Get Ready: Hot Weather Ahead

My day has been spenting messing around with our new website. It’s a very cool system, but not without challenges. Anyway, my latest accomplishment is that you can now go straight to:

www.oregonredcross.org/heatwaves

and find out whatever you might need to be ready for this weekend’s hot weather. You can also get lots of water safety tips, if that’s on your agenda.

Here’s a quick quiz:

If you’re suffering from heat stroke, your skin is:
A) Cool, moist and pale.
B) Hot and red.

If you’re suffering from heat exhaustion, your temperature is:
A) Near normal.
B) Very high.

If you don’t know the answers, go here to find out!

Image from the National Weather Service