When I was younger (in the 1970s), I lived in the DC area (East Coast, USA). The summers were always tough, but they weren't obscene. We also got some really co

When I was younger (in the 1970s), I lived in the DC area (East Coast, USA). The summers were always tough, but they weren't obscene. We also got some really cold winters, with lots of snow. During the 1980s, there was a huge development surge, all up and down the East Coast. Basically, the whole coast got paved. The summers really seemed to get crazy hot, and we stopped getting extreme winters.