and it’s freezing with rain EVERY DAY here , where’s the Global Warming
I went to Nevada and the temperature was over 100 degrees. I barely broke out a sweat because there is no humidity.
I see the benefit of rapid cooling in heatstroke but wonder also if the shock of suddenly cooling and overheated patient could trigger cardiac disturbances like a dangerously fast rhythm?
Experienced this in the early 2010’s when I had a heat stroke experience. All I really remember is “The Boy’s” instantly sucking up into my body huddling somewhere around my kidney’s seeking warmth.
By the time I hit the ER, I think I could have etched my name in glass with my nipples.
Overall would not recommend the experience.
OMG! It hasn’t been this hot since the last time it was this hot. More likely folks moving there and not getting informed. When you can set your thermostat at 80 degrees to cool down......just sayin’.
Millions of people living in a hot valley in the desert. Wasn’t a problem 200 years ago. Very few lived there in the hotter half of the year.
I have lived in Phoenix for five years. The spring was actually milder than usual, and the current “heat wave” is something we get every year.
I do not understand this 645 heat related victims the article mentions. Our houses are air conditioned. Our cars are air-conditioned. The stores, churches, workplaces and restaurants are air-conditioned.
Unless you are canvassing for the Susan B. Anthony Foundation (something my teen daughter did in 2020) or selling windows or solar installations, you are not particularly at risk. Maybe one of the many vagrants holding signs at highway entrances. My guess is “heat related” means “had a heart attack or a stroke on a hot day”, or someone who was going to keel over pretty soon regardless of the heat.
Wait until Pedo Joe gets re-elected and takes their air conditioners.
How many of those victims are illegals?
“already”???
It’s LATE! We’ve suffered 110 in Scottsdale in mid May in previous years. We used to visit my BIL there and sometimes it was so bad we had to leave the pool at 10:30 am.
It’s 108 in Eilat.
One only needs to stick one’s arms or lower legs in an ice bath to treat heat stroke.
The colder blood from the extremities will quickly circulate around, and cool, the body. Marathon runners may have the ability to withstand a shock of total immersion, but an overweight, diabetic grandmother, who probably are most likely to arrive with such a condition, would not.
I don’t really think it’s fear porn. They’re really talking about a new treatment. Those of us that live around here know the drill. At some point you’re going to put yourself on the dehydration-heat exhaustion-heat stroke scale. It’s inevitable. You try to stay aware of it to help avoid it, but it does happen. New treatments are good. The interesting thing here is they’d always said not to cool down fast, now the thinking seems to be changing.
Psst. I’m here in Chandler.
It’s ALWAYS “triple digits” in June.
Hotter than Anderson Cooper at a Cub Scout Jamboree!