[lit-ideas] Re: It's not the heat, it's the heat

It's not the heat it's the humidity -- temps here at 100 but 84% humidity  
causes a 115 degree heat index.  Temps in the hundreds projected for at  least 
the next week.  I grew up in AZ where 110 in the shade was cooler  than 80 
degrees is here.  What causes high humidity in various areas of the  country?  
Anyone have an easy answer?  
 
Cooling shelters are opening city-wide.
 
Julie Krueger

========Original  Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: It's not the 
heat, it's the heat  Date: 7/29/06 7:03:40 PM Central Daylight Time  From: 
_carolkir@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:carolkir@xxxxxxxx)   To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
(mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)   Sent on:    
> It was just mentioned on the evening news.  Somewhere in the valley near > 
> Fresno, as far as I could tell.  Fresno? Carol?

ck: Yo, friends! I'm here, I'm alive. It was a mere 116  degrees here 
yesterday. Indoors, though, and without air conditioning, it  could easily 
reach 120 or so. Perhaps the news fudged a bit, geographically.  It's easily 
120 in Mojave, commonly, but that's east of here.

About a  hundred people in Fresno dropped dead in this heat--not everyone has 
working  air conditioning. But you've heard. The cops and EMTs are finding 
more  corpses throughout the city, on the street and in apartments, houses,  
fields. A lot of people are stinting on their use of air conditioning,  
because of cost. I figure it's use it or die.

The heat has been  unrelenting for 3 weeks. Unusual for Fresno, where 110 
degrees isn't  unusual, for a day or so. It's a relatively cool 104 today. 
We're expecting  temperatures over 110 again next week.

What to do? Stay indoors, use the  air conditioning, and protest PG&E 
(electric co.) if they won't give  folks here a financial break. Meanwhile, 
I'm in the cool, reading about  string theory. Theoretical physics--the 
ultimate  escapism.

Carol,
in Fresno--the city known for the weirdest murders in  the world














-----  Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
To:  <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 6:05  PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: It's not the heat, it's the heat


>  Julie wrote (re 126º temperatures):
>
>>  I didn't catch the  name of the city.
>
> It was just mentioned on the evening news.  Somewhere in the valley near 
> Fresno, as far as I could tell. Fresno?  Carol?
>
> Robert Paul
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