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🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | A little over a year ago, Alex Stockton bought a one-way ticket to Texas. He was looking for work. He says he had $600 in his pocket and a friend's |
0:17.5 | couch to sleep on. How's it working out for you down there? I got off his couch in two weeks. |
0:24.0 | I got a career. |
0:25.0 | I just bought a brand new SUV. |
0:27.0 | I just built a house for myself and my girlfriend to live in |
0:31.0 | with my stepdaughter. |
0:32.0 | I'm doing like way more than I thought I |
0:35.5 | could even achieve in a lifetime if I'm being honest. Alex found all this success in |
0:41.9 | Central Texas. He's a foreman of utility crew in and around |
0:46.8 | the city of Kyle. And just like Alex, a lot of people are moving there. |
0:51.6 | Over the last decade, the city's population has doubled. |
0:56.0 | Even though Alex loves his new home, |
0:59.0 | there is one thing about it that's really hard. |
1:02.0 | The infamous Texas He There is one thing about it that's really hard. |
1:03.5 | The infamous Texas heat, and it's getting worse. |
1:08.3 | In June last year, the Heat Index, which accounts for heat and humidity, reached a record 118 degrees in the area. |
1:17.0 | This June, it hit 115. It is extremely hot down here. |
1:25.0 | Where I grew up in Germantown, Wisconsin. |
1:30.3 | A hot summer is probably, and this is like peak 95 once in a while, and I come down here and it's |
1:39.4 | 106 plus the heat index, plus I'm working in the road so if you're working in |
1:45.4 | asphalt you can just go ahead and add 50 degrees to whatever the ambient air |
1:48.7 | temperature is. Wow. It's a lot slower pace when it comes to outside work down here because you can't exert yourself as much if you are I mean you can but you're going to pass out in about 30 minutes |
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