Quote Originally Posted by ou48A View Post
As hot as it was in Texas or Oklahoma last summer it wasn’t anywhere near as bad for human living as it was during the dust bowl.
Hardly anyone but the extremely rich had air-conditioning back then and the dust was very oppressive over a huge geographical area.
We are all soft and weak (including me) compared to the people who stuck out the dust bowl in this part of the country.
I don't think we're soft and weak. People basically adjust their lives to whatever their current situation is. If we were faced with the same situation we could do just as well. It doesn't mean we would like it any more than those who lived through it in the 30's. I remember many nights when I was a child in the 50's where I was either sweating or freezing when I was in my bedroom in our farmhouse sleeping at night. I survived just fine even if I didn't enjoy it.