Vocal Voices

What has the country come to? The papers and TV are full of it, for goodness sake!

Every year millions of us head off to places where the temperatures are in the low 30's or higher, and we don't get a 24 page booklet on how to stay safe. Now that parts of the country are to get similar temps - for a few days - we need telling what to do... an AMBER WARNING! no less.

The place is awash with such helpful tips as:
* Stay in the shade
* Drink plenty of fluids, but not alcohol
* Wear loose clothing - preferably cottony stuff
* Open windows
and so on.

Really!? Whoda guessed that?

The plot is lost. It's like living in "Primary School World" at times.

Becoming a nanny state WM
There will still be some idiots swimming in lakes and deep water because the government didn't tell them not to

saundra wrote:There will still be some idiots swimming in lakes and deep water because the government didn't tell them not to

so so true!

Workingman wrote:The place is awash with such helpful tips as:
* Stay in the shade
* Drink plenty of fluids, but not alcohol
* Wear loose clothing - preferably cottony stuff
* Open windows
and so on.

I'm obviously a rebel - I enjoy a glass of ice cold wine with my lunch and have windows closed to keep it cooler inside

Windows now closed, shutters too. I'll open them again when it cools down and leave them open over-night.

The sun only hits the sides of the house, the roof on the terraces keeps it off the front and back windows.

You learn to live with the heat, I'm more than happy up until 35C

We don't have air-con, can't stand it., although we did have one unit down in Fuzeta but only used to for an hour at night, to cool the bedroom down. We also had a ceiling fan and I would lie on the tiled floor under it - with nothing on

Workingman wrote:
Every year millions of us head off to places where the temperatures are in the low 30's or higher, and we don't get a 24 page booklet on how to stay safe. Now that parts of the country are to get similar temps - for a few days - we need telling what to do... an AMBER WARNING! no less.

It’s just ridiculous We have had a yellow warning for the whole country and an amber one for some counties in the midlands. So far as I am aware, this is the first heat advisory in my lifetime.

This is meant for the same people who McDonalds need to warn that the contents of their coffee cups may be hot, and that KP have to warn that their bags of dry roasted may contain nuts.

JoM wrote:This is meant for the same people who McDonalds need to warn that the contents of their coffee cups may be hot, and that KP have to warn that their bags of dry roasted may contain nuts.

I think you have it exactly right there Jo!