Schools start early in Arizona
and football practices were going on in last weeks 110 degree temps.
(The high will be only a very pleasant 100 today) Football practice is normally at night and it get dark earlier here with no DST. thank god.
You would think kids would drop like flies but it rarely happens.
As desert residents kids are trained early on hydration , every little kid carries big bottles or multiple bottles of water to school daily.
In fact there is a law on the books that makes it an offense to refuse water to anyone who asks. Most Banks hand out bottled water to customers or anyone who asks.
The people who die out here are typically tourists carrying too little water or drank cola, alcohol or even coffee before hiking. All increase dehydration.
Even my big beer drinking buddy would have water between his beers.
To give you an idea of the bodies water loss in this desert heat . When I golfed daily in summer I would drink
40-60 ounces of water during 18 holes and never once urinate.
Sweat evaporated so quickly you didn’t even realize you were sweating.
If you didn’t replace that loss
the consequences could be death.
Rarely will an Arizona resident leave home without water especially in summer. That’s something we never thought about or prepared for back east. When I first moved here I did get dehydrated once the symptoms were flu like. I thought I was dieing.
After that I added an electrolyte supplement to my water during summer golf.
