Her cell phone, another gift from her daughter, is dead more often than it’s not, and she can’t find the weather app on it half of the time, anyway.īut the grandmother has been hot before - prides herself, even, on her 68 Texan summers. She doesn’t have internet in the trailer to see the day’s excessive heat warning.
She shakes her head to herself: No, they have the baby it’s a 40-minute drive she’s a burden enough as it is. She thinks about calling her daughter, whose husband installed the unit in her trailer’s living room window the summer before. The grandmother puts her hand in front of the AC’s dust-covered gills, feels nothing but a weak, lukewarm breeze. The gray-white box in the window had always rattled, but this morning it has begun to grind. “At least 14 Tarrant County residents died from extreme heat last summer … Of those who died from heat, at least eight cases included residents with no air conditioning, no working air conditioning, or who had their air conditioning turned off at the time of their death…” – The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, J98.6 FahrenheitĪir conditioners aren’t supposed to make that sound.
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