America’s Hottest City Is Having a Surge of Deaths
www.scientificamerican.com
Skyrocketing temperatures are colliding with a lack of planning in Phoenix that is contributing to a rise in heat-related deaths
  • TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee
    6·
    6 months ago

    In Arizona and New Mexico if someone loses consciousness and hits the pavement awhile they get life threatening burns. It’s crazy.

    I met an old drunk outside of Phoenix many years ago who passed out on top of a fire ant colony for a few hours and woke up covered head to toe in attacking angry ants. It’s an inhospitable place!

    • deft@lemmy.wtf
      3·
      6 months ago

      Know a guy that lost his grandmother this way in Florida I believe.

      Fell, couldn’t get up in their own driveway

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    6 months ago

    Build tiny row housing. Like 8’x10’ a piece with a door, all side by side. Line the top with solar panels and plumb an AC unit to like 10 a piece. Give the homeless a place to stay at and try to get back on their feet instead of tents on a street. Every like 500 feet can have a bathroom/shower house. On a large scale it could probably amount to just like $5,000 per unit.