Heat Wave
The northeast (the region in which I live and thus the only region which I am remotely qualified to speak about) has been struck by a deadly heat wave in the last couple of days. It is so hot you could fry an egg in the road. It is so hot, that all of my “cool” friends are now simply warm, so hot, in fact, that I’m pretty sure I saw the Greek God Hephaestus, the forger, using the sidewalk in lieu of a forge.
That is hot.
We are now at the point where stepping outside without the proper equipment (namely SPF 500 sunblock) carries the risk of vaporization. Personally, I rather like my atoms in the state and structure they are in, but maybe there are individuals who are looking for a change of pace?
This is the sort of heat that causes Satan to stick it out in Hell for a while and not bother with tempting souls up here on the surface because, “it’s just too damn hot.” I’ve actually been thinking about vacationing down there in Hell for a bit, it really can’t be worse than here. At least it’s a dry heat down below, not unlike Arizona. In fact, it is suspiciously like Arizona. What are you hiding, people of the southwest? Is there something you would like to tell the rest of us?
Anyway, as you can probably tell there isn’t much to blog about today, as this is more a slice of life comic. I hope everyone out there is keeping cool as best they can!
Also for those of you looking for random entertainment and art between comics, check out my tumblr where I am now answering questions with stupid drawings and posting other artworks.
I don’t know about that, but my mom talked about how a co-worker baked cookies in her car.
I hear that! I live in Michigan, and I’m in no way used to 100+ degree weather. I think my windows have started to melt.
Leave your windows slightly cracked, otherwise there’s a chance they could blow out. I don’t recall if it’s just from the heat inside or has something to do with when you close the door with all the windows up. Anyway, that’s what I was told to do for the brief time I lived in El Paso, TX. It gets hotter than Satan’s anus there. But not as hot as Kuwait, where I lived for a year. I got to experience 139 F there.
As a resident of the deep south, I can tell you that the ice cream trucks have given up. Probably for this reason.
The usually 105 degree weather (sometimes higher) of California has apparently been transferred to the northeast. 😀 We’re actually getting a bit of a lull in heat this summer.
I wouldn’t have said, “Well Shit” I would have said something FAR worse. 🙂
Checked out your tumbler, PS: Love Crono Trigger- Gotta get all the different endings! Love the soundtrack too. Crono Cross was “ok,” it does leave some room open for a 3rd…I hate to admit it, but getting that lifesize doll is a pain in the ass!!!
Ah man, that is really what it feels like right now. It feels like I’m back in Texas!
Hee. Your comment on sunblock made me think of Sher Block; which you may not find interesting at all but can look at if you want:
http://redscharlach.livejournal.com/221983.html#cutid1
However, being on the other side of the world and currently freezing my behind off, I feel like it would e presumptuous for me to say I agree with you 🙂
In spite of what they say, not all of Arizona is a dry heat. The Phoenix metropolitan area is in a valley, and between the hundreds of thousands of people walking around, and your own sweat, it becomes a muggy heat that will destroy your clothes.
I actually used to live in Tempe, so I can vouch for this. haha
Even when it is dry, it is not pleasant. People here in MA would always say “oh it is a dry heat, it’s so nice!” Yeah well, it’s also 115 most days in the summer in the Valley, I don’t care how dry it is, it’s AWFUL!
I live in Florida and it’s actually COOLER down here. Yeah.
Also, I have actually fried an egg on the sidewalk in Michigan in summer. I forgot to use a pan so I couldn’t eat it though.
It’s been like New Mexico down here in Texas LOL Though the past few summers have been brutal, same with the winters. We actually got decent snow last winter along with days of freezing weather, some it never got above 30 degrees all day!
Climate change… either that or it’s just a wacky decade. Some climatologists think the great plains will eventually become the great desert. I kinda hope not. Though I’ve heard Arizona’s been having dust storms and haboobs rather regularly lately.
@The T.C.What’s a haboob? Some kind of semi-erect nipple?
man we are really spoiled. This isn’t that hot…
Actually, we’re not trying to hide anything in Arizona. You ever been to ghetto Phoenix in midsummer?!? Pretty hell-like to me.
I happened to go on vacation to DC RIGHT during the heat wave. Walking around the city with a heat index of 113. *Sizzle*
I live in Arizona (Tucson) and I assure you that we are hiding nothing but old people here.