Posted on 08/19/2007 10:07:39 AM PDT by dragnet2
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Authorities in Memphis and Alabama reported 10 more heat-related deaths Saturday, bringing the toll in the Southeast and Midwest to at least 49 since oppressive triple-digit temperatures settled over the region last week.
In Memphis alone, heat has been blamed as a factor in 12 deaths, mostly elderly victims, in nine days.
Memphis has had nine straight days of triple-digit temperatures and forecasters say the high could reach 102 on Sunday. The local health department said the city's heat index has broken 100 every day since June 27.
In north Alabama, one reactor at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant remained idle Friday and two others were operating at reduced power because of overheated water in the Tennessee River, which is used to cool the plant.
"This all comes down to the drought and the hot weather," said plant spokesman.
Health officials in Alabama announced Friday that eight people there had died of heat-related causes this week and last week. The state has had 11 straight days with triple-digit temperatures, breaking records that dated back to 1881 in some areas.
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Bush’s fault....
It’s supposed to be 102 today in Memphis. Add to that a projected 65% humidity and the situation is grim. Unless you’re really used to it, there’s nothing to do but stay inside and whatever it is one does inside. It will be brutal outside.
110 degrees? Where was the temperature sensor located? If this an objective or subjective temperature reading?
If Memphis were to experience 20 below me thinks the death rate would be much higher.
Life is good....
Mindful focus on the trivial makes life bad.
That kind of weather would make me very dangerous.
It makes Antarctica appear appealing doesn't it?
I have worked 10 hour shifts with hay, in Tennessee with temps at 103. The barns were ridiculously hot. (who knows the actual, who cares). It’s hot, but if it means we don’t have to rely on the Nagin and Blanco machine to deal with a natural disaster, I’ll take the heat.
Two weeks ago when I was in Ningbo, China, it was 43 deg C (110 deg F for you US folks) AND 70% RH. Hot and wet... And people still worked in the fields, factories, and on the side of the road...
Interesting. An AP story about the high heat and not so much as an implication of global warming in the entire article.
Was the editor asleep on this one?
“...It makes Antarctica appear appealing doesn’t it?...”
It HAS been on my mind lately.
Are there any direct flights? /snicker
‘Bah, pikers! Until we get to the point of losing 30,000 or more, we’ll always be second fiddle to those European Progressives.’
To be fair, the European heatwave of 2003 covered an area with a population of over 400 million people, somewhat more than in the part of America this report refers to.
Imagine Al Gore’s electric bill during this heat wave. I’m sure he is keeping his mansion cool despite the cost in carbon emissions.
Looks now it's 99 in Huntsville today, but they're calling 104 by Thursday.
If Algore had his way, everyone would do without AC to save the planet - everyone but the ultra rich who can afford to pay HIS company millions in carbon offset penance. Think of the deaths, then, all you globaloneyists. Of course that would also fit your zero population and depopulation goals, too, wouldn’t it. Maybe I should say - think of all the deaths of the dogs and cats from the intense heat without AC for them....now that would be something the greenies/enviros/animal worshiping leftists maybe.
And there have been zero (0) heat related deaths in Phoenix. So much for the “I would never live there, it’s too hot” crowd.
Weird weather going on...Just watching the news, and they’re showing flooding in Minnesota, breaking the story with 5 dead at this point. Flooding in summer?
No. My tough luck, eh? :(
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