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2007-07-25 Europe

Death toll rises in southern Europe's heatwave

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Posted by lotp 2007-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 perhaps they could pool their money for AlGore to fly over for a holiday?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-25 07:27|| 2007-07-25 07:27|| Front Page Top

#2 When I was in Vegas two years ago for my brothers wedding it was 106. At three o clock in the morning. 118 during the day.
And guess what? Nobody died.

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-25 08:57|| 2007-07-25 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Yipe! Hungary (107) is north of, say, Maine, on a par with northern Minnesota.

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-07-25 09:06|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-07-25 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm guessing that wedding was in an air conditioned facility. And that guests came in air conditioned cars. And that few of them were ill and elderly, lying on the upper floor of an old stone building ....

Humidity or lack thereof does matter as well.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-25 11:56|| 2007-07-25 11:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Humidity plays a factor here. 100 degrees in New York, where I used to live, is a lot worse than 100 degrees in So Cal.

It is particularly noticeable at night. In the desert it cools down when the sun goes down. In NYC it stays sweltering all night long.

Posted by DoDo 2007-07-25 11:56|| 2007-07-25 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 A small price to pay for saving Gaya.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-25 12:01|| 2007-07-25 12:01|| Front Page Top

#7 part of the problem is Vegas knows it will be hot but most of Europe pretends that each hot summer is just a passing thing and they do little to prepare for it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-07-25 13:43|| 2007-07-25 13:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't they learn anything from last summer?

Here we go again . . .

Posted by The Doctor 2007-07-25 13:55|| 2007-07-25 13:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Didn't they learn anything from last summer?

Europe and Islam share a similar lack of understanding in regard to cause and effect.

Posted by Crusader 2007-07-25 17:38|| 2007-07-25 17:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Their new ~~immigrants~~ masters are bringing the climate with them so it will feel even more like home.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-25 17:44|| 2007-07-25 17:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Humidity doesn't have as much to do with it as you think. When it's 110 (or close to it), you are miserable if you are stuck outdoors. Trust the Zonie on this one.

(Yep, was in Phoenix the day they shut the airport down....because it was too hot!!)

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-07-25 19:12|| 2007-07-25 19:12|| Front Page Top

#12 What happened? You can't just start a story like that, Swamp Blondie, then not finish it.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-25 22:02|| 2007-07-25 22:02|| Front Page Top

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