It's hot... but it's a dry heat
We live in the desert, obviously -- at least for the time being -- and a little bit of warmer-than-normal temperatures are to be expected. And at least it's not the muggy, sticky, thick-as-mud blanket of holy-crap-it's-hot that settles all over the glorified swamp that is Camp Lejeune. But still, when you step outside and there's a hot wind blowing in your face, and it's 115 degrees, hot is hot.
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You cracked me up!!
Know what you mean about that heat - 106 is pretty much my limit for comfort and even that requires a pool, lounge chair, immobility, and cabana boys fetching my drinks.
As a side note, the beach where my extended family goes for a reunion/vacation every year is quite near Camp Lejeune. I reckon the heat-and-humidity double whammy is much more manageable when one has a sea breeze blowing and a Bloody Mary in hand.
We lived on a kibbutz in Israel in the Northern Negev for a year and a half. I worked in the dining hall. When we set the tables sometimes, we turned the glasswear, plates, cups over down on the table because of a predicted sand storm (sharav). Those little sand crystals get all over and into everything. They used to say that a man could kill his wife without punishment after 4 days of a sharav. (I don't find that acceptable but....) My husband worked in the orchard and the bees would come after his eyes looking for moisture. However, I would take that over Washington DC where I worked one summer and I simply never had dry clothes on, the humidity was so bad and then there were the huge waterbugs that would come in your apt.
Keep up the good work and just want you to know we all appreciate you guys and all the services over there. Stay SAFE!