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Justin Rex, Houston Chronicle / ContributorTexas has been experiencing record-breaking heat lately. We asked you, our readers, to respond. How is the recent weather affecting you and how are you coping? Are you beating the heat in unexpected ways? Below you shared some of your thoughts, stories and — yes — hot takes.
It was definitely uncomfortable, but we are the lucky ones. We live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned auto and, in retirement, are not required to work in these dangerous temperatures. Personally, we can avoid the ravages of this particular aspect of climate change. Meteorologist Isaac Cline got it right when he wrote, “Texas is a land of eternal drought, interrupted occasionally by biblical floods.”
I was born in Texas during the drought of the 1950s. Now that was a drought, almost a decade in the making. One that resulted in billions of state and federal dollars spent on water supply reservoirs over the next 25 years in Texas. Very few existed prior to that drought.
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