Dan’s Weather Dialogue

I was in Houston, and BOY was it hot -- I seem to remember something like 35 or 40 straight days of 100+ temperatures.
Of course I was entering high school at the time and was watching a lot of cable TV so my memory is not reliable.
-Alice K

1980? Remember it vividly!! Fried eggs on the sidewalk. Burned skin each time you sat down in the car. Even with a/c you had a hard time getting a home down to 90 degrees, it was just too hot. I don't believe the temp ever went below 80 degrees during that 40+ day period. Unbearable is a word that really comes to mind. 113 Degrees, two days in a row.

Oh, I remember that summer well! I was 14 years old, and although it was blisteringly hot, it wasn't going to stop me and my buddies from playing outside, mowing lawns, then walking one mile to the nearest drug store to buy candy with all the money we earned mowing lawns! That was back in the day when I liked "laying out" in the sun using baby oil instead of regular tanning oil (I know now what a stupid and dangerous thing that was). Also, the two pear trees in our backyard did not survive that summer, the heat was just too much for them, I guess.

In that HOT HOT HOT summer of 1980 I was very pregnant with my 3rd child. I was 8 - 9 months alone. (I had her July 2, 1980)I dont remember much outside the house except quick trips grocery shopping and quick trip to church on Sundays. Oh yeal, I remember that year very well!

We went from here to louisiana, and it was still hot, so we drove up to St Louis, and it was still hot!
I will nver forget the heat that year.

I find it very interesting how many folks can vividly recall past weather events. I can't remember half my relatives names or birthdays, but ask me about a hurricane that hit 30 years ago and I have total recall! Must be how I'm programmed!

I was pregnant during the infamoussummer of 1980 we lived in a small frame home with room units and not much insulation.I went down to Marshal Feed and Grain on East Lancaster and bought the biggest cow trough they had in May. I sat in it,up to my chin from June till September. Each year about this time when the summer of 80 comes up I call my son to remind him what mom went through to get him here.

Ha, you can all step off. The summer of "80" was my first year out of High School and I was mowing yards with a friend that summer driving a black Ford Courier Pickup with NO A/C! It was hot, dry and perfect for two 18 year old boys out in the world for the first time. We would mow then head to any pool we could find to relax and cool off. It was a great summer to be 18 and free. I have nothing but great memories of that time.

I was living in Arlington and working in Dallas (KERA FM)
One Saturday, I was driving to work and had to stop my overheated Honda Civic to let it cool down. I stepped out of my car and everything turned gray as I was watching a Dallas Police Officer walk toward me. I woke up in the passenger seat and the officer asked me who I was and where I was going. He also told me that I needed medical help. I told him that one of the guests of the program that I was doing was a Doctor and he could help me. The officer actually drove me to the station and the Doctor said "I'll take care of her" That unknown officer and his partner are true heroes. I regret that I didn't get names. My little girls were with me. I found out many years later that my youngest also had a heat related problem.

I have always bought cars that can handle heat, since that incedent.