Reply #23: It's not 80-85...just heard the report on ieAmerica (Malloy) news that

[Gloria]

it's been 105 degreees in some areas for several weeks.

Speaking from personal experience...I collapsed the first week of June here in NM...it was getting hot. I was dehydrated and didn't even know it. I had been drinking lots of water, but combined with medication I take, it completely screwed up my electrolytes. I just hit the ground, EMT came and got me into the shade. I was in shock for a few moments.

I'm fairly young (early 50's)...and have air conditioning. The heat just broke here a few days ago... But day after day of near and over 100 degrees, higher humidity than usual (but no rain), it never cooled off over night. It was brutal. I felt sick for weeks. And even those "healthier" than I were feeling awful.

Now, imagine the elderly, without air conditioning, humidity (France isn't dripping with it but it's not real low either) and prolonged heat that their bodies can't adust to...plus, if they're on meds, the potential for all sorts of problems.....

Thats' how people die....heat stroke/dehydration. Brutal.