From the article, Heat wave: Day 2 will be even hotter
Posted by Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian July 28, 2009 08:18AM
Posted by Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian July 28, 2009 08:18AM
Oh, yeah - I remember that heat wave. I had just given birth on July 28th to our first child, a beautiful baby girl who looked vaguely Korean and surveyed her new universe with a serious of soft coos and sighs: "Ooooh! Ahhhh!! Ahhh? Ooooooh!
We were enchanted.
She was born into a loving family living in a big house in Northeast Portland. None of us was ready for the weather.
My mother-in-law and sister-in-law Donna came to visit from Miami, where it was a relatively balmly 88 degrees. They nearly died of the heat. But they didn't have to buy clothes, unlike my sister during her August visit in 1973. That summer the mercury scarcely exceeded the 60 degree mark, and her family nearly died too - of freezing, rather than frying.
Those two extremes of experience may explain some of Oregon's charm: a little something for everybody - sort of like a psychotic uncle who can be really fun AND really helpful, and once in a while, really really creepy.
Anyway, there's really no point in fussing about the weather; it does what it will, and our job is to adapt to it.
Some day soon, on some damp chill morning, some poor fool will cry, "What happened to summer?"
Please - let's let him live, okay?
Oh, how many times during these past days I have thought of the Summer of Jennifer! I've reflected on how hot it must have been for you and her and how miserable you both probably were. It is reflected this year in the tribulations that Briana and Drew have had - how do you nurse a newborn without letting her actually touch your body!
ReplyDeleteBut this, too, shall pass, and in the winter we will attempt to recall just how hot it was as we huddle around heater vents, fireplaces, and woodstoves!