How hot was it?
It was so hot that a dozen servicemen were hospitalized! Rim-shot!
Our roof was re-tarred before the ‘rainy season’. We’d call it the ‘drizzley season’ but these things are all relative. It was good in the winter because it kept the rain from getting in. It’s not that I object to a little moisture. It’s that it’s so dusty here that for the first week the rain doesn’t puddle, it creates sheets of mud on every surface, which then seep in the windows and through cracks in the roof. It looks like a scene out of ‘Dark Water’.
But it’s not the rainy season now and the tar that was on the roof has become completely fluid in the relentless heat. It runs across the roof and down the stairs. If you have to make a phone call - you have to go up on the roof. I’ve laid down a trail of newspaper and a little card-board platform so that I stay off the tarry bits. But it took a few tries to figure that out. Consequently all my shoes and the hems of my pants look like brer Rabbit before he got chucked in the briar patch.
The tar is that runny ‘cause it’s hot. It’s really really fucking hot.
It’s one hundred twenty Fahrenheit, fifty Celsius, or 323 Kelvin. Anything electronic left outside is toast. Anything electronic left in the car is melted into the upholstery. The city power has completely crapped out. The brown/black outs are constant and are seriously messing up the equipment. I don’t mind replacing the electronics or the lights. But when the AC clenches up at high noon and the house goes from meat locker to convection oven I reserve the right to burst into tears.
I got a sunburn watching “Weekend at Bernies” this place could keep me tan through three feet of cement.
-PNG
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/40650.html
And check out the humidity here! I come from a place where 70% humidity is the mid-winter low. I’ve seen fish wandering down the street back home. Here? Your coffee cup, if left half full, is *bone dry* in the morning. Just a layer of crystal hard sugar and brown coffee goodness at the bottom. The whole country is like God’s dehumidifier. ..
Comments
OK, you win.
Posted by: rj3 | July 24, 2006 7:36 PM
Check this out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5211742.stm
The temperature hit 86F and it's a medical emergency. Even in Chicago people wouldn't take off their mittens until it hits 80.
-PNG
Posted by: PNG | July 25, 2006 1:54 AM
We took off our mittens a while ago. In fact, we've been trying to move as little as possible through the overheated muck we like to call "air." Still, even the heat index didn't get into the teens, I don't think. Anything over 75 F is uncivilized.
Posted by: Citations | August 3, 2006 12:21 PM