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I sometimes think of my grandparents surviving the dust bowl days in Oklahoma. No electricity so not even a fan to help. Huge clouds of dust and if you close the doors and windows to keep the dust out the entire house is like my attic. Many of the record highs on the books are still from the 1930s. Then imagine you want to cook something. You fire up the wood burning stove in the kitchen which is already 110 degrees. No fan to help cool things and then light the kerosene lamp to see. It had to be brutal. They were tough to survive. My parents were born about that time. So now imaging no disposable diapers, no running water, just a hand operated pump. No flush toilets, just an outhouse, a baby and it is 110 degrees.

I get grumpy if the temp in the house gets up to 80.

Forget the "good ol days"
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