Cold As Ice

 With the late spring heatwave that's gripping much of southwest America, people required to work outdoors are taking all that heat quite personally. In our little slice of the Mojave, Friday we reached 109 degrees Fahrenheit. Hot and I mean really hot. However the humidity was at a bottom line 1% so, just remember to stay hydrated and you'll be fine for a brief moment in time. Phoenix, Arizona when I checked, was 107 degrees Fahrenheit and with 7% humidity, well, it's a balmy feels like 100 degrees. Fahrenheit of course. So folks that are required to work outside get to enjoy all this heat and it does take a toll. Heat stroke is not a laughing matter. Heat stroke causes confusion, agitation, cold sweats, nausea, confusion, and if left untreated heat stroke will kill you. Boiled alive in your own juices. So ... to treat heat stroke, the medical treatment kids have started using body bags filled with ice to pack a heat stroke victim in. You see a body bag is what was invented long time ago to transport casualties and especially guys that were killed while working the front lines of war. Most wars are fought on the outside in the open so as not to muck up fairly decent office space. With office space taking a fair number of hits during any war, well, people are simply left to their own devices and so ... body bags. Really long story recapped short. Anyway, the working outside classes suffer heat stroke at an alarming rate and that is to include police, firefighters, guys laying down a new road, repairing an old road, carpenters, plumbers, iron workers and that includes Iron Man, and on and on and hot. Really hot and a body bag filled with ice sounds like a not so bad solution to heat stroke. I haven't been able to find a reflective heat indicator and not so far. Take the heat straight from the sun as it warms Earth's atmosphere and then toss in humidity and on top of that add in reflective heat rising off of ground surfaces such as asphalt, concrete, or whatever working outside requires a person to stand on, lay on (?) and it becomes unbearable. If a person must work outside in temperatures above 100 F, well, sweating will be your friend as long as you keep ingesting water a mite faster than you can sweat it out. Now how about some Saturday machined artware.

wallpaper -

melt -

bust -

euclid -

breaks it -

big nose -

borst -

let us be lovers -

people need to start taking global climate change seriously. in the not to distant future, 110 degrees will be the normal and the extreme will be exponentially hotter than that. remember that billy idol tune 'dancing with myself'? well when it gets to the part of the tune where idol is singing about ... "sweat sweat sweat ..." who knew that billy idol could be prophetic ... ??? ... 😎