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[novapsyche]

Just as I was gearing up for a walk, it started raining. Of course.

Michigan has had a--dare I say it yet?--mild summer. Some hot days, yes; some very humid days, yes; but nothing like what California has been through.

Michiganians: Who else remembers the heat wave of 1988?

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[demeter42.livejournal.com]

I lived in Michigan in 1988... I was 11 years old then... but I just don't remember it. My memory is shot these days... :-)

I do remember going to back to visit around 1995 or 1996 and thinking it was odd that everyone seemed so uncomfortable when the temps were only in the mid 80's.t

[aiela.livejournal.com]

The summer of 1988 is kind of a blur. I know I spent a lot of it making out with the kid I would marry 6 years later, but I don't remember it being terribly hot.

We managed to go for a walk before the rain you got made it's way to this side of town, but there was a bit of lightning on the way home.

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

I was 10, and I spent my summers playing with my cousins on the lake in Portage. So, while I'm sure it was hot, it was cooler there than elsewhere.

[chimalis.livejournal.com]

I was seven, but I remember! The neighbors had swimming pools in either direction. We swam a lot.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone remembers! I realize eighteen years is a bit far back to go in the memory banks, but it really was news back then. (I don't think a two-week streak of high-90 temps would faze us much anymore.)

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall late May of that year was in the high 90's.

I was working in a factory, next to an oven. A couple of my co-workers and I had a walk out one day, felt like we were melting. Only the guy who couldn't show up five days a week got fired for it.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Ugh. It's tough enough working in a hot factory in the first place, especially in the summer. (I think I've told you about the two days I worked in the scratch-off lottery ticket factory. That was during the summer, but it was the midnight shift. Still it was stifling hot in there.) I don't blame you for walking out.