But anyone can get sick from the heat if they aren’t careful, and the best way to stay safe is to drink a lot of water, wear light clothes and stay indoors as much as possible, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Signs of heat exhaustion include heavy sweating, muscle cramps, nausea or vomiting and dizziness, among others.

Climate change is not only making extreme heat and heavy rainfall more frequent and intense, it’s also increasing the chances of places experiencing overlapping or successive disasters, called compounding disasters.

Disaster recovery can already take a long time in the US.

Back-to-back events only complicate it further.

In Eastern Kentucky, the flood damage is estimated to take years to repair. The heavy rainfall started last Thursday night, triggering record flooding that inundated roads and wiped homes right off their foundations.

As of Tuesday morning, 37 people were confirmed dead, according to Beshear, and more people remain missing.

At least 191 people are being temporarily housed at state parks, and travel trailers are being brought in to help with immediate housing needs. The governor’s office is encouraging people to donate to the newly created Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund to help those affected.

“It is absolutely devastating. It’s going to take years to rebuild. People were left with absolutely nothing. Homes, we don’t know where they are. Just entirely gone,” Beshear said. “And we continue to find bodies of our brothers and sisters that we have lost.”