55% St Louis without electricity because of heat

[donsu]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060721/D8J0LUNO1.html

St. Louis Suffers: Heat, Rain, No Power


National Guard troops stepped up their search for people in hot homes without power to run air conditioning Friday as heavy rains and tree-toppling winds added to the misery of the worst power outage in the city's history.

"We have 55 percent of the residents without power. Our biggest fear is that the number will go up," said Jeff Rainford, spokesman for Mayor Francis Slay.

A heat wave that has baked much of the nation this week has been blamed for at least 28 deaths, three of them in Missouri.

The death toll in Oklahoma alone rose to seven. The state medical examiner's office said the heat caused the deaths of four elderly people on Thursday, including one in Oklahoma City, where the high that day was 107.

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roads are buckling and thunderstorms are severly violent doing much destruction

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Baghdad Bob says not to worry, everything is normal, nothing

to see here, move along. You didn't need that electricity anyway.... respirators, who needs respirators and AC?? Get tough people.

[sgxnk]

2. france anyone?

[cboy4]

3. Good point

:thumbsup:

[orwell]

4. Call the Global Warming sceptics...

...I'm sure they can explain it all away with a good PR campaign...

[CatWoman]

5. Question: what's the deal with St. Louis?

I've read a couple of stories about how dismal it is there because of the heat :shrug:

[donsu]

6. what is it you don't understand?

nt

[CatWoman]

7. what, exactly, is that city having such a rough patch

over others? because of the heat?

Am I being more specific?

[Fleshdancer]

8. Violent storms have knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people..

last Wed, a storm with winds up to 80 mph knocked out power to 590,000 people and yesterday, another storm knocked out power to 200,000. On top of this, they're struggling with a heat wave.

My in-laws live in St. Louis and for most of the week, my father-in-law has been spending his time buying ice and supplies for friends and anyone else in need of help. :(

on edit: the bad news is that the storm on Wednesday was considered the worst storm in recent history for St. Louis. The semi-good news is that the storm on Friday brought in a slight cool front.

[donsu]

9. it's not just St. Louis - it's happening where ever the high heat and

storms are

[ArbustoBuster]

12. Yeah, it was bad here in Philly this week, too.

We had a huge storm go through with 70+ MPH winds and heavy rains that knocked out power to over a third of a million people. My power was out for 24 hours, and my parents' power was out for three days. The heat was between 90 and 100 during those days. It's been a bad summer.

[mantis49]

10. It's been a major disaster.

I live on the IL side. Between the storms Wednesday night and Friday morning, there are approx 500,000 people without power. Thursday temp was 100. I work for a hospice agency in Alton, IL and we worked all day Thursday making sure our patients were OK and getting the ones without power into the hospital if they had no families able to take them in.

[sandnsea]

11. 95 mph winds tore it up

A couple days ago, knocked out power, blew buildings down, made a mess of it. With the heat on top of it, it's very bad.

[Stargazer99]

13. Let me guess-the utility provider

is a privately owned enitity as opposed to public? Or does the public enitity have to rely on a private network?