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    The New Yorker‏Verified account @NewYorker Jul 14

    The heat could be worse. Revisit Arthur Miller's 1998 essay, "Before Air-Conditioning."http://nyer.cm/mk78iTD 

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      2. Atomic  ☢️ Pixies-GEEK GIRL CON 624‏ @atomic_pixies Jul 14
        Replying to @NewYorker @Fahrenthold

        We have no AC because it usually aint this hot here. Some of the last few days lying on the couch in a sweaty puddle all I can think of is a Faulkner novel, and wonder how people managed to do anything.

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      3. JS Mill XX #FamiliesBelongTogether‏ @Shy_Survivor Jul 14
        Replying to @atomic_pixies @NewYorker @Fahrenthold

        Wet a cotton sheet, wring it almost but not quite dry. Go out to a mattress on the porch. Lie on that mattress with the wet sheet over you. Allow the miracle of evaporation help. Wake up in the night and refresh the sheet. That's how I survived Louisiana heat waves in the 1950's.

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      4. JS Mill XX #FamiliesBelongTogether‏ @Shy_Survivor Jul 14
        Replying to @Shy_Survivor @atomic_pixies and

        If you can direct an electric fan onto your wet sheet, so much the better. Your sweat will evaporate that much more quickly. In fact, you might get too cool until the sheet dries out. In the daytime? Drink LOTS of not-too-sweet lemonade or ice tea - packed with ice.

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      5. JS Mill XX #FamiliesBelongTogether‏ @Shy_Survivor Jul 14
        Replying to @Shy_Survivor @atomic_pixies and

        Hold chunks of ice chipped off of a block of ice from the ice house to your wrists, inner elbows, back of the neck, back of the knees - anywhere your blood comes to the surface. Keep the ice moving so you cool your blood, not freeze your skin. Ice and fluids, fluids & ice. WHEW.

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      6. JS Mill XX #FamiliesBelongTogether‏ @Shy_Survivor Jul 14
        Replying to @Shy_Survivor @atomic_pixies and

        I always used to smile back in the days before air conditioning when people from the northeast complained about heat. I'd think YOU HAVE NO IDEA. But most Louisiana homes were built taking the heat into consideration. Of course, I was born to the projects and they were not.pic.twitter.com/PRIBGgq8X1

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      7. Atomic  ☢️ Pixies-GEEK GIRL CON 624‏ @atomic_pixies Jul 14
        Replying to @Shy_Survivor @NewYorker @Fahrenthold

        Our house is pretty good (usually the heat only get bad a few days a summer) because of the same thing, but with the way the clinate has changed lately it’s been...a lot. I’ll try these things! (We luckily don’t have humidity much.)

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      8. JS Mill XX #FamiliesBelongTogether‏ @Shy_Survivor Jul 14
        Replying to @atomic_pixies @NewYorker @Fahrenthold

        Be aware of your electrolytes, too. If we sweat a lot and drink lots of fluids in the summer, our electrolytes can get out of balance. I use lite salt (half potassium, half sodium), especially when I'm hot. A sprinkle on some cool melon is lovely when it gets 80-plus degrees.

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      9. JS Mill XX #FamiliesBelongTogether‏ @Shy_Survivor Jul 14
        Replying to @Shy_Survivor @atomic_pixies and

        Celery has sodium. Oranges and bananas have potassium. Lots of juicy, cooling fruits and veggies can be both satisfying and healthful during the heat of summer: green salads, fruit salads,slushies, smoothies, juices. Yum. https://thehealthbeat.com/fruits-and-vegetables-high-electrolytes/ …

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      2. Darien Cruz‏ @stellarcaster Jul 14
        Replying to @NewYorker

        There was also a time before vaccinations, but if I get smallpox... I’m for sure gonna start complaining. Planet earth is super hot right now!pic.twitter.com/udY9F6Afjb

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      3. Literature & Ideas‏ @litandideas Jul 14
        Replying to @stellarcaster @NewYorker

        I like your point, but smallpox is actually the only human disease, to date, to have been eliminated worldwide, following vaccination campaigns. So if you do catch it, can I have the exclusive interview with you? (Over the phone, obviously, that shit's contagious!)

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      4. Darien Cruz‏ @stellarcaster Jul 14
        Replying to @litandideas @NewYorker

        You have a deal

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      1. Christine Harris‏ @mrcjharris1 Jul 14
        Replying to @NewYorker

        Wonderful essay - wish it didn't come to an end. Great read!

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      2. shlewis‏ @Telecordial Jul 14
        Replying to @NewYorker

        I remember this article well, but I had forgotten that it was written by Miller. However, we all need to understand that "our" air-conditioning pumps heat from inside to outside and makes everywhere hotter where the air isn't conditioned.

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      3. madman‏ @SOMAMadman Jul 14
        Replying to @Telecordial @NewYorker

        Not really how it works

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      4. shlewis‏ @Telecordial Jul 14
        Replying to @SOMAMadman @NewYorker

        Please illuminate us.

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      5. madman‏ @SOMAMadman Jul 15
        Replying to @Telecordial @NewYorker

        Ok I thought you said pumps AIR. "Pumps heat" is accurate. Sorry. I read a whole book about AC once. Very nerdy.

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      1. Colleenwherearethebabies?‏ @Colleen0113 Jul 14
        Replying to @NewYorker @Fahrenthold

        When I was a child we had no air conditioning. My dad put a box fan in the short hallway just to get the air to flow through. I would lay on the floor of my room just to get a piece of that air.

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      2. Andrew Hanson‏ @Kingmob616 Jul 14
        Replying to @NewYorker

        Many of us don't have air conditioning, so we understand just fine.

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