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“In survival situations the order of importance is warmth, then water, and then food,” said Chuck. “You can survive weeks or months without food, but only two days without water, and you’ll freeze to death in just a few hours. We need to stay warm and find a gallon of water per day per person.”
The media, however, was already making comparisons to wars and other climate disasters, like the heat wave in Europe in 2003 that had killed seventy thousand people—in Paris they’d had to open refrigerated warehouses to start storing the dead when morgues had overflowed.
