Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Incredible, but True!

I was not imagining things. Yesterday was the hottest day EVER recorded in Los Angeles. It was so hot in downtown Los Angeles that the thermometer broke when it hit 113 degrees. They sent a technician from the National Weather Service in Oxnard to fix it but the hottest minutes had passed.

I happened to be driving through downtown at 12:15, when the official thermometer melted down. My car thermometer, a Volvo thermometer of uncanny accuracy, read 114 degrees under the underpass. Later that afternoon I drove by a bank by the Grove at Fairfax and Third. It read 116 degrees.

Today is cooler but still awful. When Theo stepped out the front door at 7:15 a.m. he said: "It feels like a warm bathtub."

Exactly. Hot. Goopy. Filled with a lot of gunk.

These are superlative times.

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