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You know it’s hot in
Columbus County when....
•You hear voices coming from inside the ice vending machine at your local convenience store. You’re not crazy – people really are inside the machines.
•You see people cooking their breakfasts on the hoods of their cars.
•You hear boiling noises coming from the elevated water tank near your home.
•Your community bus driver emerges from his or her house at daylight and yells, “Thank you, Jesus!” then goes back inside. In past years, this week would have marked the start of school.
•Farmers are curing their tobacco outside their bulk barns.
•Local high school football coaches declaring, “Sorry, men, it’s too hot to practice football today.”
•You overhear Jim Masten say to someone, “You know, that Al Gore really is a genius. Maybe there’s something to this global warming stuff.”
•The edges of your News Reporter are scorched.
•The fish you catch in Lake Waccamaw are already cooked.
•Department of Aging director Ed Worley reports to work...shirtless.
Got your own, “It was so hot in Columbus County....” goof? Email it to leshigh@newsreporter.biz or call 642-4104 ext. 223. If we get enough, we’ll run another Top 10 – this time from our readers – Monday. As usual, we’ll need a name and phone number for verification purposes.