Posted on 04/30/2016 10:14:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India, officials said they were banning daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people.
The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step of forbidding any cooking between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., after accidental fires exacerbated by dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people. They included 10 children and five adults killed in a fire sparked during a Hindu prayer ceremony in Bihar’s Aurangabad district last week.
People were instead told to cook to night.
Hoping to prevent more fires, officials have also barred burning spent crops or holding religious fire rituals. Anyone defying the ban risks up to a year in jail.
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They are still gonna die. Now, they’ll just die hungry.
In other news from India, a country of 1.3 Billion people over 53,000 people died last month from diarrhea. Actually, that is just the average number of people who die from diarrhea every month in India. 23,000 people a month die in India from falls. To get down to causes of death that cause 300 people a month to die in India, you have to look at causes of death such as getting attacked by angry hoards of pigeons.
Hard to believe some of these places are hotter than here in the desert mid summer. They can get temps upwards of 130 on a regular basis and when they talk “heat wave” you really need to consider what that’s got to be like. In these areas, you have modern constructions like office buildings and malls with open spots directly next door where the massive number of poverty stricken folks build shanty towns. The misery they endure when the weather turns against them is the stuff of nightmares.
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I wish the lovely young woman down the hall from me would stop cooking her Indian food.
The smell permeates the place-—but they are building a home and will be gone soon.
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Read Kipling. Heat in India is nothing new. Kipling was in NYC during a heat wave which killed hundreds. He said it was hard to find places in India as hot as NYC that year.
Send her to my place! :)
Wow. Incredibly sad. Those of us who take air conditioning for granted have no clue about their living conditions, or their vulnerability to the weather.
Title is misleading. People are dying in fires. They cook over an open flame and it is windier during the daytime. People are told to cook at night when the air is more calm.
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