One-third of Americans under heat alerts as blistering weather spreads from Southwest to California

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6. In 1985, I brought my newly hired Swiss colleague to Dallas to visit our HQ

He thought he knew about hot from vacations in Tunisia, Italy and Spain. But when we got off the plane, just in the short jetway between the plane and the terminal, he got a blast of heat he never forgot. "Le chaleur, le chaleur (the heat, the heat)! " he was exclaiming. He hasn't been back in nearly 40 years.

He lives in Geneva, not far from the lake, so he doesn't get that kind of temperature at home, although they have come close in recent years. He is now 76, and has no interest whatsoever in retiring. Like me, he says, "and do what?"