Usually grows on trees.
Posted on 07/22/2022 2:19:05 PM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) - It’s so hot across the globe, roads and roofs are melting.
The deadly heat waves of the last week have sparked strange infrastructural events around the world as millions endure searing temperatures that are still on the rise.
The heat-related events also speak to aging infrastructures worldwide, most of which – roads, bridges, railroads, buildings – are not prepared for the sweltering conditions as of late.
So how hot has it been, exactly? Well…
It’s so hot, the runway at a London airport melted
The United Kingdom saw its hottest day on record Tuesday, when temperatures breached 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
It’s been so hot that a runway at London Luton Airport on the capital’s outskirts had to be closed off as it melted in the heat.
“Flights are temporarily suspended to allow for an essential runway repair after high surface temperatures caused a small section to lift,” the airport tweeted Monday.
Heat causes materials to expand and crack when temperatures rise, according to the Pennsylvania State University College of Engineering – concrete and asphalt, found on runways and roads, are no exception.
It’s so hot, a museum roof melted in China
A heat wave has now engulfed half of China, affecting more than 900 million people – or about 64% of the population. All but two northeastern provinces in China have issued high-temperature warnings, with 84 cities issuing their highest-level red alerts last week.
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Usually grows on trees.
the sky is falling
and neither man & nature has no acquired abilities to mitigate and adapt to change - NOT true!!!!
LIFE writ large is doomed - NOT!!!!
My Son will landing at Heathrow in the morning. I am going to ask him.
Just like that CNN guy said in the Project Veritas video....when covid was done they would switch to global warming.
Define melted....
It’s Ah ,Summer
Perhaps they should not have made it from earwax collected from the prison camps.
My roof ain’t melting. It’s a slate roof.
I’ve lived in Phoenix, palm springs, Las Vegas, and Ridgcrest. I dealt with the heat forever. I’m still here. Get AC or a swamp box..
104F? Wussies.
Phoenix gets this hot every summer.
Homes don’t burst into flames.
I was once in Bullhead City, Arizona, when it was 121F. As I was walking across the hotel parking lot to my car, my feet actually sunk into the melting asphalt and left prints.
When I was a young’un in GITMO, 104 was normal.
They designed the warming to hit the Red states hardest.
what is a swamp box?
Roads buckle and roofs melt in Texas all the time.
As the CNN producer, caught on film by Project Veritas explained, “ climate change “ will be the new focus of Fake News.
They have to produce something to change the subject, as the nation implodes from socialism.
Good! Now they need to go outside and get some vitamin D to kill off covid!
And yet, here at my house in North Georgia, it’s
been the coolest summer I can remember.
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