Rabu, 20 Juli 2011

Heat wave deaths- 13 deaths in Midwest tied to heat wave

The heat was on Monday for millions of Americans in the Midwest, Texas and Oklahoma, where the producers of the road crossing and poultry ceiling fans and spray to protect the herds.

The National Weather Service as 18 states stretching from North Dakota to Texas and Ohio is under a heat advisory, watch or advice. He said many in the last 13 weeks in the Midwest can be blamed on the effects of heat.

When the humidity was taken into account, the rate of heat feels as hot as 110 degrees in a wide band in the nation.

"This is unusual," said Pat Slattery, a spokesman for the Meteorological Service. "There is no sugar coating here."

Steam Oklahoma City, 13 government buildings in the Capitol has been closed after a water main break that shut down the air conditioning.

The information systems of state agencies in Oklahoma have been shut down, and 1,000 employees were sent home, said spokeswoman Sara Cowden Department of Central Services.

"We Run to the end, the heat," he said.

Image: Road buckle

Billy Hefton / Enid News & Eagle via AP

A city employee in Enid, Oklahoma, on the phone while it describes the route along U.S. Buckling 412 on Saturday. The two lanes westbound were closed.

Oklahoma City, where there was a 28 days with a three-digit heat, two lanes of Interstate major downtown was closed Monday morning after folding on a bridge caused by expansion joints to increase, damage to passing cars.

The city has the pace to break the record for the days of 100 or higher - 50 of 1980 - and the three-digit heat as possible until September.

Tulsa, opened a hole in the floor of the bridge and part of U.S. 75 near the town deformed.

It's even worse in western Oklahoma, where temperatures above 110 or municipalities have been in recent weeks. In Enid, the asphalt at a major intersection along U.S. Highway 412 Saturday night ended in the heat.

Last week, buckles, near Enid has caused a motorcyclist to go into the air and then fall hundreds of meters. The driver, who was wearing a Kevlar-laced exchange, was taken to hospital where he has dealt with injuries that included broken bones and wounds behind.

The poultry producers have made Oklahoma fans and pipes in the ceiling to try to lower temperatures, John Ward, executive vice president of the Federation of State poultry told msnbc.com.

"We lost a lot of birds," at least so far, he said, adding that "we have probably lost more chickens to snowstorms" that the roof collapsed during the recent winter.

The Humane Society of America worries that even power outages of short duration can kill thousands of chickens, as was the case in North Carolina last week.

"The vast majority of farm animals are kept inside at all times, that is, if there is a blackout, you may have tens of thousands of dead animals in a building in an hour, said Paul Shapiro, who closely follows conditions of farm animals for the group of activists.

"The problem is inherent in major surgery," he added. Step through the shadows, outside access "can help avoid the" heat death, he said.

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