"Rufus" > wrote in message
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> Dad wrote:
>>
>> "Rufus" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> tww1491 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Dad" wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Hot asphalt, smoking tires, burning oil, and brakes.......
>>>>
>>>> Only 125 MPR+, some day I'm going to get this thing in 5th gear.
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------
>>>> Summer indeed. Already very hot here in Middle GA south of
>>>> Atlanta.
>>>> Lots of rain. Recall back in the 50s and into the 60s people with
>>>> sports
>>>> cars (Healeys, Triumphs. MGs and even Corvettes) used to wave
>>>> when they
>>>> passed each other. Not so any more, although us S2000 owners do
>>>> wave or
>>>> blink headlights. Another fine tradition gone.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> ...out here Covetters and bikers still wave...I think most like
>>> vehicles still wave at each other.
>>>
>>> But I know I'm not going out *today* to wave at anybody...heading
>>> to
>>> 115 today, and I heard at breakfast this morning that it was 130
>>> in
>>> Death Valley yesterday! Talk about "hot asphalt"...
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Rufus
>>>
>> It used to be that the C5 whiners said the older Corvette drivers
>> didn't
>> wave because they were jealous, and the older ones said the C5s
>> didn't
>> have the Corvette knowledge to keep up the wave. Then it repeated
>> when
>> the C6 came out. I have to admit I'm caught paying more attention
>> to
>> driving than I do the whiners. If I see any Corvette in time I
>> wave, if
>> not, live with it.
>
> I generally get feedback for not waving at people in cars that I
> know when I'm on my Harley...I tell them that when I'm on my Harley
> I'm too busy trying not to get hit by the cars to notice or care
> who's *in* them...
>
> ...but bikers almost always wave at each other when passing and all
> gens of Corvetters wave at each other 'round here. And I notice it
> on the highway.
>
>>
>> I saw that Death Valley might reach 130 yesterday but didn't know
>> it
>> had, one hot mother to drive through. All the way from Beatty to
>> Mojave
>> every sound the car made would make you jump, thinking it was going
>> to
>> fail any time. Was in the high 60s here last night and a light rain
>> right now.
>
> Taking a look, the current Death Valley temp is 128 and the forecast
> for the next two days is for 130.
>
> And last night's overnight *low* here in the Indian Wells Valley was
> *80*! Currently reading 112, I bet it's higher in the bright
> sunshine.
>
> --
> - Rufus
>
I can't and won't complain about our weather this year. There's a
saying here that the corn is good if it's knee high by the 4th of
July, well this year it will be shoulder high by the 4th of July.