[Desdemona]

And with diminished resources for power, loaning them massive air conditioning capacity is useless.

The temps cited in the article are par for the course here, but if you're not used to it and don't know how to deal with it, people are going to die.

It would help them to put down the wineglasses and drink some water, just for a bit.

[cardinal4]

Here in STL, we have been enjoying relatively cool temps the last week. But normally its hotter than sh*t here in the summer. I think the French wimpiness is coming to the surface..

[Timesink]

The temps cited in the article are par for the course here, but if you're not used to it and don't know how to deal with it, people are going to die.

The same sort of thing happens in San Francisco once or twice a year. They're so used to it being about 65 degrees every single day that they can't handle it if it gets above the low 80s. The National Weather Service actually has to issue warnings, and lots of people end up hospitalized or dead, all at temperatures that people almost anywhere else in the country would consider merely annoying.

[dljordan]

I was raised in Tennessee where it gets in the 90's and 100's in the summer with 90 percent humidity. We didn't HAVE AC when I was a kid just fans. It ain't pleasant but you can survive. I feel for them even if they are French.