heatwave | chestercountyramblings

This is every family’s nightmare. You entrust the care of a loved one to a retirement community/facility. And tragedy strikes.

This started YESTERDAY. And in this heat, whether or not she was an independent living the media reports and the police reports both infer cognitive issues. She was seen leaving, didn’t they think to keep tabs on a brand new person unfamiliar with the area IN THIS HEAT?

Main Line Media News and others reported that she had been seen by someone’s housekeeper yesterday and declined help on Morris? Imagine if someone had just called the police? The nouveau Main Line is full of busy bodies and no one noticed her???

Lower Merion police report missing 84-year-old woman found deceased

She was found on Garden Lane in Bryn Mawr. That is quite the walk from Waverly Heights. Waverly Road across big roads like Conshohocken State Road, up to Morris, down Morris, crossing over other streets like Old Gulph Road, to I guess Carisbrooke Road to Garden Lane. That is about 3 miles, maybe slightly less. But this isn’t a straight shot. These are roads that are windy, often busy, and hilly in places.

Are we also wound up in our lives that no one else saw an elderly woman during brutally hot weather? How long was she gone before Waverly Heights called the police? This comment below (next) from Lower Merion Police Department’s Facebook page indicates she had just been moved from Colorado.

Apparently she has family in Chester County. I am so terribly sorry for them and sad. I have known many who have lived at Waverly Heights quite happily and this chain of events shocks me as much as everything else. For what this place costs, you would never expect this.

She was so new, not driving that anyone has mentioned, and it was brutally hot. If she wasn’t happy being there as well as so new to area and again so hot, they should have kept more of an eye on her or assigned her a walking buddy or something don’t you think?

Rest in peace poor lady.

The heat has been brutal and my garden is starting to show the wear and tear of the temperature extremes. I have lost a few plants which bums me out but in conditions like this it is survival of the fittest even if you’re watering and setting the sprinklers.

This morning early I was able to do a little light pruning and deadheading, but then the temperature and humidity climbed so fast I stopped and went back inside.

A lot of my flowers are still quite pretty and spite of the high temperatures, but when you step outside the overwhelming sound you hear is the cacophony of the symphony of cicadas.

And one thing that seems undeterred by the heat and humidity is the poison ivy. This is by far my worst year ever for poison ivy. I had a poison ivy removal service come out and dig out a huge chunk of it but I have so much more to get removed. But at least the vines that were producing seedlings from the seeds – poison ivy has male and female vines – have been removed so hopefully that will slow down.

My roses are really suffering in this weather. It is so humid that black spot is rampant and it is too hot to spray anything, so the best I can do is keep the leaves and debris cleaned up under the bushes.