Millions in Southwest bracing for 'dangerous and deadly heatwave'

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27. Bracing for?

Here in Texas, we’ve already been over 100 for the past week, save for yesterday when it was a “cool” 99. We’re not expecting a break for a while. Sure, the future forecasts show some 90s heading our way, but those will probably change. When the weather gets on a 100+ kick here, it doesn’t cool off much if at all until September or October. Once the ground gets overheated, it stays overheated.

This is nothing. 1999-2000 and 2009-2010 were just as bad, and 2009 might have been worse. I distinctly remember going to work at 6:30p.m. and it was 95 degrees.

In April.

And it only got hotter from there.

There’s a reason we have a saying here that Texas has three seasons: Hot; Damn, it’s hot; and hotter’n hell. Because it’s true.

I hate it that I have to wait for family to die before I can afford to leave this dump for a civilized state.