HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Holland’s downtown Eighth Street business district looked pretty busy, for a pre-summer Monday, June 7, 2021, with some people heading downtown to beat the heat at home, and others enjoying browsing the shops or eating outside. (See the photo gallery.)
With weather featuring 76 degrees with 74 percent humidity, an intermittent 9-mile-an-hour breeze under overcast skies, about the only cold thing outside was the big fireplace at the corner of Columbia Avenue and Eighth Street.
West Michigan native Colin Dral, who just finished his second year at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC — where the average June temperature runs about 87 degrees — stopped for lunch at an Eighth Street bench with South Caroline native Kas Burnett with their dogs, Miller and Toby.
They shrugged off the combined heat and humidity, but Dral said he was making sure the dogs were plenty hydrated.
“They drink a lot of water,” he said.
Burnett seemed unfazed by the combination of heat and humidity.
“South Carolina is a lot more humid, so it’s not as terrible,” she said. “I’m wearing a sweatshirt, so it’s not too bad for me, personally.”
One Holland mom brought her four kids to the splash pad, an effort to get out of the house for the afternoon and try to reduce air-conditioning bills. She said she’d heard a power company would be charging 50 percent more for power usage during the peak summer hours, weekdays between 2 and 7 p.m.
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