Quote Originally Posted by spokewench View Post
I hear old timers stories about everyone slept out in their backyards, with wet sheets wrapped around them for the evaporative cooling effects. Back then, you might have even gotten to know your neighbor a little better than you might have wanted to!
I remember as a little girl in New York City it was so hot and humid sometimes my brothers and I sometimes slept out on the ancient iron fire escape- 6 stories up! It was a bit startling for a moment when you woke up floating 6 stories over the ground I don't remember if my mother knew we were doing this. No wonder I still have the occasional falling dream...