Faced with US heat waves, Native American Navajo fight for electricity

The Manila Times

Faced with US heat waves, Native American Navajo fight for electricity  Workmen plant electricity poles in the rust-orange earth of the Navajo Nation and run cables to Christine Shorty's house — finally giving her power against the searing Arizona desert heat. It will be a luxury in the vast Native American reservation, the largest in the United States, where more than 10,000 families are still without electricity and therefore air conditioning.  AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital  Sign up to our newsletters: https://tmt.ph/newsletters   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #WorldNews #Heat #America

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00:00Sunrise that was our only light and then sunset right now between right now at

00:12night we can use the electricity which is really you know really good it's

00:20gonna make my life a lot easier for me yes

00:30you see a little bit of rain but it comes to dry out maybe it's a climate change yeah yeah it's

00:53getting hotter yeah and this would be easier for us with the fan and maybe air-conditioning

00:59I just like that heat but when you get older I guess you can't your body can't take it no more

01:14especially if you have a health problem people that have problems they're the ones that suffer

01:19more at the heat they get heat stroke and now we can turn on the AC anytime we want so we had to

01:28worry about the heat I want to go back to work but if I go back to work they're going to shut down my

01:34does that happen more often that there's nights where you need the AC low high oh this is a part of

01:45as we work to connect as many homes as possible you know we're still trying to catch up with the rest

01:57of america growing up having to look at these power lines that are just right across the road

02:13is really heartbreaking and frustrating that we have not seen any kind of source from there from this point

02:23going on until now

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