FORT MYERS, Fla. — It may be 100 degrees outside, but believe it or not, there are some places in Southwest Florida that are cold right now. As most of the population sweats, we went in search of subzero temperatures.
Stop one: Harry Chapin Food Bank
There we met Dave Ditter whose daily routine involves hours on end in the deep freezer.
“About every two hours I go out because your body temperature starts dropping,” Ditter explained.
He’s worked in the freezer section with meats and ice for years. The air temperature is negative two degrees. Shelving checks in at 12 degrees.
“When I come to work it’s around 85-90 degrees, when I leave it feels like 110 out but my body is still at 65-70 degrees,” Ditter said.
Stop two: Metro Ice
“I deliver ice to Lee, Collier, Charlotte,” Eric Strahan explained.
He moves between extreme heat and wicked cold all day long. Our temperature gauge calculates the outside of his truck as 111 degrees. Inside it’s about 20 degrees. The freezer he pulls ice from is too cold to even measure.
Stop three: IceBox Cryotherapy
“The icebox can get up to -245,” Karem Juarez said.
Cryotherapy is a place anyone can cool down. You can hop in their chamber for three minutes and drop your core temperature significantly.
“It can help reduce inflammation, it can help with muscle recovery,” Juarez said.