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From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid
On Fri, 08 Apr 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban, in article
, Tony Cooper wrote:
>Moe Trin wrote:
>> NEARLY all airports now have enclosed ramps from the boarding area
>> within the airport terminal building (so that the passengers don't
>> have to bear the blistering heat/cold/rain/what-ever while
>> boarding/deplaning, never mind having to _climb_ stairs!!!)
>I can remember flying from Indianapolis or Chicago to St Petersburg,
>Florida to visit my parents and walking off the airplane onto the
>stairs and down to the tarmac and across to the outside baggage claim
>area. The heat and humidity would hit like a surfer's dream wave.
>Breathing was like sucking steam.
1960 - stationed in England with the Yank Air Force - our aircraft go
to North Africa to train with real bullets/bombs - I climb the nose
ramp of a C-124 (huge for the time, transport). It's cool and a bit
foggy in England (East Anglia for our British readers). Refueling stop
in Southern Germany, and next mid-day, we land at Wheelus Air Base just
outside of Tripoli, Libya. Taxi to the ramp, and they open the nose
doors and lower the ramp. We start walking down the ramp, and it's like
walking into a furnace (110F/33C air temperature, on an asphalt parking
ramp) "but it's a dry heat" (about a mile from the Mediterranean Sea).
>The heat and humidity was still there, but the blast was delayed until
>you left the terminal.
and get into your air-conditioned car which you ride to your
air-conditioned hotel/residence... yup!
>Now that I live in Florida, I'm accustomed to the heat and humidity.
I lived in Tampa in the mid-50s, so I know what you mean, but I'm in
Phoenix now, and it's cold and rainy today (first rain in 68 days) and
I'm wearing a flannel shirt to keep warm (68F/20C on the back porch at
10 AM, got up to 73F/23C by mid-afternoon).
Old guy
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