Today the temperature was like ninety-something, but with the humidity it felt like a hundred-twenty-something.

So, today the newscast is hitting the heatwave coverage pretty hard. Gordon and I went out to do a round-up package about kids "beating the heat", as we like to call it.

Our first stop was the little town of Greer, where the fire department pulled up a fire engine and let the fire hoses loose on a bunch of little kids there. When we got there it took a minute to adjust to the NON-STOP-HIGH-PITCHED-SCREAMING from the hundreds of soaking kids. [It's kinda like that chicken/egg thing: Were the children screaming because they were being blasted with a fire hose?...Or were blasted with a fire hose because they wouldn't stop screaming?]



The firemen were cool and let Gordon up on the fire engine, so we could record some teases for the show. And they let him blast a few kids - something he seemed to enjoy way too much. Although, they wouldn't let him open the nozzle to full blast, so how much fun could it really be?

After that we headed down to the Discovery Island Water Park, which features: water slides, a lazy river, and a kiddie water island (which is basically a big urine slick).



I wasn't fortunate enough to be armed with a fire hose, so I had to fend for myself against an onslaught of splashing kids. In the photo above, you can see me giving my "do not splash the camera man, or you won't be on television" lecture.

Did they care enough to stop splashing me and my camera?
Hell no. I got soaked.
But, on a hot day like today...I didn't seem to mind.