During extreme heat events, a few city blocks can mean the difference between a manageable 80-degree afternoon or a sweltering 100-degree sweat fest, due to a racist 20th-century policy.
Atlanta, Georgia On a warm September afternoon, Mona Scott sat on the front porch while her home baked like an oven. As she ran a frozen water bottle across her forehead and arms, Scott told CNN her air conditioning broke 10 days earlier and had not yet been fixed.
"The windows are painted shut," Scott said."We come outside at night to sleep because it's too hot inside." Like Scott, residents in the low-income communities across south and southwest Atlanta are struggling to cope with the hottest summer since the Dust Bowl. "It's just so hot" Scott said as she wiped sweat from her brow. South Atlanta resident Mona Scott presses a frozen water bottle to her head to keep cool on a warm Sunday afternoon.
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