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Weakest 'Drop Like Flies' As 50 Die In French Heatwave
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 8-12-2003
| Philip Delves
Posted on 08/11/2003 5:31:13 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:31:14 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Their hospitals are 'flooded' with patients, as they said on the news this evening, but care is hampered because August is vacation month in France, and there has as of yet been a reluctance to call doctors off of vacation.
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:33:37 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: blam
At what temperature does French cheese melt and become a danger to society.
3
posted on
08/11/2003 5:35:34 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: blam
A nurse helps a patient to drink at
Bordeaux' hospital emergency as a
punishing heat wave dragged into its
second week in France.(AFP/Patrick Bernard)
To: blam
Does this mean that the procees of turning over the country to the Iz-slamists will be accelerated by having all those old members of Vichy France die off?
5
posted on
08/11/2003 5:37:11 PM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(>>>>>Liberals Suk. Liberalism Sukz.<<<<<)
To: blam
Man, it's really got to be smelly over there. Pepe LePew is probably holding HIS nose.
6
posted on
08/11/2003 5:37:14 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
(I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
To: blam
And with diminished resources for power, loaning them massive air conditioning capacity is useless.
The temps cited in the article are par for the course here, but if you're not used to it and don't know how to deal with it, people are going to die.
It would help them to put down the wineglasses and drink some water, just for a bit.
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:37:16 PM PDT
by
Desdemona
To: blam
The head of the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, has called on Muslims to pray for rain. That should help the situation a lot.
8
posted on
08/11/2003 5:38:27 PM PDT
by
X-FID
( The police aren't in the streets to create disorder; they are in the streets to preserve disorder.)
To: blam
And thats a problem??
9
posted on
08/11/2003 5:39:15 PM PDT
by
goose1
To: blam
What's causing the power shortages? Air conditioners are very rare in Eurpoe. Are they leaving the refrigerator door open or something?
10
posted on
08/11/2003 5:39:46 PM PDT
by
Vesuvian
To: blam
Blam;
My daughter just got back from central 'bama 107 with 85% humidity, the Euro's are effete.
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:40:44 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(No Rats, A.N.S.W.E.R (WWP) is a commie front!!!!,)
To: Vesuvian
The power capacity over there is limited anyway (and DC besides), but the plants are on the rivers and with a drought and higher temps, there's less water and it's hotter. The article explains that the nuclear plants use river water to cool the reactors.
You get the idea that this wasn't anticipated.....
To: blam
Another reason to be thankful we live in America.
There but for the Grace of God go I.
To: Vesuvian
Air conditioners are very rare in Eurpoe. Air conditioning, how about bathing? I remember being in Germany during the summer. Whenever it got warm, the people got ripe! It was the equivalent of Blue Cheese.
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:44:24 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: blam
FRENCH FRY PING!
To: blam
Most people don't have A/C in their apartments, and the apartments within Paris aren't conducive to air flow. Despite large windows, many face enclosed spaces. People on the middle floors, with no A/C or breeze, are living in ovens.
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:52:26 PM PDT
by
July 4th
To: glorgau
Air conditioning, how about bathing?
But don't you see - if the French and Germans bathed there would be one less thing for them to look down their noses about the United States. Haven't you heard, we are obsessed with the wrong things, cleanliness being among them.
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:53:39 PM PDT
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: Desdemona
D'oh, didn't see that part. That's what I get for posting under the influence of football.
Looks like the fell into the trap of "That could never possibly happen therefore we don't have to plan what to do when it does because it won't." So when that event does occur everyone runs around doing their best Chicken Little impersonation.
18
posted on
08/11/2003 5:54:13 PM PDT
by
Vesuvian
To: glorgau
They don't use deodorant too- I took a shower every day I was there and my relatives thought I was nuts.
You'd think that in that kind of heat they'd want to bathe if only to cool off.
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:57:44 PM PDT
by
Vesuvian
To: blam
It's hot, here, too, 49 this morning, and the humidity is pushing 70%. OTOH, it could snow in about 3 weeks, and that snow could still be on the ground in May. Happened 10 years ago like that. It takes about a week after first snow for people to stop driving summer style, after half the people have been in the ditch or worse.
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posted on
08/11/2003 5:57:45 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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