Reply #31: I lived in Arizona for over 20 years [View All]

[silverojo]

I've had heat-related illness, but it got to the point where I could recognize it coming, and treat it before I wound up in ER.

Our biggest heat wave was in 1990, when it hit an all-time high of 122 degrees. It was around 120 for much of that week. Couldn't touch anything outdoors, without getting burned. The overnight lows were in the 90's.

You pretty much can't have rolling black/brownouts in AZ, because people would die. What the power companies do is ask people to use as little electricity as possible during peak hours, when A/C's were running full blast, non-stop. Supermarkets turned down their lights and turned up their thermostats. It was great, how people cooperated, so nobody suffered from a lack of power.