Summary

In “Texas,” Frederika Mathilde Louisa Saskia, Queen of the Netherlands, found herself and the crew on her jet rerouted to land in Waco instead of Houston because of the heat. While she could have landed the plane in Houston, it would have been too hot to take off again. Waco was relatively cooler at 113. Saskia knew that as soon as they landed, the temperature in the plane would skyrocket. They would either need to get under shade or put on air-conditioned Earthsuits soon after they landed.

As Saskia was preparing for a landing, she saw a pickup truck on a road parallel to the runway hit its brakes. She did not think the truck concerned her. She looked at the feed from a camera on the underbelly of the plane only when she heard her passengers exclaiming. Before she realized what was...