The heat from Hell!

It's been hot this summer. Really, really hot. I've lived in Austin for 30 something years, and I've never experienced anything like this. It hurts just to go outside, as if you're sticking your head into an oven. We've broken 100 degrees on more that 20 days, many of those days have hit 104. Usually, I've been able to beat the heat with trips to Lake Travis or go tubing down the Comal River in New Braunfels, but not this year. Lake Travis has closed all but one boat ramp, but that last one could close, too.

"On Wednesday, the water level at Lake Travis hit 640 feet. When the lake level drops below 640 feet the boat ramp is not considered usable. Already 11 of the 12 Lake Travis public boat ramps have become unusable because the water level sits below the concrete ramps."



Many of the restaurants and bars on the lake have closed as well.

Now, they've opened a dam at the Comal, but it doesn't matter how any of this water is, because my wife is 9 months pregnant, she's not getting out in this heat, and I'm not about to leave her behind.



Southeastern Texas has been classified as an exceptional drought area by the United States Drought Monitor. We're barely through half the summer, I have a feeling it's only going to get worse over the next few months.

Be like Fonzie folks! Stay cool!