Hottest since 1980
Right now accoding to Weather.com it is 99 in Gaffney, South Carolina, though the Ledger says it is 100.
92 in Collinsville, Alabama and 97 in Rome Georgia. Five degrees difference only 45 miles away I can't understand unless you factor in more asphalt in Rome.
Other natural disasters would be the flood of 79 or 81, when my Grandmother Mary Alice Helton Fox called from the Kingston Rd. community of Rome, Ga and said: "Stevie turn it on Channel Five, there's 6 feet of water in the Riverbend Mall."
I said Nanny, we can't get the Atlanta station up here in Knoxville.
She started laughing at herself and it was a great call.
She wouldn't turn her air conditioner on till it got to 95, let that big industrial fan she had in the kitchen do its magic until family members started passing out, or showing signs of wooziness.
In 1980 I got myself down to Rome from Knoxville to have the family tennis tournament with Uncle Free and Prentice and Neil. Nanny--I started to see Papa, but he had died the August before-- had us haulin rock in the mornin in 100 degree heat.
Heat got to us that year; lot of temper tantrums and not much tennis. didn't prove anything about nothin except who was idiot enough to try to stand up in the stuff.
I rememberSoft Cell was singin Tainted Love that year, and the Breakdown, Baby don't Leave me mighta been the work of the Devil's Rhythm section.
A hot summer.
Stones came out with Start Me Up the next year, a revitalizing and renewing number.
92 in Collinsville, Alabama and 97 in Rome Georgia. Five degrees difference only 45 miles away I can't understand unless you factor in more asphalt in Rome.
Other natural disasters would be the flood of 79 or 81, when my Grandmother Mary Alice Helton Fox called from the Kingston Rd. community of Rome, Ga and said: "Stevie turn it on Channel Five, there's 6 feet of water in the Riverbend Mall."
I said Nanny, we can't get the Atlanta station up here in Knoxville.
She started laughing at herself and it was a great call.
She wouldn't turn her air conditioner on till it got to 95, let that big industrial fan she had in the kitchen do its magic until family members started passing out, or showing signs of wooziness.
In 1980 I got myself down to Rome from Knoxville to have the family tennis tournament with Uncle Free and Prentice and Neil. Nanny--I started to see Papa, but he had died the August before-- had us haulin rock in the mornin in 100 degree heat.
Heat got to us that year; lot of temper tantrums and not much tennis. didn't prove anything about nothin except who was idiot enough to try to stand up in the stuff.
I rememberSoft Cell was singin Tainted Love that year, and the Breakdown, Baby don't Leave me mighta been the work of the Devil's Rhythm section.
A hot summer.
Stones came out with Start Me Up the next year, a revitalizing and renewing number.
posted by foxofbama | 1:21 PM
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Ah, I remember it well. I was in Calhoun, GA at the time and trying to give people tours of New Echota Historic Site, both the hottest and coldest spot in the Oothcalooga Valley. We roasted in polyester dress uniform pants because they wouldn't issue us shorts.
1980. Call me the unluckiest teenager in ATL. I took a summer job doing the push mower work for a landscaping company. I made a decision that summer: manual labor was not for me.
1980 was a long, hot summer.
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