 National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan. Meanwhile, slow-moving and potentially record-setting heat waves spreading across the western U.S. making life hard for people like Sherry Thompson in Portland, Oregon, living in her car now for the past three years. And it's extremely hard when my A.C., you know, I can't run it for very long because it overheats now. So I can't deal with the heat. I just can't do it anymore.