I bet you can name a hurricane or two.

Aida, Sandy, Katrina.

Now, remember that heat dome

in the Pacific Northwest early in the summer?

The extreme heat wave baking the Pacific Northwest

has killed around 100 people in Canada

and nearly a million major damage.

The thing is heat waves are the number one

weather-related cause of death in the US.

That's according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

And yet it's not clear people see heat

as having the same potential for disaster.

Officials in Oregon have reported 45 deaths

related to excess heat in one county alone.

The official death toll for Washington and Oregon combined

is at around 200 people.

But the actual number is likely much closer to 600.

The nation's infrastructure, especially in cities and towns

and the northern parts of the country, it wasn't built for this.

The heat melting these streetcar power lines in Portland

and buckling this highway in Everson, Washington,

forcing officials to shut it down.

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