Hot weather's near: Parental guidance advised April 12, 2007 Galveston County Daily News, April 11, 2007 By Sally Robinson and Keith Bly GALVESTON - Glaciers are now melting and retreating. In the past decade, Texas and rest of the United States have experienced some the warmest annual temperatures ever recorded. And in Galveston County in early April, it's already humid and beginning to feel sticky and warm. Within a month or two the temperatures may well rise enough to be truly dangerous. You don't necessarily have to exercise or work out-of-doors to be threatened by the heat. Too often, older people die in homes or apartments that don't have air conditioning - or in those that have it but whose occupants don't have the hundreds of dollars each month required to pay for the electricity to use it. « Back | The Newsroom »