Temperatures continued to rise on Tuesday July 21, 2009 to a sweltering 66 degrees Fahrenheit. There appears to be no end in site as the mercury climbs higher and higher during these hot summer months. Once again, air conditioners were left sitting idle while windows were thrown open for fresh air to penetrate and fill homes. The nights bring even more pain and suffering as temps dipped to a chilly 58 degrees on Saturday night. Residents of the northeast such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia have been especially hard hit. Tempers are flaring and there seems to be unrest on the streets and in homes. We asked local residents of Downingtown PA how they were coping with the severity of global warming in their community.
“If my husband drags out the down comforter one more night, honestly I’m going to wring his neck. I’ve put that thing up at least a dozen times since May but he keeps going into the attic and pulling it out again,” says Kathy Creasy of Chester County. Others expressed concern about the elderly left in sweltering apartments with windows open, “I’m afraid if I leave the windows up, it might rain and blow water in on the carpet, I don’t understand why Obama doesn’t do something about it, after all, who’s looking out for the “little guy?” Tax dollars that usually go to buy fans for the poor and elderly during excessive heat waves are now being shifted to pay for neighborhood watches patrolling neighborhoods making sure that windows are closed in the event of a sudden unexpected rain shower.
Small business store owners complain that sales of sun tan oil and sun screen are showing record losses. “I look like an albino. Never before have I been so pale looking. Usually by now I have a dark rich, island tan.” says Clint Creasy and Jeremiah Wise who recently visited Wagon Town Water Park near Downingtown. “Usually our shower gets hot immediately but now it takes a full 10 minutes to warm up, especially with our windows up,” says Lee and Sara of Malvern Pa. who continue to use heating oil purchased at a discount from Venezuela.
Weather forecasters and scientists are at a loss for explanation but speculate that it may have something to do with the decrease use of ethanol as a gasoline additive which is decreasing our carbon footprint in the corn fields of Nebraska while expanding the ozone hole in the earth’s atmosphere near Al Gore’s modest ranch. The five day forcast calls for temperatures to remain the low 60’s. Obama has promised to appoint a new Weather Czar to review the situation.
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