Oil On The Beach

by Bryan

10 comments

1 JuanitaM { 08.03.10 at 8:50 pm }

Ouch! That’s got to hurt…

2 Bryan { 08.03.10 at 9:03 pm }

If you’re referring to the title, that’s part of an ongoing song parody.

If you didn’t grow up in a climate like this, you shouldn’t be outside anyway. There’s no breeze anywhere, and there’s no real shade down on the beach. The humidity is too high for a mister or ice water towel to do much good.

We have had a series of days suited to watching double features in an air conditioned theater if you don’t have air conditioning at home.

We have a visitor for a week, and when they walk outside it’s like they hit a brick wall.

3 JuanitaM { 08.04.10 at 7:35 am }

It was the 110 degree heat index that shocked me. Ordinarily a coastal area would get cooling breezes coming off the water. It’s hard to imagine no breeze there. Isn’t that unusual meteorologically speaking for your area? I mean both the heat and the lack of breezes.

As for us, we’ve been feeling pretty sorry for ourselves around here with the temperatures in the upper 90’s. Don’t know what our humidity level is, but it’s like breathing underwater. Needless to say, we are wimps compared to you guys.

The people in our area are getting pretty cranky as it is. They’re not used to the heat. 🙂

4 Bryan { 08.04.10 at 4:30 pm }

When it comes to that, Juanita, no one is used to the heat and humidity combo that we are dealing with. In Southeast Asia you have the jungle canopy and water everywhere, but our white sand just reflects the heat back at you and the road tar melts. We once sanded the roads in the summer to deal with the melting tar, but they don’t do that anymore. You can’t walk around barefoot after things got civilized and you can lose flip-flops crossing the road.

5 JuanitaM { 08.04.10 at 4:48 pm }

Brings a whole new meaning to “blew out my flip flops” a la Buffet 🙂

6 Bryan { 08.04.10 at 11:25 pm }

When it happens and your bare foot hits the pavement, the fun begins. Ever try to hop in flip flops? I don’t recommend it.

7 Kryten42 { 08.05.10 at 2:58 am }

We had people here (in Melb. I mean) admitted to hospital when we had the 43C+ heatwave last year, because they wore the Aussie standard summer footwear, the thong (flip-flop to you lot). The primary cause was they stuck to the molten tar (asphalt) roads and they ended up barefoot on hot molten tar. Not good for bare feet. Cars had problems too. Turned out it was mostly newer roads. The older ones were made properly and didn’t melt at that temp. Everyone cuts corners these days to save a few bucks. *shrug*

8 JuanitaM { 08.05.10 at 6:26 am }

Kryten, thanks for clarifying “thong” because over here we have another definition for it. We might have gotten a completely different mental image of what happened. Ouch and double ouch!

9 Kryten42 { 08.05.10 at 7:57 am }

Oh… we have that *other* thong too! 😉 😀 I *was* tempted not to clarify that! 😈 I’m mean, I am! (A few I know there would have got it right though) 😆

Ladymin and I shared a few laugh’s over that when she visited here a few years ago. 😀

10 Bryan { 08.05.10 at 4:13 pm }

I’m glad y’all dealt with the “thong” issue, because the mental picture was really painful.