Hot
One of my soldiers just checked our camp's weather line. It's 128°F outside right now. That might not be surprising, but the problem is that this is the NORMAL summertime temp around here (sometimes higher). I had trouble comprehending a temperature like 128° until I came to Kuwait and got to experience it first-hand.
Let's see if we can put that in perspective: The hottest temperature ever recorded in the US was in California's Death Valley on July 10, 1913. It was 134°, only six degrees hotter than it is right now. The next highest state record is Arizona, with a Kuwait-tying 128° set on June 29, 1994 at Lake Havasu.
It's hotter here now than it has ever been in Nevada.
It's flipping hot.
All water that comes out of a tap is hot 24/7. I brush my teeth with water that you could use for tea. The hot wind makes your eyes tear up. The sweat coming from my eyes is enough to make my Wiley-X sunglasses fog up. If you want to experience some Kuwait weather for yourself, just hold a hairdryer 10 inches away from your face until it gets really uncomfortable. Then keep it there for the 15 minutes it takes to walk to chow.
It's flipping hot.
And to top it all off, some strange marine layer moved in last night and it got hot AND humid. It was out of control, so I ran and hid in the billets. Luckily, it was dry again this morning.
It's still flipping hot here.
(note: I'm not bitching... there are many soldiers in this theater who have to walk around in body armor in this heat with bad guys shooting at them. They can't run and hide in the air conditioning. I'm just trying to relate a little bit of what it's like here.
... it's hot. Really hot.)
Let's see if we can put that in perspective: The hottest temperature ever recorded in the US was in California's Death Valley on July 10, 1913. It was 134°, only six degrees hotter than it is right now. The next highest state record is Arizona, with a Kuwait-tying 128° set on June 29, 1994 at Lake Havasu.
It's hotter here now than it has ever been in Nevada.
It's flipping hot.
All water that comes out of a tap is hot 24/7. I brush my teeth with water that you could use for tea. The hot wind makes your eyes tear up. The sweat coming from my eyes is enough to make my Wiley-X sunglasses fog up. If you want to experience some Kuwait weather for yourself, just hold a hairdryer 10 inches away from your face until it gets really uncomfortable. Then keep it there for the 15 minutes it takes to walk to chow.
It's flipping hot.
And to top it all off, some strange marine layer moved in last night and it got hot AND humid. It was out of control, so I ran and hid in the billets. Luckily, it was dry again this morning.
It's still flipping hot here.
(note: I'm not bitching... there are many soldiers in this theater who have to walk around in body armor in this heat with bad guys shooting at them. They can't run and hide in the air conditioning. I'm just trying to relate a little bit of what it's like here.
... it's hot. Really hot.)
posted at 9/01/2005 04:17:00 AM
4 Comments:
Wow. Sounds like it might be a little warm! Heck, I'm glad you're trying to stay out of the sun; it would be monumentally obtuse to try to be macho about that kind of life-extinguishing weather. Because of the heat, do you get to walk around with your camelback?
Terry
yup, we get to carry around our camelbacks and we end up drinking a lot of water/gatorade. most nights we are up visiting the bathroom 2 or 3 times a night.
Leave it to Big T to use words like 'monumentally obtuse' - Love 'ya Terry!
Rick is in Hawaii on business so he's got it REALLY tough.
Ok.. back to the world of vegetables.
Cali
Rob,
To keep your glasses from fogging up take and wet a bar of soap. Then take your index finger and swipe it across the soap. Take what you have on your finger and rub it onto both sides of your glasses. Then wipe the soap off with a soft cloth - T-shirts work really well. This will leave a film on your glasses and will prevent fogging until your sweat washes the film off.
Randy H.
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