Whether your friends are emailing from north, east south or west... everyone's writhing in the high temps these salty days. Just imagine surviving these temps in August 1896 in a NYC tenement? Small rooms cramped with a half dozen or more others, sleeping on roofs or fire escapes, no electricity or air, wool clothing...no running water...yikes! http://www.tenement.org/blog/summer-blaze/?utm_source=The+Tenement+Museum+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=952e25a4c3-Weekly_Update_7_21_157_15_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_42667ed4e8-952e25a4c3-225141861 City sanitation workers would flood the streets to keep the dusty pavements at bay. Over five hundred horses died during the heat wave of 1896...imagine disposing of them and that stench...Some 1500 people perished from heat stroke in NYC. Some days, you just feel lucky! Barb