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[camwyn]

All y'all who live further south than Pennsylvania or so have my tremendous respect. How the smegging hell did anyone get anything done before air conditioning?

... yeah, yeah, I know, whining. Shaddap. I save my cheerful endurance for temperatures from the part of the thermometer where Fahrenheit and Celsius start to draw close together. I can live with that. Heat? Not my thing.






ETA: Ah. No wonder it felt so oppressive out there. It's thunderstorming now.

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[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Eh, you get used to it. Working in late afternoon and early morning, leaving windows open at night to let the decent air in, etc... There are a lot of little tricks to making it more tolerable, most of which only work in a society that is scheduled around the heat. The idea of doing anything between about 12:00 and 4:00 is just foolish. Even that can be done though, with sufficient attention to detail. Long loose cotton clothes, wide-brimmed hats, water jugs...