In the summer it was cray hot. Every year I was there someone in the News would back brownies in a car. There is very little shade in Vegas. Car temps would be around 150 If I remember right. Kids left in cars ended up with shattered and the police waiting for them to arrest them. Dogs were also left in cars, Windows shattered again. I mean all of them. When someone cooked something living in the car they paid a high price.
One of the funniest things was people think they had been shot in the head in their car. The tubes of biscuits would pop and hit the back of the head of the unknowing new resident. They felt soft matter in the back of their head and thought it was their brain.
The hottest my truck got up to it softened my steering wheel. A fingerprint and a burned finger were the result. Another thing was if you left a cassette tap in the window it would melt and twist and eventually turn black. Heat in the cars is no joke.
You do not go barefoot in Vegas. #1 reason scorpions. #2 you burn your feet. What I did was wear leather moccasins. There is think leather with a pad inside. When I was going to UNLV I wore them every day. The blacktop is an inferno in the summer. You have to carry bottles of water with you, or you get severely dehydrated.
Water is the key to dealing with the heat. I used to drink 4 liters a day driving a cab. My shirt was caked in salt. Drink or you go down on the pavement. Tourists were funny on the Strip. They would have giant bottle or cup filled with a ice fru fru drink. They would walk down the Strip and you would see them facedown with paramedics working on them. I used to kid around with passengers that we were going to give the big drink walker a numbered vest. You will be able to bet on the first down or the one that got the furthest. Alcohol dehydrates you. The desert cooks you.
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