Weakest 'Drop Like Flies' As 50 Die In French Heatwave

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-12-2003 | Philip Delves

[hattend]

Okay you tech dudes. Why do you cut back on nuclear output when the heat gets bad? It's a steam generator.

[radiohead]

Obviously, all of our prayers for the French to "go to hell" have been answered.

ROFLMAO!!! I can stop reading now.

[Missouri]

Here in STL, we have been enjoying relatively cool temps the last week

Yea, but when is it going to rain here? My vegetable garden really could use a good soaking.

Remember the heat wave of 1980 here in St. Louis? Alot of people died in those brick buildings in the city. The flat blacktop roofs make things worse. I don't think the machine shop I worked in ever dropped below 90 degrees.

[Cuttnhorse]

Where in Idaho was it 120??? Mountain Home?? People from Salmon want to know.

[Little Bill]

Ada County half way to Mountain Home.

[Cogadh na Sith]

"The situation is very serious. There's no more margin for manoeuvre, it's essential that citizens are ready to accept the consequences."

Now isn't that exactly what the US said about Iraq? Almost verbatim?

Screw those sweaty stinky cheese eating surrender monkeys. Let them surrender to the heat!

[blam]

"Why do you cut back on nuclear output when the heat gets bad? It's a steam generator."

I've read on this very thread that it is due to the increased temperature of the 'exhaust' water, it can only be so hot and exhausted into the esturaries.

[null and void]

I figure the typical French person is probably running up to Denmark or Norway because they are afraid of the heat wave, the rest will die, so that should only take a couple of days at the most.

In other words, it would take about as long as it would if the french were still there...

[dljordan]

I was raised in Tennessee where it gets in the 90's and 100's in the summer with 90 percent humidity. We didn't HAVE AC when I was a kid just fans. It ain't pleasant but you can survive. I feel for them even if they are French.

[meyer]

I've read on this very thread that it is due to the increased temperature of the 'exhaust' water, it can only be so hot and exhausted into the esturaries.

That's one of the reasons. Warm discharged cooling water apparently isn't what the environmentalists want.

The cooling water that is being used runs through the condensor (think of a big radiator or heat exchanger with the enclosed steam/water being cooled by outside water from the stream) for the purpose of cooling the steam back into water after its useful energy has been expended on the turbine. This condenses the steam into water for 2 purposes - one, to be pumped back into the boiler, and two, when the steam is condensed into water, it creates a vacuum that increases the efficiency of the turbine/generator by pulling the steam through with even more vigor than it would have had. When the cooling water is warm, it does not cool as much, and thus condenses less steam creating less vacuum and less energy output.

[blam]

"I was raised in Tennessee where it gets in the 90's and 100's in the summer with 90 percent humidity. We didn't HAVE AC when I was a kid just fans. It ain't pleasant but you can survive. I feel for them even if they are French."

Same here in coastal Alabama. The drug store in town was the first to have AC....and they used that fact in their advertising. None of the schools were AC'd, you should hear them scream now when the AC doesn't work at school.

[SouthernFreebird]

Well down here we don't have the equipment to deal with snow...like chains, studded tires plows sand and salt trucks ect, like ya'll have available up North so with our snows we choose to stay in till it melts in a day or two.
We certainly don't freeze to death with some snow.

What I don't get is even dying from 80 and 90 degree weather... if you have a shower use it, cool your body temp. Buy a fan if you have no air conditioner, find a shade tree, something.

[null and void]

What I don't get is even dying from 80 and 90 degree weather... if you have a shower use it, cool your body temp.

But monsuer, what would happeeen eeef zomeone threw in zee soap???

[SC DOC]

Go HAARP!

[SouthernFreebird]

I used to think it was just French jokes, but now I really wonder if they are afraid of a little bath water.

[rockfish59]

World's worst motto!

Also include: 'Daly City (CA)..Known For Absolutely Nothing!'

I like Del Rio, Texas: 'Two Miles From Water And Two Feet From Hell!'

[Melas]

What you're missing is that essential elements such as architechture, are different from region to region. Windows are arranged in one area for maximum cooling, and for maximum heat in another climate. Couple this with things like ventilation in apartments, etc etc, and you have a recipe for disaster when the UNEXPECTED arrives.