Subj : Re: weather To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Sun Jul 19 2020 13:19:00 Barry, DS> the pavement of blacktop/asphalt started melting. BM> Quite possible! Found this: BM> The asphalt or bitumen aggregate on road surface will begin to SOFTEN BM> not 'MELT' until they hit a temperature of around 50ø C (120øF). BM> However, even on a sunny day in the 20ø Cs (70øF) can be enough to BM> generate 50ø C on the ground as the dark asphalt road surface absorbs BM> a BM> lot of heat and this builds up during the day. That doesn't surprise me. Plus, for pets, it burns their paw pads. Then, I have to wonder why folks want "black vehicles"...the dark color absorbs the heat, and makes it even hotter inside. If the car is closed up, I think it could get so hot, that the windows would explode. DS> Yet, I thought asphalt was when you hit the tennis ball with DS> your butt. BM> I thought it was constipation! That, too...but if you're consonated, you need a vowel movement. DS> The X-Ray scanner likely will detect it...but I'd hate to have DS> to go in and remove it. :P BM> Me too, though some people don't seem to mind as much. Suppose their BM> attitude is "it's a job, not a doody". Really...they must have a crappy outlook on life. Seems we've gone down this road before...it looks familiar. :P BM> Which reminds me, did those rats finally move out and leave you alone? Nope. Found one caught on a glue board on Wednesday, trying to get off. But, the glue is so strong, that he didn't have a chance. Thankfully, the bug man from Terminix was here, and I gave him a bag and portable gloves to take the glue board and the dying rat to his demise. They likely are looking for food and water, but I don't have any food out in the open, and they apparently got in through the plumbing, so there's no water in that toilet. Daryl .... Toe: A device for finding furniture in the dark. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .