Heat, fire, burns!
Yes indeed people, it is Tuesday morn. Busy day ahead. I don’t relish the thought of clinic this afternoon…..the sweltering heat and thick humidity not welcoming at all. Oh, you asked what happen to the AC? There is NO AC in the clinic people! The hospital has ceiling fans, but in this heat all they really do is blow the hot air pon man skin. Anyway, my writing here naw change the fact that it starts at 1:30 this afternoon….so why complain?
I guess you wondering about the title. Well, actually, not a lot discussing today. But yesterday going into the car in the afternoon sunshine to do some errands, the suns rays did feel as if they would bun up mi skin. Also, I noticed that the sky was very hazy. I had heard suppem about some dust storms that originated on the African continent being brought this way by wind adding to the rather opaque sky. Heard this on the Weather Channel, and they indicated that the dust should be in the vicinity of the Caribbean by early in this week. Bwoy, if a nuh hurricane, then a dust! 
I guess the dust naw blow weh nutten, so is the lesser of the evils eh?
Remember that in June, a lady was attacked by someone while she was going to work at the Constant Spring Tax Office? Poor lady was doused in a corrosive substance (I think it was battery acid) sustaining significant burns to her body. An article in today’s Gleaner reports that she succumbed to her injuries and died at the hospital where I work on Sunday. Aaah bwoy. Perhaps her suffering is now over. I can tell you this with surety..I am by no means a violent man, but if someone bun me up wid acid, if I survive….I could well end up in the hands of the law. Is a wicked act dat!
As I am chatting about burns. My memory is carried back to two Sunday’s ago. I was headed out at about 10:30 AM and as I turned on to Long Lane, I noticed a large cloud of smoke billowing into the sky. This was the day after the rains that hurricane Emily had dropped on us. I soon saw a number of cars parked on the side of the road, many people using their cellular phones to call 119 for the Fire Brigade, I assume. A house on the corner of Savoy Terrace and Long Lane was being consumed by fire. Later in the day on my way back home, the blaze had been put out. But, the roof of the house was completely gutted! I can easily say that as much as my yard is insured, the thought of having the place consumed by fire is not a cute one at all. I did not see or hear any reports about this house fire. The owners must feel frig up about the loss…unless of course, dem did bun it up intentionally to collect insurance money! 
Forgot that that is a possibilty as well. That’s all from me this morning. Try stay cool and drink plenty water in the hot weather.
July 26th, 2005 at 10:11 am Hey Doc, I saw a house burning down the other day myself still…poor woman, all she could do is siddung unda one tree and bawl….not a pretty thing @ all.
July 26th, 2005 at 11:55 am Same story here with the heat.It humid and uncomfortable and fan doh do a thing to relieve you.That poor woman must have suffered a lot-glad she out of it.But people to wicked,still.
July 26th, 2005 at 1:17 pm May that lady’s soul rest in peace. The one who doused her (for pay I presume) got his just reward. Even though people taking the law into their hands leave me queasy, a man who could look at another human being and do such an evil thing to her does not deserve to be on this planet.
July 26th, 2005 at 2:57 pm stay cool with the heat, looks like we exchanging weather cause now we got the rain
July 27th, 2005 at 8:57 am Hi Dr. D. It hot yes especially in Kingston. It never was that hot when I was a child. It’s all the trees they’ve cut down over these years. I cannot imagine no AC in the clinic.
July 27th, 2005 at 3:30 pm Hey Dr. D. Checked the temps yesteday and Monday - temps were in the mid-90s but the “Feels like 100″ was what caught my eye! That is NO LAUGHING MATTER - bout feels like 100! You stay cool and hydrated too - y’hear?