tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post4253999158539159302..comments2024-03-28T18:40:05.789-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: In the BroilerJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-74460811692481860052012-06-30T23:54:50.885-04:002012-06-30T23:54:50.885-04:00Brenda, I watch the guys out working construction ...Brenda, I watch the guys out working construction in this and feel so sorry for them. Hard, hard work in this heat!<br /><br />Yes, I think there's no doubt that global warming is messing up the climate. Who knows where we'll end up?Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-19413372935478322202012-06-30T17:44:41.479-04:002012-06-30T17:44:41.479-04:00In re it getting worse -- it was my understanding ...In re it getting worse -- it was my understanding that these extremes in temperature, cold and hot, are without doubt part of the global warming that has been going on for awhile. <br /><br />My maternal grandfather said there was snow IN MISSISSIPPI much more often in his childhood (which would have been the very, very early 20th century.) He definitely agreed it was a lot hotter these days.<br /><br />--BrendaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-593922129089148802012-06-30T17:40:45.764-04:002012-06-30T17:40:45.764-04:00As a preschooler, the air conditioning was in my b...As a preschooler, the air conditioning was in my bedroom and it was icy, icy cold, wonderful. It was a special early model that my uncle had bought used on behalf of my dad. (It worked still when they quit using it. It is too bad it wasn't donated to a museum.) <br /><br />I definitely appreciate air conditioning!!!!! <br /><br />At my paternal grandparents' in my preschool years it probably didn't seem that hot (most of the time) because their house was of that old high ceilinged many windowed type that kept breezes going. I do remember being hot sometimes. Their new house had window units & also a central unit that did a fine job. <br /><br />I was listening to the Gestalt Gardener (Felder Rushing's show) and a caller who worked in construction said he would put a wet cloth on his head and his baseball cap on top of that and that would work for 20 minutes and then he'd return to the big container of water he kept under a shade tree and dip the cloth in again.<br /><br />--BrendaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-37627821063913898812012-06-30T16:17:06.642-04:002012-06-30T16:17:06.642-04:00Gloria, I think your feeling that it will just get...Gloria, I think your feeling that it will just get worse is right on target. According to the weather predictors her in KC, we're in for lots of this with MAYBE a slight cooling from the 100s in mid-July. We've got probably two more months left of this.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-83506097329238365732012-06-30T13:05:38.431-04:002012-06-30T13:05:38.431-04:00We have an airconditioner in one room, fans in the...We have an airconditioner in one room, fans in the rest. I resist central a/c because I prefer fresh air, but then our East Coast heatwaves aren't anything like the mid-West.<br /><br />My childhood NYC memory: sleeping on the fire escape, as neighbors were also doing, when our apartments reached the broiling point.Anita Pagehttp://www.anitapagewriter.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-70527201900419395092012-06-30T11:52:15.996-04:002012-06-30T11:52:15.996-04:00I don't remember suffering as much from the he...I don't remember suffering as much from the heat when I was a kid as I do now. I remember my sibs and I talking our dad into taking us to several cheap or free swimming holes in the evening. We'd load down the car with cousins and neighbor kids, too, and really packed that old buick full of kids. We also camped outside in the back yard, too.<br /><br />I still don't have an air-conditioner, but my old house is sheltered by trees in the country so it's always about 10 degrees cooler than in town so I tough it out by closing up the house when it starts warming up outside and using my ceiling fans and a floor oscillating fan. If it gets too hot in my upstairs bedroom, I sleep downstairs with all the doors and windows open to the cooler night air. <br /><br />I really do hate hot muggy days, and I've a feeling it's only going to get worse this summer.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-80523780040262344872012-06-30T10:23:46.259-04:002012-06-30T10:23:46.259-04:00Oh, yeah, Warren, the sun would not be your friend...Oh, yeah, Warren, the sun would not be your friend! How did you manage as a kid with no good sunblocks?Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-80784533237118862002012-06-30T10:15:51.231-04:002012-06-30T10:15:51.231-04:00I don't think I worried about the hear when I ...I don't think I worried about the hear when I was a kid. Running through sprinklers, cold watermelon and iced tea are the remedies I remember. With my pale skin, the sun was more of a risk, I could get sunburned on the last day of summer just as easily as on the first day.Warren Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789270258599769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-41702399407639891692012-06-30T10:03:22.618-04:002012-06-30T10:03:22.618-04:00Jim, your ex-wife was tougher than I if she chose ...Jim, your ex-wife was tougher than I if she chose to endure 100+ temps without A/C at the end of a pregnancy! <br /><br />I think you've probably hit on the best way to deal with climatic extremes--spend winters somewhere warm and summers somewhere cool.<br /><br />Bat-behavior doesn't help when the temps stay in high 80s at night with heat radiating up from the city's concrete. Maybe that's why everyone dealt better with high heat when I was younger. We hadn't built over so much of the landscape then and it was easier for heat to dissipate at night.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-50225163224895403492012-06-30T09:30:32.434-04:002012-06-30T09:30:32.434-04:00Linda,growing up in the city, I remember sleeping ...Linda,growing up in the city, I remember sleeping out on the fire escape when the apartment became unbearable.<br /><br />Now we make due with an air conditioner in one room and an exhaust fan that does a pretty good job of cooling down the house at night. I find myself resistant to central a/c because I prefer fresh air. That said, our east coast heatwaves--and we're in the middle of one now--are nothing like yours.Anita Pagehttp://www.anitapagewriter.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-79924615168456251212012-06-30T05:58:19.175-04:002012-06-30T05:58:19.175-04:00The story of your pregnancy reminded me of 1982. M...The story of your pregnancy reminded me of 1982. My then-wife, now ex-wife, was pregnant with our first child. We lived 50 miles north of NYC and in June we had a number of really hot days. She had entered her last trimester.<br /><br />We discussed getting A/C for the bedroom and she wanted nothing to do with it. She was tougher than that. The first day it hit 90, I stopped on the way home and purchased a window unit, installed it and told her she could suffer if she wanted but it was totally on her.<br /><br />As June turned to July, she found it irresistible and by the time we bought our next house five years later, she had no objections to central A/C.<br /><br />These days I escape Savannah's heat and humidity for six months and move to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We have no A/C in our off-grid house, but only a few nights each summer is the sleeping uncomfortable.<br /><br />When one of us is too frail to live 15 miles from the nearest town (of 200) and we have to stay full-time in Savannah, we'll become bats and only come out at night.<br /><br />~ JimJim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.com