XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: tonycooper214@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 01:33:35 -0000 (UTC), Moe Trin   
    wrote:   
      
   >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).   
   >   
   My wife and I keep sweaters in the trunks of both cars.  Not for cold   
   weather, but for hot weather.  Some restaurants are so cold that it   
   raises goose-bumps.   
      
   --   
   Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida   
      
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