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There are a whole lot of air-conditioned places more comfortable than WalMart to cool off at.

Guess you have to test the lawn chairs in order to sit down in their noisy flourscent lit stores.

OH yeah, Walmart often has an attached fourescent McDonalds for your dining comfort.

I*m no snob. I like McDonalds, but a dimly lit lounge and a Singapore sling is great for cooling off. = TG

Kate,
I have posted comments (or tried to) a half dozen times.
I do not use profanity. I am always respectful.
... and I love your web-site.
I must ask though, do you censor? ... or am I just missing something.
I guess I must admit I am not a real "blogger", but I read them - think about them - and if at the end I truly have something to say, then I will.

If that means I don't belong here - then say so.

Rick

Lost Wages is for wimps.

Try Blythe California for hot, a balmy 117 F or 47 C.

If you want 50 C try the Leopard tank in Afghanistan.

The biggest scorcher ever noted was on September 13, 1922, in El Azizia (also known as Al 'Aziziyah), Libya, when the mercury hit 136 degrees Fahrenheit or 58 Celsius.

Hey you can hang out with Muammar! But then CSIS might come visit you.

Cheers

I think this was the wrong place to post this. Whoops.
Rick

Gee. Imagine that! It gets hot in the desert in the summer!!! What's next? It gets cold in the winter??

Sounds like summer in the desert, what's the story?
It could be an opportunity for Big Ass Al to spout off though.

Still waiting for him to correct the Polar Bear lie. Polar Bears are thriving in their usual habitat.

I think some of you are missing the humour here.

Kate having a little laugh at Matt Drudge's expense.

Yep, its hot in Vegas. In other news, water is wet. ~:D

I remember in day in Phoenix when I lived down there it hit 120F. Everybody went to work, same as always.

In the summer nights, when you drive under a concrete bridge in a convertible you can feel the stored heat radiating off it. If you go outside for a stroll around 10pm, the wind off the hills feels exactly like standing in front of a pizza oven with the door open.

But hey, its a dry heat. BWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

...for a sec, I thought I was on the Caledonia Wake Up' site with the flashing lights et al...

Try Moab in May. I was mountain biking there with a friend a few years back. We had to start at 07:30 and finish by 11:00 or we'd have roasted. We'd then hike the Arches after 18:00. In between it was way too hot to be outside.
How hot was it you ask? It was so hot I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking!

yup, its hot in Vegas

Can always tell because my neighbour, a Vegas "Sun Bird" comes North to spend a couple of months of cool Canadian summer weather.

what can one say, hot in the desert, who'd a thunk it

It's hot in Vegas, cold in a Winnipeg winter, and windy in a prairie dust storm. So what else is new? Oh, and in Texas we are avoiding tornados and flash floods. C'est la vie.

I remember an August day of sampling when we broke some rocks NW of Vegas at Beatty. Now that was HOT; much hotter than in the LV basin that day. Later we made a run over to Furnace Creek, Death Valley just to see what that felt like. Then a run back to Vegas to cool off... ;-)

I was chuckling over good old yankee marketing savvy recently when customers excitedly told me they had just bought a Vegas "package" called "Hot August Nights". Mind you, it's not quite as savvy as "if your erection lasts more than 4 hours" call your doctor. Gawd that's a scream what?

On a hot summer night.
Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the carbon credits?

/with appologies to Meatloaf.

"Century" temperatures may not be a big deal in Vegas, but when we used to get them in Sask, they were not only shocking but newsworthy. In 1937 there was a week of +100 with an all-time Canadian record of +113F in Yellowgrass. Hot? Damned right.

"Century" temperatures may not be a big deal in Vegas, but when we used to get them in Sask, they were not only shocking but newsworthy. In 1937 there was a week of +100 with an all-time Canadian record of +113F in Yellowgrass. Hot? Damned right.

Rick Wyatt: I have been on the road all day. If your comment is intercepted, it's by the spam filter, not me. I can only release them after I check the "trap".

That said, there is no sign of your comments in either the junk folder or the moderation bin. I have no idea what happened to them.

Keep in mind that this is a high traffic site, and every time someone posts a comment, the page must rebuild. This sometimes results in errors. I can't help that, so can only ask that you have patience, and if you encounter persistent problems, email me privately. I'll do what I can.

Thanks TJ - when you see a Drudge siren here, it's pretty much a guarantee that the item is being ridiculed a little.

And to AL GORE and the eco-wackos ITS SUMMER TIME STUPID!