This is what collapse looks like.

Notes from a burning Paris. People are dying – 55 people died in Paris alone in the past 24 hours. Festivals, school, gym classes are cancelled. Hundreds of thousands of chickens have perished across France. I just read an alert: a bus driver passed out from heatstroke and crashed into a tree in central Paris. I’m not sure of the details yet. Mosques have opened their doors so people can sleep on the cool tiles. The parks in the capital are open 24 hours for the immediate future. Thousands of locals are setting up hammocks and mattresses and sleeping the night on the cool grass. Other are carrying bedding down to caves (the subterranean storage lockups under the Haussmann apartment buildings). The city has opened up “cool spaces” where people can just…exist for the day. Exist. Survive. Ride it out. That’s pretty much all you can manage in heat like this.