The year was 1966, I remember mowing our lawn in Iowa. The temperature was 120 degrees. Not unusual for that summer.
I got stuck in provo Utah once and for two weeks steady the temp never got below 110, it was brutal, but everyone still. Worked and did their jobs, though slower and more carefu,,y of course, even those folks who had to work outside did their jobs.
Gee I wonder how people on the equator in tropical places where the sun bakes all day who regularly have to deal with triple Temps? Or in Australia, or Africa, or Egypt, or or or managed all these many centuries?
A few days of triple Temps in the US and all of a sudden it’s a crisis? When it never had been before when it regularly happened I. The past?