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From: mrtravel on 28 Jul 2006 12:05 Mxsmanic wrote: > mrtravel writes: > > >>Can you cite this? >>I am in California, and I seemed to have missed this on the local news. > > > Read the Associated Press: > > http://us.cnn.com/2006/US/07/27/heatwave.ap.ap/index.html > The report is from San Francisco and mentions a problem in Fresno county. This really doesn't indicate a widespread problem of find places for the dead. Fresno County is noted for having a shortage of funding for govenment. From the same article. "California coroner's offices said the number of deaths possibly connected to the heat wave climbed to 98." Note, it says "possibly". Do you happen to know the population of California? Area? It is a very populated and large state. The number of deaths "possibly" attributable to the weather is minor, and the odds are that most of them would have died without the heat. Did you research the actual causes? I am reminded of cold weather death reports that attribute death by heart attack caused by shoveling know is classified as "weather related". I wouldn't be surprised to know that drowning deaths during a heat wave are also "weather related" because the person wouldn't have been in the water otherwise.
From: mrtravel on 28 Jul 2006 12:08 TOliver wrote: > > My morning paper under an AP tag promised two to the gurney in Fresno County > where 20 have pooped out, with 81 deaths statewide attributable to the heat. Do you think the number in Fresno County might be attributable to a different method for measuring the people that died from the heat. There are higher population densities in similar heat conditions in other parts of the state.
From: TOliver on 28 Jul 2006 15:02 "mrtravel" <mrtravel(a)bcglobal.net> wrote... > TOliver wrote: >> >> My morning paper under an AP tag promised two to the gurney in Fresno >> County where 20 have pooped out, with 81 deaths statewide attributable to >> the heat. > > Do you think the number in Fresno County might be attributable to a > different method for measuring the people that died from the heat. > There are higher population densities in similar heat conditions in other > parts of the state. > The numbers could reveal several tidbits in trivia..... The two to the gurney might not indicate as much a rise in deaths asa shortage of gurneys (Named for its inventor, Mr. Gurney?) (That matches with your Fresno County=Poor County) My first memory of Fresno, the Late Summer of 1953 or so, raisins drying upon canvas tarps laid out on side streets.... TMO
From: Mxsmanic on 28 Jul 2006 15:50 Martin writes: > but you complain about the heat in cold weather too. Because it's cold outside, but buildings are very often overheated. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 28 Jul 2006 15:51
The Reid writes: > so you think all the winter deaths are not weather related, sigh. There are very few cold-related deaths in winter. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |