- A heat wave in our mid-Michigan neighborhoods is expected to last through most of the week
- A woman brought her fans to work inside a historic courthouse that has no air conditioning
- Video shows two people adjusting to this week’s intense heat
Sherry Copenhaver is used to working without air conditioning at the old courthouse-turned-museum in downtown Charlotte.
During heat waves, Copenhaver brings two fans with her to install in her office. Nearby sit some electric fans, some still working, that are about a century old.
Copenhaver is dealing with the heat just like county officials did generations before her.
“Even though time marches on,” Copenhaver said. “The same things happen. It got hot back then and it gets hot now.”
But at least the bricks that blanket Eaton County’s old courthouse can cover Copenhaver from most of the heat. It’s a different yet similar story for a fireworks vendor out of Angola, Indiana.
Casey Brown made the nearly two-hour drive to sell his products in the parking lot next to Advance Auto Parts off Lansing Road in Charlotte. Brown made sure to pack his fan and a cooler with food and drinks.