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Tesh said that while droughts did precede outbreaks in New York and Colorado, among other places, they also occurred in Texas and Louisiana within the past two years, despite what he termed “relatively wet summers” in those areas...
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...STAY WET Buy bottled water, and put it away. No matter how much you think you'll need, you'll probably need more, so go for multigallon jugs. After the power fails but before water tanks run dry, it's also a good idea to fill your tubs. (Just remember to keep the bathroom doors closed for safety if you've got young children or pets in the house...
...always, desperation breeds innovation. Everywhere, people exchanged tips on how to survive: some took showers with their clothes on and then went to bed--wet. A colleague recommended sleeping with a frozen towel over your face. Other people descended into the catacombs, where 6 million skeletons were pleasantly cool. Mto France, the national weather service, posted hopelessly quaint tips: wet your draperies, and maybe even spritz a little perfume on them to sweeten...
...simple human intervention: De Noinville was not left alone. "We in this home are just lucky we had excellent people caring for us," she says. Thirty doctors, nurses and aides at Sainte-Agnès public retirement home in suburban Paris tended to the 80 residents with ice packs, wet towels and fluids to help them survive the suffocating heat in the home, which, like most French retirement homes, is not air-conditioned. Three residents died during the heat wave - deaths sped by high temperatures, not staff negligence. "They knew exactly what to do to make sure [we] came through...