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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Sat Jul 10, 2021, 08:50 PM Jul 2021

Death Valley hits 130 Degrees as heat wave sweeps the West

Furnace Creek, Calif. • For Gary Bryant, the tenth-of-a-mile walk from his modular home to the air-conditioned restaurant where he was working Saturday was “quite enough” time outside.

Bryant, 64, knows the risks of summer temperatures in California’s Death Valley. He once collapsed under a palm tree from heat exhaustion and had to crawl toward a hose spigot to douse himself with water.

Bryant has lived and worked in Death Valley for 30 years, happy to balance the brutal summer heat with the soaring mountain vistas, but even he admits that the highs of recent years — the temperature soared to 130 degrees Friday and was forecast to be even hotter Saturday and Sunday — were testing his limits.

“The first 20 summers were a breeze,” he said. “The last 10 have been a little bit tougher.”

Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2021/07/10/death-valley-hits-degrees/
(Salt Lake Tribune)

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Death Valley hits 130 Degrees as heat wave sweeps the West (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP
Further north it's not near as bad this time. Pretty much staying below 90 captain queeg Jul 2021 #1
"Furnace" Creek. BigmanPigman Jul 2021 #2
Here is the a question that should be up your alley: TexasTowelie Jul 2021 #3
If you are keeping Kosher you shouldn't be eating BigmanPigman Jul 2021 #5
But I understand it's a 'Dry' heat Brother Buzz Jul 2021 #4

captain queeg

(11,780 posts)
1. Further north it's not near as bad this time. Pretty much staying below 90
Sat Jul 10, 2021, 10:14 PM
Jul 2021

We’ve got some cloud cover which really helps

TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
3. Here is the a question that should be up your alley:
Sun Jul 11, 2021, 02:59 AM
Jul 2021

Would it be safe to cook pork in a frying pan on the asphalt? (You can't be the pigman unless you can answer the non-kosher questions).

BigmanPigman

(52,259 posts)
5. If you are keeping Kosher you shouldn't be eating
Sun Jul 11, 2021, 04:24 PM
Jul 2021

pork no matter where or how it is cooked. Right?

BigmanPigman is from a Pink Floyd song about greedy fat cats.

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