Hey, so I am glad that Jess and Ben nixed Phoenix and went to Whitewater. Yeah, it's been hot in WI but I heard this story on WRNX today and Googled it...here's what I found on the web about the Phoenix heat this week alone:
From Phoenix, AZ
The Valley's deadly heat wave continued to claim more lives as the metropolitan area recorded yet another scorching high on Thursday. The latest deaths occurred Wednesday night when a transient was found dead in Phoenix and a 97-year-old Mesa man died in his bedroom. However, the monsoon season finally has arrived and officials hope it will put an end to the number of heat-related deaths, mostly among the homeless, that began Saturday and ratcheted up every day until Thursday.
Still, day after day of such extreme heat takes a cumulative toll on the body and the damage can't be undone overnight, said Jeff Taylor of the Phoenix Rescue Mission, which has opened its campus during the day to give refuge to the homeless.
"When you're out in the heat, once you're thirsty, you can't catch up. Your body needs time to come back," Taylor said. "It's going to be at least another couple of days. They're in bad shape."
No new deaths were reported Thursday. But, by then, 20 people in the Valley - 14 of them homeless - had died from the heat. In all of last year in Maricopa County, 21 people died from heat exposure.
Thursday's high was an above-average 111 degrees that nearly eclipsed the record 112 set in 1927. Today's high is expected to reach 108, capping more than a week of searing temperatures that prompted heat advisories and excessive-heat warnings. At night, temperatures haven't dipped below the low 90s.
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! and i wanted to go there. hello wisconsin! looking fine, oh so fine.
Um...yeah. I like it here a lot more then that sounds like it is. Forget the Grand Canyon...Taliesin was way cooler anyhow.
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