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Coping with the Heat
and Hot Days – and loving the Cool Ones
After days that seem to last forever the weather
has changed. Today it begins at a cool
14 C. What a difference from the start of this week when the temperature in the
house started each morning at 28 or 29 C – inside of the house… and the outside
temperature matched inside at 8 AM!
There was no relief on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday – but today it has
come.
Alida, my wife, looked at me one day as she was
suffering greatly with the tremendous heat and said, “I could never live in the
Hot Countries again… not even to go there for a holiday! Those times are gone.”
I know what she means.
When we stepped off the airplane in Barbados in
1980 it was just before a hurricane was to hit the Island. The heat in the airport was stifling… after
the four hour flight south on the air-conditioned aircraft we couldn’t even get
our breath. Our clothes stuck to us and every breath you took was hot and
humid. We had never felt that kind of
oppressive heat before – let alone the high humidity. But I shouldn’t say that. I had felt it in a sauna but I had nothing
but a towel on and I only stayed for a few minutes!!! This adventure lasted three weeks.
When we started our 5 year adventure in Hong Kong
in January 1981it was the winter time and the temperature was sitting at 21 C.
You didn’t need a coat or a sweater… it was so beautiful to live in this
country(I thought). That lasted about one month and then the thermometer
started showing us how hot Hong Kong could get.
By Easter we were regularly at 27 or 28 each day… and by July/August it
was well over 33 – 39 C each day with nights also being very hot. In fact Hong Kong was hot for nearly every
day for 10 months of the year.
We vacationed in Thailand in July and/or August…
which was kind of like Hong Kong – hot and humid. But the vacation was beside the South China
Sea – which was cooler. Thailand however
often hit plus 40 C around Easter and early summer…. Too hot – way toooo hot.
My one month’s time in Irian Jaya (eastern part
of Indonesia) was hotter than hot. The local folk had lived in this heat all
their lives and knew it was best to rise early – say 5 ot 6 AM – work for about
three hours and then quit at 10 AM.
Everything in that country stopped at 10 AM and then started at 5 PM
just an hour before the sun would go down.
I witnessed the thermometer stay at 54 C all day long – every day. And I
also went through the rains that fell each night at about 7 PM until Midnight
making everything wet in most parts of the country. The south however was just plain hot without
rain falling that often.
Yes – we have felt hot, hotter and hottest temperature
over these years. But now in our golden years a trip to cooler Scotland or very
cool Europe would be a wise idea at this point in our life.
I am thankful for Canada where we can have it hot
one day (or a few days in a row) and then cool after that. It can change day by day… and we love it.
So as I cool down today beside the beautiful lake
and sip my “Ice Cap” from Tim Hortons… I will think of last week and say Thank
You Lord!
(PS – I am also thankful for the beautiful big Lansdowne
Place Mall where sat for the better part of many days and soaked in the cool
air.)
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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