(#4546) Dog days of summer

      We here in Sacramento California just got through 3 days of nearly and above 110° temperatures. That is not normal and what is coming next is now a bit scary. We are just starting the hot season here so to begin with 110° temperatures is probably our new normal. Trying to keep cool is going to be difficult when electricity is being rationed with an eye on avoiding electrical blackouts. My SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District) bill is already nearing $100 for this next billing cycle and I am only about 1/4 of the way through it's monthly cycle.
     I am doing what I can to ration the electrical usage here in my home but the heat has to be abated or the 3 of us who live here and are well into our sixties will find that a greater harm to us will come if we are not kept somewhat cool. I have in the past weathered the heat of the summer here and may say now that it was difficult and a real wearing down of my abilities. So keeping somewhat cool in the present with higher temperatures is our goal this year and if the cost exceeds the expectation then so be it.
     Living on a fixed income with tight budgets this is a bit of a hardship with these temperatures. Yet the hardship will be endured and keeping somewhat cool as best as possible will be accomplished. I personally have been on the global warming man made climate change bandwagon since first hearing about it many decades ago so having to live through its effects now is frustrating as it was foreseeable that temperatures would rise and make life on Earth less golden and more a drudgery. I put all of this at the feet of the republican party as with most other horrible outcomes in our lives because of their inability to be intelligent compassionate human beings.