Tips from the US southwest for anyone not used to the heat, if you’d like them:
- Drink a stupid amount of water and eat salty stuff, as long as you don’t have a kidney condition
- If it’s a dry heat (<50% humidity) you can rapidly cool yourself with a wet washcloth or spray bottle and a fan. You’ll have to keep wetting it as it evaporates, but it works
- If it’s not a dry heat or you’re too hot for the washcloth thing, squeeze a cold pack under your arms or between your legs, the blood flow there will help you drop heat faster
- If you’re so hot that’s not helping, take a cool shower
- At night when it cools down, turn your AC as low as it will go/as low as finances allow. Every object in your house can ‘hold on’ to the cold and help cool your house during the day, the same way a full fridge maintains temperature better than an empty one
- Go to public places with AC if there are any near you (libraries and malls usually have AC here)
- Being unable to cool down no matter what you do is a MEDICAL EMERGENCY and you should treat it that way! Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are serious and have lifelong consequences
If you already know all this and are still suffering, I feel you. Our turn is coming 😩
This doesn’t make sense with how laws regarding flights over international waters work, which is generally that the laws of the country the plane is registered to apply while in international waters. If you get on an American plane in the US and land in a US territory, that’s not leaving the US. They clearly started from their conclusion and worked backwards.
Preaching to the choir, I know.