Hey Carol!

Jul 31 14:46 05, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 CS> Well, we have Pepsi or Coke as one of the options out of some 35 or 
 CS> so things. Whats really neat is the serve hot begerages too in a can. 
 CS>  Some sort of warmer unit involved.

I've never seen one of those.  They have coffee/tea/hot chocolate ones that
dispense into foam or paper cups but they are usually really bad.

 CS> This one is a drink that is mostly water and electrolyte 
 CS> replacements.  Cloudy white looking and very good.  Gatoraide is bad. 
 CS>  Daqari is good.  Pocari Sweat is best .

Sounds interesting.

 CS> Ah, then you are talking the 'occasional' while i was talking a real 
 CS> live daily *average* where for 2 months it wont drop under 35C even 
 CS> in the dead of the night.

Right.  I got it.  I couldn't handle that.

 CS> Hehe had a cool wave hit.  It's only 32C just now.  It's all relative 
 CS> to what you are used to though.  I cant imagine -40F in my wildest 
 CS> dreams and do not want to!

Been there, done it.  I didn't care much for it.  I doubt I would survive
it anymore but that was the way of my world once upon a time in a land far
away ... thank goodness.

 CS> I'm not saying we enjoy it .  We just get used to it and 
 CS> continue on as normal.  We actually count temps out here locally by 
 CS> water bottle.  Today is a mere 1 water bottle an hour.  Later, we hit 
 CS> 4 per hour (8-12oz bottles).  The biggest mistake folks from cooler 
 CS> climates make, is to not drink water (or daqari/Pocari sweat which is 
 CS> better) when they encounter heats like this.  Drink enough and you 
 CS> are just hot.  Dont drink enough, and you die.

I'd probably need a water cooler strapped to my back like a backpack with a
feeding tube that automatically and continually feeds water straight into
me.  Perhaps with some sort of regulator the adjusts itself depending on
the air temperature.

 CS> It would be hard to walk more than 1/2 mile here and not find one of 
 CS> the vending machines for drinks.

You have to walk 20kms from here to find one.  I have water piped in though.  :-)

 CS> Hehe our 'fall' is the time when it's cooler, oft 22C, lasts about 1 
 CS> month to my feel but actually that is because I'm not into 'cold'.  

That sounds perfect to me.

 CS> Granted true 'cold' here is a mere 3 months (at or near freezing 
 CS> water temps).

Same here except the 'cold' months average above freezing or at least in
the daytime.  Very wet though as a rule.  My guess would be that we average
about 10C for daytime temps during those months.

 CS> I didnt like riding my bike to work 3 miles in 'winter'.  Got snowed 
 CS> on more than once.

That seldom happens here but biking can be a very wet experience and
dangerous depending where one bikes.  Visibilty is the thing and rotten
drivers.  Walking is much safer but just as wet as biking.  Dressing up for
'winter' here is totally different then the Flatlands to state the obvious.
 There you needed layers to stay warm, whereas here you need waterproof
material to stay dry with a sweater underneath to add a tad of insulation. 
It doesn't get too cold here too often.  Same with too hot.  Wet is the
thing here.

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