‘It’s unbearable’: in ever-hotter US cities, air conditioning is no longer enough

Gloria Gellot, 79, takes a careful seat in a kitchen chair in front of her only air conditioning unit, massaging her knees. She’s hung a sheet in the doorway to keep the cool air in the kitchen, and drawn shades to keep the sun – already blazing in May –
out of her second-floor New Orleans apartment. Her home was badly damaged by Hurricane Ida in 2021, and heat leeches in through the gutted walls.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/air-conditioning-protect-extreme-heat

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