Things to do in a heatwave. Kids yell and swing from the tree or paddle in circles. Unless one has footware on, swimming holes are nice but initially very creepy places to touch bottom.
With those fears how would a holiday in Egypt rate? How would it be to witness a revolution first hand? From here it actually sounds tempting. Not meaning to trivialise the struggle.
There was some disappointment once when a typhoon changed course away from a Pacific island I visited. Windows were boarded up in readiness and situation was tense but all was in vain.
Far north Queensland currently has the biggest ever cyclone looming off shore. Scarey.