Our View: Turn up the radio, and the caution, with hot weather

What’s your go-to song for a scorcher of a day?

Maybe it’s Kool and the Gang’s “Too Hot” or the Power Station’s “Some Like It Hot.” Perhaps it’s Glen Frey’s “The Heat Is On.” Maybe you go way back to Martha and the Vandellas with “Heat Wave.”

Whatever the tune, better get ready to play it in the greater Alliance area today. Those thunderstorms Monday night and early Thursday morning were set to produce some seriously hot weather.

As in, temperatures that could cause some nearly 100-year-old records in northern Ohio to melt like ice cream in the sun.

On a more serious note, the anticipated hot weather is a good time to offer some reminders from Ready.gov about how dangers associated with the thermometer’s extremes and how to beat them.

The website advises light, loose-weight clothing and frequent showers or baths. If you don’t have to be outside, especially during the hottest parts of the day, then don’t. But if you must, stick to the shade, wear a hat to cover your head and drink plenty of fluids.

Signs of heat stroke include body temperatures in excess of 103 degrees Fahrenheit, red and hot skin with no sweating, a rapid pulse, and dizziness, confusion or unconsciousness. Call 9-1-1 or take a person with these symptoms to a hospital.

Today, or any day when it is similarly hot, is a good opportunity to check on elderly neighbors, family members, or anybody you know who may be at increased risk from the heat.

Ready.gov also reminds readers to take our four-legged friends into consideration. If it’s too hot outside for humans, imagine how warm dogs and cats must be, wearing their fur coats all the time. Consider bringing them indoors or at least providing a shady refuge and lots of water.

Of course, leaving any living thing, person or animal, in a hot car during such weather can be deadly. In the time it takes to run a short errand, the temperature inside a vehicle can rise to triple digits. Around 38 children a year die after being left in a hot vehicle, tragedies that are entirely preventable.

Summer is fun, and hot summer days are equally fun, when one takes a dollop of caution along with the sunscreen and popsicles.

Whatever your song or songs for this week, also be sure to listen to common-sense warnings.

Mount Union honors two legends

It was an honor richly deserved last weekend when the University of Mount Union named its stadium after a living legend.

Kehres Stadium celebrates the incredible legacy of Larry Kehres, who coached the football team for 27 seasons, with an unprecedented 11 national titles. The university also dedicated the Dom and Karen Capers Football Coaching Center, after the NFL coach of the Carolina Panthers and Houston Texans, who roomed with Kehres during the two men’s time at Mount Union. A generous gift by Capers and his wife made the coaching facility possible.

It’s nice to see the two former roommates reunited again through their names on and around the field, fitting reminders of the roles each man has played in the game that both love and a shared fondness for their alma mater.

This article originally appeared on The Alliance Review: Our View: Turn up the radio, and the caution, with hot weather