Think of the chocolate!!!
“Midday temperatures were hitting highs in the 80s and 90s.”
Sounds like Florida for six months of the year.
Sounds like southern Arizona in spring and fall. It’s still hitting 100 most afternoons at our place.
But it’s a dry heat...
You have made bad choices if you are delivering UPS at 58. Way too old. 80-90’s is what you get in any summer.
A hydrated man who is otherwise healthy, including being of healthy weight, should not have heatstroke under these conditions.
We keep 16 oz bottled water containers by our back door and car port ramp and packaged Milano cookies for our various delivery people.
A substitute driver offered me $3 for the water and cookie during a 100+ degree day. He couldn’t believe we had these life savers for free for our drivers.
It’s a younger man’s job...
80s? 90s? Here in Vegas it’s not a heat wave until it reaches 110F.
As a UPS driver in the valley in Arizona if you are getting sick at 90 degrees there is something else wrong with you.
Ha! My nephews wife has driven for UPS, 40 years in the Mojave She took the Barstow Ft Irwin route about twenty years ago still driving it!
only six month? you must not live here.
Since the incident was in New Jersey, air pollution was likely the largest contributing factor, not temperature.
Try working on a farm down in Texas. My wife and I are both 70’ish and we still do it. 90 is a cool day. It must have to do with being acclimated to the heat. I have a friend in Palmer, Alaska, who can’t stand it here once the temperature gets over 85.
If this guy was driving a UPS truck, he at least had a breeze going and/or one of those little fans I see in those trucks. Stay hydrated.
OMG! 80s and 90s during August!! We all doomed!!!
Just what color are those UPS vans?
Major heat absorbers!
Is the roof white, at least?
UPS / Fedex, literally CAN'T put a/c in every vehicle. can you imagine the drivers refusing to work because the A/C is broke on their trucks?
it would be chaos and some drivers would take advantage of this to get a day off with pay.
OTOH UPS is responsible to teach their drivers about heat exhaustion and heat stoke. and should be aware when a driver is showing signs of heat exhaustion.
CNN never stops pimping elite privilege and weather taxes.
He never heard of staying hydrated in hot weather? How about carrying a pee jar in the truck? We were never without one for our family's 9-hour drive to the Carolinas in the 1950s. Air conditioning? Don't make me laugh.
They appear to work hard
This was, up to that time the largest military engagement on the North American Continent and the debut of the newly trained American Continental Army. It was also the battle that gave birth to "Molly Pitcher'', aka Mary Ludwig Hayes who manned a cannon after her husband was wounded. What was notable about the battle though was the intense heat of the day. By noon the temperature had reached a 100 degrees and the humidity was probably around 70 or 80 per cent. More men were incapacitated by heat stroke than actual battle wounds. General Hugh Mercer, Washington's aide de camp noted ''The heat of the day was like the fires of a thousand Hades''. The outcome of the battle itself however was a draw.