Each trailer is heated by two 30-pound propane gas tanks and none of the trailers have telephones.
"There are so many pest control places out there showing up and undercutting," said Corey Westrum of Leonard, Minn., who helped create Insect Inferno, a portable trailer that heats mattresses.
She called Bliss Pest Protection Services, which put the library's furniture in a trailer and heated it to 130 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour, a strategy she touted in her e-mail as the best way of "pulverizing their eggs".
"All they had to do was turn that gas on," says Yuba County Lt. Lance Ayers, "and they'd have had gas to the trailer, and heat". All though the spring, the search for the boys had practically consumed Ayers.
But spend any time on the show's set in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood and multiple people will remark, unprovoked, on the chemistry between them, something that became apparent during an interview with both actors in Ms. Russell's chilly trailer (the heat wasn't working).
Like many of the other 4,000 people wedged into the desert slum, Mendez and her family were hoveled in a broken-down trailer without heat or air conditioning.
The restaurant is surrounded by generators and trailers providing heat and water to neighboring buildings and could not take orders on its Web site.
She wrote that she and her children live in a damaged trailer with poor heating whose windows leak when it rains.
Along the refinery's massive eastern wall, a makeshift tent protects the strikers from rain, and a poorly heated trailer gives them some semblance of warmth during breaks from picketing.
"This is the one place where the cause of death is mildew," he quipped, standing outside the trailer in withering heat.
Sometimes we were stuck in an oblong half-room with no air-conditioning in the warm months or in an outdoor trailer with no heat in the winter.
