So here's what happens up here.

We have really beautiful summers that are averaging, you know, 75, 80, that's normal.

We get rain every couple of weeks and you know, it refreshes everything.

Kathleen Rose has been farming in the small Puget Sound Town of Gig Harbor, Washington

for 17 years.

We have pigs and goats and chickens and all kinds of animals and all kinds of trees and plants.

I have orchard, 60 fruit trees and two gardens.

But this summer, everything changed.

108 degrees is not something I've ever dealt with on a farm.

It was very scary actually, really severe.

The high temperatures were part of a series of heat waves that scorched the Pacific Northwest

and Kathleen was simply not prepared after three days of extreme heat.

I got really dizzy and collapsed in the garden and kind of, I don't know if I passed

out, but it was very foggy.

And my husband's a paramedic, thankfully, and he said it really boiled down to heat exhaustion

coupled with the kind of an anxiety attack, his pressure of it all for three days straight.

So it was a weird.

It was really took a physical toll on me and it shook me a while to recover from that.

So I'm 54.

And yeah, it was like, wow, this is real.

And with that, Kathleen joined around 195 million Americans who lived in areas this

summer that experienced extreme heat.

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