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My grandmother grew up just down the road from where she lives now. They didn't have electricity when she was little and remembers clearly working outdoors in t
by a2tech 4y ago
My grandmother grew up just down the road from where she lives now. They didn't have electricity when she was little and remembers clearly working outdoors in the heat. Summers used to get cold enough that when they'd go fetch the cows in the morning they'd run barefoot through the grass to the back pasture and their feet would be so cold that they wanted to cramp and it was a race to see if you could get the cows up and moving (so you could stand in the warm spot from them sleeping) before your feet cramped up. A handful of nights a summer they'd sleep outside because it was too warm inside (there was a banked wood stove running of course) for comfortable sleep. It would be cold enough overnight that they still needed blankets outside.
Now its so hot that she can't imagine not having air-conditioning. An elderly woman (you know how they love the heat) that worked in the fields and cannery her entire life thinks its too hot outside.
- refurb 4y agoYou can acclimatize to pretty high heat levels. Europe gets to 35C and people die. In poorer SE Asian countries they have no AC and temperatures regularly hit 35C with far more humidity, but they do just fine. Hell, you see workers doing construction work in full gear at those temperatures.