This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. LAMBERT: And hopefully, you have your weather apps and your electrolytes with you, too. Or you're in it and then, you know, that's a whole different experience. So you just kind of prepare for whatever the worst could be and hopefully it doesn't hit you or it misses you by a couple miles. If you bring a raincoat, there's a chance that it won't rain. HUNT: And I guess the best thing I learned from my grandfather is if you don't bring a raincoat, it's going to rain. LAMBERT: And yes, there's a possibility of more extreme weather next summer, but he's still going to kick off another round of planning in three months. We had one day where there was a little sprinkle of a shower, but, you know, sitting on a beach at a lake in northern Idaho is pretty lovely. I think the hottest it got was maybe like 90 degrees. Also, most of the time, summer's been fun, like at Priest Lake in Idaho, near the Canadian border. He started in November to make sure he could lock in campsite reservations. LAMBERT: One reason - he invested a lot into planning this summer. HUNT: My family is kind of on like a rock band tour from the end of May until the middle of August. But Hunt hasn't canceled any plans and doesn't intend to. His wife had heatstroke at the gorge in Washington. Sixty-mile-per-hour winds shook their tent in Wyoming. HUNT: And every time I look at it, I'm like, man, that was a lot of packing the car, making sure you have everything, checking the weather, going and doing it. LAMBERT: Rocks from Missouri, California, Washington state, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, the Rockies. And I think we have like nine or 10 rocks sitting on a table. JOHN HUNT: Our 4-year-old, for some reason, keeps a rock every time we go somewhere. John Hunt has been zooming around the country with his wife and two kids. Live Nation, the big concert promoter just posted record profits. The last week of July, which was hit by both excessive heat and thunderstorms, Major League Baseball recorded the best attendance at games in more than a decade. We're constantly consulting weather apps and chugging the it drink of summer, water, or electrolytes if you're feeling fancy or really, really hot. LAMBERT: No, Americans will not lock down again. Well, even then, Evans has found ways to keep having fun.ĮVANS: There was an anniversary party for the musical "Wicked," like, two weeks.ĮVANS: The Met does like a rooftop sort of like makeshift bar in the summertime. And those days when the city was blanketed with wildfire smoke. Yeah, just almost like swampy a little bit. LAMBERT: That's Taylor Evans, who works in entertainment marketing in New York.ĮVANS: Oh, gosh. NPR's Lisa Lambert reports that despite all that, Americans are determined to hold summer to its promise. This weekend, we're expecting a heatwave in the South - again - and thunderstorms in most of the country - again. But this summer has had a hard time delivering. Summer usually comes with a promise of fun, whether it's cookouts in our backyard or long-awaited vacations.
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