NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Excessively high temperatures across Middle Tennessee Saturday had people looking to stay cool.
In Clarksville, The Salvation Army opened its doors as a cooling shelter. A move they plan to continue once temperatures reach or heat indices rise above 100.
In Davidson County, the Office of Emergency Management hasn’t taken that step yet.
Along Broadway downtown, “Freight Train Eddie” sang about easy street despite the excessively high temperatures.
“I’m used to hard work so it don’t really bother me that much,” said Eddie Campbell.
Playing the street corner is how the 70-year-old makes a few bucks, but his guitar case is still quipped with bottles of water, a key for those outside as the sun beat down.
Across the way, bottles were selling fast for street vendors.
Bill Hall owner of Jo Jo’s Hotdogs says his food sales are down around 40 percent on hot days like this. However, sales on his cold drinks tripled.
“It’s 300 percent up on days like today, when the heat index is 105,” said Hall.
The heat didn’t stop some 20,000 people from working out in the streets of downtown in the early morning.
“It was really hot. I got hot in about 30 seconds, sweat was dripping off my eyelashes,” explained a group in town for the Beach Body Summit.
The Cumberland Water Park downtown was slammed with families playing in the waterfalls and sprinklers.
“If we were not out here we would be in the ac but the children love the water so why not, its hot enough for it,” Quintera Holbroook laughed while she and her 8 month old sat in the wading water.
“Once you get wet there is like a cool breeze so I love it.”
Source: news2
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