[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks, Donna! Got a good new word, communis rixatrix, and a good laugh.

But this woman is worse than a rixatrix, an annoyance. She is more like a Bellatrix: a Death-Eater.

France and Europe during the 2003 heat wave: 70,000 dead in Europe, 17,000 to 19,000 in France alone died from the heat wave, mostly elderly and people with respiratory difficulties stuck in non-A/C houses while their younger relatives took off for the mountain or the shore.

Hey, Karen Heller! Don´t need AC? Move to Europe, where you can reduce your carbon footprint but good, die promptly and efficiently, and oh-so cozy warm.

[donna]

I remember that. And Chicago had one:

The 1995 Chicago heat wave was a heat wave which led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who could not afford air conditioning and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime.

The heat wave also heavily impacted the wider Midwestern region, with additional deaths in both St. Louis, Missouri and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Source: Wikipedia