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2018-07-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2018-07-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 When I was a kid back in 1950 we lived 16 miles outside of Memphis , Tennessee, in Shelby County right on Highway 51 and this was before Air Conditioning and TV were common. You could buy an electric fan, they were made out of metal in those days and not out of plastic. It was a few years after the War and Korea was the thing then. A while back.
And 93 was not considered a heatwave. 106*F was considered normal for Summer, hard to deal with, true, but it was Normal.

Stay indoors drink some Lemonade and eat some watermelon. Life was just like that. Deal with it. Buy a plastic pool for the kids ( like we did ) and turn on the garden hose.

And of course Canada is hardly Sudan. Trudeau sounds like a p8ssy. "Heat wave"..ha ha ha ahha ha ha.

Posted by Lionel Spomotle6549 2018-07-05 05:37|| 2018-07-05 05:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Why is it when people die in a heat wave in NA or Europe they speak French. How many of these were elderly

Posted by Cheaderhead 2018-07-05 05:42|| 2018-07-05 05:42|| Front Page Top

#3 from the Globe report on this,

"...All the deaths struck those most vulnerable during heat waves: People with underlying conditions such as mental illness or heart and lung disease. All of the victims were in apartments without air conditioning, and most lived alone...."

This is similar to the great heat wave in Chicago back in 1995 in which most of the 700+ fatalities were elderly persons who not only didn't have a/c but also would not open their windows because they were afraid of crime.
from
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-death-toll-due-to-heat-wave-rises-in-quebec/

Posted by lord garth 2018-07-05 08:12|| 2018-07-05 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 "...All the deaths struck those most vulnerable during heat waves: People with underlying conditions such as mental illness or heart and lung disease. All of the victims were in apartments without air conditioning, and most lived alone...."

Why does Trudeau hate the mentally ill and elderly? Why does he equate mental illness with the elderly.

I'm triggered.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-05 08:39|| 2018-07-05 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 111 degrees tomorrow here

Posted by Frank G 2018-07-05 09:58|| 2018-07-05 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 About got down to 93 last night.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-05 10:06|| 2018-07-05 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 This is not a new thing, indeed. Back in 1974 or so, it got up to all the way to 82°F in Buffalo, New York for several days – – as I recall, three elderly people died. Nobody had air-conditioning in Buffalo then, because the normal summer daytime temperature in Buffalo was and is 78F. I can only imagine how many would have died had the temperature a tually gone up to 93F, though that is the perfectly acceptable
current temperature here in Cincinnati.

The fact of the matter is, when summer temperatures are significantly higher than normal -- however laughable cool someone from elsewhere might consider that temperature to be -- those who are not robust are more likely not to remember to do, or cannot afford to do, the things necessary to keep from overheating... and therefore die.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-05 14:48|| 2018-07-05 14:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Back in the mid 70s when I lived in Boston we saw a few terrible moves during a heat wave because the theater had AC.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-07-05 15:30|| 2018-07-05 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Yep, RJS, I was in Boston back then too. Of course there was always the Cape.

Posted by AlanC 2018-07-05 16:37|| 2018-07-05 16:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Based on my experience with the elderly, many seem to have a profound lack of awareness that they are getting overheated. Without this awareness, they will then neglect to do the obvious, like get out of the sun, open a window, turn on a fan, seek a cooler environment, etc., even when they have all those opportunities ready at hand.
I remember growing up back in the 50s also. People over the age of 70 were rare, compared to modern times.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-05 19:56|| 2018-07-05 19:56|| Front Page Top

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