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Motorcyclist dies from heat exposure as temperature reaches 128 in California's Death Valley
NBC ^ | JULY 07, 2024 | Christopher Weber and Margery A. Beck

Posted on 07/08/2024 11:23:51 AM PDT by Red Badger

A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and holding the East in its hot and humid grip.

An excessive heat warning — the National Weather Service's highest alert — was in effect for about 36 million people, or about 10% of the population, said NWS meteorologist Bryan Jackson. Dozens of locations in the West and Pacific Northwest tied or broke previous heat records.

That was certainly the case over the weekend: Many areas in Northern California surpassed 110 degrees (43.3 C), with the city of Redding topping out at a record 119 (48.3 C). Phoenix set a new daily record Sunday for the warmest low temperature: it never got below 92 F (33.3 C).

A high temperature of 128 F (53.3 C) was recorded Sunday at Death Valley National Park in eastern California, where a visitor died from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized, officials said.

The two visitors were part of a group of six motorcyclists riding through the Badwater Basin area amid scorching weather, the park said in a statement.

The person who died was not identified. The other motorcyclist was transported to a hospital in Las Vegas for “severe heat illness,” the statement said.

The other four members of the party were treated at the scene.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Hobbies; Military/Veterans; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: california; freeperhooligans; travel; weather
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To: TexasGator

Wonder what the MPGs are with all that?


41 posted on 07/08/2024 12:04:47 PM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: TexasGator

Sexy!


42 posted on 07/08/2024 12:06:49 PM PDT by Lazamataz (joesbucks is back. Let's remedy that! 😁)
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To: TexasGator

43 posted on 07/08/2024 12:08:09 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: 21twelve
"I read a story where a mountain bike rider got dehydrated and heat stroke an electrolyte imbalance due to only having water to drink. "
44 posted on 07/08/2024 12:10:26 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Magnum44

* the picture *

I hated wearing a helmet. The wind pulls your head back.

When you’re on your bike and it’s really hot, it’s really really hot. Forced air heating.


45 posted on 07/08/2024 12:12:53 PM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: TexasGator

I don’t know how the desert could quickly dehydrate those two.


46 posted on 07/08/2024 12:18:52 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: stevio

“MPG?”…….more like GPM.


47 posted on 07/08/2024 12:24:01 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Red Badger

Wasn’t that the everyday temperature during the Iraq War, and perhaps Afghanistan?


48 posted on 07/08/2024 12:28:09 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Red Badger

I knew a guy in the Bay Area who used to go on a group ride to Death Valley, but always in February.

They would make the trip from Palo Alto to Death Valley in 4 hours.


49 posted on 07/08/2024 12:36:28 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: TexasGator

Baby got back (and front and side)!


50 posted on 07/08/2024 12:39:28 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Red Badger
🤣

Being named Death Valley should have been a clue.

I remember as a kid going through Death Valley, and my dad complaining that he thought we might run out of gas. Was sure we were going to die.

51 posted on 07/08/2024 1:11:00 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: stevio

I think the fried clutch will take care of MPG problems.


52 posted on 07/08/2024 1:13:38 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Vaduz

Iowa lawmakers passed a new legislation that means children can get a driver’s license at the age of 14 and a half.


But no one can afford the insurance to let their kid drive. Just talked to a parent the other day.


53 posted on 07/08/2024 1:15:11 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger

Guy on the news from the park with 131 degrees on the sign said it wa like climbing Mount Everest to go to the hottest place on earth so he pretty much died doing what he loved - being stupid


54 posted on 07/08/2024 1:17:22 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Quentin Quarantino
I knew a man who traveled through Death Valley in the 1920s when there was only a dirt road going through it and there were graves on the side of the road.

I was stranded in Death Valley with BF over Labor Day weekend in 2009 when he took a wrong turn and just kept going. (Yes, very stubborn.)

Luckily for us it stayed at 92 degrees as it could easily have been so much hotter.

Totally desolate there. Eventually an off-roader looking for an adventure that weekend saw our tracks in the sand, followed them, and ending up towing out our SUV and us just before helicopters were being dispatched.

I was never so grateful to God in my life.

55 posted on 07/08/2024 1:20:31 PM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: Robert DeLong

Brother driving his 52 ford, had to run the heater inside the car to get the heat away from the motor. long trip.


56 posted on 07/08/2024 1:20:33 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger
The hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth was 134 F in July 1913 in Death Valley. Just for the record.
57 posted on 07/08/2024 1:27:33 PM PDT by Revel
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To: PeterPrinciple

With a license insurance is the last thing a kid cares about but parents can have them covered because it’s a state law they can have a license.


58 posted on 07/08/2024 1:30:44 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: PeterPrinciple

Yeah, that must have been fun, NOT. Fortunately I was a kid, so I do not remember a lot about the trip, other than fearing we would run out of gas in Death Valley. Nothing else mattered. 🤣


59 posted on 07/08/2024 1:32:03 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ConservativeMind

They looked pre seared big time


60 posted on 07/08/2024 1:42:12 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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