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3. It depends on where you live, age and health.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Tue Apr 3, 2012, 12:41 AM

Apr 2012

People in Las Vegas or Phoenix can tolerate more heat than people in humid climates, such as the South. It's at the point that water stops evaporating from your skin and no longer cools the body that presents concern or web bulb temperature. To see who lives and who dies, just add a power outage to the other factors.

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