Posted on 08/30/2023 1:17:57 PM PDT by DFG
Retiring to a place in the sun will cost thousands of seniors their lives, experts have warned, as soaring temperatures leave them at the mercy of failing power grids.
Record numbers of retirees are heading for the Sun Belt states of the south, attracted by lower living costs and the prospect of warmer winters.
But temperatures are soaring dangerously in the most popular destinations with 110F in Phoenix for 31 days straight this summer and 116F recorded in Nevada, condemning many to months indoors and leaving them one power cut away from peril.
Brian Stone Jr. of Georgia Tech has calculated that a 48-hour blackout in Phoenix could cost 13,000 lives, most of them elderly, if it combined with high summer temperatures - as older Americans are more susceptible to heat-related illness.
‘Extreme heat is the deadliest form of weather in the United States,’ he told the New York Times, ‘much more than hurricanes or tornadoes or wildfires.’
Diana and Charles Cox moved from San Jose, California, to the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear in 2016 attracted by its lower costs, international airport and many health care providers.
‘I was having more and more trouble paying the mortgage,’ said Diana, 69.
This summer they have endured more than 60 ‘miserable’ days of 100F temperatures in an RV while their home is refurbished.
‘You really can’t go out and do things. We haven’t been as sociable as I’d like,’ Diana told the New York Times.
‘A couple of days ago it got up to 92 in here, the cats were prostrate under the ceiling fan.
‘If we could afford it, I’d move back to the California coast.
‘I prefer being able to open the windows.’
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soaring temperatures leave them at the mercy of failing power grids.
...And here is the real problem !
Drill baby, DRILL !
I’m pretty elderly (78) and I live ini Texas. Californicatia does have the best weather in the US but I don’t even like setting foot in the place for airplane stopovers. I view Cali as flyover country...
Yeah, my Grandparents were out on val vista in Mesa and it got to mid 120s for a week. No one seemed to care because as long as you were in the shade, you didn’t feel it, really.
Only the paper mill in Ontario was a colder place in my experience.
When I was up there (Ontario) I stayed in a Red Dog Inn. And in late December too.
Who in their right mind makes the entire front of a motel room
a single pane of glass - in flipping Ontario?
I have NO use for that part of the continent. Not in winter anyway...
Shade and mist systems are life savers if you plan to spend any time outside.
Exactly! The idea of America has always been to make things work, not throw our hands up in despair and puddle the floor. Then the left really took hold and here we are being told to throw our hands up in despair.
Yes. Do not come to Arizona. You can hire all the exterminators you want you will not get rid of the scorpions. They are everywhere.
The devil wanted a place on earth
Sort of a summer home
A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.
So he picked out Arizona
A place both wretched and rough
Where the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys hardened and tough.
He dried up the streams in the canyons
And ordered no rain to fall
He dried up the lakes in the valleys
Then baked and scorched it all.
Then over his barren country
He transplanted shrubs from hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear
The climate suited them well.
Now the home was much to his liking
But animal life, he had none.
So he created crawling creatures
That all mankind would shun.
First he made the rattlesnake
With it’s forked poisonous tongue.
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow it’s young.
Then he made scorpions and lizards
And the ugly old horned toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.
Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter,
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted
And the old horned lizard took ill.
Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom
As any creator would
He chuckled a little up his sleeve
And admitted that it was good.
Twas summer now and Satan lay
By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his swarthy brow
So he took off his coat and vest.
“By Golly, ” he finally panted,
“I did my job too well,
I’m going back to where I came from,
Arizona is hotter than Hell. “
If you’re coming to AZ move to the 40% of AZ that has four seasons and 10% of the population.
Lyrics By: John Barlow
Music By: Bob Weir
It was a paradise for lizards when young Brigham saw it
first
He said I've seen some nasty deserts Lord, but this one here's the worst
Then the Lord called down to Brigham, said "I've got a great idea"
I want a mighty city and I think I want it here
Salt Lake City, that town of righteousness and fame
Salt Lake City, don't sound like much, but hell what's in a name?
Nobody ever sings about it, but Lord I be going there just the same
Salt Lake City, where it's so easy keeping straight
Salt Lake City, just really makes Des Moines look second rate
Ain't making no big deal about it
But I hear the Mormon girls are really great
Salt Lake City, hey, dig that Tabernacle Choir
Salt Lake City, yeah they be bound to take you higher
There just ain't no two ways about it, yes Lord they really light my fire
Well Brigham kicked a prairie dog, and he muttered in his beard
Said you've put me through some changes Lord but this one's really weird
The Lord just laughed at Brigham, said "you'd better get to work"
The next time I check in here, I want paradise on earth
Salt Lake City, where Brigham made the desert bloom
Salt Lake City, put a colour TV in every room
And they got them crazy Mormon chicks, yes I'll be going there real soon
Salt Lake City, hey feel that magic in the air
Salt Lake City, you know that's kind of why I like it there
Salt Lake City, well you know that's where I'm bound
Salt Lake City, I'm going down to Salt Lake town
Same here in AZ. Plus the giant scorpions. Don’t come.
By Golly, the devil was right.
I know I write out of concern for my fellow retiree. Florida is also waaaay too hot. And muggy, reaaaaal muggy. Like you will drown if you breath in the air outside. Just a warning. Cause I care.
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Are you referring to Flagstaff?
“If you’re coming to AZ move to the 40% of AZ that has four seasons and 10% of the population.”
Shh don’t tell them about SE Arizona and the Mogollon Rim. Talk about Lake Havasu and Phoenix and Tucson. Even about Casa Grande and Arizona City or maybe Yuma. But for God’s sake, do not tell them about the rest.
Thank you
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What's an expert going for nowadays?
Concurring bump...although I prefer cooler temps to hotter ones, extreme cold is the big killer.
Slip on ice and break a hip.
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