How the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave compares to the COVID-19 pandemic

[@ron78tht74]

I was working at a smelting plant in Chicago when this day happened. The cooling sytem had gone out the day before and it was still out during the 105 degree day. Our foreman wouldn't let us go home and a few of the team passed out but the ore kept pouring. We were in an very old building on south Kedzie. I remember some of the wooden lockers in the employees locker room just spontaneously combusted. But the aluminum just kept on pouring. Near end of shift I was delirious and I was pushing wrong buttons and pulling wrong levers. No one seemed to care either. We talked about calling OSHA. We just needed our jobs so we didn't. I made it home that night and stood under the cold shower for an hour. About 10 people on my shift never showed up for work again. I always wondered if they were part of the death total.

[@BLITZ6769]

Jesus Christ!

[@Knockaswagga]

A city that gets cold as the Arctic and Hot as the Amazon....It’s gonna be a hot summer😩

[@NadiaGirl1]

Oh yeah but hey we’re ready for anything we’re tough

[@AnnieWarbux]

The loss of life that Summer was heartbreaking. So many homeless had perished. Because of that heatwave Chicago has the resources that they have, now. Not only this cold storage facility for victims of this Pandemic but, cooling and warming centers are available in extreme weather and "wellness checks" are enacted at these times.

[@NadiaGirl1]

Right and we have procedures now Chicago always keeps an eye out for heat waves, cold temperatures, snow storms, and flooding. The city is one of the cities that climate change impacts first.

[@carrinejones7545]

Back in 1995 I never knew about the Chicago massive heatwave. 😳 may the victims rest in peace 😇✝️🙏.

[@PolarBear0110]

I was in high school when this heat wave hit. Unfortunately I lived with caregivers who grew up on farms without heating and air conditioning so they just toughed it out. On the other hand I worked in the grocery store that had an ice cream freezer in it so I bet you can guess where this polar bear spent as much time as possible. :D

[@drizztdourden5291]

I remember the heat wave my brother had a heat stroke he was only 20 at the time.

[@danieltaz6555]

I was on duty fighting fires in july 1995 in 110 degree heat near ohare airport it was hell with my fire fighter gear

[@Foxspinsdiscs]

Damn that sounds insane! I am glad you made it out, yikes.

[@jeremysanchez8329]

I remeber this i was 5 and we bought a ac off the back of a truck and all 6 sleep in one room

[@NadiaGirl1]

I was 5 too. My dad bought and A/C.

[@DeAngeloStevens]

The Same year in Bessemer, Alabama was last time seeing my Grandpa alive on a Sunday October 8, 1995 just Four days after my 6th Birthday.

[@NadiaGirl1]

I’m sorry about your grandpa I was 5 in 1995 that was the year my father and mother argued bad for an A/C my father was cheap. My parents grew up in Mexico in farms it was soo hot my mother had to put cold cloths to my forehead. He got the A/C is still with us.

[@DeAngeloStevens]

There was an Worldwide Online Computer Internet was born a decade before KZbin, Facebook, Twitter.

[@vivdoolan6846]

Shes wearing a hoodie with a suit jacket to present the news....did she forget her shirt ?

[@djjerome]

@ 2:19 Unlike the 1995 Heatwave, they never needed to implement those emergency measures for the big scary 'pandemic'. Which they are trying bring back again 🙄

[@user-gi6ee8vj1y]

Why didn't you mention the AIDS pandemic's impact on Chicago? That would have been a better comparison.

[@NadiaGirl1]

We’ll write to the news center and ask them to do that.

[@woodahkillah5583]

So they can bring in the freezer trucks for the dead bodies but not to keep people cool before they died ?

[@StarvyPeemer]

I died on that day also there is no WiFi in heaven

[@BLITZ6769]

LMFAO

[@MsIvargas]

I was born a month after that geez.

[@12MedbeNetwork]

One happened, one didn't

[@anonpain8743]

So true. Happy to see another 1995 heatwave skeptic 🙏🏻 both of us know the city of chicago faked the temperature for political reasons.

[@valimback5109]

Bro! 700 murders happened in Chicago 1995

[@NadiaGirl1]

Umm you mean heat related deaths?

[@n310ea]

These snowbirds are ridiculous. They complain about the cold, and now they complain about the heat?

[@iancleary3609]

Bruh 700+ people died

[@NadiaGirl1]

Hey we have a right we’re human. Also the city is the 1st to feel the effects of climate change

[@PUPPETHDFanClan_]

Chicago has humid that 104 felt like 125 degrees