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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After having spent a winter working grave shift on the flight line in Minot ND, a summer at Ellsworth AFB(SD) and a summer at Minot, I decided to never live more than 50 miles away from a large body of saltwater.
I grew up in southeast LA county in California. Spent 22 years in WA state Seattle area, and have been on the rural Hamakua coast of the Big island of Hawaii for 23 years.
I’m not a Democrat! I just can’t seem to escape them.
All these places are expensive and pretty much the same cost to live once it is all said and done.
Hamakua coast is the most comfortable and free from volcano eruptions. High today will be 81 degrees and 60% humidity.
My house has no heating or air conditioning, I don’t need it. Almost always a gentle breeze from the East and we leave sliding glass doors and windows open year round.
Nearest Walmart is 45 miles away.
The trick to living in Hawaii is no debt. Pay cash for your property and home.
Williston and Minot always whining about how cold it was.
At Ross ND it was always about ten degrees colder
good idea to build a mosque as far away as possible from the hinges of hell.
A mosque...just outside of Ross
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