That makes my blood boil!
It’s Death Valley. It’s summer. As a San Diegan he knew this meant extreme temperatures. Maybe something else killed him?
The headline is right out of “1984”. Pure Propaganda
I presume two flat tires when he veered off the road? About 20 years aog I got two flat tires in Rye Patch while out gold prospecting, about 10 miles from pavement and 20 from Winnemucca. That made for an interesting day.
And yet people presumably drove through the Desert Southwest for years in vehicles without existing air conditioning and lived in the South of the US without it as well. Did many fewer people live in the deep South before AC was widely available and affordable, using “swamp cooler-type evaporation devices? Curious about if people drove through the heat like that back before vehicle AC and how they did it?
126? My thermometer here in Bullhead City registered 128 on Sunday. During the summer, 120-125 is kinda normal.
Unfortunately something like this is pretty much a yearly occurrence in desert areas. Has nothing to do with climate change.
Someone died of the heat at the Grand Canyon earlier this week.
The wrong time of year to visit these spots
“This came the day after Death Valley reached 126 degrees, the hottest temperature anywhere on the planet in 2023.”
“SFGate” drama translation: if it wasn’t for climate change this wouldn’t have happened.
It wasn’t named “Death Valley” 170 years ago for nothing!
I once stayed in a motel in Death Valley in the middle of summer. Interestingly, most of the guests there were German. I also met tourists from England.
Hey, lets go to Death Valley in summer with bad tires and no AC!
Sounds like a good time!
Heck in 78 I drove I40 from Barstow to Needles. It was 125° when we pulled into the motel lot in Needles. We were in a 73 Hornet Sportabout with no A/C. We stopped twice in the 92 miles between Ludlow and Needles to cool down the engine to add water.
I’ve been to DV on 120 degree (on the asphalt) on my motorcycle. I carried a shelter, a radio, and three days worth of water with me. I lost about 7 pounds in a day.
I was a dirty, sweaty mess when I pulled my big dirt bike up to lobby of the Marriott resort north of Vegas.
It was fun, but that would kill me today!
MaN kIlLeD bY ClImAtE ChAnGe.
You know that’s how they wanted to write the headline.
Well. That’s never happened before.
In addition to that heat, there are large sections of Death Valley with absolutely no cell reception. A satellite phone might help, but chances are he’d have been fried anyway (by the time help arrived)
126 degrees, the hottest temperature anywhere on the planet in 2023.Nah, Jill's boots hit 180 when she found Hunter's coke stash in the Lincoln Bedroom.
It’s not unusual for Death Valley to see 120+ degree temperatures, even 70 years ago.
