The forecasted health impacts seem extremely high. Coping strategies: * drive a couple hours North and camp in the mountains. 3.5F drop/1000 ft elevation. F

The forecasted health impacts seem extremely high. Coping strategies: * drive a couple hours North and camp in the mountains. 3.5F drop/1000 ft elevation. Flagstaff’s highs in summer are 25F cooler than Phoenix and is a two hour drive away. (You do have at least one gasoline car that will work during an outage, don’t you?) * swimming pools/water parks/water sprinklers/tepid baths…Salt River 40 minutes drive away. Very low humidity (i.e. Phoenix heatwave) + tepid water + cotton clothing + air drying with any breeze = very cool. * free-standing evaporative coolers for outdoor sleeping. A 2kWh lithium battery would power a 90W free-standing (4 ft high) evaporative cooler for 20+ hours and blow a continuous 70 degree directable breeze during a 95F (and thus a very low humidity) night. A gas-powered generator would handle a few coolers simultaneously and continuously for not much gasoline. Maybe require such coolers and generators/batteries for any facility housing elderly and other vulnerable. Such coolers are about $200 US. Requires refilling with water every two-three hours, but larger units can be hooked up with a hose to public water utilities, and a float valve in the unit lets them run without intervention. * adobe buildings * shade, shade, shade (mad dogs and Englishmen…) It is worthwhile to highlight the dangers from heat events (recent event in Chicago killed hundreds) and plan mitigation strategies, but making scary predictions outside the realms of common sense is counterproductive. Creative adaptation must be modeled too, for the actual forecasted impacts to be accepted as credible.