New York: With a record-breaking heatwave intensifying over much of the US midwest and east coast through the weekend, it was a bad time for Annie McQueen's air conditioner to break down in her New York City apartment.
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| A person holds an umbrella for shade in Times Square. |
Cities across the affected regions have opened public cooling centres, and after a sticky night in which the combined forces of a ceiling fan and a floor fan in her bedroom offered little relief, McQueen, 76, headed to one of them on Sunday at a senior centre in downtown Brooklyn.
She sat smiling near the door of the Raices Times Plaza Neighbourhood Senior Centre, beyond which the air was predicted to cook up to a high of 36.7 degrees, though it would feel more like 43.3 degrees with the humidity, according to the National Weather Service.
Inside, old Christmas decorations fluttered in the breeze near the cooling system's ceiling vents. "It feels just right," McQueen said. Lunch was three different varieties of salads.
Read the story from The Age by Jonathan Allen - “‘Sunday has been cancelled': heatwave lingers in New York City."
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