napi21
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Thu Jul-27-06 12:03 AM
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News just said 83 people have died in Calif. due to the heat! Sooo sad |
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I can't believe this is getting so bad!
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kestrel91316
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Thu Jul-27-06 12:08 AM
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1. The heat wave has broken. Now it's just normal miserable summer. |
napi21
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Thu Jul-27-06 12:35 AM
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2. I wonder if all 83 people who died were sick or very old and |
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simply couldn't handle the heat...or were some put in unnessary danger because of the utility companies inability to provide promised service?
I think all the untility executives have pocketed the BIG bucks and did not properly maintain their infracture. Now it fails, but I sure bet it didn't fail in the homes of those execs!
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Thu Jul-27-06 10:24 AM
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8. I heard that in San Diego the elecrical wires couldn't handle the load |
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because they were the CHEAPER aluminum rather than copper, so they melted from the heat induced by increased current. Don't know if anybody died down there.......
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Thu Jul-27-06 12:36 AM
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3. I can't say anything sarcastic about this. |
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I want to but I can't. It's just not funny.
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Thu Jul-27-06 12:41 AM
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4. This should not be happening in the US.---letting people die because |
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they are elderly (most were according to an article posted earlier on DU)-- there is little 'community" left in America.
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Thu Jul-27-06 12:43 AM
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5. hundreds died in the midwest a few years back |
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so far we have had cooler nights here. thank goodness.
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Thu Jul-27-06 12:43 AM
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6. 1400 canary cows and a kennel full of greyhounds. |
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Thu Jul-27-06 01:14 AM
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7. It hit 117 in Lakeside (San Diego); hottest I've seen in 50 years. |
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Used to be the only place in California that got so hot was Death Valley.
Global warming is cooking us all.
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