[HN Gopher] Death Valley National Park now offering a rare oppor...
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       Death Valley National Park now offering a rare opportunity -
       kayaking
        
       Author : mooreds
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2024-02-19 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | clhodapp wrote:
       | I went to Death Valley in early January. I didn't kayak but I did
       | see the temporary lake. It's absolutely beautiful!
        
       | geonic wrote:
       | When I went to Death Valley the first thing I saw were signs
       | telling you how many people had died from the heat in that year.
       | Then it started raining.
        
         | sandworm101 wrote:
         | People can die from heat during rain. Moist air can often make
         | heat stroke worse. Sweating becomes less effective in moist
         | air.
        
         | whartung wrote:
         | Seems ironic.
         | 
         | Real ironic was the day the LA (Los Angeles) DWP (Department of
         | Water and Power) declared drought water restrictions on a day
         | we got so much rain we almost had Lake San Fernando Valley. The
         | Sepulveda Dam Recreation area did, indeed, flood. One of those
         | "why do we have all these dams with no water in LA" moments.
         | 
         | As to folks perishing in DV due to heat, this is an
         | extraordinary story worth the time. The "Death Valley Germans"
         | https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
         | 
         | (What is it with Germans and Death Valley in the summer? It's a
         | Thing. I take it that it doesn't get hot in Germany?)
        
       | kibwen wrote:
       | _> Informally known as Lake Manly, the fleeting pool is about 6
       | miles long, 3 miles wide and just 1 foot deep._
       | 
       | That's about 1.421e10 liters of water, which WolframAlpha tells
       | me is 3.5% of the volume of all living humans, and coincidentally
       | the United States has about 4% the world's current population, so
       | this lake has approximately as much volume as the population of
       | the US. (Calculating the deviation in volume between the average
       | American and the average human left as an exercise for the
       | reader.)
        
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