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Hi,
I spend this weekend at Orléans (France) for a meeting at the Aerotrain test track. Unfortunately the meeting was canceled on the last minute due to an severe heat wave. Temperature was 37°C / 99°F this evening.
These photos was shot now just after the sunset.
Sorry for my bad English pronunciation.
Hi Jesus,
Thank you for sharing your photos, but sorry to hear about the meeting cancellation due to extreme heat. (I haven’t watched your video yet, but will do so later)
I’ve never been unfortunate enough to have experienced 37 C heat where I live in Eastern Canada. I even find low 30s very uncomfortable, and thankfully, that only happens once or twice a year at most here. Inland areas of my province, though, are warmer, but still not 37 C.
Your hair looks great. The length looks to be similar to mine, or perhaps just a touch longer. You appear to have more wave in your hair than I do. My hair does get wavier in the summer, though.
I know that I’m overdue to post a ponytail photo, and will try to get one up soon.
David
This morning I went to Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, a small city next to Orléans to find remains of the SAEGE monorail test track. You can see this monorail in the 1966 movie Fahrenheit 451.
I just find a concrete base block used to fix pillars. The rest of the railway track next to the monorail track is covered with brambles and can't be seen. I also recreated the scene in the video above when they walk, I'll post later. And I also meet the occupant of the house (house of the railway crossing keeper) you see behind main characters and I learnt that people from different countries come here to see this place.
The afternoon, I come back to Orléans and walked near the track and took photos as usual. Photography is also my hobby. There was also some snakes, it's always surprising to find one. Most of the time it's grass snakes but there are also vipers. For last years, I see a proliferation of snakes, even in my garden.
I stayed in the zones covered by trees because the temperatures are still crazy!
The heatwave is expected to be worse on the next days and should be present until Thursday. This is the heatwave alert map seen on the news. I'm on the red zone, the highest level with temperatures between 36°C - 41°C / 96F - 106F.
I ate a healthy dinner! For this weekend I alternate between Mc Donald's, Burger King and KFC. Thankfully, I eat healthier things like fruits and vegetables the rest of the time.
A last photo for today
Hi Jesus,
Thanks for sharing these but I had to chuckle at your choice of food! For some reason, I honestly couldn’t picture you as a fast food fan, but I guess that I was wrong, lol. I almost never eat fast food, but a few weeks ago, I got a sudden KFC craving, so I had to break down and satisfy that.
At least you ate lots of good food in between, though, so I “forgive you”!!
David
Hi,
I experienced an awful week due to en extreme heat wave: tired and lack of sleep. France was on the 1% hottest places on the planet, I compared temperature to others places, about 43°C / 110F the whole week, the Death Valley was one degree cooler! Now it's over but we could have another heat wave in the next weeks.
When I was a child, I liked going to McDonald's like all children. But after I've understood that it's not healthy food and should be avoided.
I never go to fast food except when I travel. It's just convenient because it's fast, with minimal waiting time, and unlike restaurants, you can eat at any time. Moreover, you always have fast food not too far; even in a remote countryside area, you can find a McDonald's in the middle of nowhere!
In the 90s we had the mad cow crisis, one of the biggest health scandals, and discovered that the food you buy makes you ill or kills you slowly. We discovered that they feed cows with milled cow bones to lower costs! I remember in the news the images of many trucks blocked when France suddenly stopped the importation of beef from England.
Since this and other various food scandals, we are exigent about what we eat, like where it grows and what's inside. Many food additives are banned, mostly under consumer pressure, because they can be harmful, like endocrine disruptors, or they can give you cancer.
In the 80s, I barely knew because I was too little; there were a lot of "chemical" foods easy to prepare or just for fun, and we had imagined that in the future we'd have no need to cook by eating artificial food or pills. Today it's the complete opposite: full natural food, fruits, and vegetables without pesticides or additives.
I've recreated a scene of the 1966 movie Fahrenheit 451. It's the same place but at different times: where it used to be fields it's now woods and a new road was built. It's located in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire in France (Street view link) where it was build the SAFEGE test track, a suspended metro used in the movie and that you can see in the background.
It would have bee better with loose hair but temperature was too hot, 35°C/95F at 11:00am. I've used a GoPro camera with a wide angle lens that's because the field of view is different. I had nobody to hold a camera in front of me.
This early morning I walked before temperatures go high.
Now it's 1:00 PM, I just ate at Burger King, ice cream unavailable and they cool down the AC unit with a garden hose because temperatures are crazy! I left Orléans and will ga back home in 5 hours, crossing the heat wave red zone.
