'Expat how regular is scary weather there?I'm wondering why they have a shortage of IT personnel,was wondering if it was due to hurricanes.'
About as rare as it is in the UK. It doesn't usually get tornadoes as farther north and in the Plains because it is not very far inland. Let's put it this way: I lived there from 1971 - 1989. The number of times we were affected by a hurricane more than, say, a day: once. In 1983.
My sister lives in Galveston County. When Ike came in 2008, they were affected for about 3 days. The islands go it, as islands will.
They were highly efficient about getting power up and running again.
If you're renting and you chose well flooding isn't all that common.
Sorry to say this, but that Katrina thing, Louisiania is a bit of a fucked up state in a lot of ways. There's a lot of corruption there, always has been, and they were given mucho billions by the federal government over the years to look after those levees and somehow, they didn't. They made a big cock up of the evacuation, too. Notice how other states that also sustained heavy damage from that storm, Missississippi, for example, did not have the same problems?
I mean, if I had a brother in jail and a brother in Louisiana, I'd bust the one out of Louisiana first (Cajuns just shoort me now :o).
It is very very hot in summer with high humidity. There is no such heat hera at all. Ever. This is not necessarily unusual as it is semi-tropical. That's why most places have central air-conditioning. Days and nights are even pretty much all year and there are little seasonal fluctuations because of its latitude.
I lived in Austin for 5 years for university and then to work. One of my aunts has lived there for about 35 years now (she's originally from San Antonio) and it's changed a lot. But it's a nice enough city.
If I had to chose between the two I'd say Austin, though. :)
It is quite far from New Orleans - very long drive, about a day's drive, in fact, in Texas terms.