Death Valley hits 130 Degrees as heat wave sweeps the West
Furnace Creek, Calif. • For Gary Bryant, the tenth-of-a-mile walk from his modular home to the air-conditioned restaurant where he was working Saturday was “quite enough” time outside.
Bryant, 64, knows the risks of summer temperatures in California’s Death Valley. He once collapsed under a palm tree from heat exhaustion and had to crawl toward a hose spigot to douse himself with water.
Bryant has lived and worked in Death Valley for 30 years, happy to balance the brutal summer heat with the soaring mountain vistas, but even he admits that the highs of recent years — the temperature soared to 130 degrees Friday and was forecast to be even hotter Saturday and Sunday — were testing his limits.
“The first 20 summers were a breeze,” he said. “The last 10 have been a little bit tougher.”
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2021/07/10/death-valley-hits-degrees/
(Salt Lake Tribune)
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Would it be safe to cook pork in a frying pan on the asphalt? (You can't be the pigman unless you can answer the non-kosher questions). 
