YES to retire - out of all of the places I've lived...
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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Wait, who has work done on their house so they have to stay in an RV for 2 months during the hard part of the weather year? I wouldn’t recommend that in July in Phoenix or January in Minot. Gotta plan ahead.
“…experts say…”
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A standard BULLCRAP signal.
Cold weather is far more deadly than hot weather
Phoenix got above 120 in the 90s. I remember because I often visited my grandparents there.
Exactly just another pile of BS from the climate Nazis.
Cold weather is not in the libtard media handbook.
There were never “above 100” temps in these places prior to this year, right ?
So...it gets hot in PHOENIX...
Gee, I wonder why they named it PHOENIX...
Try a MN Winter. Cold weather is HELL on stiff/damaged ligature.
It gets ONE degree cooler up here and I’m going to start burning climate alarmists to stay warm.
BTW...it’s still not as hot as it was in the 1930s...
The whole world is going mad. Blind sheep to the slaughter house…. Mindless followers. All DEMOCRATS! You won't believe what Houston has been signed up for. Going meatless. Only allowed three items of clothing per year? What has Mayor Turner signed us up for? Looks like hell to me How could this happen and we not know anything about it? This is evil and insane. We need less government, NOT MORE.
https://texasscorecard.com/state/austin-houston-to-eliminate-meat-and-dairy-consumption-by-2030
“now too hot”
Ain’t any hotter then it’s always been there.
Petunias from SJC just don’t have any idea how hot that really is. They think Livermore is the Mojave.
Well, you would certainly fit right in with all the other greenies.
The whole world is going mad. Blind sheep to the slaughter house…. Mindless followers. All DEMOCRATS! You won't believe what Houston has been signed up for. Going meatless. Only allowed three items of clothing per year? What has Mayor Turner signed us up for? Looks like hell to me How could this happen and we not know anything about it? This is evil and insane. We need less government, NOT MORE.
https://texasscorecard.com/state/austin-houston-to-eliminate-meat-and-dairy-consumption-by-2030
If gasoline cars, certain light bulbs and gas stoves are banned soon then how can we believe air conditioning can be allowed except under limited minutes of on and mostly off internet control by the rulers in DC?
And your EV car will lock its door and not turn on if your social score is low. And your cashless account will be shut off to zero for your talking back.
Why would leftist coastal Dems allow Texas and other flyover red states to have any power?
I was driving down Bell Road in the late 90s. I passed an electronic bank sign. Their electronic sign read 125 degrees. Same as the outside temp gauge on my car.
I’m looking at somewhere in the areas of South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. Any suggestions on cities in those states are welcomed.
A standard BULLCRAP signal.
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