(Post number 5/48. I'm raring to go. if you have top five lists to suggest, let me know in any post. I'll try to get to them all.)

5. When you get into your car, you must take extra precaution not to touch anything metallic, leather, vinyl, or otherwise kissed by the sun less you want to suffer from 2nd degree burns on the palms of your hands. Gloves become more than a fashion statement; they become your best defense against nerve damage.

4. Don’t sit on concrete, you will burn. You can cook eggs on the surface and watch bacon fry on it. You can, I've done it.

3. You car tires will melt to the asphalt. That is, they will melt to the asphalt if the tar in the asphalt hasn’t melted first. Got a flat rire once when it was 123°F outside. It sucked. me and my mom were on the street changing the tire as fast as we could. They stopped the planes from taking off this day because the tires all melted to the runways.

2. Rain water that falls from the sky is hot. Wicked hot, shower hot. Seriously. Of course, this only happens for about 10 minutes at a time when we get all the rain we're going to get for the year. The sky opens up, drops 5 inches of rain, everything floods and then washes away.

1. You can sunburn through your clothing. A t-shirt only has an SPF of 25 or so depending on the color. This is why people who truly understand the dry heat DO wear black. Black also reflects light much more so than white as white is the combination of all color, where as black is the total absence there of.

Posted by Utopia at July 29, 2006 10:49 AM

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