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1 posted on 07/12/2018 6:42:31 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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"[S]he’d started planning for her upcoming retirement, [...] “Now she can’t,” Lynn Calkins, her sister, told the station. "

Given the level of intelligence of current 'journalists' I bet this was news to them.

2 posted on 07/12/2018 6:45:08 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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I lived for four years in Tucson, and you actually have to prepare yourself daily to be out in the heat...especially after mid-day.


3 posted on 07/12/2018 6:46:45 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Someone’s called a ambulance-chasing lawyer and is preparing a wrongful-death lawsuit


4 posted on 07/12/2018 6:47:52 AM PDT by PGR88
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Her level of performance is not expected to be changed for the next several months. The postal union is still disputing whether death is a viable reason to stop pay.


5 posted on 07/12/2018 6:49:58 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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Worked construction in Florida as a kid - used to look around me at the guys 60+ years old and pray that wouldn't still be me.

(I escaped to an aircraft hanger, then on to a desk job, thank you Jesus)

8 posted on 07/12/2018 6:52:19 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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Lots of details missing that would clarify this. We live in so Cal - that day was a beast. Like an oven outside. So, go inside and deliver the mail tomorrow??


13 posted on 07/12/2018 6:58:15 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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Neither rain nor snow nor heat...


14 posted on 07/12/2018 6:58:31 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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Back in the late 1800s we had a family member who froze to death delivering the mail.


15 posted on 07/12/2018 6:59:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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It’s probably bad for the carriers here in the Houston area. Our summers last a minimum of 6 months, and it’s “heat wave” conditions all summer long with high humidity. I assume the mail carrier vehicles do not have A/C because they are open so that they can reach mailboxes, step out easily, etc.


18 posted on 07/12/2018 7:08:25 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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I am sorry for her family’s loss.


19 posted on 07/12/2018 7:10:52 AM PDT by Wuli
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Just counting down until some left wing nut politician blames it on Climate Change and lays the death at the feet of us deniers, like the President. 3, 2, 1, ...


20 posted on 07/12/2018 7:21:58 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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I sense that important details have been omitted from this report.


25 posted on 07/12/2018 7:40:32 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (We have a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem.)
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Here in North Texas, attics, if not adequately ventilated, can get up to 140 and I see cable guys, AC guys, insulation guys and wonder how they do it. I finally got two attic fans after my AC installer told me our attic was one of the hottest they’d ever worked in. It’s made a world of difference.

I play tennis daily and at 60 years old, I can play for 2 hours in this heat, we have played in 107 degrees and average around 100. No problema......stay in shape.


26 posted on 07/12/2018 7:40:40 AM PDT by vespa300
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The post office has ordered new trucks. I’ve heard the ones they’re sending north don’t have air conditioning the ones sent south have no heat. These are self inflicted wounds when they get sued.


31 posted on 07/12/2018 7:49:11 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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Pretty big lady.


39 posted on 07/12/2018 8:54:56 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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In Charlevoix Mi. where I lived for thirty five years, we had the same mailman (maleman(?), (I know, sexist), for over fifteen years. Alfred would even wear shorts in the northern Michigan winters when he delivered our mail.


46 posted on 07/12/2018 10:33:32 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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Recent broken ankle in a person her age, having to spend most of the day seated in her mail truck -— I would suspect a blood clot or fat embolism, to the brain, lungs, or heart. Just my two cents.


47 posted on 07/12/2018 10:44:11 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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This is really sad. I was out in that heat for 2 errands that day and it was brain-penetrating. It was like being seriously drugged. I think once 115+ heats settles into you, there may be an effect similar to hypothermia, where you no longer feel “heat” per se but you just start to fade and feel curiously numb. Her truck was open on both sides and I don’t think there is a/c nor would it help with that open mail truck. It breaks my heart, really.


52 posted on 07/12/2018 11:22:36 AM PDT by Yaelle
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For most northern European blood types, the older you get the harder it is to tolerate hot days.


56 posted on 07/12/2018 11:31:56 AM PDT by jetson
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RIP.


69 posted on 07/12/2018 3:11:38 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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