After a while, in a heat wave, it gets just too hot. New Jersey, Malvern, Dallas, even Phoenix, it just gets too hot after a while. Air conditioned airports, cars and hotel rooms can only do so much. Right now, Philly has equalled a record, 100 F. The air is a semi-solid, perhaps worse than Los Angeles. We need a two hour thunderstorm and a three-day rain to clean things out.
Driving from Malvern to Harrisburg, crossing into the Susquehanna River Valley, you can see the thick leaden air. A brownish hazy cloud with no start or end. Just hanging there.
The lawns and fields are brown, victims of watering restrictions and no rain to measure. Even the cows are languid, hiding under the trees to stay cool, laying on their bellies. You can hear them from the Interstate….”Damn its hot. Yeah Bernice, it’s hot. But its not the heat…its the humidity. Bernice if you say that again, I’ll kick you one in the udder…”
Even the cows are cranky.
RoadDave 