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Jeff Miller
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 Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:12 am Heat Wave Prompts Summer School 'Snow Day' |
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| Quote: | Heat Wave Prompts Summer School 'Snow Day'
By KATHY MATHESON
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A blistering heat wave gave Philadelphia summer school students the equivalent of a snow day Tuesday as temperatures climbed into the upper 90s and so many homeowners cranked up their air conditioners that their power grid set a record.
As a large swath of the United States suffered through another miserably hot day, several western states and parts of the Midwest began to feel the relief of a cold front pushing out what had been days of triple-digit temperatures.
But for the East, the cooler temperatures weren't expect to arrive until Thursday.
That likely means another early dismissal Wednesday for Philadelphia students stuck in summer school classrooms, many without air conditioning, officials said.
The demand for cooling was evident at PJM Interconnection LLC, which coordinates the movement of electricity between 13 states ranging from Illinois to North Carolina. The power grid reported setting a record Tuesday with a peak load of 135,000 megawatts - enough to power 108 million homes under normal conditions.
"It was 120 (degrees) in the direct sunlight," said Walt Arrison, a surveyor at the construction site who kept a small key chain thermometer in his pocket.
Already the heat has been blamed for deaths across the country, including 28 in the Phoenix area alone, most of them homeless people.
At least four deaths have been blamed on the heat in Missouri, including a woman found Sunday in a home without air conditioning. Two young children left in hot cars died in Oklahoma. A 29-year-old hiker died Monday in Kentucky. And a 48-year-old woman was found dead Tuesday in her non-air-conditioned apartment in Cincinnati.
Oppressive heat also posed health risks for animals. Heat is being blamed for at least 1,200 cattle deaths in Nebraska.
At the Louisville Zoo, caretakers were creating shade and putting large chunks of ice out for the animals to lick, said Zoo Media Development Coordinator Diana DeVaughn.
"The other animals outside are relatively used to the heat," DeVaughn said. "The elephants can completely submerge. The polar bears have water that's cooled down to 55 degrees. If they're hot, they can go swim. It's 9 feet deep."
Most humans weren't so lucky.
UPS delivery man Bryan Thompson, 37, of Baltimore, said he wasn't bother to monitor the weather forecasts because there's not much he can do about it.
"I don't need to know the heat index, the humidity and all that," he said. "I just know it's going to be hot." |
I'm glad it isn't that bad here. the highest its been was 94.
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Leo Wyatt
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| Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:27 am |
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It is short of like it here. Charlie told me one day, not to go outside at all cause of the heat. One day they sent him home cause of the heat.
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madlilnerd
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Location: Slough, England
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| Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:16 am |
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Sometimes, over here it really is too hot to work. But the school never closes. No where over here is air conditioned.
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