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How many people are dead from the heat in California now?

I mocked the french a long time ago over this same thing and now I'm going to mock California.

It IS, after all, one of the richest, most advanced, most technological, most powerful political units on the face of the planet. So why should anybody there be dying from the heat? We get heat indexes over 100 (in the shade!) here in Georgia all the time and nobody dies from it. And we're a backwards hick red state :-p

What's that you say? Not enough energy in the state to power air conditioners for everyone? Why not? It's not like there's a lack of labor, knowledge, skill, money or anything else that prevents them from being able to produce as much energy as they want. They COULD have enough energy, but for some stupid reason they don't seem to WANT more. Stupid eco-terrorist enviro-whackos. SEE what they are doing to you over there? People are DYING because of them! Understand why the rest of us would just as soon they stayed confined to California?

The whole situation there is just pathetic.

We need to revisit the rules on leaving the union - the rest of the country should kick California out. They are sooooo embarrassing the rest of us here!

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  • At least France likes nuclear power [pbs.org]. Hell, how much more liberal than France do you have to be in order to sell the concept of nuclear power being a good idea to California?
    • Actually Diablo Canyon [pge.com] is still pumping out power, and will for a while now [wikipedia.org].

      As a bit of trivia, one of the programmers I work with used to be a programmer on the mainframe that runs the plant. Apparently there are all sorts of regulatory investigative committees and reports that have to be produced if someone accidentally tells the programmers test system to restart, and they had lost track of which terminal screen was in the test system, and which was in the production system....

  • In Georgia the all-time highest temperatures range from 105 to 110. [intellicast.com] That's in a state that is prepared for it's usual weather.

    Now head over to sfgate.com and read this. [sfgate.com]

    Okay I'll copy some important lines.

    Also, there will always be heat deaths. The past couple years were more average, but still here are the numbers.
    California heat deaths
    '99 20
    '00 40
    '01 29
    '02 26
    '03 30
    '04 31
    '05 Official total not yet available for 2005.
    '06 125

    Bay Area's hottest
    July 16 - 105 Brentwood
    July 17 - 106 Fairfield
    July 18 - 101 Liver
  • Where I live, heat is expected. Heck if the summer has only one week of over 100 degree temps, it's a cool summer.

    Hey wait a minute - that was last summer. For some strange reason, I expected that this summer would make up for it.

    But the Bay Area (Mark Twain: the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco) isn't prepared for such heat.

    The ocean moderates the climate so much that they just don't need air conditioning (except maybe once every nine years). Then a week later, the heat is gone

    • Speaking of a the urgency to blow a bunch of money on airco, I was at Fry's on Thursday to exchange a game (picked up the Mac copy instead of PC - didn't look cuz it was on the right shelf). I walk in and there's one person returning an A/C system. As I get help, three more people walk in to return A/C units ... all the exact same brand. Two of them stand there and loudly complain to each other about all the things wrong with it. Just shut up - we know why you're returning them; we know you kept the tag
      • Which makes sense - why would one throw money into building a house to withstand a lot of heat, when you really are going to only have three days a year to need it? Spend the money to make house withstand an earthquake instead. Far greater consequences means higher priority spending.

        "Renting" an airco under the premise of buying it is pretty cheapskate though. Sleazy. I think legally, Fry's can no longer sell it as new, and will likely be out some money reselling it as 'refurbished'.

        Down here in the San J

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