HeatAdvisories2009

Introduction/Definition/etc

HeatAdvisories2009

Having only spent a few hours in the heat recently, and basically

being housebound because of it, I'm remembering and publicizing

that our homeless [and others] are probably in need of help,

as cooling stations at Drop In Centers, and kindness,

instead of the [usual] nastiness, so maybe that is the southern

charm, a politeness that developed over the centuries,

on how to be kind to people, because it's hot as hell

out there, and that's before global warming...

20090810 7.52 am Jerry

20100114 09.46 am Jerry some cleanup additions as [usual]

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In poor communties, and disabled are particularly poor,

some without benefits would think that those with benefits

are the rich ones, but still probably living below the poverty

level, according to the federal poverty scale (reference

PovertyProject, 40 acres and a mule,

ADA19thAnniversaryProclamation,

and just about everything else on this site...),

but I started ranting about the heat...

Psychiatrists, and legislators (read Congress),

and most every normal person knows to get out

of town, to mountains, or the beach during this

time, but us poor people can't.  We can't afford

to (picturing fire hydrants and people playing/ cooling

in the sprinklers), so you may see problems in the ghettos,

(and most disabled live in the projects/ poorer areas)

throughout the region.  People who are fortunate

enough to have a home, are probably stuck

inside, even those with places to go...

Normally this day is the RRWG monthly

meeting, but AFAIK, is not happening today,

and I didn't know early enough to schedule

rides, and it would be unwise, unheatlhy

risking heat stroke, heat exhaustion, 

etc to try to bike out someplace today,

and most of the last weeks.

Those with medications, antipsychotics,

in particular and even tricyclic antidepressants

increase the sun sensitivity, plus may

add the weight gain with the atypical

antipsychotics, is a dangerous combination...

So let's be careful out there,

and even inside, tempers and

other issues may increase with

the heat, just as with the cold,

(I think we lose more people to heat

than hypothermia, but don't keep

records or help the homeless,

and others as much}

but you can do more about warming

up than cooling off...

Chillin' dudes, and dudettes..

Conclusion

Summary of experience or similar:

Some information for people like consumers

working/ volunteering at Drop In Centers

that here are some of the issues, in case

you weren't aware, and most consumers

would not have been trained on this...

Discussion

A place for feedback on the page presented

Page History

20100114 Jerry

• Correct some typos, add a little clarity, if possible, rereading later, in the cold season.
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20090810 Jerry

• Jerry created this page to remind those people who don't happen to know what poverty
• and heat combines to...

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