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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent sunny afternoon in Lancaster, Cassandra Hughes looked for a place to cool down. She set up a lawn chair in the shade at the edge of a park and spent the afternoon with a coloring book, listening to hip-hop music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaching a high of 97 degrees, this August day was pleasant by Lancaster standards — a breeze offered temporary relief. But just the week before, during a brutal heat wave, the high hit 109. For Hughes, the Mojave Desert city has been a dramatic change from the mild weather in El Segundo, the coastal city where she lived before moving in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughes, a retired nurse, is among the Californians who are moving inland in search of affordable housing and more space. But it comes at a price: dangerous heat driven by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/environment/climate-change/\">climate change\u003c/a>, accompanied by sky-high electric bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters analysis shows that many California cities with the biggest recent population booms are the same places that will experience the most high heat days — a potentially deadly confluence. The combination of a growing population and rising extreme heat \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/07/extreme-heat-report-insurance/\">will put more people at risk of illnesses\u003c/a> and pose a challenge for unprepared local officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As greenhouse gases warm the planet, more people around the globe are experiencing intensifying heat waves and higher temperatures. An international panel of climate scientists recently reported that it is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/\">virtually certain\u003c/a>” that “there has been increases in the intensity and duration of heat waves and in the number of heat wave days at the global scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters identified the California communities most at risk — the top 1% of the state’s more than 8,000 census tracts that have grown by more than 500 people in recent years and are expected to experience the most intensifying heat under climate change projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results: Lancaster and Palmdale in Los Angeles County; Apple Valley, Victorville and Hesperia in San Bernardino County; Lake Elsinore and Murrieta in Riverside County; and the Central Valley cities of Visalia, Fresno, Clovis and Tulare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2050, neighborhoods in those 11 inland cities are expected to experience 25 or more high heat days every year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cal-adapt.org/tools/extreme-heat/\">data from researchers\u003c/a> at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Colorado Boulder and UC Berkeley. A high heat day is when an area’s maximum temperature exceeds the top 2% of its historic high — in other words, temperatures that soar above some of the highest levels ever recorded there this century. (The projections were based on an intermediate scenario for future planet-warming emissions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these places facing this dangerous combination of worsening heat waves and growing populations are low-income Latino communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing much more rapid warming of inland areas that were already hotter to begin with,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an extreme contrast between the people who live within 5 to 10 miles of the beach and people who live as little as 20 miles inland,” he said. “It’s these inland areas where we see people who…are killed by this extreme heat or whose lives are at least made miserable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-graphics-heat-housing.netlify.app/heat-days-lookup?initialWidth=780&childId=pym_0&parentTitle=More%20extreme%20heat%20%2B%20more%20people%20%3D%20danger%20in%20these%20CA%20cities%20-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fenvironment%2Fclimate-change%2F2024%2F09%2Fcalifornia-extreme-heat-population-growth-inland-communities%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While temperatures are projected to rise across the state, neighborhoods along the coast will remain much more temperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Long Beach, for instance, are not projected to experience significantly more high heat days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco will average six days a year in the 2050s, exceeding 87 degrees, compared to four days in the 2020s. In contrast, Visalia will jump from 17 days exceeding 103 degrees to 32 — more than a full month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the growing inland populations, the cooler coastal counties — where more than two-thirds of Californians now live — are expected to lose about 1.3 million residents by 2050, according to the California Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High temperatures can be deadly, triggering heat strokes and \u003ca href=\"https://hms.harvard.edu/news/climate-change-fueled-weather-events-linked-worsened-heart-health#:~:text=Certain%20types%20of%20extreme%20weather,increased%20risk%20of%20heart%20disease.\">heart attacks\u003c/a> and exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/climate-change-and-asthma/\">asthma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10039694/\">diabetes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidney.org/press-room/new-study-heat-waves-climate-change-pushing-kidney-patients-to-er\">kidney failure\u003c/a> and other illnesses, even some \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/priorities/climate-infectious-disease.html\">infectious diseases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a pink shirt and sun glasses sits in a folding chair with a board in her lap.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Hughes sits on a folding chair alongside her car in Lancaster on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/180-climate-change/upload/Impacts-of-extreme-heat-to-California-s-people-infrastructure-and-economy-by-California-Department-of-Insurance-June-2024.pdf\">extreme heat contributed to\u003c/a> more than 5,000 hospitalizations and almost 10,600 emergency department visits over the past decade — and the health effects “fall disproportionately on already overburdened” Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, according to a recent state report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials must grapple with how to protect residents who already are struggling to stay cool and pay their electric bills. Despite the warnings, many local governments have failed to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_201520160sb379\">A 2015 state law \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB379\">required municipalities\u003c/a> to update their general plans, safety plans or hazard mitigation plans to include steps countering the effects of climate change, such as cooling roofs and pavement or urban greening projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only about half of California’s 540 cities and counties had complied with new plans as of last year, according to the environmental nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.climateresolve.org/ounce-of-prevention/\">Climate Resolve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The California dream or a hellish reality?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An exodus from California’s coastal regions is a\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/whos-leaving-california-and-whos-moving-in/\"> decadeslong trend\u003c/a>, said Eric McGhee, a policy director who researches California demographic changes at the Public Policy Institute of California. People are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/how-has-remote-work-affected-migration-around-the-state/\">moving away from the coasts,\u003c/a> especially the Los Angeles region and Bay Area, to elsewhere in California and other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 104,000 people moved from the Bay Area to the Sacramento area, the Inland Empire and the San Joaquin Valley in 2021 and 2022 and about 95,000 moved from Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange County to those same inland regions, according to data collected from the \u003ca href=\"https://usa.ipums.org/usa/\">Census\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee said most people moving inland are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-population-shifts-may-lead-to-new-income-divides/\">low-income and middle-income Californians \u003c/a>looking to expand their families, find cheaper housing and live comfortably — and they’re willing to sacrifice other privileges, like cool weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is “becoming more expensive, more exclusive in the places that are least likely to experience extreme heat,” Swain said. As a result, he said, “the people who are most at risk of extreme heat” — those with limited financial resources — “are precisely the people experiencing extreme heat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/scZs5/10/\" width=\"1100\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County city of \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/victorville-ca?redirect=true#demographics\">Victorville\u003c/a> — which is 55% Hispanic and has median incomes far below the state average — is among California’s fastest-growing areas, adding more than 12,500 new residents between 2018 and 2022. Nearby Apple Valley and Hesperia grew by about 3,000 and 6,000 people, respectively, while Lancaster, Palmdale and Visalia added between about 10,000 and 12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Victorville on an August day that reached 97 degrees, Eduardo Ceja wiped sweat from his forehead as he worked at Superior Grocers store, retrieving shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is often grueling in this Mojave Desert town. He sometimes drinks five bottles of water to stay hydrated as he works, with the concrete parking lot radiating the heat back onto his skin. When he’s done pushing carts, he recovers in the air-conditioned store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ceja, 20, moved to nearby Apple Valley about a year ago, around the same time the new grocery store opened. He used to sleep on his parents’ couch in the San Gabriel Valley town of Covina, east of Los Angeles, which is often more than 10 degrees cooler than Apple Valley on summer days. But he wanted a place to himself at a low cost, so now he pays $400 a month for a bedroom in his brother’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since he moved here, he’s observed many businesses, including his own employer, expanding or opening in Apple Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I notice a lot of people from L.A. are coming here,” he said. It makes sense to him. “Out here, the apartments have more space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003221\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing glasses and a black shirt stands outside by a tree.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple Valley Mayor Scott Nassif on Aug. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/apple-valley-ca/#demographics\">Apple Valley\u003c/a> Mayor Scott Nassif has seen his desert town grow and get hotter over his lifetime. When he moved to the area in 1959, only a few thousand people lived there. Now it’s home to more than 75,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nassif remembers only a few days that would reach above 100 degrees and multiple snowstorms in the winter. Now, snowstorms are rare, and weeklong heat waves above 110 degrees are commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extreme heat “is noticeable,” he said. “I don’t think there was a day under 100 in July.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nassif attributes the town’s growing population to its good schools, a semi-rural lifestyle and affordable housing for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the high desert town of Hesperia, growth is evident. Banners advertising “New homes!” are posted throughout the town, luring potential buyers to tract home communities. Residents are cautiously eyeing a new development, called the Silverwood Community, that has recently broken ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive, 9,000-plus acre development is authorized for more than 15,000 new homes, according to its website. A video on its website coaxes potential buyers: “True believers know the California dream is within reach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a residential area and surrounding dry land.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the Silverwood project, a community development under construction, in Hesperia on Aug. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/hesperia-ca#demographics\">Hesperia\u003c/a>, which is almost two-thirds Hispanic and also has median incomes far below the state average, is anticipating continued growth as housing costs soar in other parts of California. Its planning includes rezoning some areas to allow for higher-density housing, which could bring more affordable housing, said Ryan Leonard, Hesperia’s principal planner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people are willing to make a commute to San Bernardino, Riverside or Ontario — a 45-minute to an hour commute — they can afford to buy a home here when they might not be able to afford that same home down the hill,” Leonard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Summer electric bills soar to $500 or more\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the California towns at most risk of intensifying heat, people are already saddled with big power bills because of their reliance on air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, households in Lancaster, Palmdale and Apple Valley pay on average $200 to $259 a month for electricity, compared to a $177 average in Southern California Edison’s service area, according to California Public Utilities Commission data as of May 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In summer months, average power use in these communities nearly triples compared to spring months, so some people’s bills can climb above $500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their bills are likely to grow as climate change intensifies heat waves and \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cal-advocates-website/files/press-room/reports-and-analyses/240722-public-advocates-office-q2-2024-electric-rates-report.pdf#page=5\">utility rates rise\u003c/a>: Californians are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/05/californians-electricity-rates/\">paying about twice as much\u003c/a> for electricity than a decade ago. The state’s rates are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/electricity-price-rate-pge-19429422.php\">among the highest in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Carlson moved to \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/palmdale-ca#demographics\">Palmdale\u003c/a>, north of Los Angeles, 30 years ago. The housing was much cheaper, and she wanted to move where her children could attend school near where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, she’s felt the temperatures in Palmdale rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson said her electric bill during the summers used to average about $500, a significant chunk of her household budget. About four years ago, though, she had solar panels installed on their home, which cut her bill in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t not run the air conditioner all day, even if you run it low,” she said. “You wouldn’t survive otherwise. The heat is too oppressive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With multiple days in the summer reaching at least 115 degrees, Carlson is conscious that there may be a future where Palmdale isn’t livable for her anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will it get as hot as Death Valley?” she wondered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth, reached \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-03/death-valley-sets-another-record-for-july-august-also-expected-to-be-above-average\">record temperatures\u003c/a> in July, averaging 108.5 degrees; the high was 121.9, tying a 1917 record. In comparison, Palmdale by 2050 is projected to have 25 days where the maximum temperature exceeds 105, up from nine days in the 2010s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson said she’d consider moving to the East Coast, where she’s originally from. But she’d face hurricanes rather than the heat. It all comes down to making a decision: “Which negatives are you willing to deal with?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23.jpg\" alt=\"A man rides a bicycle past a house with a tent, table, several products and a woman standing in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street vendor sells fans and mini pools in Lancaster on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hughes, who lives in subsidized housing in \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/lancaster-ca\">Lancaster\u003c/a>, said surviving the heat means constantly checking the weather forecast and strategically cooling her home to keep electricity costs low. “I have air conditioning, a swamp cooler and two fans,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a day when the temperature doesn’t reach triple digits, the air conditioner might stay off; she opens the windows and turns on the fans instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14.jpg\" alt=\"An infrared thermometer showing 137.3 degrees on the display.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infrared thermometer showing street surface temperature reaching 137 degrees in Lancaster on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local leaders say they know more must be done to protect their residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lancaster opens cooling centers in libraries for residents who need respite from the heat. During heat waves, residents ride buses for free, and city programs provide water and other resources to homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it adequate? Of course, it’s not adequate,” Mayor R. Rex Parris said. “If you’ve got people who don’t read or don’t get a newspaper sitting in a sweltering apartment, the information is not getting to them, and we know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parris said air conditioning is necessary for families to stay cool in the hot desert summers, but with utility costs so high, it’s becoming a luxury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003218\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45.jpg\" alt=\"A wire sculpture of a woman holding a leaf.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wire sculpture on a light pole in Lancaster on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With that in mind, he said the city is prioritizing hydrogen energy, which could lower electric bills in the long term. A new housing tract will be powered by solar panels and batteries that store power, backed up by hydrogen fuel cells, which will be cheaper than if the homes drew energy entirely from the grid, said Jason Caudle, head of Lancaster Energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nassif, the Apple Valley mayor, said his town helps residents finance costly rooftop solar panels that can cut their power bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educating our public on how to save on their electric bills is a big thing because you can’t live up here without air conditioning,” Nassif said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cooling centers aren’t enough to protect people\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in Visalia, as temperatures climbed to 99 degrees, Maribel Jimenez brought her 2-year-old son to an indoor playground to beat the heat. She sat at a kid-sized table with her son, Mateo, as he played with toy screws and blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez, 33, has lived in \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/visalia-ca/\">Visalia\u003c/a> her whole life. She grew up on a dairy farm and remembers playing outdoors for hours in the summers. But things have changed. She can’t imagine letting her son play outdoors under the scorching sun. She worries he’s not getting the outdoor playtime he should be getting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely gotten much hotter,” Jimenez said. “You can’t even have your kids outside. We want to take him out to the playground, but it’s too hot. By the time it cools down in the evening, it’s his bedtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other times, she and her family go to the mall for walks or anywhere where there’s air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as he’s out, he’s happy,” she said. “We try our best to protect him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman sit next to a small child by a fishing pond.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maribel Jimenez and Oscar Olmedo play with their son Mateo in the fishing pond at the ImagineU Children’s Museum in Visalia on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The effects of extreme heat on the body can happen quickly and can affect people of all ages and health conditions. Once symptoms of heat stroke begin — increased heart rate and a change in mental status — cooling off within 30 minutes is crucial to survival, said Tomás Aragón, director of the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many municipalities react to extreme heat by following state or county rules, which often involve opening cooling centers in public places when temperatures rise above a certain level for multiple days in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want people to be in a space where your body can control its core temperature,” Aragón said. “It’s safer to be in an air-conditioned place (that) cools your body down. That’s what cooling centers are for. I tell people, go to the supermarket, go to the library, go to a cooling center, go and just let your body cool down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But community advocates say cooling centers are ineffective because they’re underused. Many people are unaware of them, and others have no transportation to reach them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everyone is used to that being the answer for what we do when it gets extremely hot,” said Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of Climate Resolve. “We need to expand our imagination to figure out other ways of taking care of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victorville has complied with the 2015 state law requiring plans to handle climate change, and Hesperia is in the process of updating its plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Los Angeles County is an example of a local government that has gone above and beyond to comply, Parfrey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has updated its emergency preparedness plans and is in the early phases of developing a heat-specific plan for unincorporated areas, which will include urban greening and changes to the built environment to make neighborhoods cooler, said Ali Frazzini, policy director at the county’s Chief Sustainability office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06.jpg\" alt=\"A water park playground area filled with adults and children.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families playing at the water park area of Adventure Park in Visalia on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about preventing deaths and other terrible outcomes of heat waves, although that’s extremely important,” Frazzini said. “It’s really about having livable communities where kids can play outside, and street vendors can run their businesses without risk of overexposure.”[aside postID=\"news_11999014,science_1994107,news_11878134\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parfrey said the state plays a role, but “they’re not in charge of the roads or building codes or where you put a water fountain or how you build a local park. All of that has to be done at a local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the Newsom administration issued an Extreme Heat Action Plan outlining state steps to make California more resilient to extreme heat. That includes funding new community resilience centers where people can cool down as well as find resources or shelter during other emergencies, such as wildfires. It’s a model that some community advocates prefer over traditional cooling centers that are underutilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has granted almost $98 million for 24 projects so far, said Anna Jane Jones, who leads the development of the centers for the state’s Strategic Growth Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Visalia, Jimenez said her family doesn’t have many options for cool spaces where her young son can be entertained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At home, the family uses the air conditioner sparingly and keeps the blinds closed. During a heat wave, their power bill can climb to $250. If the bills were lower, she’d use the air conditioner all the time. “We have to do what we have to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez and her husband have thought twice about expanding their family and have floated the idea of moving somewhere else, but many of the affordable options, like Texas or Arizona, are even hotter than Visalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Global warming is a thing, and the heat isn’t getting any better anytime soon,” she said. “Everybody’s paying the price.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent sunny afternoon in Lancaster, Cassandra Hughes looked for a place to cool down. She set up a lawn chair in the shade at the edge of a park and spent the afternoon with a coloring book, listening to hip-hop music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaching a high of 97 degrees, this August day was pleasant by Lancaster standards — a breeze offered temporary relief. But just the week before, during a brutal heat wave, the high hit 109. For Hughes, the Mojave Desert city has been a dramatic change from the mild weather in El Segundo, the coastal city where she lived before moving in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughes, a retired nurse, is among the Californians who are moving inland in search of affordable housing and more space. But it comes at a price: dangerous heat driven by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/environment/climate-change/\">climate change\u003c/a>, accompanied by sky-high electric bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters analysis shows that many California cities with the biggest recent population booms are the same places that will experience the most high heat days — a potentially deadly confluence. The combination of a growing population and rising extreme heat \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/07/extreme-heat-report-insurance/\">will put more people at risk of illnesses\u003c/a> and pose a challenge for unprepared local officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As greenhouse gases warm the planet, more people around the globe are experiencing intensifying heat waves and higher temperatures. An international panel of climate scientists recently reported that it is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/\">virtually certain\u003c/a>” that “there has been increases in the intensity and duration of heat waves and in the number of heat wave days at the global scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters identified the California communities most at risk — the top 1% of the state’s more than 8,000 census tracts that have grown by more than 500 people in recent years and are expected to experience the most intensifying heat under climate change projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results: Lancaster and Palmdale in Los Angeles County; Apple Valley, Victorville and Hesperia in San Bernardino County; Lake Elsinore and Murrieta in Riverside County; and the Central Valley cities of Visalia, Fresno, Clovis and Tulare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2050, neighborhoods in those 11 inland cities are expected to experience 25 or more high heat days every year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cal-adapt.org/tools/extreme-heat/\">data from researchers\u003c/a> at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Colorado Boulder and UC Berkeley. A high heat day is when an area’s maximum temperature exceeds the top 2% of its historic high — in other words, temperatures that soar above some of the highest levels ever recorded there this century. (The projections were based on an intermediate scenario for future planet-warming emissions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these places facing this dangerous combination of worsening heat waves and growing populations are low-income Latino communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing much more rapid warming of inland areas that were already hotter to begin with,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an extreme contrast between the people who live within 5 to 10 miles of the beach and people who live as little as 20 miles inland,” he said. “It’s these inland areas where we see people who…are killed by this extreme heat or whose lives are at least made miserable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-graphics-heat-housing.netlify.app/heat-days-lookup?initialWidth=780&childId=pym_0&parentTitle=More%20extreme%20heat%20%2B%20more%20people%20%3D%20danger%20in%20these%20CA%20cities%20-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fenvironment%2Fclimate-change%2F2024%2F09%2Fcalifornia-extreme-heat-population-growth-inland-communities%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While temperatures are projected to rise across the state, neighborhoods along the coast will remain much more temperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Long Beach, for instance, are not projected to experience significantly more high heat days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco will average six days a year in the 2050s, exceeding 87 degrees, compared to four days in the 2020s. In contrast, Visalia will jump from 17 days exceeding 103 degrees to 32 — more than a full month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the growing inland populations, the cooler coastal counties — where more than two-thirds of Californians now live — are expected to lose about 1.3 million residents by 2050, according to the California Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High temperatures can be deadly, triggering heat strokes and \u003ca href=\"https://hms.harvard.edu/news/climate-change-fueled-weather-events-linked-worsened-heart-health#:~:text=Certain%20types%20of%20extreme%20weather,increased%20risk%20of%20heart%20disease.\">heart attacks\u003c/a> and exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/climate-change-and-asthma/\">asthma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10039694/\">diabetes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidney.org/press-room/new-study-heat-waves-climate-change-pushing-kidney-patients-to-er\">kidney failure\u003c/a> and other illnesses, even some \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/priorities/climate-infectious-disease.html\">infectious diseases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a pink shirt and sun glasses sits in a folding chair with a board in her lap.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-76-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Hughes sits on a folding chair alongside her car in Lancaster on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/180-climate-change/upload/Impacts-of-extreme-heat-to-California-s-people-infrastructure-and-economy-by-California-Department-of-Insurance-June-2024.pdf\">extreme heat contributed to\u003c/a> more than 5,000 hospitalizations and almost 10,600 emergency department visits over the past decade — and the health effects “fall disproportionately on already overburdened” Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, according to a recent state report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials must grapple with how to protect residents who already are struggling to stay cool and pay their electric bills. Despite the warnings, many local governments have failed to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_201520160sb379\">A 2015 state law \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB379\">required municipalities\u003c/a> to update their general plans, safety plans or hazard mitigation plans to include steps countering the effects of climate change, such as cooling roofs and pavement or urban greening projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only about half of California’s 540 cities and counties had complied with new plans as of last year, according to the environmental nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.climateresolve.org/ounce-of-prevention/\">Climate Resolve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The California dream or a hellish reality?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An exodus from California’s coastal regions is a\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/whos-leaving-california-and-whos-moving-in/\"> decadeslong trend\u003c/a>, said Eric McGhee, a policy director who researches California demographic changes at the Public Policy Institute of California. People are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/how-has-remote-work-affected-migration-around-the-state/\">moving away from the coasts,\u003c/a> especially the Los Angeles region and Bay Area, to elsewhere in California and other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 104,000 people moved from the Bay Area to the Sacramento area, the Inland Empire and the San Joaquin Valley in 2021 and 2022 and about 95,000 moved from Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange County to those same inland regions, according to data collected from the \u003ca href=\"https://usa.ipums.org/usa/\">Census\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee said most people moving inland are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-population-shifts-may-lead-to-new-income-divides/\">low-income and middle-income Californians \u003c/a>looking to expand their families, find cheaper housing and live comfortably — and they’re willing to sacrifice other privileges, like cool weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is “becoming more expensive, more exclusive in the places that are least likely to experience extreme heat,” Swain said. As a result, he said, “the people who are most at risk of extreme heat” — those with limited financial resources — “are precisely the people experiencing extreme heat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/scZs5/10/\" width=\"1100\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County city of \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/victorville-ca?redirect=true#demographics\">Victorville\u003c/a> — which is 55% Hispanic and has median incomes far below the state average — is among California’s fastest-growing areas, adding more than 12,500 new residents between 2018 and 2022. Nearby Apple Valley and Hesperia grew by about 3,000 and 6,000 people, respectively, while Lancaster, Palmdale and Visalia added between about 10,000 and 12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Victorville on an August day that reached 97 degrees, Eduardo Ceja wiped sweat from his forehead as he worked at Superior Grocers store, retrieving shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is often grueling in this Mojave Desert town. He sometimes drinks five bottles of water to stay hydrated as he works, with the concrete parking lot radiating the heat back onto his skin. When he’s done pushing carts, he recovers in the air-conditioned store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ceja, 20, moved to nearby Apple Valley about a year ago, around the same time the new grocery store opened. He used to sleep on his parents’ couch in the San Gabriel Valley town of Covina, east of Los Angeles, which is often more than 10 degrees cooler than Apple Valley on summer days. But he wanted a place to himself at a low cost, so now he pays $400 a month for a bedroom in his brother’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since he moved here, he’s observed many businesses, including his own employer, expanding or opening in Apple Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I notice a lot of people from L.A. are coming here,” he said. It makes sense to him. “Out here, the apartments have more space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003221\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing glasses and a black shirt stands outside by a tree.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM-50-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple Valley Mayor Scott Nassif on Aug. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/apple-valley-ca/#demographics\">Apple Valley\u003c/a> Mayor Scott Nassif has seen his desert town grow and get hotter over his lifetime. When he moved to the area in 1959, only a few thousand people lived there. Now it’s home to more than 75,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nassif remembers only a few days that would reach above 100 degrees and multiple snowstorms in the winter. Now, snowstorms are rare, and weeklong heat waves above 110 degrees are commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extreme heat “is noticeable,” he said. “I don’t think there was a day under 100 in July.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nassif attributes the town’s growing population to its good schools, a semi-rural lifestyle and affordable housing for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the high desert town of Hesperia, growth is evident. Banners advertising “New homes!” are posted throughout the town, luring potential buyers to tract home communities. Residents are cautiously eyeing a new development, called the Silverwood Community, that has recently broken ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive, 9,000-plus acre development is authorized for more than 15,000 new homes, according to its website. A video on its website coaxes potential buyers: “True believers know the California dream is within reach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a residential area and surrounding dry land.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081624_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_70-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the Silverwood project, a community development under construction, in Hesperia on Aug. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/hesperia-ca#demographics\">Hesperia\u003c/a>, which is almost two-thirds Hispanic and also has median incomes far below the state average, is anticipating continued growth as housing costs soar in other parts of California. Its planning includes rezoning some areas to allow for higher-density housing, which could bring more affordable housing, said Ryan Leonard, Hesperia’s principal planner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people are willing to make a commute to San Bernardino, Riverside or Ontario — a 45-minute to an hour commute — they can afford to buy a home here when they might not be able to afford that same home down the hill,” Leonard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Summer electric bills soar to $500 or more\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the California towns at most risk of intensifying heat, people are already saddled with big power bills because of their reliance on air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, households in Lancaster, Palmdale and Apple Valley pay on average $200 to $259 a month for electricity, compared to a $177 average in Southern California Edison’s service area, according to California Public Utilities Commission data as of May 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In summer months, average power use in these communities nearly triples compared to spring months, so some people’s bills can climb above $500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their bills are likely to grow as climate change intensifies heat waves and \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cal-advocates-website/files/press-room/reports-and-analyses/240722-public-advocates-office-q2-2024-electric-rates-report.pdf#page=5\">utility rates rise\u003c/a>: Californians are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/05/californians-electricity-rates/\">paying about twice as much\u003c/a> for electricity than a decade ago. The state’s rates are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/electricity-price-rate-pge-19429422.php\">among the highest in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Carlson moved to \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/palmdale-ca#demographics\">Palmdale\u003c/a>, north of Los Angeles, 30 years ago. The housing was much cheaper, and she wanted to move where her children could attend school near where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, she’s felt the temperatures in Palmdale rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson said her electric bill during the summers used to average about $500, a significant chunk of her household budget. About four years ago, though, she had solar panels installed on their home, which cut her bill in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t not run the air conditioner all day, even if you run it low,” she said. “You wouldn’t survive otherwise. The heat is too oppressive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With multiple days in the summer reaching at least 115 degrees, Carlson is conscious that there may be a future where Palmdale isn’t livable for her anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will it get as hot as Death Valley?” she wondered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth, reached \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-03/death-valley-sets-another-record-for-july-august-also-expected-to-be-above-average\">record temperatures\u003c/a> in July, averaging 108.5 degrees; the high was 121.9, tying a 1917 record. In comparison, Palmdale by 2050 is projected to have 25 days where the maximum temperature exceeds 105, up from nine days in the 2010s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson said she’d consider moving to the East Coast, where she’s originally from. But she’d face hurricanes rather than the heat. It all comes down to making a decision: “Which negatives are you willing to deal with?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23.jpg\" alt=\"A man rides a bicycle past a house with a tent, table, several products and a woman standing in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street vendor sells fans and mini pools in Lancaster on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hughes, who lives in subsidized housing in \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/lancaster-ca\">Lancaster\u003c/a>, said surviving the heat means constantly checking the weather forecast and strategically cooling her home to keep electricity costs low. “I have air conditioning, a swamp cooler and two fans,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a day when the temperature doesn’t reach triple digits, the air conditioner might stay off; she opens the windows and turns on the fans instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14.jpg\" alt=\"An infrared thermometer showing 137.3 degrees on the display.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infrared thermometer showing street surface temperature reaching 137 degrees in Lancaster on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local leaders say they know more must be done to protect their residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lancaster opens cooling centers in libraries for residents who need respite from the heat. During heat waves, residents ride buses for free, and city programs provide water and other resources to homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it adequate? Of course, it’s not adequate,” Mayor R. Rex Parris said. “If you’ve got people who don’t read or don’t get a newspaper sitting in a sweltering apartment, the information is not getting to them, and we know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parris said air conditioning is necessary for families to stay cool in the hot desert summers, but with utility costs so high, it’s becoming a luxury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003218\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45.jpg\" alt=\"A wire sculpture of a woman holding a leaf.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081524_CA-Projected-Heat_TS_CM_45-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wire sculpture on a light pole in Lancaster on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With that in mind, he said the city is prioritizing hydrogen energy, which could lower electric bills in the long term. A new housing tract will be powered by solar panels and batteries that store power, backed up by hydrogen fuel cells, which will be cheaper than if the homes drew energy entirely from the grid, said Jason Caudle, head of Lancaster Energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nassif, the Apple Valley mayor, said his town helps residents finance costly rooftop solar panels that can cut their power bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educating our public on how to save on their electric bills is a big thing because you can’t live up here without air conditioning,” Nassif said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cooling centers aren’t enough to protect people\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in Visalia, as temperatures climbed to 99 degrees, Maribel Jimenez brought her 2-year-old son to an indoor playground to beat the heat. She sat at a kid-sized table with her son, Mateo, as he played with toy screws and blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez, 33, has lived in \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/visalia-ca/\">Visalia\u003c/a> her whole life. She grew up on a dairy farm and remembers playing outdoors for hours in the summers. But things have changed. She can’t imagine letting her son play outdoors under the scorching sun. She worries he’s not getting the outdoor playtime he should be getting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely gotten much hotter,” Jimenez said. “You can’t even have your kids outside. We want to take him out to the playground, but it’s too hot. By the time it cools down in the evening, it’s his bedtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other times, she and her family go to the mall for walks or anywhere where there’s air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as he’s out, he’s happy,” she said. “We try our best to protect him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman sit next to a small child by a fishing pond.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maribel Jimenez and Oscar Olmedo play with their son Mateo in the fishing pond at the ImagineU Children’s Museum in Visalia on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The effects of extreme heat on the body can happen quickly and can affect people of all ages and health conditions. Once symptoms of heat stroke begin — increased heart rate and a change in mental status — cooling off within 30 minutes is crucial to survival, said Tomás Aragón, director of the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many municipalities react to extreme heat by following state or county rules, which often involve opening cooling centers in public places when temperatures rise above a certain level for multiple days in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want people to be in a space where your body can control its core temperature,” Aragón said. “It’s safer to be in an air-conditioned place (that) cools your body down. That’s what cooling centers are for. I tell people, go to the supermarket, go to the library, go to a cooling center, go and just let your body cool down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But community advocates say cooling centers are ineffective because they’re underused. Many people are unaware of them, and others have no transportation to reach them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everyone is used to that being the answer for what we do when it gets extremely hot,” said Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of Climate Resolve. “We need to expand our imagination to figure out other ways of taking care of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victorville has complied with the 2015 state law requiring plans to handle climate change, and Hesperia is in the process of updating its plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Los Angeles County is an example of a local government that has gone above and beyond to comply, Parfrey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has updated its emergency preparedness plans and is in the early phases of developing a heat-specific plan for unincorporated areas, which will include urban greening and changes to the built environment to make neighborhoods cooler, said Ali Frazzini, policy director at the county’s Chief Sustainability office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06.jpg\" alt=\"A water park playground area filled with adults and children.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/081724-Visalia-Heat-LV_CM_06-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families playing at the water park area of Adventure Park in Visalia on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about preventing deaths and other terrible outcomes of heat waves, although that’s extremely important,” Frazzini said. “It’s really about having livable communities where kids can play outside, and street vendors can run their businesses without risk of overexposure.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, August 15, 2024…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three years ago, as the U.S military completed its pull out, Taliban forces captured Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. In the wake of that change, many Afghan refugees fled to the U.S. and California. They settled in the Bay Area, L.A., San Diego and Sacramento, but some also have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2024-07-16/in-californias-desert-refugees-from-afghanistan-make-a-new-life-for-themselves\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found a new home in California’s Mojave Desert.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/wildfire/2024-08-14/boise-fire-grows-to-over-8-600-acres-across-humboldt-and-siskiyou-counties\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boise Fire burning in Humboldt and Siskiyou Counties\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has charred more than 9600 acres, according to fire officials. There’s still no containment as of Thursday morning. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some California Democrats have announced a campaign to back a state proposition that would increase penalties for theft and drug crimes. Many opponents of \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2024/prop36-110524.pdf\">Proposition 36\u003c/a> say the ballot initiative is a Republican-led effort, but the group of Democratic leaders say crime is affecting their communities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2024-07-16/in-californias-desert-refugees-from-afghanistan-make-a-new-life-for-themselves\">\u003cb>In California’s Desert, Refugees From Afghanistan Make A New Life For Themselves\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly three years after \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027696241/biden-said-the-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-would-be-safe-then-chaos-ensued\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the United States pulled out of Afghanistan\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, more than 150 refugees fleeing Taliban rule have found homes in California’s Mojave Desert. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mojave makes a lot of sense for refugees, since California is an expensive place to live. 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"content": "\u003cp>There isn’t a lot in Antelope Valley, to the west of Lancaster, California. This patch of the western Mojave Desert, about an hour north of Los Angeles, is desolate. There’s practically nothing for miles except for a few clusters of RVs and a tiny airfield with an old-school diner in the lobby. But it does have one attraction that draws in-the-know travelers — the Musical Road of Lancaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locals are bemused by the quirky attraction but also a little proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"David Simmons-Duffin, physicist\"]‘I remember I was in my parents’ kitchen, and the commercial came on the TV. I was intrigued because I’d had some experience with these rumble strips on the road before.’[/pullquote]“I think it’s kind of cool to have this whimsical thing out there,” said Colin Delaney, a librarian at Lancaster Library. “It’s just a fun little thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[My family] would make up spooky stories like if you went backwards on it, something would happen,” said a woman named Marlene, who works at Lancaster’s Museum of Art and History. “One time when my brother started driving, he did go backwards on it. It sounded a little odd, I’m not going to lie. It sounded a little scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grooves have been cut in a quarter-mile stretch of highway next to some abandoned warehouses so that when cars drive over it, a tune rings out. It’s supposed to be the “William Tell Overture” by the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, probably best known as the theme to The Lone Ranger. 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However, \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7627713.stm\">according to news reports at the time\u003c/a>, the noise complaints were so bad that the city spent $35,000 to remove and relocate the road to its current location outside of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How does it work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Physicist David Simmons-Duffin remembers hearing the Honda commercial for the first time. He was in graduate school, home for the holidays, visiting his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember I was in my parents’ kitchen, and the commercial came on the TV,” he said. “I was intrigued because I’d had some experience with these rumble strips on the road before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept reminded Simmons-Duffin of a childhood memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a kid, we used to drive to a park in Canada. On the roads, they would have these rumble strips before the stop signs, and my dad would experiment with trying to play music by going different speeds over the rumble strips. We would talk about how fast we needed to go to make different kinds of musical scales. 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"content": "\u003cp>In her new young adult novel, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625057/all-my-rage-by-sabaa-tahir/\">All My Rage\u003c/a>,” author \u003ca href=\"https://sabaatahir.com/\">Sabaa Tahir\u003c/a> tells a story of cultural identity and growing up through the eyes of two teenage best friends. Noor and Salahudin are both Pakistani American, living in the small fictional town of Juniper, in California’s Mojave Desert. Noor wants nothing more than to go away to college and leave behind their rural town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906203\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/All-My-Rage-COVER.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11906203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/All-My-Rage-COVER-160x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/All-My-Rage-COVER-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/All-My-Rage-COVER-800x1209.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/All-My-Rage-COVER-1020x1542.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/All-My-Rage-COVER-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/All-My-Rage-COVER.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Penguin Random House\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tahir is the bestselling author of the young adult fantasy series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/series/153986-an-ember-in-the-ashes\">An Ember in the Ashes\u003c/a>,” which features a young woman of color as the hero fighting back against an oppressive empire. In contrast to her fantasy novels, Tahir mines her own experiences in her most recent book. Like her main character, Salahudin, she is the child of Pakistani immigrants who grew up in a rural town in the Mojave Desert, in her parents’ 18-room motel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tahir recently spoke with The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Excerpts of this interview have been edited for length and clarity.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On being shaped by the experience of growing up in her family’s motel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think the thing that I remember the most are all the different types of people who would come through. Everything I learned, from how to curse, to the different ways that people expressed kindness. We had a tenant once who paid us with a bird because I think he didn’t have enough money to make rent. But he had all these birds that he loved, that he kept in the room. We had a tenant once who [damaged] the room, [making] a hole in the wall or something, and he left without saying anything about it. But my parents found money in the room, and they assumed that that was his way of saying, “Hey, sorry about this. I hope this will pay for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we also had people who wouldn’t pay rent, who ruined the rooms, who called us names, who were abusive. It really was an experience of extremes. I was quiet, I loved reading. I was in my head a lot. And I think that there was so much more going on inside than I ever really expressed. 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She is wearing a pink dress with a white collar, and her hair pulled back with a headband. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Little-Sabaa-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Little-Sabaa-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Little-Sabaa-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Little-Sabaa-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Little-Sabaa-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Little-Sabaa-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Sabaa Tahir as a child. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sabaa Tahir)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On writing for young adults\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I feel like 14 to 22 is an age of such change and such growth. So much of story is about the arc, about the change and the growth within a character. So to me, it seems like a natural fit to write about young adults. I love writing for children who are at a vulnerable time in their life and to write stories that are, in my mind, realistic but that also offer hope. Because as a young person myself, I really, really needed to see hope in the books that I read.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sabaa Tahir\"]‘I love writing for children who are at a vulnerable time in their life and to write stories that are, in my mind, realistic but that also offer hope.’[/pullquote]I think honesty is really important, showing the messy reality of these kids’ lives, both in the struggle but also in the beauty and in the humor — in allowing for a lack of resolution, or a resolution that is perhaps a little bit more ambiguous. Because the truth is that trauma doesn’t always leave us. We can heal from it. Sometimes we can shed it, but not always. I wanted to portray that realistically for young people because I don’t think young people are always taught how to deal with trauma. And yet young people go through immense amounts of trauma, whether adults want to admit it or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On using music to express Noor’s emotions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the songs that means so much to Noor is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0&ab_channel=SmashingPumpkinsVEVO\">Bullet with Butterfly Wings\u003c/a>” by [The] Smashing Pumpkins. And I think people who know the song will recognize the title of this book. It’s this ’90s anthem and it really encompasses this sense of rage that Noor feels that is buried very deep. Another song that Noor loves is by Masuma Anwar called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEPenI-2WsA&ab_channel=GaaneShaane\">Tainu Ghul Gayaan\u003c/a>.” Anwar has this really deep voice and this incredible range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noor really struggles to express her feelings. When she speaks out loud, she ends up using short sentences, really having a hard time saying what she means. So one of the reasons why she loves Masuma Anwar so much is because this woman puts so much feeling into a single word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Leone’s song “Once” comes up on Noor’s playlist as Noor and Salahudin are driving together, and they’ve just shared some deep secrets with each other. This is a song that is all about regret and the past:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I close my eyes and lean my head back. The road is smooth beneath the wheels. The window cool against the bruise on my cheek, and Anna Leone sings “Once” about what it means to move on from the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, Salahudin,” I say, “it feels like too much. I think about the shit we’ve read in school. Those books all about one problem. A kid who’s bullied. A kid who’s beaten. A kid who’s poor. And I think of us and how we won the shit-luck lottery. We have all the problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nazar seh bachau.” He utters Auntie Misbah’s oath against the evil eye so fervently that I laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Famine comes when you lament the flood.\u003c/em> I hear Auntie Misbah say in my head. \u003cem>It could always be worse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you think our adulthoods will make up for everything we had to deal with as kids?” I ask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like, we get out of here and you go to med school and I become a writer and our lives will be amazing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have to be amazing. Just not…” My face throbs, “Not this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to escape this place, Noor.” He looks over at me. “You’re going to become a doctor. Your adulthood is going to make up for all of it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/sNp5WDG7NlE\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On what is bringing her joy right now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think there’s so much wonderful art being created. 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A place where empty desert land is presented as a ticket to the American Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834254\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44509__Drone-Roads-0668-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California City is carved out of the Mojave Desert. It was designed in the late 1950s for hundreds of thousands of people, but today, there are only about 14,000 residents. Many neighborhoods remain unbuilt. Dirt roads lead to nowhere. Some have street signs, but many are unnamed. One former resident remembered standing at the corner of ‘blank and blank.’ \u003ccite>(Chava Sanchez/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For decades, real estate developers have gotten rich by selling this fever dream to thousands of people, many of whom are hard-working immigrants looking to build a better future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reality is much different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land investments never paid off, and the landowners — many of whom scraped together their life savings to buy a plot of land — were left with next to nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834255\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44510_Desert-_For-Sale_-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44510_Desert-_For-Sale_-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44510_Desert-_For-Sale_-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44510_Desert-_For-Sale_-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44510_Desert-_For-Sale_-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44510_Desert-_For-Sale_-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California City is filled with signs advertising vacant land for sale. \u003ccite>(Chava Sanchez/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California City is just a few miles north of Edwards Air Force Base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the third-largest city in the state by land area, but the population stood at only 14,120 in the last census. It’s a one-bar town surrounded by a vast layout of unpaved streets, filled with people too afraid to talk about the heart of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a story in which victims can be perpetrators and heroes can be villains — from the do-gooder attorney who helped thousands of people before committing a heinous crime of his own, to a former police chief who decided not to investigate an open secret in his own town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To uncover the full scope of this story, and raise awareness about the thousands of people who were affected, this Western crime noir goes back to where it all got started 60 years ago by an immigrant with a dream of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834256\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44511_Drone-CA-City-0489-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California City is the third largest city in the state – by land area. 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You started delivering from the East Coast to the West Coast. On your way to Fontana, California, you would often go off route to drive along the Mojave Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">After a few years of trucking, you settled down and got married in the Midwest. You began driving regionally, leaving you nowhere near the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">When you later enrolled in nursing school, you missed the smell of the desert and the excitement of a road trip adventure. Making ends meet in your new career became a challenge, but you found travel nursing as a lucrative option. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published in October 2017 as part of The California Report Magazine's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/a-place-called-what\">A Place Called What?!\u003c/a>\" series. It re-aired on July 3rd, 2020 for a special show called \"Buckle Up: A (Virtual) Road Trip to CA Hidden Gems.\" Note: Rob Fulton spent more than three decades managing the \u003ca href=\"http://nsm.fullerton.edu/dsc/\">Desert Studies Center\u003c/a> as the only resident of ZZYZX. He passed away in a car accident in 2018, soon after this story originally aired. He’s remembered as an expert on the flora and fauna of his beloved Mojave Desert.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve driven on Interstate 15 near Death Valley, you’ve probably passed a sign for a town with a name you couldn’t pronounce: Zzyzx (ZYE-ZIX).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You won’t find any shops or restaurants or even houses in Zzyzx. 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He’s also the town's only permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-160x214.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-1020x1366.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-240x321.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-375x502.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-520x696.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut.jpg 1420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Fulton has lived and worked in Zzyzx for 31 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fulton says Zzyzx got its name from Dr. Curtis Springer, a radio preacher who always insisted on having the last word -- Springer claimed \"Zzyzx\" would be the last word in the English language. In 1944, he established the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he thought it would be clever to invent the last word and then use it for the name of his mineral springs,\" Fulton says. \"He would say things like 'Come to Zzyzx Mineral Springs: the last word in health.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-800x1118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-800x1118.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-1020x1425.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-960x1342.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-240x335.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-375x524.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-520x727.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for Dr. Curtis Springer's radio show. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the only trace of the Mineral Springs are the buildings that now house the Desert Studies Center, where Fulton has lived and worked for 31 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial shot of the Desert Studies Center, facing north. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-1180x825.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-520x364.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut.jpg 1809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa in 1951. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the manager for the center, Fulton is responsible for everything from maintenance of the buildings to meeting the groups of people who come from all over the world to tour the unique ecosystem of the Mohave Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being the only permanent resident \"can be lonely at times\" -- his other colleagues commute in from neighboring towns -- but he says it can also be \"exciting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially when it comes to getting groceries. When it's time to go food shopping, Fulton drives one hour each way to the nearest grocery store in Barstow. If he can't find what he needs there, he has to drive to Victorville, 100 miles away. While most of us couldn't fathom this kind of long-distance shopping, Fulton says he's used to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gives me some time to listen to the radio and think about other things while I'm driving,\" he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing about Zzyzx that keeps Fulton happy, besides the natural beauty of the place, is that he is constantly meeting people who come to the Desert Studies Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The diversity of students that come through ... interacting with them and their instructors, and the people that conduct research out of the field station ... it's an ever-changing landscape of different interests and reasons for being here. And that keeps it interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626014\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27195_Minerology-group-in-lab-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A minerology group works in the lab at the Desert Studies Center. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing he knows for sure? He's probably not heading back to the suburbs anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I go back to suburbia now I really don't feel comfortable,\" Fulton says. \"I mean, it's like I grew up in this but I don't relate to it anymore. That's kind of weird.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published in October 2017 as part of The California Report Magazine's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/a-place-called-what\">A Place Called What?!\u003c/a>\" series. It re-aired on July 3rd, 2020 for a special show called \"Buckle Up: A (Virtual) Road Trip to CA Hidden Gems.\" Note: Rob Fulton spent more than three decades managing the \u003ca href=\"http://nsm.fullerton.edu/dsc/\">Desert Studies Center\u003c/a> as the only resident of ZZYZX. He passed away in a car accident in 2018, soon after this story originally aired. He’s remembered as an expert on the flora and fauna of his beloved Mojave Desert.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve driven on Interstate 15 near Death Valley, you’ve probably passed a sign for a town with a name you couldn’t pronounce: Zzyzx (ZYE-ZIX).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You won’t find any shops or restaurants or even houses in Zzyzx. But you will find the \u003ca href=\"http://nsm.fullerton.edu/dsc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Desert Studies Center\u003c/a>, a research station operated by a consortium of seven California State University campuses. Rob Fulton manages the center. He’s also the town's only permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-160x214.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-1020x1366.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-240x321.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-375x502.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut-520x696.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27196_Rob-qut.jpg 1420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Fulton has lived and worked in Zzyzx for 31 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fulton says Zzyzx got its name from Dr. Curtis Springer, a radio preacher who always insisted on having the last word -- Springer claimed \"Zzyzx\" would be the last word in the English language. In 1944, he established the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he thought it would be clever to invent the last word and then use it for the name of his mineral springs,\" Fulton says. \"He would say things like 'Come to Zzyzx Mineral Springs: the last word in health.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-800x1118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-800x1118.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-1020x1425.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-960x1342.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-240x335.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-375x524.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut-520x727.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27194_Springer-flyer-2-copy-qut.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for Dr. Curtis Springer's radio show. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the only trace of the Mineral Springs are the buildings that now house the Desert Studies Center, where Fulton has lived and worked for 31 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27198_DSC-looking-north-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial shot of the Desert Studies Center, facing north. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-1180x825.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut-520x364.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27713_1951-qut.jpg 1809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa in 1951. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rob Fulton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the manager for the center, Fulton is responsible for everything from maintenance of the buildings to meeting the groups of people who come from all over the world to tour the unique ecosystem of the Mohave Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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