Houston Heat

I have never been out of the US but I've traveled to many different parts of our great country. Just on these journey's I've been able to see the differences in culture. Take for example when I was in downtown Houston. It was a nice summer day, not too hot, but sunny and nice. But no one was on the streets or sidewalks except a few kids skating. I was a little confused since I had come to expect the hustle and bustle of downtown even in the middle of the day. This was culture shock, thinking like what do these people do downtown? No one walks around? Like in NYC people walk and bike and the streets are always crowded. But then I walked inside a building in search of a restaurant and I found lots of people, they were all inside avoiding the heat. But this raises the question, how do they get from building to building? Well, Houston has an incredibly extenive tunnel system that links most of the downtown buildings. This is where the city lived during sunny midday, underground in the tunnels. There were little restaurants and shops where the tunnels let out into hte lobbies of buildings. After my initial shock, I came to think that this was actually pretty cool. It does get ridiculously hot in Texas and this seemed like a brillaint soluton.