– Douglas Macario said the summer heat is straining his business, Macario Brother’s Lawn Care.
“It’s like way hotter now in June, whereas last year the really hot temperatures came like, toward middle June or July,” Macario said. For his lawn care company, summer means business, but it also means bearing multiple days with 100-degree temperatures. He said he usually makes business modifications later in the summer, but he has to switch things up now.Macario said his team starts earlier in the morning, so they can be done cutting before the afternoon. Bonita Landscaping is handling the heat in a similar way.
“Our schedule does change a lot,” Carolina Arroyo, the operations manager, said. “We go out early and come in earlier.”“We go and get what we need,” Arroyo said. “We would never take that away.”“Right now, we freak out a little bit, but we’ve gotten past seven other summers, so we’ll get past this one too,” Macario said.You can see a list of warning signs and heat safety tips