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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The temperature outside Sharon White’s apartment is in the 90s. She keeps her thermostat at 79.

“Probably the hottest I’ve ever felt,” said White as she sat in her sweltering apartment.

WATCH BELOW: 'I’m in trouble,' Sharon White tells WPTV's Dave Bohman Hot temperatures leading to higher electric bills

I listened as she told me that due to the heat her electric bill is $150 dollars an amount she can't pay.

“I’m behind a bill now,” she said. “On August 11, I’ll be behind two bills, and it just snowballs.”

White is a widow who has lived on the Treasure Coast for 40 years.

For the past few summers, groups like St. Lucie County’s Council on Aging, the city of Port St. Lucie, and other organizations have helped pay her bill.

Not this summer.

“Anybody I tr

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