[I’m] very concerned about what this summer holds.

Death. The summer holds death.

This region will become VERY hot, like 2021, where we had a town actually burn down from, essentially, 46 degree temperatures and 0% humidity. Without A/C, pets left at home will die. Then untended seniors locked into commercial body-storage long-term care centres. The homeless will die unobserved in an alley in puddles of their own creation.

I hope with a desperate hope that I’m wrong: that we can get to September without widespread calamity. We have A/C, we’ve reached out to people who may want to ‘visit’ us on the hottest days (aware that the building has a ‘max 2 week overnight visitor’ policy (for real) but no compunctions on daytime couch-dwellers when the sun is hottest, couch is comfortablest, cool shower is most delightful).

The local hospital just built an ungodly-large new wing … with a big expanse of parking beside it and no parking underneath when they could have built 6 levels underneath with a perfect exit/entrance at the bottom of the hill on the major thoroughfare, for ambulances. The reason why this is disappointing is because it’s an excellent homeless shelter cooling zone in the daytime: underground concrete holds the cool of the 15c ground for hours into the daytime.

(And while it’s at risk of being over-used as a permanent homeless encampment, I say fucking let it: it’s a sprinkler-protected area under a hospital with a massive new addictions/abuse/psyche wing, which could be delineated for permanent storage or residence and locked per-floor like the parking garage under mixed-use buildings have delineated resident/commercial areas. With mandatory labeling, no-fire rules but with block-heater outlets per-space for charging phones, it’s just missing ‘temporary’ fencing for safety and security and a sunday-clear-out-for-cleaning rule. I can think of nothing better to put under a hospital than a massive versatile parking/storage/cooling space)