What's with all of this FRICKIN' HEAT??!! (Yesterday at Stone Mountain Park...)

United States
July 10, 2007 7:34pm CST
Ever since summer began weeks ago, it's starting to swelter up so bad that it's like i'm in the Sahara Desert, and i've never been there before! I'm not so sure what's causing this frickin' heat wave, but this is senseless! I've been to Stone Mountain Park for the first time yesterday, and although I was afraid of heights as I was at the Skylift (especially since it was my first time there as well and I feared the ride would snap and we'd fall), I finally made it to the top of Stone Mountain. When I actually set foot on the mountain, it was HOT AS HELL!! I stepped closely as I could to avoid tripping like last time at college and bleeding on the mountain as I felt that the surface as irregular and rough. I also walked slowly because since I was on a mountain that overlooked Atlanta (and I couldn't even find Downtown Atlanta though) I had to watch my step or else i'd fall to my death. That was the one thing that I feared while I was there. Then, when I used one of those distance viewers for the very first time after paying $0.50 cents, I placed my face on the viewers, and for a short time, my face BURNED! It stung my face like Hell in this burning heat while I looked through the viewer scopes! Thank goodness that the skylift was coming before my face got visible burns. If my toxic, annoying little sister hadn't came with us to the trip, then it would've been less painful. But overall, even so, it was still too hot outside. I even had to bring my water-fileld cooling fan spray I bought at Walt Disney World with me to keep me cool. If you went to a theme park, amusement park or carnival ride on a vacation at this time, was it just as hot to you as I felt it yesterday? And how did you keep cool in this abnormal heat wave?
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• United States
19 Jul 07
I haven't been to a theme park, amusement park, or even a carnival ride, but I do have to, without exception, go out for walks with my dog at least twice a day, and, yes, it is fricking hot, as you say. Wow, those pay-per-view binoculars sure are getting pricey. Half a buck to use them? And, boy, you sure were lucky not to get second-degree burns. I hate to sound like I'm getting on a political soapbox, but I believe that the summers are getting hotter because of global warming.