Comments on: A Hot Mess: The Heat Wave of ’36

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:19:44 +0000

Summer 2012 is pretty cruel if you ask me! Over 60% of the nation is in drought conditions. The largest in more than 50 years. The plains, midwest, and east coast is suffering through very high heat and sufficating humidity. Its amazing how all of these cities broke ALL TIME records. We got up to 110 degrees in early July. Its never been that hot!! Im 54 years old, but i have heard about 1936 from my mother. I even asked her about the dust bowl summers and she said they were just horrible. Night time lows were only in the 90s! So there was no escaping the heat but everybody is saying that this summer is one for the record books

By: Nermina

Nermina — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:22:06 +0000

I moved to USA from Croatia few years ago and I was shocked to see people in the richest country in the world to live in the worst built houses in the world. In Croatia to this day people don’t have AC but ALL the houses are built out of concrete, brick, large stone blocks and they are wonderfully cool inside when it is 45C or 115F outside. What is with Americans and their paper/plywood houses ?! Why people here don’t build houses as God and common sense demands ?

By: Ginger

Ginger — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:03:32 +0000

It’s summer and just like some winters are colder than others, some summers can be hotter. 1936 was before my time but I remember many hot summers when I was a kid. And it just shows that all this ‘man-made global warming’ stuff is a bunch of hooey.
@Suzanne. The sun is way more powerful than ‘haarp’ honey. And God still runs the universe, so don’t be scared.

By: varaha

varaha — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:05:31 +0000

Interesting comments. I grew up in Dallas in the 50s, 60s. My dad had an AC in his bedroom in the late 60s. We used to sit out in the evenings and make hand cranked icecream on Fridays. Or we would go to the drive in theaters. Homes built back in the day usually had porches or verandas. Many were screened in and folks could sleep there. These are the fondest memories of my youth. It was over 100 every day and we were still happy.

By: Edith

Edith — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:21:42 +0000

When iIwas youg in the 40′s we used to sleep on the sumer porch at the farm and my Mom and Gram would put their feet in cold water in an enamel pan and sit outside under the trees.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:35:08 +0000

the weather is controlled by haarp which is a government scientific group up in alaska. Its on the internet. All information is there. Weather is somewhat of a weapon , population control, economic controller……Im sure whoever is reading this wont want to publish this on the site, as this is a truth that many are not aware, and many who dont want to believe

By: John P. Lock

John P. Lock — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:34:47 +0000

In the summer of 1936 I was 7 years old. We lived on a quarter of a section of land 4 miles south of Altus, Oklahoma. We did not have one tree, all the shade we had was the east and west side of the house morning and evening. We had no electricity, my father had to haul water from town by horse and wagon. We also had swarms of grass-hoppers, that eat up what cotton we had that had not already burned up by the heat. Now in the summer of 2011 I am 81 years old and going thru another hot summer, I must say this is much easier than the summer of 1936

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:16:20 +0000

i was expecting in 1980 due date was july 12 i had my daughter july 31. i remember how hot is was then if we went anywhere we didn’t dress the baby just put cloth diapers on her that was hung on the line to dry. i also remember the stories my grandparents told of those times, seeing the old photos and missing some of the ways of life that are gone with most people. i still use the cloths line. we still sit out in the shade. we garden and use mulch to hold the moister in. we usually don’t use the ac until june but we have fans. we do have a pool we don’t know what we would do without. we love the way we live it’s not for all people we know.we chose to live this way.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:09:12 +0000

In 1936 at Friendship ( a small community east of Altus, Okla.) the temperature was 118 degree. If I stayed the night at my Grandma & Grandpa’s house, grandma would put wet T towels at the window and sprinkle our bed with the ironing sprinkler. Loved to stay there.