Sunday, July 8, 2012

US bakes under heatwave as fears grow over rising death toll among elderly

Associated Press: Highways buckled in Wisconsin, water use was cut back in Indiana and those who had power in the mid-Atlantic were urged to conserve it, but the heat gripping much of the country was only expected to worsen Saturday. Temperatures of more than 100 degrees were forecast in Philadelphia, authorities warned of excessive heat in the Midwest and the power outages surpassed a week in the mid-Atlantic, where extreme heat was expected into the weekend. A major storm in the area last week left behind...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/07/heat-wave-bakes-us-death

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