1980 summer in Houston was brutal also.
I was working for Tx Highway Department fixing barriers and potholes all summer.
I think it was about ‘96 i traveled west somewhere and on one of what used to be radiator boil over days of 103 in the shade there was a hot laid blacktop job going on. Had to be miserable.
The contractor was Flatiron Paving Company out of some place like Tuscon or Tempe.