HOT AUGUST… UM, HOT…

9Aug, San Vicente

Hello all! Down in the ‘Village’, Lori working with her sewing women, me doing some health-care program set-up, AND… It’s hot. Desert-hot. 100-degrees-in-the-shade hot. The wind is hot. Sit-and-sweat hot. Low-humidity hot, which means you are dehydrated BEFORE you fell dehydrated. A couple of the nights, it cools down… last night, not! It’s a typical August here in San Vicente. It will get hotter into Sept and Oct, especially when the Santa Ana winds kick in. Those are ‘inverse’ winds that develop out of high-pressure weather systems that park over the ‘4 corners’ of the US. These result in winds of 40-60 knots from the EAST, with a humidity of 10-15%. Fire hazard goes way up. No wonder all the short-term outreachers don’t come in Aug-Oct… wimps… REAL missionaries brave the hard stuff… (excuse me, have to wipe the computer off, all the sweat writing this short bolg)