Benician experiences 117 degree weather in Las Vegas
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No slot machine was ever this hot. Not that Benicia’s Robb DeSimone needs to hit the casinos. It’s enough of a gamble just stepping outside this week in Las Vegas — where temperatures reached 117 Thursday.
DeSimone’s been in Sin City — Singe City? — since Monday for a business convention and a visit to his son, R.J., a Vegas resident. Soon enough, he longed for the chill of Benicia, which hit the century mark Thursday.
“Let me tell you something. If they didn’t have cloud cover, it would be absolutely brutal. Heat is one thing, but if you had to have the sun on you …” said DeSimone by phone Thursday, suffering through 115 degrees Wednesday.
DeSimone said it was God’s doing to put cloud cover on desert areas “or you wouldn’t survive it,” feeling the heat’s wrath coming out of Caesars at 7:45 p.m. in a baked parking garage.
“It was stifling. I felt like I was in a sauna,” he said. “It was a short walk to my car and I broke out in a sweat.”
On Friday’s agenda: a 7 a.m. tee time for the avid golfer.
“The goal is to be off the course by the time it hits 110,” said DeSimone, guessing that at 7 a.m. “it’s probably going to be close to 90.”
One saving grace of the blistering heat: It soothes the 62-year-old’s aching arthritic joints.
“One thing it helps are my arthritic knees. The heat is wonderful,” said DeSimone, who may not win a fortune in the casinos, “but my knees felt like a million bucks.”
“I understand why old people go to Florida. It’s for your joints,” he laughed.
