[Petronski]

Their hospitals are 'flooded' with patients, as they said on the news this evening, but care is hampered because August is vacation month in France, and there has as of yet been a reluctance to call doctors off of vacation.

[Consort]

At what temperature does French cheese melt and become a danger to society.

[hole_n_one]

A nurse helps a patient to drink at
Bordeaux' hospital emergency as a
punishing heat wave dragged into its
second week in France.(AFP/Patrick Bernard)

[DoctorMichael]

Does this mean that the procees of turning over the country to the Iz-slamists will be accelerated by having all those old members of Vichy France die off?

[Crawdad]

Man, it's really got to be smelly over there. Pepe LePew is probably holding HIS nose.

[Desdemona]

And with diminished resources for power, loaning them massive air conditioning capacity is useless.

The temps cited in the article are par for the course here, but if you're not used to it and don't know how to deal with it, people are going to die.

It would help them to put down the wineglasses and drink some water, just for a bit.

[X-FID]

The head of the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, has called on Muslims to pray for rain.

That should help the situation a lot.

[goose1]

And thats a problem??

[Vesuvian]

What's causing the power shortages? Air conditioners are very rare in Eurpoe. Are they leaving the refrigerator door open or something?

[Little Bill]

Blam;

My daughter just got back from central 'bama 107 with 85% humidity, the Euro's are effete.

[GSWarrior]

Another reason to be thankful we live in America.
There but for the Grace of God go I.

[LibWhacker]

FRENCH FRY PING!

[July 4th]

Most people don't have A/C in their apartments, and the apartments within Paris aren't conducive to air flow. Despite large windows, many face enclosed spaces. People on the middle floors, with no A/C or breeze, are living in ovens.

[RightWhale]

It's hot, here, too, 49 this morning, and the humidity is pushing 70%. OTOH, it could snow in about 3 weeks, and that snow could still be on the ground in May. Happened 10 years ago like that. It takes about a week after first snow for people to stop driving summer style, after half the people have been in the ditch or worse.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Italy has already experienced extensive power cuts, caused in part by countries such as France restricting the supply of power to their neighbour to provide for their own needs.

Sounds worse than Iraq. A veritable European quagmire I tell ya'.

[NativeNewYorker]

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

I happened to be in Paris in mid-June (it was NOT voluntary, I assure you). It was damn hot then, and not a breeze to be had. My hotel and the major tourist traps were ac'ed, but in between, it was brutal.

[FITZ]

There was not even the slightest breeze to relieve the furnace conditions.

Why don't they at least have fans?

[lawdude]

IT'S ALL BUSH"S FAULT!

[SouthernFreebird]

Being from the South this is hard to understand. Wheres a creek, jump in, cool off, take a drink. c'mon people.

[FreedomCalls]

There was not even the slightest breeze to relieve the furnace conditions.

I realize that most French don't have air-conditioning, but are they so stupid as to not know what a fan is? Or perhaps the reporter wants it to sound worse than it is.