so there are more than enough local traffic to populate the >> >park. >> > >> > >Dillion wrote: >> >> It's called an investment. When I lived in Carrollton, Frisco was a >> sleepy little town of about 5,000. Look at it now, 12 years latter. >> What is it, 88,000? >> > >Take another look at the plans. Frisco is at 40% development. They are >building a second major mall on 380. The plans estimate a total >population of 250,000 and 10 high schools. YOu have major world >headquarters in Frisco and across the border in Plano. >Little Elm is growing by leaps and bounds, McKinney is expanding. >Prosper is growing. Not out of the realm of possibility to have 1 >million residents within 20 miles of proposed Disney park, not to >mention the millions in Dallas ft worth. Any land that Disney owns in that area has appreciated so much that the investment value is probably higher than value of the park after the costs of construction are factored in. Put another way, Disney can make more money selling the land than they can running a park there. They've already proved how shrewd an investor they can be. > >Someday you will receive an email from me, Dillion saying I told you so >; ) I'm 50 now, that day better come soon, or I won't be around to read it. Or ride it. :-) -- dillon If you can't figure out how to unmunge my address, email me and I'll explain it.
From: Dillon Pyron on 5 Sep 2006 04:50
Thus spake "SP Cook" <pacefsc(a)msn.com> : > >JRClarkJR wrote: >> >> A Frisco TX city councilman told a friend of mine that Disney owns >> property in two Texas areas. One is near Prosper TX in various holding >> companies. He said that the Dallas Tollway would be extended to 380. >> Not long after NTTC announced that the tollway would be extended to >> 380. 380 goes across north texas from denton where a connection to 35 >> goes up the center of the country. Gov. Perry announced a super freeway >> that would begin in Austin with plans to extend to Ok from Mexico. >> >I do not see that happening. > >Disney, unlike Six Flags, Cedar Fair, or other chains, is about >national, really international, destination parks. Not just building a >single park to serve a single metro area. > >Is the demand there for a third such park in the USA? Probably not. >Such a venture would just siphon visitors off Disneyland, which is >having trouble anyway, and WDW. And Dallas is not weather appropriate >for a year round park. > >And before anyone cites the failed Virginia project, this was a >special, American Revolutionary and Civil War history themed park that >would be inappropriate in Florida, California, or Texas. > >The natural expansion for Disney seems to be Australia. Probably >somewhere on the Gold Coast. Perhaps with a harder look at other >appropriate places for the Virginia venture. Perhaps Delaware. The next park will be in India. -- dillon If you can't figure out how to unmunge my address, email me and I'll explain it. |