It's getting hot in here...*

Unless you live under a rock, or perhaps in Europe, you know that it has been ridiculously hot in Minnesota this week. More miserable than anywhere else in the world, actually, when you combine the temperatures of 100 degrees F+ with the stifling high dew points.

The main interstate buckled and broke because of the heat, humidity, and rain. Another highway closed due to flooding. The shrubs in my backyard are officially fried.

It's like the apocalypse.

And to top it all off, on Tuesday morning I got a severe weather alert on my phone that said, "Severe weather warning until noon includes both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campus. Possible hail and winds at 70 mph."

There's some kind of system in place at the office where our office manager has some kind of special light on her desk that turns on when we should evacuate and go to the basement. I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I picture it looking like this:

I could probably just walk to the other side of the building to see what it actually looks like but...why ruin it?



 *The lyrics from that Nelly song (which go "It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes) were once sung to me by a 5 year old at the summer camp where I worked in high school. That was the day I vowed never to send my children to camp.