By Gabe Hauari
A postal worker (click here) collapsed and died Tuesday while on his route in Dallas amid extreme heat in the area, according to the U.S. Postal Service.
While going door to door during Tuesday’s high temperatures, family members told local outlet Fox 4 Eugene Gates Jr. collapsed in a front yard before a homeowner came outside to perform CPR.
While a cause of death has not yet been determined, the heat index in the Dallas area reached 115 degrees Tuesday. According to NBCDFW, that's the highest in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1980.
According to the National Weather Service, heat index is a measure of what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with air temperature....
The map above is what is expected to be the high temperatures throughout the country. As the summer progresses it will get higher and higher. Why? Because the first day of summer just occurred on June 21, 2023 at 10:57 AM. The sun is now in the northern hemisphere and traveling back to the equator. The sun will continue to provide heat to Earth and add to the heat it already was exposed to between Spring and Summer. The autumnal equinox occurs on September 23rd. It will be at that point the sun will return to the southern hemisphere where Spring will begin.
There is a reason why the worst hurricanes happens beginning in late August into September. It is because the sun has warmed Earth to a maximum that spins up hurricanes. This year is also El Nino. So the heat this summer will be significant and those out in the heat doing their jobs in order to work and live in the USA will be suffering.
The death of this postal worker is completely uncalled for and these diligent servants to the public needed protection and planning.
There are options for these folks including ice collars that can help providing their doctors state it is an acceptable method of remaining cool. Otherwise, take the postal workers out of the heat and into air conditioned vehicles.
The climate crisis is expensive. Get used to it.
Everyone is allowed to survive this calamity of the petroleum industry. The petroleum industry needs to be sued for every penny they have for the crimes against humanity it has allowed and is continuing to allow. The petroleum industry is responsible for this postal worker death.
