Back in the UK I would consider June to be the start of summer, out here it has been getting hotter with every week that passes. In fact I worry about how much hotter it can possibly get. I was sent to a rig out near the Saudi boarder in the last days of march and the heat here is very different to the kind of heat that you get in town. In town everything is really sweaty and humid, in the desert, not surprisingly, it is really really dry.
In the desert the heat created weird problems. For example, I tried to fix one of the pieces of equipment that had come loose but had to put on gloves so I could even touch it it was so hot. Another problem is getting water cool enough to take a shower under.
The hot water tank is on the roof of the cabin, so heats up to about 1,000 degrees, unfortunately the cold water pipe is a big black pipe that runs from the bowser to my room over the sand and so produces water which is approximately the same temperature of hydrogen the centre of the sun. The only water you can stand under is the fluid that was contained in the shower's pipe work inside the cabin, about a pints worth, meaning you get damp, soap up then hop frantically about splashing yourself with the scalding water in an attempt to rinse off without actually getting any 1st degree burns.
No comments:
Post a Comment