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off the top of Sheriff R Pie Hole's tent roofs at tent city.
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CrispyQ
(36,533 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)There are several large state and private prisons in the area and all of them are air conditioned. Its not a matter of "coddling" those inmates, but a basic human health and safety issue.
Its a very dry heat here, the humidity is i the low teens, but almost every week there is a story in the local paper about someone collapsing on the street due to heat stroke. It happened to me when I was a much younger woman, and I was just watching a baseball game at the park, but I nearly died. Now, it probably would kill me.
I went to school in Arizona where the high humidity combined with very high temps limited most outdoor activities. I can't imagine pinning human beings up under those conditions; its barbaric.
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)surprise I saw teenagers running laps around the track. I could not believe that they would make them kids run with temperatures 105-107 degrees at 3Pm. Ridiculous.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)re that dangerous activity?
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)I thought all the state's high school sports governing bodies got together and drew up regs to curtail outdoor practices in extreme heat...
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)been a junior high school... the kids were a little young looking.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)They practice from 5 to 9 outside. It's hot as hell then, but not dangerously so. Every coach I know, and I know many of them, is almost obsessive-compulsive on the subject of heat stroke. Even the marching band goes from 5 to 8. Construction workers hours in the summer are usually 430 or 5 until 1230 or 1. If they were practicing in the afternoon, in most states it would be a serious violation.
Xithras
(16,191 posts)I live near Modesto. My kids go to Modesto schools. That may have been my kid on that track
Hot summers are the norm in this area and MCS has protocols in place that protect the kids pretty well. They run, but are limited as to how long they can stay out. I don't remember the PE schedule, but my son is in his HS marching band, and their drill pattern is "20 minutes outside, 10 minutes inside, water every 5".
Of course, at 3PM that wouldn't have been a PE class anyway. School would have been out already, so those were probably student athletes at practice.