[GH85Carrera]

It just amazes me the people in Europe are dying from the heat and people in the US are as well.

I grew up in the deep south, San Marcos, TX and Montgomery, AL and Oklahoma City for on year. Hawaii never got super hot. Never once did I get to attend a school with air conditioning. Now they close school if the AC units are not cooling. I remember sweat dripping from my nose onto test papers.

I think of my paternal grandfather often in the heat. He was born on a farm in 1900, no electricity of course. When he was 20 he married my grandmother, and bought a "house" that was 12 x14 feet. No electricity, a hand pump for water, and a outhouse out back. It would be like living in my storage shed, only I have electricity out there. Then when grandma had to cook, she had to fire up the wood burning stove to heat the house up even more. During the dust bowl days, they could not open the windows or the doors as the house would fill with dirt.

Grandpa worked for Armor and Co, cutting up animals. Imagine the heat and stench of an un-air conditioned kill floor, in the summer heat. No air blowing just lots of sweat. He survived and worked there from the day the plant opened to the day it closed. People were just tough back then.

I can handle hot days fine if I have lots of water to drink. I did an HPDE ar Roebling Road, just outside of Savannah, GA. The heat index was just stupid, 130+ degrees. I drank a case of water and managed to have a little urination once. It was sure glorious to crank up the AC on the journey back to the hotel.