"It can get to be 127 degrees farenheit in the Australian Town of Coober Pedy - and that's in the shade. With opal mines that look like giant ant hills and a network of underground dwellings where residents live, this is the kind of place where searing heat warps perspectives, and yet somehow clarifies them."
8.19.2007
from an NPR piece by Adam Burke
"It can get to be 127 degrees farenheit in the Australian Town of Coober Pedy - and that's in the shade. With opal mines that look like giant ant hills and a network of underground dwellings where residents live, this is the kind of place where searing heat warps perspectives, and yet somehow clarifies them."