So how about taking up the new basement, garage, or even a bedroom (A/C equipped) for the first six months and blame it on your wife for messing with your trees???
Central Texas, definitely not coastal or dry. Humid, hot, but the weather has been unpredictable the last 3 years, especially the winter with freak ice storms.
This site is very accurate, except for the "hot weather", this was the it was 5 years ago. Now we get plenty of 100 degree days, not as much as San Antonio as we are slightly higher. This year was absurd.
It does, but only for a few days. Last winter we had a few in December, January, and February. That's when I lost 2 chojubai and 3 BC's. I think if it had been only in February they would have been fine.