Extreme Heatwave Linked to Rising Fatalities Post-Hurricane Beryl 

Extreme Heatwave Linked to Rising Fatalities Post-Hurricane Beryl. Credit | Reuters
Extreme Heatwave Linked to Rising Fatalities Post-Hurricane Beryl. Credit | Reuters

United States: As the summer heatwave continues to scorch across America, tragic consequences are emerging. In Houston, 64-year-old Pamela Jarrett became a victim of the extreme temperatures after Hurricane Beryl caused a power outage. 

Janet Jarrett, her sister, desperately tried to keep Pamela, who used a wheelchair and depended on a feeding tube, cool. On the fourth day without power, Pamela was found gasping for breath.  

Even after the efforts of paramedics, she was pronounced dead at the hospital, with the medical examiner attributing her death to the severe heat. 

Rising Number of Heat-Related Fatalities 

Extreme Heatwave Linked to Rising Fatalities Post-Hurricane Beryl. Credit | iStock
Extreme Heatwave Linked to Rising Fatalities Post-Hurricane Beryl. Credit | iStock

It is so hard to know that she’s gone right now and because this wasn’t supposed to happen to her,” Jarret said and it’s almost two weeks after the Beryl hit and heat-related deaths during the prolonged power outages have pushed under the number of storm-related fatalities to at least 23 in Texas. 

As reported by HealthDay, The Combination of searing summer heat and residents unable to power up the air conditioning in the days after the Category 1 storm made landfall on July 8 which has resulted in increasingly dangerous conditions for some in America’s fourth largest city. 

Beryl Knocked out the electricity to nearly 3 million homes and businesses at the height of the outages which has been lasted days or much longer and the hospitals reported a spike and rise in the heat related problems. 

Power finally was restored to the most by last week and after over a week of widespread outages. 

Ongoing Assessment of Storm-Related Deaths 

Just after the time when the storm hit which brings multiple issues  like high winds and flooding the death including the people killed by the falling trees and the people who drowned when their vehicles become submerged in floodwaters in the days after the storm passed  deaths included  people who fell while cutting the limbs on damaged tress and heat related deaths. 

Health officials and experts are still working to determine if some deaths that have already occurred should be considered storm related and but even when those numbers come in , getting very clear picture of storm’s toll could take much more time.