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For Californians, Deadly Heat Cut a Broad Swath
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, The New York Times, August 11, 2006
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Aug. 9 — On the last day of her life, Patricia Miller-Razor did the same things she did just about every other day in this sun-parched town, even as the temperature climbed.
She wrapped herself in her signature sweatsuit. She rode her bicycle to the Green Frog Market. She pondered her oil paintings, and carvings fashioned from avocado seeds, all the while refusing the entreaties from her family to flick on her cooler in her sweltering house.
Ms. Miller-Razor, 77, was later found by her son sideways across her bed, dead of heat stroke.
Roughly 140 Californians met a similar quick and grim fate in last month’s heat wave, a death toll unlike any the state had seen from high temperatures since 1955, state officials said, before air-conditioning went mainstream.
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By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, The New York Times, August 11, 2006
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Aug. 9 — On the last day of her life, Patricia Miller-Razor did the same things she did just about every other day in this sun-parched town, even as the temperature climbed.
She wrapped herself in her signature sweatsuit. She rode her bicycle to the Green Frog Market. She pondered her oil paintings, and carvings fashioned from avocado seeds, all the while refusing the entreaties from her family to flick on her cooler in her sweltering house.
Ms. Miller-Razor, 77, was later found by her son sideways across her bed, dead of heat stroke.
Roughly 140 Californians met a similar quick and grim fate in last month’s heat wave, a death toll unlike any the state had seen from high temperatures since 1955, state officials said, before air-conditioning went mainstream.
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