Posted on 07/24/2023 6:31:27 AM PDT by Callahan
It is so hot in Maricopa County, Arizona, that people are being brought into the emergency room with significant, sometimes life-threatening burns. For the past three or four weeks of this record heatwave, people have been burned just by falling on the ground.
Construction workers gather together in the shade on July 11, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Record-breaking temperatures continue soaring as prolonged heatwaves sweep across the country's southwest. Heat can kill on the job, and these workers are dying “Summers are our busy season, so we anticipate that this sort of thing is going to happen. But this is really unusual — the number of patients that we’re seeing and the severity of injuries — the acuity of injuries is much higher,” said Dr. Kevin Foster, director of burn services at the Arizona Burn Center at Valleywise Health. “The numbers are higher and the seriousness of injuries are higher, and we don’t have a good explanation for it.”
Every single one of the 45 beds in the burn center is full, he said, and one-third of patients are people who fell and burned themselves on the ground. There are also burn patients in the ICU, and about half of those patients are people burned after falls…
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The high for today in Maricopa AZ is projected to be 112.
I don’t think a “doctor” lied about it. I think a reporter lied about it for sensation.
That is why even CNN posted a correction on the previous article.
That is about normal for us this time of year, but we have been cooler this summer than normal. Today is only supposed to be 90. That’s a cold wave for the end of July! Last year was miserable!
Arizona heat - fried. Florida heat - poached.
We were there in 1981 and needed to use potholders to open the car door
How is it different now?
Where I live, I have seen times we hit 116 degrees for several days. It is hot in Texas in the summer.
I traveled AZ every other week on business for quite a few years. It is normally a little hotter than here.
... to learn it's HOT in Arizona.
I don’t buy the libs story that wind turbines only raise the temperature a degree or so.
I find this report somewhat unbelievable. Yes, an elderly person falling on hot asphalt or concrete and not being able to get up would after a time likely suffer burns. But the article makes it seem like some kid falling in the backyard would need treatment for serious burns.
There was an old joke from the 1870s of a miner in Phoenix who died and went to hell.
He begged the devil to allow him to return to Phoenix and get his blankets as, after living in Phoenix, hell was just too cold for him.
Oh, I agree that Arizona is typically hotter than South Tennessee, but we can see temps over 100 for a month at a time, or we have in the past. My truck was in the parking lot at work a few years ago. I had the windows halfway down and I still found my rearview mirror on the floor when I got in it. LOL
My sister lives in Bryan Texas. Texas is hot but she says it’s about like here where she lives.
When we are 90-100, it’s a wet heat and you can’t breathe outside at all. When we can’t stand it anymore, we go to the Smokies. It’s a day trip for us.
A friend of mine came from Wisconsin to spend a week with us in August a few years ago. I recommended a better month but they wanted to come in August. She said, “it gets hot in Wisconsin too”. They won’t do that again.
It’s normal for Arizona to be hot. I don’t buy global warming as the reason though. Summer is hot. Some summers are hotter than others and always have been.
It’s the global warming I’m fussing about. The earth has always heated up and cooled down. It always will.
I will never forget the first time I flew into Phoenix (from the northeast).
It was this time of year.
My first step outside felt like I had just taken my whole body and put it in a wood stove.
Cooking eggs on the pavement.
Burning feet trying to walk on pavement barefoot.
Same with beach sand.
Things we did 40 years ago in Massachusetts.
Ah, Arizona!
The devil wanted a place on earth
Sort of a summer home A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.
So he picked out Arizona
A place both wretched and rough
Where the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys hardened and tough.
He dried up the streams in the canyons
And ordered no rain to fall
He dried up the lakes in the valleys
Then baked and scorched it all.
Then over his barren country
He transplanted shrubs from hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear
The climate suited them well.
Now the home was much to his liking
But animal life, he had none.
So he created crawling creatures
That all mankind would shun.
First he made the rattlesnake
With it’s forked poisonous tongue.
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow it’s young.
Then he made scorpions and lizards
And the ugly old horned toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.
Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter,
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted
And the old horned lizard took ill.
Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom
As any creator would
He chuckled a little up his sleeve
And admitted that it was good.
Twas summer now and Satan lay
By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his swarthy brow
So he took off his coat and vest.
“By Golly, “ he finally panted,
“I did my job too well,
I’m going back to where I came from,
Arizona is hotter than Hell. “
Back in 1975, I left Farmington NM where the temp was 98 degrees with 12 % humidity. No ac and never had a problem.
Two days later I am in Clinton Arkansas where I notice the temp was also 98 degrees and went into a store.
When I came out it felt like a hundred fists slammed into me and I almost went down! It was still 98 degrees but the humididy had to be around 60%. Talk about hot!
Sorry, but this is CNN which is not a valid news outlet
I remember walking on parched grass that pricked your feet when our slate sidewalk was too hot to walk on ......tar bubbles on the pavement we’d love to pop...and wooden decks so hot they oozed liquid.
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