KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) – Many may have been happy about a day without record-breaking heat. But, for one Central Texas woman it meant going back to work comfortably.
The owner of a food truck in Killeen says the triple digit weather lately has forced her to temporarily shut down and change some hours.
“It’s extremely hot. Like, unbearably hot,” said Shelby Smith, owner of Shelby’s Food for the Soul.
She was open a few hours Thursday night. But, the less-than-triple digit heat allowed her to open up during the day on Friday, for the first time in a week.
“I’m looking at those heat advisories and I’m just like, ‘I can’t do it,’” said Smith.
The reason: she owns an old fedex truck that was converted into a mobile kitchen a few years ago.
But, when it was built, they did not put an air-conditioning unit in there.
“We didn’t build A/C in there,” said Smith. “Because we kind of weren’t really thinking about it…
