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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We would visit my grandparents in Scottsdale during the summer. My grandfather showed us how to fry an egg on the driveway in the middle of July. This was in the early 60’s prior to climate change.
When it's cold too .. helps to be tough ;-)
(well, helped, as of retirement)
I grew up in MA and moved to FL when I was 19 and now I’m in MO Ozarks. The day we got to MO and I stepped out of the RV, it was 98 degrees with high humidity, just like FL.
Sorry, but why were you barefoot?
Left out is how and why those people fell.
Yes. I agree.
I wasnt- it b,istrred the feet. Through my sneakers and socks
years ago Palm Springs airport had their gate outside waiting area for commuter flights... outdoor seating in 100 degree dry as a bone heat. They kept the area cool by misting the seating area with a fine water mist that instantly evaporated. Dropped the feel of the temperature anyway.From then on knew that airline passengers are like produce to be kept cool like in a grocers.
In the sky is a very large fusion reactor. When the Earth is positioned so that this fusion reactor gets a direct path of radiation to the earth and there is no cloud cover the ground can get hot. Just like a metal car will get hot enough to cook an egg on, so can the ground get very hot in direct radiation from the reactor in the sky. This has been going on for several billion years. I hope this helps any journalists who might be reading this.
Or getting a sunburn through your Tshirt in July.
“Don’t know HTF the grunts survived.” ........ Carried lots of water and salt tabs. Welcome home.
As if this has never happened before. We’ve lived part-time in Arizona since 2011. I recall our first July back then. My shoes stuck to the heat softened pavement and I burned my fingers on a car door. Learn and live.
Attention: Fear brainwashing program in progress....
“sunburn through your Tshirt in July.” Been there.
This is hype.
50 years ago I worked 10 - 12 hours a day in tobacco fields in eastern NC. Didn’t bother me.
Now an hour outside in the humidity of VA wipes me out. Sucks to get old.
Construction workers work in 110 degree weather? That should be illegal.
Used to work construction in 114 degree heat on a daily basis - in the sun. No big deal, but you go through a gallon or two of water per day.
Did it again last summer and I survived but ti was not as easy
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