But it's a dry heat...

[cdaigle430]

Humidity at 5-7 percent.

Concrete and vehicles so hot, they'd burn you.

Some wise person put some cold water tanks outside our building. We would turn OFF the hot water tanks and use them as cold. Use the cold as hot.

You could tell who the newbies were, they had a nice red complexion from the errant shower faucet choice.

LOL, I remember my first time stepping off the plane in Kuwait, was an L1011 ATA flight. You had to walk down the attached stair to the tarmac and all I could remember was looking at the engine thinking it was odd that it was blowing heat at me like opening an oven set to 400 degrees to check what your cooking.

But, then I stepped off the stair only to find it even hotter-thats when I realized that was the coolest I was gonna be outside for a long time. This was at night when the sun went down too. It took me a couple of weeks to adapt or rather acclimate to it and even start riding a bicycle around base in the hot sun. I always had a bottle of hot water by my side.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Pf. They think that's hot? They should try the middle of a forest fire sometime.

 

[dragoneggs]

Pf. They think that's hot? They should try the middle of a forest fire sometime.

I'm game for most travel adventures but I think I will pass on that one!

 

[lman]

That's funny, because I had the exact opposite reaction when I moved out to Indiana for graduate school. The furthest East I'd been before that was Montana.

One of the things that caught my attention was the fact that the median between the freeway lanes was green. I had never seen that, and thought it the oddest thing.

I was also absolutely flummoxed when I found out that people didn't have to water their lawn, or have in ground sprinkler systems.

It all seemed so odd and foreign to me.

I hear there's places where you don't even have to mow your yard. I've never watered my lawn, but still have to mow it. I do water my garden occasionally. It has been kind of dry lately though. Thank goodness we got 1 1/4 inches of rain overnight. The corn and my hay needed it.