Posted: 7/5/2008 4:24:39 PM EDT
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Watching a Science channel show on the weather, the fuckers twist facts like you woould'nt believe. There was a heat wave a few years back, 10,000 people dieds!!! So they said Whata bunch of bullshit, 60% of those people wouls have died anyway and the rest were old farts well on their way. I don't mean to soun insensitive but fuck, the media is full of shit! |
I thought you got locked? Dude, seriously who's troll account are you? |
Whats your fuckin problem with me? Are you affraid of someone who makes you think? Challenges your intelligence? Do you only wanna talk about pussy and war?  Expand your mind, you'll be much better for it. |
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WTF is wrong with you?  Most of those 10,000 people who died were elderly people who were left at home, mostly alone, while their kids went away during the national holiday. A good percentage of them lived in attics which only made things worse. You clearly don't know this, but most people in France DON'T have the same standard of living we have here in the US. Most of them don't have freaking air conditioning as many of them live in very old buildings! In this case the media are not full of shit. Your post sickens me.
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Many people throughout the world were SHOCKED that so many French would abandon their elderly family members during one of the worst heat waves they've ever seen. 
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Yes, because saying that everyone dies and not 60% like in the OP is trivializing their deaths  Sensitive aren't you.
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I've died three times tonight...Now, you go and break my heart. My achy breaky heart.
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I was in Europe ( Portugal ) when they had that heat wave in 2000, it wasn't any worse than a normal summer here in the central valley in California. I was at a model glider comp and the other teams from around Europe looked like were going to die up on the hill in the heat, they just weren't used to it. The elderly died because they didn't know to drink a crapload of water, not because the AC didn't work. We were having to clue the Euros in about how to keep yourself hydrated up on the damn hill. |
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There was not enough electricity to meet demand during the heat wave. Part of the problem was that France gets 80% of their electricity demands from nuclear power. The heated water used by the nuke plants is held in cooling ponds which is then released into the rivers once they have cooled to a certain temperature. The heat wave caused the water to cool more slowly which had a ripple effect on how much electricity could be generated. That, coupled by the higher demand for electricity caused shortages. People, in many cases the elderly, were not able to handle the higher temps and died as a result. The French didn't surrender. The French do have A/C. Shit just happened. This concludes your accurate history lesson for today. All other blathering may now cease. |