Thread: Hot enough????

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Hidebinder I know what you mean about death valley. Went there about 20 years ago just before they close it because of the heat and at the top it was 65 and on the dried floor bed it was 113.

War Stories:

When I reported to Millington, TN, at the Naval Air Station in July, 1960, the average overnight temp was in the high eighties or low nineties. There were fans in the barracks, but on my first night there, I sweat so much that I woke up and thought I had wet myself; the mattress squished, it was so wet.

In late summer of 1968, I was on a crew that was sent to Death Valley to make repairs on a power line that had been knocked down in a storm. We had to work at night with flood lights, because it was too hot during the day - even at night, on the valley floor between Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells, it was over a hundred degrees; and if the breeze got up too much, it actually felt cool.

Here's some food for thought.......How come you guys in snow country get a snow day or the city shuts down because of the weather???? we have to keep going even when people are dropping like flies here? Yeah yeah, I know it's a "dry" heat...........my butt. I don't whine or complain, I just like toying with different attitudes when it comes to the weather. Cool part is, for all of us, it still only lasts a short time. By the way, I have shoveled frozen snow and ice at 4 in the morning when the temp was 16 below with a wind chill of 36 below. I love all weather and it's changing conditions. I just don't want my premiums to skyrocket because of the claim.

Nitro, I think you have a legitmate beef about having hot days off, but you need to take it to a different level. When it gets two hot in some areas in Florida they shut the schools down, why not in Arizona? If it's too hot to go to school, it must be too hot to work.

Amen brother.....why not? Too funny how this world goes around.

Thermometers in Arizona start at 100 degrees.

They do close the Phoenix and Tucson airports when it gets
too hot because the planes cant take off.

mike in tucson

I saw 215 on my car today for the first time! Running in 92 degree in the S Fla humidity (with the A/C on Brianrupnow). THis is with a headmounted sensor so its reading aprox. 10 higher than the manifold sensor mount. I just found out about the sensor location and checked it with a gun on my other car. Readings with the gun, head 210, manifold 200, top of the radiator tank 190 on a similiarily hot day.

Hot's hot - but, that humee-diddy is what wrecks me. When I was younger, it was just a bit uncomfy, but I don't think my ol' wrecked bod could handle too much of it, now; I think I'll just stick with the good ol' dry desert.

You know it's hot in Phoenix when you see a guy in a lowrider Chevy with a chain steering wheel driving with oven mitts!