re: 1980 Summer Heatwave

I remember it well as that was the summer before my freshman year at LSU. That’s the summer that some horses pulling carriages in the FQ in NOLA died of heat exhaustion and the city outlawed horses and replaced them with mules or donkeys (they apparently do much better in the heat).

I was in a Drum Corps based in Chalmette and we practiced every day that summer in the Schwegman’s parking lot on the asphalt. It was hotter than Hades!