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Daily Blah for... Thursday, June 26, 2003
Hotter than Death Valley
Is what it is in San Francisco right now. It's true: Death Valley was most recently clocked at 93 degrees, and my friend Kathleen reports that it's 95 degrees on the ground at San Francisco Zoo. Which must be a nice tropical reprieve for all those red-ruffed and ring-tailed lemurs.
Meanwhile, us humans are barely surviving. San Franciscans don't get a lot of very warm temperatures. We're spoiled by moderately sunny, moderately breezy, moderately foggy days. Fans and air conditioners are being hauled out of storage. People are lying on their decks like lizards, trying hard to summon up the energy to reach the tall glass of iced water next to them (no soda, please, we're Californian). If the North Koreans started parachuting in right now, they'd find little resistance.
It thins our blood, you see, all that nice and uncontroversial weather we usually get. This is why San Francisco may be the greatest city in the world, but it will never conquer the world. Our armies could never stand foreign climates. The infantry would be sweating like pigs by the time it reached the central valley. They'd all want to go home. And because their commanding officers would be nice and liberal and San Franciscan too, they'd let 'em.
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