Texans baked in 105+ temperatures in 1936...without air conditioning! (We’d never make it today.) The heat wave was nationwide and over 5000 Americans died that summer. This was during the dust bowl and the Great Depression, yet we don’t read about riots during these calamitous times. How small our national character has shrunk since that age of tough Americans.
Indeed we would not be great if Americans did not die in the summer. Non wusses will gladly flirt with the grave for the sake of a place, not even a mission in a place.
Irony intended of course. This does not excuse RIOTS but we are not expected to brag on our earthly hardihood in vanity either.