Don, the heat can be brutal at 107+. It seems a lot worse than when I was younger but I figure that's to be expected at my age(71). I get started at daybreak and by about 2:00 I'm pretty well through working outdoors for the day. Everybody has central AC. Deaths do sometimes occur from the heat but that is pretty noteworthy.
About 25 years ago I got heat prostration which is the step before heat stroke. It messed up my internal thermostat for several years. During that time I couldn't handle even 100 degree temps. But, it was my own damn fault. I was doing some concrete work and substituted beer for water. When I realized what was happening, I laid down in a creek that lowered my body temp but I was too late to rehydrate. I've come close to it happening again when I've figured that I just have to complete a project.
You know you're in trouble when you quit sweating and don't need to pee. At that point, you had better get to the AC. However, I have to sit outdoors for about 15 minutes in the shade or the indoor temps of 75 make me shiver. My wife says that I should have taken some common sense courses in College and acknowledge my age.
OTOH, last weeks temps in the mid teens with 25 to 30 mph winds were just as brutal to me. And, with my background of hunting the Rockies, I have the clothes to handle it. I just can't see any point in being outdoors when the temps drop like that. When I pics on TV of the big storms that have been hitting the Northern areas, I have to wonder why those areas are even populated.
