Heat advisory Thurs expanded to include D.C., Fairfax & Prince William counties

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3. During summer afternoons, we followed special procedure

I remember my parents hanging a curtain in the door which was access door to outside. The curtain was made of fine roots of some plant and had a pleasant smell. The curtain would be kept moist by spraying water on it. As the breeze from outside passed through the curtain, it cooled off from evaporating water.
The whole family spent afternoons inside, in the curtain room.

Main thing to avoid heat-strokes was to wear hats to protect heat from the sun.
My mother made me wear that safari hat made from cork material. I hated it.
But looking back, it prevented sun-strokes walking to school few miles away.