June 20 2006

Burning Hell!

Summer used to be my favourite season…but not any more. Summer sucks as long as you don’t get to be in the right place, i.e. sea, or a 24 hour air-conditioned place.

It was 42 degrees yesterday, today, thank God, I didn’t have to leave home, but the temperature indoors is 34. Thank God it chills a bit at night, but to be honest, seems like this summer in Tunisia will be one of the worst! This is talking about the heat alone, we should not forget the disgusting humidity! YUCK! I hate humidity!
May God be with the poor who can’t afford AC, and who work in the streets and in the sun all day long, they truly break my heart!



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Posted June 20, 2006 by Eman Abukhadra in category "Just Personal", "Tunisia

8 COMMENTS :

  1. By Tarek on

    This is global warming in action! I have no memories from my childhood of exceptionally hot summers .

  4. By Eman (Post author) on

    Tarek, yeah I know, I feel the heat getting worst every passing day. As you said, summer wasn’t THAT hot when we were children.

    Qwaider, there’s no comparison at all. First humidity here is far worse than it is in Kuwait. Secondly, one wouldn’t feel the heat because everything was central air-conditioned, while here it’s not. AC’s are not to be found everywhere, even homes, few have them.
    Not to mention the effect of global warming that makes everything worse what it was before.
    And yes, it’s the people working in this kind of heat that concern me so much.

    Swifty, lol…

  5. By Jimbo on

    Odd: there’s no pointer from the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism’s site to this entry of yours so graphically extolling the local weather. 🙂

    Along southwest Florida’s “Nature Coast” (noted for its growing urban sprawl and vanishing flora, other than that on golf courses), we missed the first of our two rainy seasons this year. The rain may have gone north to New England, which had floods. We’ve now entered the second rainy season, marked by our first tropical storm.

    And a happy summer solstice to you. Keep cool.

  8. By jmarie on

    Like you, I too cannot help but feel horrible when I am in a cooler and air conditioned environment and there are our fellow brothers and sisters working under such terrible conditions. I understand electricity is very expensive in tunsia, as is AC. What can we do? How can we contribute to stop global warming. Did you hear about the Al Gore film? I am looking forward to checking it out to see what he and the producers have to say about solutions to this obvious problem and not myth… thanks jimbo for the informative links.

    Do you think Tunisia is hotter because of more development as well? Is there much media attention paid to environmental awareness there?

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