Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was visiting friends in Austin, Texas, one summer in the 1970s. My car had no radio (I can't for the life of me recall why) so I kept a little Sony portable perched on the dash. I parked the car facing south one evening, no shade, and the next afternoon I came out to the car to find that the plastic case of the radio had begun to melt! Radio still played for the drive back to Ohio, though. ?howard On Jul 3, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Craig Semetko wrote: > >> Ha! Tina--it's hotter than Hades here! Brutal. That's why I'm in my hotel >> room in the middle of the day. Too bright to shoot and too hot to live! I >> went to the Manzanar War Relocation/Internment Camp Museum for about an >> hour, and forgot my iphone in the car. When I came out, the iphone said >> it was too hot to work! That was a new one for me... > > as in Phoenix, AZ, in car temperatures in the summer there can reach 200 > deg F... > > s