I'm mostly wondering what sanitation is like in a place without running water, sanitation services, and electricity.
Slab City reaches its boiling point
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I drove through once; my feeling is that it takes a fair amount of guts to live in the desert-that desert, in the summertime. 120F+ is lethal to the unprepared who are out in in it for more than a brief period.
Nonsense, I grew up in the Middle East and it was regularly above 120F during the summer. Just wear a hat and make sure you have water. You’re making it sound like you immediately die.
And a lot of people die due to heat in the Middle East, and now in Europe in the recent heat waves. Of course it won't kill every single person but it's still a big threat to the unprepared.
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#93Mobile site refuses to let me close email subscription windows… orb the top and middle of he page. Running on safari
Same for latest Android Chrome. Just put in anything@mailinator.com
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I read hyperbole like this all the time and it shocks me. Have you never been outside in 120F+ temps? I have spent many years of my life in those temps (Australia, all around Africa). Shade and plenty of drinking water and it's completely fine. Millions of people live their lives in those temps with no AC, no fridge, etc. I hear the same thing about the cold like "Frostbite in a matter of seconds past -30F". I used t…
-48C is like, nighttime in Siberia in winter. Where did you regularly do this bicycle commute?
Well above they're claiming he's lying about temperatures in Australia so I just assume he's fudged 15-20 degrees to sound cool
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Where in Australia did you live? No where I can find “regularly” hits above 48.9 degrees Celsius. The reference, the hottest recorded temperature in Australia is 123.2F (50.7c). Yes it gets into the 40s pretty regularly in a lot of places in Australia. But even 45c in a heatwave is very different to “regularly” living with temperatures close to 50c.
Yeah, I grew up in Adelaide where low 40s were regular occurrences throughout summer, and that's damn hot. I don't think I've ever experienced 120F (~49c). I guess I wouldn't be worried about dying personally, but I definitely wouldn't want to be outside for too long. Older people though? That probably is potentially fatal.
I'm in Adelaide and high 40s is approaching a record. Think we had the record or close to it a few years ago at around 47C. As you said, heatwaves of 40-45 happen now and then but that's generally the peak of it, for now. I'm guessing @grecy is rounding up.
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#96Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
I'm interested in going after reading about it, but also scared.
You can do a drive by if you're interested. We travelled down to see Salvation Mountain (which I think is worth a look), stopped at Bombay Beach and drove past Slab City. If it wasn't for Salvation Mountain, I don't know if I'd bother.
Driving through Wonder Valley elsewhere in California is interesting, and then reading about why almost every building is exactly the same size.
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That’s patently false. The reservations are still observed by the government. If all of them were broken the reservations would just be gone.
They aren't allowed to control their mineral rights. Just one of many injustices these sovereign nations are subjected to.
But they aren't sovereign nations.
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I’m not sure the drying of a man-made lake quite qualifies as an environmental disaster, though the smell certainly isn’t pleasant. But it’s definitely not the largest environmental in California. That would be the destruction of millions of acres of wetlands in the Central Valley from the dry and vanished Tulare Lake northward. Next is the desertifying low Sierra as forests are replaced by chaparral and grasslands s…
It's not just that the dust coming off of the lake smells bad—it's toxic. And given the nature of man-made lakes (i.e., being near other man-made things like homes), it means that the drying of the lake has immediate health effects to the surrounding community. Not to say that the rest of the things you mention aren't ecological disasters as well, but likely none are so immediately hazardous to the surrounding commun…
> given the nature of man-made lakes (i.e., being near other man-made things like homes)
This lake was man-made by accident (canal wall blew out). It's never been a real population center.
But actually, lots of intentionally created reservoirs aren't population centers either.
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#100The article has an overlay wanting me to put in my email address. Can't seem to close it with the X in the corner. S9 Android with Chrome browser. Renders the website useless unless I put in my email
The element picker in uBlock Origin will let you just delete the overlay.