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2022-06-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Sweltering streets: Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-21 09:50|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 they could go to LA or SF for cooler nights

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-06-21 09:57|| 2022-06-21 09:57|| Front Page Top

#2 And the attraction to Phoenix is......?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-21 10:02|| 2022-06-21 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Pheonix is like any other metroplex in the desert southwest. Both good and bad there, but once you leave the outlying communities, it's a haul to anywhere else you can reasonably expect to find stores, etc.

It gets hot in the desert in the summertime. The Bill Nye types have trouble grasping this fact.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 10:06|| 2022-06-21 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Might ask yourself why the indigenous people didn't settle here long before Europeans showed up.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-21 10:45|| 2022-06-21 10:45|| Front Page Top

#5 @#2 - Exactly. Any place where gila monsters and scorpions and other critters are indigenous is a "no thanks".

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-06-21 10:47|| 2022-06-21 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 They did, though. See: Casa Grande.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 10:48|| 2022-06-21 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ They left when it got too hot.

Posted by SteveS 2022-06-21 10:50|| 2022-06-21 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 And, yeah, who'd want to open up a gämbl!ng ¢äsino in such an environment?

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-06-21 10:53|| 2022-06-21 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 ^admirable evasion of the forbidden words!

Posted by Frank G 2022-06-21 11:30|| 2022-06-21 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 I well remember back in the late 50's in Oklahoma temperatures of +100 with once getting to 117.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-06-21 12:07|| 2022-06-21 12:07|| Front Page Top

#11 When it got too hot in the summer, the Kumeyaay native Americans east of what is now San Diego would move from the desert up into the mountains where it was cooler. They found acorns in abundance and collected them so they could eat them in the desert in winter when it got too cold in the mountains. Hunter gatherers, they had other food sources both in the desert and the mountains. They had it wired. Of course, all that took some work and thought which is a bit more than we can expect from the homeless or the politicians.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-21 13:12|| 2022-06-21 13:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah, instead the white settles went into the mountains in the wintertime and you got the Donner Party.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 13:18|| 2022-06-21 13:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Darwin awards in the making.

Posted by KBK 2022-06-21 20:00|| 2022-06-21 20:00|| Front Page Top

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