I’m Melting…
Oh my gosh, the heat! I’m melting in this horrible heat. It has been over 100 degrees at my house in Southern California for 5 weeks. FIVE WEEKS! Saturday we topped the thermometer at 114-degrees. That’s just wrong. That same night, it rained and at 7pm it was still 107-degrees. What’s up with that? I wanted to take a bunch of pics this weekend, but all I did was lie on the couch with the fan pointed directly on me and moan. Thank goodness for Diet Pepsi Slurpees, or I would be a puddle on the floor. Global warming? Yes, it’s no lie. It’s no myth. Believe what the tell you. The next thing you know, the polar icecaps will melt and my inland house will be beachfront property.
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[...] First off, I want to agree with Stephanie from I speak film when she says she is melting in this heat. It is all kinds of hot here in Southern California! Triple digits for that many days in a row?? Unbelieveable! I’m definitely ready for fall! I’m using so much of my energy just typing this post right now (it takes a lot of energy to type that many exclamation points!) that there’s just none left to get out my camera and be creative! Just…too…hot…to…try… [...]
Comment by Digital Photography Blogs - Shooting the Kids - Blog Archive » Are you a Flickr addict, too? on July 24th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Yea, while you were melting, I was out riding my mountain bike – down the bike trails along the 605 into your neck of the woods. It rained on me on the coming down Ramona on the way back – at over 100 degrees.
But the bad news is it ain’t global warming – It’s just a warm summer. Around Mid September it’ll break. In the late sixties, and early 70’s we had some summers that were way hotter.
Southern California goes thru these cycles – we use it to get rid of people who move here from back east… Just like they use particularly cold winters to get rid of us.
I grew up here and have lived here for over 50 years – I’ll let you know when its global warming!
Meanwhile, you gotta get out and enjoy the legendary California Sunshine. You’re supposed to go to the beach, and get a tan. Do you east coasters even know what a tan is?
Pete in West Covina
Comment by Pete Parker on July 25th, 2006 at 4:34 am
“Do you east coasters even know what a tan is?”
A tan? You mean like a farmer’s tan? Haha.. Some people here in the Eastern part of the US have tans, though I wonder how many of them are fake. I couldn’t get a tan for my life, though I’ve aquired many sunburns over the years.
Comment by Mike on July 25th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
You can take the girl out of New England, but you can’t take New England out of the girl, I guess. I am such a wimp with hot weather. I do much better with snow boots, scarves and hot chocolate by the fire. But spending my day strategizing how to keep cool without raising my $300 dollar electric bill even further is not my idea of a fun summer activity.
But you’re right, I should be at the beach! With Mohito in hand, I think… No more whining, I hereby vow to make this summer more fun and less melty!
Comment by Stephanie Simpson on July 25th, 2006 at 3:59 pm