Sometimes the Northeast is just as hot, hazy, humid, musty and clammy as the swamps of Louisiana. During the summer humidity hovers around 50-75 percent and it is a challenge to get out of the heat and humidity.
When I was a child, we never had air conditioner so we would go to the beach or run around in the Johnny pump, wait for the ice cream man or wait until dark to get some air.
Our neighbors would sometimes sleep on the fire escapes. We didn’t do that because it was too dangerous. Summers were for melting bodies and our brains would turn to vegetable soup while waiting for September. If we were lucky, we would not have an Indian summer.
On special days we would go to the movies and freeze in the air conditioning.
Once I was on my own, I had air conditioning. I and my cats will not live without it. Not much has changed, in my opinion, when escaping the heat here in the Northeast we still can run around the Johnny pump, waiting for the ice cream man or go to the beach or wait till dark or sleep on the fire escape although it is very dangerous to that today.
As for me and my cats we will stay in the air conditioner until fall to feel human again.
Georgia / 7.22
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