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I'm melting
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It hit 90 degrees in my part of Alaska today. Thats "peel your sweat-soaked clothes off and stand in front of the fan" weather up here. The vast majority of homes up here are not equipped with air-conditioning, for obvious reasons. Not to mention the vast majority of people in these parts, myself included, are not acclimated to ninety degree weather. Its kind of like the same thing that happens when it snows in Arizona. A few years back I read of a "snowstorm" in AZ where they got up to 4 inches of snow in some parts. Schools, government offices, and even stores closed. In all my life, school has never been closed due to snow or sub zero temperatures. When it got bad, our bus drivers would simply pull over and put the chains on the tires. We have become accustomed to dealing with the cold. The heat, on the other hand, is a different story. The problem is that when you're cold, you can always add more layers to keep warm, but when your hot - you can only get so naked. I actually have daydreams of peeling the outer layers of my skin off like a wet-suit just to cool down. The heat makes me intensely miserable. And cranky I might add. As is the case with pretty much everyone else around here. But I do see a light at the end of the tunnel. Its just after midnight and its actually almost DARK! I haven't seen the stars in three months. I doubt it will get dark enough tonight to see them, but its a welcome sign, nonetheless. Perhaps the torturous summer is packing its bags and leaving us to our blessed 9 months of cold, dark, beautiful winter. I can hardly wait!
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