Millions in Southwest bracing for 'dangerous and deadly heatwave'

[ReluctanceTango]

35. Miserable to who?

Because I’ve lived North and South and I’ll take cold anytime over hot. Cold, you can bundle up. You can have heat even without electricity if you have a wood stove—and you can even cook on it, if need be. You don’t have to worry about what happens to most of your perishable food, either. Most if it will be fine by either putting it in an unheated room, or even outside to stay cold.

When it’s 100+ for months, you can take off only so many clothes, and you need electricity for AC. Fans? Please. Those do nothing but blow the hot around. Either way, if you lose power, you are screwed. Your food goes bad fast without electricity in 105 degrees. You cannot get cool here without electricity. And if you want to talk miserable, then imagine 105 without AC, for however long your power goes out. It’s hell on Earth.

Give me a Northern blizzard, anytime.