Extreme heat is more deadly than hurricanes, but in Louisiana protections fall short

“Half the time, I think I’m gonna pass out,” FedEx driver Cailyn Williams said from the driver’s seat of her delivery truck on a hot Thursday afternoon in Downtown Lafayette. The 28-year-old recently began driving for the delivery service, just as temperatures across Louisiana started reaching dangerously high levels. “This heat ain’t nothing to play with,” Williams said. Read more