"Natsman" wrote in message
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On 9 July, 21:59, Dawlish wrote:
On Jul 9, 6:40 pm, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
Everyone was a buzz at work today in Dulwich people fanning themselves
email
warnings galore about how to survive deadly heat waves even in
Sainsbury's
the till girl remarked to the customer in front
"it aint half 'ot out"
to which the customer murmered well it is'nt that bad.
The media is advising us how to stay cool, blimey I haven't seen it this
bad
since that film with Edward Judd 'The Day the earth Caught
Fire"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYGonuA4_o This is as bad if not
worse
than the great 'swine flu over the cuckoos nest' of 2009.
The mad met
goricalshttp://www.dh.gov.uk/en/MediaCentre/Pressreleases/DH_117306takethis
all
very seriously linking us to the
NHShttp://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Summerhealth/Pages/Heatwaveamberalert.aspxwho
asurre us that they take it equally seriously and are doing everthing in
their power to hype up the situation. They also offer some crucial life
saving advise
a.. Stay tuned to the weather forecast on the TV or radio.
a.. If you're planning to travel, check the forecast at your destination
too.
a.. Plan ahead: stock up with supplies so that you don't need to go out
during extreme heat and think about what medicines, food and
non-alcoholic
drinks you'll need.
a.. Keep plenty of water to hand and stay in the shade whenever
possible.
a.. Identify the coolest room in the house, so you can go there to keep
cool.
Hmmm some sound life saving advise there, I think you'd all agree.
Stay tuned to the weather forecast on the TV or radio.
Now this is very important because at any time the situation could
deteriorate things like the wind suddenly changing direction and a
hidious
facial expression will form becoming a fixed personal feature. AKA
Garvey's
Palsey
There is also a chance that sudenly the temperature may drop ten degrees
and
once again it will be safe to venture down to Tescos again and being the
first to hear this news will save you having to queue.
If you're planning to travel, check the forecast at your destination
too.
So if were were planning to travel to Malaga and the temp there is lower
than yours here then don't bother going, especially if you can get a
total
refund
Plan ahead: stock up with supplies so that you don't need to go out
during
extreme heat and think about what medicines, food and non-alcoholic
drinks
you'll need.
This one is very important; for example if you plan to cross the river
thames ensure that there are still bridges in place and they haven't
melted.
If you plan to walk across the lounge ensure there are cold drinks on
the
other side, also warn or tell someone that you plan to do this. If
halfway
across you feel you can't make it, then stop say three hail gores and
start
again.
If you do plan to risk life and have a BBQ please avoid alcolic drinks
as
hot sausages under the influence of drink can be dangerous in the wrong
hands.
Keep plenty of water to hand and stay in the shade whenever possible.
Now this one puzzles me as who is going to volunteer and risk their
lifes to
get this water so you can have it at hand? Well someone has to do it ;
can I
suggest the wife if you have one. Myself I lost my fisrt wife in the
great
heatwave of 2007, half way across the axeminster and puff........she was
gone turns out she ran of with the milkman.
Identify the coolest room in the house, so you can go there to keep
cool.
Well the coolest room in my house is the lounge as I've just decorated
it Al
La Homes & Gardens, it looks great I'd love to sit in there.
So there we are fantastic simple advice that could save lifes.
The NHS/UKMO saving lives today from imaginary problems that didn't
exist
yesterday
I'm just fed up with this selfish rubbish from this one.
About 15,000 extra people *died* in France alone during the canicule
of 2003. You are *far* too selfish to realise that people with
existing health problems in the SE will have them exacerbated tonight
and some will be at risk of *dying* as a result. Yes Jenkins, actually
dying as a result. The increased awareness and better training, of the
emergency services and others, might just, save some of them, but I
can assure you that, had it been cooler tonight, there would be some
older, very young and very ill people that would be alive tomorrow.
Because of the heat, some in the SE will *die* tonight, who wouldn't
have done, had it been cooler; however, some will survive because of
the timely advice from the MetO and the support from the NHS, social
service and neighbours.
You, however, are hopefully not yet old enough, or vulnerable enough,
to suffer.....*yet*. Others can make their judgements on what they may
wish for you in heatwaves in, say, 20 years time, should you be lucky
enough to survive that long.
The problems existed "yesterday", it's just that people died quietly
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Dawlish, are you some sort of queen of melodrama? Certainly seems
that way. People die in their millions daily, from one thing or
another - most by means of natural procecesses, but many at the hands
of or because of the actions of other humans. Whatever you may
personally feel, neither weather or climate are one of those criteria
for the causes of death over which humanity has any direct control.
Never have been, never will be.
CK
I'm annoyed for two reasons
1) I should have used advice not advise, I was in a hurry and trusted spell
check
2) I'm ****ed of with this h&s crap that the agw gung ho metO churn out.
As I said I saw three emails today spurtuing on about surving a heat wave.
Here as I type in the SE London its warm and humid nothig I've not
experienced before and the staistics mondoay will prove that. But UKMO and
the NHS make me absolutely sick.
Personally I've had a health condition that the NHS aren't the slightest bit
interested in as I don't tick the right boxes, patients die on ward like the
poor young cancer victim lad who was allowed to die on a ward at St Georges
in Tooting as he died literally of dehydration and the ignorance by the
nursing staff of his drug regime despite the mother pleading with them to
listen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...beg-water.html
Infection rate fatalities have been nearly two thousand per year since 2000
and yet the met office with the NHS talk absolute ****e about so called
heatwaves.
Moving on today as I said at work we had heatwave emails about safety for a
section of the community that the person sending those emails high up within
the care profession is trying to foster out to strangers to save money. The
whole system is now run on lies and fabrication like swine flu. I'm
stopping there as I feel a blood vessel is going to burst.