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SN: Can you describe a little bit about how this whole change in climate impacted peoples' health? Can you describe how the change in climate coming from the Pacific Northwest, going to this hot desert area impacted people's health? How did it affect them?

SH: I don't know, I don't remember hearing how it affected them, but it affected them mainly because they couldn't stand the heat. It was hard on older people, it real hard on older people. My mother was sixty, sixty, I think, at the time. It was hard on her, just because of the heat that she couldn't stand. They all used fans, or we used just newspaper made into a fan. And besides being hot, it wasn't very breezy. If you had a little breeze, but it wasn't very, there was no wind or anything. When it did blow, it was really hard blowing. Blow the sand, sand would just go right into, under the door and through the window, cracks in a wall, sand would, wake up in the morning and under the door there'd be sand.

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