More than 1k hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca

Re:More than 1k hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approach... by rhelz on Friday June 21, 2024 @09:29AM (#40749417)

// they are prepared for the most part

...and yet the # of deaths is going up. Over 1,000 people! We are not talking about a disaster which might come, maybe, far in the future. The disaster is here, and its about to become a catastrophe!

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Re:More than 1k hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approach... by raverbashing on Friday June 21, 2024 @10:30AM (#40750013)

Definitely, it is getting worse. And it will get even worse unfortunately

But the Hajj cases seem more predictable and more manageable (if the will was there of course).

What I'm afraid of is an unpredictable heat wave that comes and hits much harder in a densely populated area

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Re:More than 1k hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approach... by rhelz on Friday June 21, 2024 @02:14PM (#40752185)

If we are this bad at predictable heat, we are screwed on unpredictable heat.

1,000 people died. These days, we are so numb to big numbers (Elon Must buys Twitter for $40 billion, and gets $56 billion stock from Tesla!) that it's easy to just gloss over that....

But if a hurricane hit New York, and 1,000 people died in time's Square, it would be declared a major disaster. 1,000 people dead means tens of thousands of people in sadness and mourning.

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