Climate Change? Nahhh ...

I don't even want to think about a massive power outage somewhere like Phoenix or Houston in mid-August. There will be a lot of dead people, particularly the elderly.

 

There was one report that Ryan Mallett (former Arkansas QB) didn't drown but died because he got too hot swimming in 80+ degree water in the Gulf. Maybe not, there are weird tides there.

When I was a teen, we went to a place called Estero Beach, just south of Ensenada, There was a restricted area because of a tiny island a couple of hundred yards offshore. You could walk to it at low tide. But at high tide, the waves came in, went around the island and crashed into each other, making for some really choppy water, difficult tides and an uneven ocean floor. One trip, we were told at a gas station that three teenage girls had drowned there a week ago. When we were there, one of them washed ashore. That was eerie for me.

 

A Royal Soldier Fainted in the Heat. It Holds a Lesson for All of Us.

 

I graduated boot camp in Orlando in Sept ‘89 less than a week after Hugo passed. It was so hot and such a common occurrence for someone to fall out from the heat, when he hit the group people were on standby with stretchers to scoop them up and take them to a medical tent while the ceremony continued like nothing happened.

 

I ran the Richmond (Va.) Marathon last year and it was almost 80 degrees in mid-November.

People were going down to heat exhaustion left and right, throughout the entire course. No shade, either.

A guy I met at the pool after the race said he passed out and faceplanted at Mile 23, right where his wife had been waiting for hours to see him run by. He re-hydrated and ended up finishing, against the advice of the EMTs.

Fucker still beat my time by almost 20 minutes.

 

Happens every year at summer band camps, both HS and college.

 

All these people need to quit giving temps in C.
Yeah, the US should have gone to the metric system 40 years ago, but we didn't.
I'm ok with meters and kilometers. I can't do temperatures.
I'm too old to learn that.

 

113

 

I’ll always associate 45 C with blazing heat thanks to 80s MTV.

The western desert
Lives and breathes
At forty-five degrees

 

113 in a part of the world where AC isn’t ubiquitous.

 

Hell, in that part of the world people start to die when it touches 90.