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Originally posted by Earthdog:
I remember the summer of 94 very well. Actually that was kind of mild compared to some of the summers Ive seen in Texas. 1980 and 1981 are the two hottest summers on record in the Lone Star State.
I remember in 1981 it was over 100 degrees for over 100 consecutive days. One day it hit 128f and my best friends mom said "Gee its so hot out here I bet you could fry an egg on the sidewalk."
Dwayne bolted into the house and came back out 10 seconds later with a nice grade A extra large egg. He cracked that sucker on the sidewalk and the egg cooked in about 2 minutes. It was so hot you couldnt stand on the concrete for more than about 10 seconds before your shoes started melting.
Good thing we had a lake down the street so we could go swimming every day [img]smile.gif[/img] The water was warm but still a relief from the heat. Silly me wasnt wearing any shoes that day and had to bolt from driveways to grass and so on to get to the lake [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img] Good thing I was fast when I was young [img]smile.gif[/img]
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I remember that summer very well, Earthdog. Actually, I think that was 1980 on the 100 consecutive heat days and the high of 128. 1981 was hot, but 1980 broke all records...it was an inferno.
I was living in Louisiana at the time (thank the gods!) but my mom and I were going to Arlington, TX to visit her sister (my aunt). We had the radio on going through Dallas and it came across that the temperature was 117 degrees and we thought it had to be a mistake. So I felt the window of the car and it was so hot it felt like it was on fire.
My cousin (who was 12 at the time, I was almost 17) wanted me to take him to Six Flags and I said "nothing doing" but that I might go in the evening if it fell below 105 degrees! Well sure enough, the temp finally fell to 104 at 5 pm and we went off like a couple of fools over to Six Flags. After parking and walking into the park, I was so thirsty I bought a 32-ounce lemonade and I think I drank it down in like 2 minutes flat. Somehow we lasted like 4 or 5 hours out there...the arrogance and impetuousness of youth! [img]graemlins/laugh2.gif[/img]
I was never so glad to get back to Louisiana!
During that summer, Lela (my wife) was living in Bridgeport, Texas, with her mom, who DIDN'T have an air conditioner in her house. Joanne (my mother in law) still brags how she survived the summer of 1980 without an A/C and Lela just fumes because Joanne was working at the Bridgeport Index newspaper during the day and she (Lela) was stuck at the house like an oven. She's never told her mom how she felt about that, but she's told me, and one of these days she's going to blast Joanne with that...I hope I'm not around! [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img]
Cheers,
-Sazerac