DC area -- how are you coping?

Marian
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 02:09:06 +0000

stevensmama, your stepson and his family were actually following the official advice.

Saturday morning, the DC-area radio stations were giving out the message “If you have friends or family with power, go visit them.”

What the authorities were trying to do, as far as I can tell, was minimize heat-related deaths. At that time, there were few hotel rooms available even for those who could afford them because many of the hotels didn’t have power. Few shelters were available because a lot of public buildings didn’t have power. And the forecast was for very hot weather. The authorities wanted people to get to places were there was air conditioning, rather than staying home and trying to cope with the heat.