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[Ya-ta Boy]

I went to a friend's wedding in Alamogordo, New Mexico in the summer of '71. I don't know the exact temp because I was hiding in the car after being told it would be the guys' responsibility to chase the rattlesnakes out of the sagebrush before the ceremony. But it was hot, even though I was in a cold sweat.

The coldest: every damn winter morning when I was kid in Iowa, getting up and delivering newspapers before school, with Elvis (my dog--his upper lip curled). The coldest number I remember is -22F. When the sun finally did come up that day, there were sun dogs. Neither Elvis nor I appreciated them.

[Novernae]

Coldest, can't really compete. Minus 32C was the coldest and I still went to school. Then I moved to a city where they thought minus 20C was enough to cancel school. Wimps! Hottest, North-western Argentine summers. 45C not including the humidex, which put it well over 50. Thank god for the siesta, though at 10am the construction workers were still dying from the heat every once in awhile. As a great symmetry story I knew a girl who went from Tucuman, Argentina, Manitoba on a 24 hour flight. When she left it was 42C, when she arrived it was -42C. Can you imagine your body dealing with an 84C degree change?

[desultude]

[Novernae]

[coolsage]

The weather today: In Detroit it's going to be 82, and over in Windsor, it will hit a high of 28. Those Founding Fathers really knew where to draw the borders.