Poor Abe.
Lost his head,
Again.
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Go hop in some water, you pansy daffodils.
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Fortunately, life up here on the Blue Ridge has mostly insulated me from the heatwave.
I can watch from on high as the people down on the Piedmont suffer.
No doubt.
this is poor planning summed up in one picture
artist picked a medium destined to fail
Sure does make it look more dramatic when they squeal about global warming though. 
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It’s to soon to make that joke
What heat wave? I work midnights so I slept through it.
WoW, it was 110 in NJ in 1936. That doesn’t even seem possible here. The only time I’ve ever felt heat like that was in Nevada.
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And people survived it without AC too!
The NOAA is as honest as the FBI agents that denied the laptop is real.
The "heat wave " is all about election years theatrics
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Of course. There are things that can be done to mitigate the heat. I had a friend that lived in cabin in Pennsylvania at higher elevation. Not crazy high. He also had a canopy of trees over his cabin. Never needed AC no matter how hot it got. It got cold, but never really hot.
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WOW, the 1930’s were a sizzling hot decade. 
It’s why the CC/GW get away with their lying doomsday predictions as there are not many alive who might remember.
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Old houses were usually built to mitigate the summer heat. Down here in the south you see old shotgun houses all the time. Basically they were designed with high ceilings and the back and front doors were directly opposite from each other. During the heat of a summer day you would open your back door and your front door, allowing the cool drafts to enter and go from one end of the house to the other. By having both open at the same time, it created a mini vortex effect that lowered the internal temperature and carried the heat out.
Modern homes, by comparison, have to have AC to be livable.
Two excellent points. Circulation is extremely important. Because sometimes at night it gets cooler, but your house doesn’t. Today they pay no mind to any of that when building a house.
I have a passive cooling system on my house that essentially pulls in air from the mountain itself. At the basement level, it works well enough that I would never need a/c. However, the main floor and second floor require a/c during high humidity periods in particular.
Look at the moist divas of the world using wordy words like “require” when it comes to non-essential materials comforts.
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