Weakest 'Drop Like Flies' As 50 Die In French Heatwave

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-12-2003 | Philip Delves

[Nik Naym]

"The compassion of the posters is overwhelming. Perhaps we can start performing late-term abortions and shooting children while we're on this "screw the old, so long as they're French" kick?""

I prefer to think of it as a "Screw the French so long as they are the French" kick.

Nik

[blam]

"The compassion of the posters is overwhelming. Perhaps we can start performing late-term abortions and shooting children while we're on this "screw the old, so long as they're French" kick?"

It's all BRAVADO.

Some of the most compassionate people in the world are on this site. (But, you know that, eh?)

[cardinal4]

The windows will be open, and I will fishing in the morning!

[Go Gordon]

Weakest 'drop like flies' as 50 die in French heatwave

Hmmmm, French Flies. Maybe if they were Freedom Flies, they'd survive a battle, even if it is only with the heat.

[Hoverbug]

OK, if no one else will say it, I will ....

French Surrender to the Heat!!

(film at eleven)

Hb

[bluefish]

"The compassion of the posters is overwhelming. Perhaps we can start performing late-term abortions and shooting children while we're on this "screw the old, so long as they're French" kick?""

- I prefer to think of it as a "Screw the French so long as they are the French" kick.

I fear some are perpetuating the outdated myth that Conservatives are mean-spirited and prejudiced against the weak. Truly enlightened Libs will tell you that we simply hate everybody! It is part of our psychological makeup.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

4 home runs tonite??? Albert is on fire and Hart isn't far behind him.

I was pregnant during the heat wave in St. Louis in 1980 - the day my daughter was born it was 107 degrees. I can't believe the French are freaking at 100.

[ClearBlueSky]

Well....it's time for Europe to modernize, isn't it? I mean, there's no excuse. The backward Middle East has AC. It IS available for purchase all over the planet. You think the Londoners and Parisians et.al would think buying AC units for just such times would be worth their LIVES! It's simple- you can't predict the weather, this could be a trend, upgrade the wiring, upgrade the power grids and get a couple of boatloads of AC units brought in.
Freon bring civilization. Civilization needs freon.

[blam]

"I was pregnant during the heat wave in St. Louis in 1980 - the day my daughter was born it was 107 degrees. I can't believe the French are freaking at 100."

I was born in a cross-fire-hurricane.

[Calvin Locke]

the steam,...needs to be condensed back into water...

Had a boss years ago the did a stint with The Foxboro Company. He explained that it was all but water coming out
of a turbine, since the condesation reduced the gas volume, and thereby created a vacuum effect also contributing to
mechanical energy transfer, hence, high efficiency.

Or that's the way I remember it, some 20-odd years ago.

Generally 50 cycle AC...

Ah yes, the adjustment label on belt drive turntables if in Canada...(IIRC - also 20+ years)

[Maven]

This is 132 feet tall and was built as a tribute to the hottest temp ever recorded in Death Valley (132*)

Ah yes, Baker, California - the town with what I consider to be the world's worst motto: "Gateway to Death Valley." LOL!

Maven

[Maven]

The same sort of thing happens in San Francisco once or twice a year. They're so used to it being about 65 degrees every single day that they can't handle it if it gets above the low 80s. The National Weather Service actually has to issue warnings, and lots of people end up hospitalized or dead, all at temperatures that people almost anywhere else in the country would consider merely annoying.

The last time I was in San Francisco - which was years ago (I refuse to spend my money there now) - they were in the middle of a so-called heat wave. Temps had hit the mid 80s. Since where I lived, it was about 105-110, it felt really nice to me, but I saw a lot of people drooping all over the place up there.

Maven

[Nick Danger]

Lemme get this straight. You tellin' me that this here Global Warming kills the French?

Well, Yee-Haw! Time to gas up the ol' SUV.

[Nik Naym]

Nah, I don't hate everybody. Just the french.

Nik

[null and void]

Especially Parisians. I'm told the "peasants" still remember who was there for them when the Vichey "government" couldn't rubber stamp Nazi directives fast enough...

[Itzlzha]

Nuclear plants have been forced to reduce their electicity output by the intense heat and industry chiefs held an emergency meeting with government officials yesterday to discuss how to stave off power cuts.

WTF?!?!

As we all know, those pesky U-232 atoms HATE a warm, sunny day! They just NEED to shut down the reactor, since NOTHING inside it is air-conditioned, nor is the reactor itself under ANY sort of controlled enviroment!

Jerks...no wonder they STINK!

This is a Frog Gov't. plot at forcing the populace into such discomfort, that they will accept the Watermellon EnviroMENTAList indoctrination into the whole "Global Warming" crap!

[meyer]

Had a boss years ago the did a stint with The Foxboro Company. He explained that it was all but water coming out of a turbine, since the condesation reduced the gas volume, and thereby created a vacuum effect also contributing to mechanical energy transfer, hence, high efficiency.

He was correct, pretty much. Its still steam at the end of the turbine though barely, but the condensor cools it back into water. Pumping the water, along with the condensing effect creates the vacuum that aids effeciency. It also serves to get the water back to the boiler to cycle through again. There's a lot more to it, of course, but I'm not expert enough to give great detail - I work on the electrical side of things.

[Melas]

Being from the South this is hard to understand. Wheres a creek, jump in, cool off, take a drink. c'mon people.

Ok, I'll give you an example you can understand. Think snow. Being from Colorado, it's been with great amusement that I've watched Southerner's panic over the odd freak snow storm over the years. I still remember a Sheriff's deputy stopping by our house in Pineland, Texas to make sure we were ok after a rare freeze/snow, years ago. Highway 96, well, it was closed for 2 days with just a little dust of snow and ice. It wouldn't have been worth sending the plows out in any clime that was used to snow. Motorists would have just had to have driven over it.

Same deal with these heat waves in areas that aren't used to it. It's like Southerners and snow.

[Melas]

I realize that most French don't have air-conditioning, but are they so stupid as to not know what a fan is? Or perhaps the reporter wants it to sound worse than it is.

It's easy to get caught off guard for atypical weather. Forget France, look at Chicago just a few years back. Elderly Chicagoans were dying in droves in that heat wave.

[Porterville]

So how many French are left???? Can we lay claim to their natural resources before the Spanish and the Italians once the French are gone??? I figure the typical French person is probably running up to Denmark or Norway because they are afraid of the heat wave, the rest will die, so that should only take a couple of days at the most.