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[quote=Anonymous]Yes it is crazy. If you want to go, travel north of the mogollon rim which has more reasonable temps (90s for highs, and it tends to cool off at night due the elevation, instead of 110+ Plus whatever heat bounces off the rocks to make it feel even hotter, which is truly unpleasant and life threatening.)

People in phoenix treat summer as people in fargo treat winter. It is dangerous, people stay indoors during heat waves (the blizzards of summer) and are very cautious when venturing outdoors. For that reason summer is arizona cold/flu season.

Also be very cautious with cars, friends in AZ have pot holder type gloves they use to open their car doors bc it gets so hot.

I would also caution you be very careful if you do go and are used to humid DC heat. It is easy to not feel the effects of the dry arizona heat, and think you are fine bc for example you dont think you are sweating (you are…it is just evaporating instantly…) until you are well on your way to heat stroke (which comes on very fast in temps over 100)

Also read up on monsoons and be so so careful, flash floods are a very real risk and can happen even if it is not storming where you are.[/quote]

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