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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My dear departed aunt once tried to fry an egg on the hood of her car on a 90+ degree day in Minnesota. It didn’t work. The egg just ran off the hood and then she had a mess to clean up in the hot sun.
Cheap electricity is the very best answer to many problems. It won’t be produced by solar arrays & wind generators; not to any reliable extent at least. It is needed 24-7 in almost all cases.
I should have said it better, I meant cheap, abundant, very abundant, and flawlessly dependable.
I have come to really love electricity and everything it can do, it is magical and can power a magical home and a magical world.
Radiant floor heating, vertical gardens in the home, domed yards for some climates or seasons, unlimited home security, saunas for health, and on and on.
About $1.28 / doz. at Aldi, last time we were there...
The kid probably fell on that black cork-like stuff sometimes used in playgrounds. I’ve seen, er, felt that stuff get hot enough to create a 2nd degree burn if one stayed in contact with it for very long...
I’m in the coverage region for the Paducah, KY NWS office. When the humidity / heat index gets bad enough, they have (or at least had) one forecaster who in their “forecast discussions” refers to “disgusting humidity”.
I would agree...
My Filipina wife chuckles when I call it “Cebu-like”. But, even she doesn’t like it.
Yeah, I got MORE resistant to heat with age (or was just drinking more fluids) until I hit my early 60’s. After that...
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