El peligro emergente de las olas de calor post-huracán | Con el calentamiento global haciendo que las personas dependan cada vez más del aire acondicionado, los cortes de energía causados por huracanes seguidos de olas de calor están generando riesgos para la salud cada vez más peligrosos.

Very true. In 2017 Irma rolled its way up the center of the Florida peninsula, arriving in my neck of the woods (W Pasco) as “just a Cat 1”. It toppled palm trees and felled the few electrical wires on poles that supply our power.

It took three weeks for them to get to my block. In between brief visits to Publix (which had a generator) I spent my days dousing my head in water and laying on my bed, listening to my battery operated radio while my battery operated fan blew on me. I barely had the strength to feed the animals, and occasionally feed myself. Just walking a few feet created such an outpouring of sweat that you were exhausted at the end of it.

I learned quickly after that experience. I have several chargeable/battery fans, several radios that also store power for phones and gadgets, I got a portable shower/solar water heater, and an ice vest with spare ice packs.

My next acquisition will be some larger batteries, a few solar panels and getting an emergency backup outlet installed in my electrical box so that I *can* run an air conditioner.

But if you have no home to shelter in, that makes things much more difficult. Katrina was evidence of that.