Here I am at Camp Grenada
Camp is very entertaining
and they say we’ll have some fun if it stops raining.
I went hiking with Joe Spivy
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.
This isn’t funny, considering the terrible deaths last week at the Boy Scout Jamboree and how deadly serious heat casualties can be, but what the hell is going on at Fort A.P. Hill:
The Boy Scouts marched onto the field singing, plopping down in the grass to wait for President Bush. But hours later, the news that Bush couldn’t make it was drowned out by sirens and shouts as hundreds fell ill because of the blistering heat.
About 300 people, most of them Scouts, suffered from dehydration, fatigue and lightheadedness Wednesday – just days after four Scout leaders were killed at the national Jamboree while pitching a tent beneath a power line.
Temperatures at Fort A.P. Hill, an Army base where the 10-day event is being held, reached the upper 90s and were intensified by high humidity.
I have trained at A.P. Hill, and like most military bases, it is on unforgiving terrain with soil that is mostly sand, and it is HUMID AS HELL from May to September. Would someone please get these scouts a wet bulb?