Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

Try Death Valley in the summer. I spent an afternoon hiking there one summer and the temp was 127 degrees. I drank about five gallons of water and still had heat stroke.

Originally Posted by Frownland

I remember one particular heat wave when I was living in Arizona where it peaked at 120 F. My family and I went to a baseball game and I remember that the parking garage was like a damn oven because of bad ventilation and lack of wind combined. It was at least 140 in there based off of the thermometer built into our car at the time, but it could have been higher. That was a brutal summer.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.