"The streets were anarchic: People reportedly ran mad in the heat (one drunken fool, described by the New York Tribune as “partly crazed by the heat,” attacked a policeman with a meat cleaver), while horses collapsed and were left by the side of the road."
"Outside of New York, however, temperatures had climbed higher still. In Boston, people struggled in 104-degree heat; in Bangor, Maine and Nashua, New Hampshire, it reached a record-breaking 106. In Woodbury, New York, a farmer left his field when the outside temperature reached high enough to melt candle wax. People didn’t just die from exhaustion or heat stroke but from their efforts to escape the sweltering air. Some 200 people died from drowning as they dove head-first into the ocean, ponds, rivers and lakes."
We could have a similar heat wave now, but only a few would perish because of a guy named Willis Carrier, whose namesake product keeps my house climate-controlled. Of course, that takes energy and these fools are trying to make it more expensive and unreliable because the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow at a nice, relatively constant speed.
Now you could be mistaken there. In Spain, they claimed they had 24 hour solar power when they were turning on their diesel generators at night to make up for darkness😂
Did you see the video of the guy driving a Tesla with a generator in the trunk so he can stop to get gas and keep it charged?
These fools conveniently overlook the 1911 heat wave in the Northeast where hundreds died.
https://www.history.com/news/heat-wave-1911-weather-insane
"The streets were anarchic: People reportedly ran mad in the heat (one drunken fool, described by the New York Tribune as “partly crazed by the heat,” attacked a policeman with a meat cleaver), while horses collapsed and were left by the side of the road."
"Outside of New York, however, temperatures had climbed higher still. In Boston, people struggled in 104-degree heat; in Bangor, Maine and Nashua, New Hampshire, it reached a record-breaking 106. In Woodbury, New York, a farmer left his field when the outside temperature reached high enough to melt candle wax. People didn’t just die from exhaustion or heat stroke but from their efforts to escape the sweltering air. Some 200 people died from drowning as they dove head-first into the ocean, ponds, rivers and lakes."
We could have a similar heat wave now, but only a few would perish because of a guy named Willis Carrier, whose namesake product keeps my house climate-controlled. Of course, that takes energy and these fools are trying to make it more expensive and unreliable because the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow at a nice, relatively constant speed.
Now you could be mistaken there. In Spain, they claimed they had 24 hour solar power when they were turning on their diesel generators at night to make up for darkness😂