Severe water rationing is now in effect in Dallas.  Most households can only water two days a week, and that could be curtailed even more. Dallas County is from 9 to 11 inches below normal rainfall for the year while Denton County, where I live, is 19 inches below normal.  
July saw no rain at all in Denton County while Dallas had only .10 of an inch. We had 30 straight days of triple digit temperatures.  Only 1980 was worse, with 31 days of 100 or better.  July set a record for high low temperatures with the nights never falling out of the 80's. 
August is even hotter so far with the temperatures now going routinely above 105.  
Even worse than the water rationing is the very real possibility that we may start experiencing "rolling blackouts", intervals lasting from 15 to 45 minutes with no power.  That is due to the drastic overload on Texas' electrical infrastructure,  now severely compromised due to incessantly high demand from the unrelenting heat.
Patrons are being urged to turn their thermostats up, to cook as sparingly as possible, and to turn off unused lights and fans.
I think we have the wrong idea here in America.  While Europeans traditionally go on holiday in August, Americans hit the roads most frequently in June.  We should adopt the attitude to "get the hell out of Dodge" in August rather than June.  Then all of us should head to Colorado, or Canada, or Alaska, or Seattle, or ANYWHERE but the South.