ARE THE GOLF COURSES OK???
What about the Saudi alfalfa farms???
I can’t help but laugh. Isn’t Phoenix home to some of the most vocal climate change deniers? Must be just local weather as it’s not happening anywhere on the world. Sicily experiences these kinds of temperatures on the reg.
What do you call those people who remove the filters from their exhausts? Smoke-drivers or something?
They can control the exhaust. It’s called “rolling coal.” They do it to me because I have a Prius. I don’t get it. “Haw haw! Yew pay less for gas than us!” Sorry I’m such an evil liberal for doing that?
I live here. A couple weeks ago my AC went out and I had to have an after hours/emergency tech come out - blown capacitor. The next day one of my co-workers had his AC go out - blown capacitor. Yesterday my mother-in-laws AC went out - blown capacitor. It’s so hot that these units are running basically nonstop. AC companies are making money hand over fist right now.
It blows my mind how homes in the desert hardly use swamp coolers. It’s just a sign to me how unprepared people are. If the grid becomes unstable, this place almost immediately becomes uninhabitable due to how inefficient ac is. Homes are hardly built with efficiency in mind. I see homes painted black, with floor to ceiling windows, set on top of sand stone cliffs. Nobody out here seems to realize how dangerous this all is or that they’re living in a desert.
Ffs if it were me id dig into the ground and paint my walls white, and only put windows on the north/south sides, use geothermal cooling/a swamp cooler, etc.
Mine died. $12,000 to replace. It’s insane!!
Phoenix never should have been the cite of a major city. Whoever is there right now has to be thinking - how the hell do I get out of this hellfire?
I’m literally thinking of leaving in five years time. The colorado will run dry and this place will be unlivable. Oh, and we just appointed some Saudi pocket mongrel to handle our water. Ahould be fine trusting our life source with the corpos.
This is fairly normal for Phoenix. It’s on the hot end, sure, but it’s very dry there so 110 feels nothing like it would in Florida where you’d actually die. The bigger issue to Phoenix is dwindling water once the aquifer finally runs out of water.
It’s 120f in Italy at the moment.
I’m seeing records of 104 (40c). Mentions of forecasts saying it might get higher, but I don’t see that having happened.
I was mistaken, it’s predicted to reach 120f.
Phoenix is a monument to man’s arrogance
It truly is. I had to go there for work once and the entire time I was there I was thinking this exact phrase. just … WHY.
I’ve only been to the Sky Harbor there in a layover and the brief walk off the plane into the airport made me wonder why anyone chooses to live there. Just blasted by dry heat that feels like it sucks the moisture out of your eyeballs.
For those of us that have been here for many years (half my life and I’m in my 40’s), its not bad. Yeah, its very hot and very dangerous, but we know how to live in it and take care of ourselves for the most part. By mid-morning, all the humidity is burned off and I actually think it feels kind of nice.
What’s the future plans for water management?
Ignore that the question exists, then when it becomes an emergency, declare “oh no, we had no idea, we need billions of tax assistance” … ???
So like fl and ca property insurance…
Man do I love bailing rich people and their bad RE InVestMenTs
Saudi’s have been gobbling up water down there too. https://apnews.com/article/water-foreign-farms-arizona-drought-saudi-arabia-2fe3ea1fad43b14ca118cf85196f3e9a
So…I hope they do something. But…Capitallissssmmm
Thankfully the new governor Katie Hobbs is doing a lot to curb this nonsense.
Saudis funded the death of Americans and now they’re buying the PGA, soon the nba, your water. Never forget 9/11 tho
The fact that there are so many tournament class golf courses there is what always perplexes me
Lived in vegas for a few years once. Every year around June I’d start seriously planning my escape. Then summer would end and I’d hate it less. And get back to my routine. Repeat.
Leaving that place was one of the best feelings. Instantly happier.
The fact that there are so many tournament class golf courses there is what always perplexes me
There’s money and land there. Which are the two big needs. While it obviously costs a ton to have the grass, they really only have grass where it’s absolutely needed and everything else is super cheap to maintain, also less grass increases the difficulty.
Apart from the views, desert golf is vastly overrated though.
Sad, grim story aside, check the article out for a picture of the worlds most ripped homeless guy. The dude should be modeling swimsuits.
Ridiculously photogenic unhoused man
MF is 49 years old.
My man is jacked.
Why is migration not happening on a larger scale yet? I thought world at large would be more chaotic than now. People are just this stubborn? Every summer they’ll now literally risk dying.
Moving out of hell is cheaper said than done. Most Americans can’t even afford an emergency $500 expense. Vacancy rates are near historical lows but housing costs are at all-time highs. Finding somewhere to live is hard, especially if you don’t have middle or upper class income. Most of the people risking their lives by not moving don’t have a choice.
I had to take a job that would move me from the southeast to the northwest to get out, it’s the only reason I was able to
If living in an earthquake zone has taught me anything, it’s that humans are very ill-prepared.
How long until cities like Phoenix empty because everyone moves north?
I am in a small town in central NM and we are discussing moving north.
