(Guest post by Don’s wife Cathy:)
Ever feel like the extreme heat & humidity this past week (across most of the USA) was driving you nuts – not to mention being cooped up (in air-conditioned splendor, but still . . .) that whole time? Apparently this was also a problem for the intrepid-but-becalmed ship’s crew in Muppet Treasure Island! Thankfully, by the time you see this, the temperatures will have dropped to more reasonable levels (approx. 85 degrees Fahrenheit/30 degrees Celsius) in our part of the country – although readers of this blog on the US East Coast will still have to suffer for a day or two.
On weeks like this past one, I wouldn’t mind trading weather with our brethren & sistren in the UK.
Donald R. McClarey
Paul Zummo
Normally, I would agree. But having spent a year in Africa on deployment, where the temperatures made it to the 140′s, this heat still feels nice. But I do sympathize with those who are not accustomed.
(From Don’s wife Cathy:) And you lived to tell the tale, Hemlock! I dub thee “Iron Man!”
I hadn’t realized anywhere in the world ever got that hot. I remember a Star Trek episode or two where Away Teams were trapped in temperatures that extreme, but I had never previously heard of temps that high on Earth.
I once was on a short term mission trip to Paraguay. It was 116 to 120 when we returned to the house we were staying at at about 6 pm. On return to NC where they had closed schools NOT for snow but simply for cold we left at 110 degrees when we loaded the cars and arrived at -12 with windchill in the 30′s below. Unlike Hemlock we were never there long enough to get ‘used to it’. Dennis McCutcheon
I have always despised hot weather Dennis and loved cold weather. My native Illinois specializes in blizzards in winter and blazing hot summers, so I am happy part of the time.