I’m in Scottsdale, and I’m calling BS on this one.
Likely another misleading title. The surface is likely not the ‘ground’ but a man-made surface.
It’s weird though how, NO MATTER HOW HOT IT GETS, foreign invaders will still hike thousands of miles to wade in the Rio Grande and demand that the Border Patrol and National Guard give them ice cold water purchased with taxpayer dollars. I’m not buying this heatwave crap. They still keep coming. Three and four hundred pound mommas carrying three toddlers don’t have any problems walking uphill for thousands of miles in this so-called climate change heatwave.
Given the large number of homeless drug addicts in Phoenix, “passed out on the pavement” is probably more accurate.
We were there in 1981 and needed to use potholders to open the car door
How is it different now?
... to learn it's HOT in Arizona.
I find this report somewhat unbelievable. Yes, an elderly person falling on hot asphalt or concrete and not being able to get up would after a time likely suffer burns. But the article makes it seem like some kid falling in the backyard would need treatment for serious burns.
Ah, Arizona!
The devil wanted a place on earth
Sort of a summer home A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.
So he picked out Arizona
A place both wretched and rough
Where the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys hardened and tough.
He dried up the streams in the canyons
And ordered no rain to fall
He dried up the lakes in the valleys
Then baked and scorched it all.
Then over his barren country
He transplanted shrubs from hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear
The climate suited them well.
Now the home was much to his liking
But animal life, he had none.
So he created crawling creatures
That all mankind would shun.
First he made the rattlesnake
With it’s forked poisonous tongue.
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow it’s young.
Then he made scorpions and lizards
And the ugly old horned toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.
Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter,
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted
And the old horned lizard took ill.
Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom
As any creator would
He chuckled a little up his sleeve
And admitted that it was good.
Twas summer now and Satan lay
By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his swarthy brow
So he took off his coat and vest.
“By Golly, “ he finally panted,
“I did my job too well,
I’m going back to where I came from,
Arizona is hotter than Hell. “
Sorry, but this is CNN which is not a valid news outlet
Left out is how and why those people fell.
In the sky is a very large fusion reactor. When the Earth is positioned so that this fusion reactor gets a direct path of radiation to the earth and there is no cloud cover the ground can get hot. Just like a metal car will get hot enough to cook an egg on, so can the ground get very hot in direct radiation from the reactor in the sky. This has been going on for several billion years. I hope this helps any journalists who might be reading this.
As if this has never happened before. We’ve lived part-time in Arizona since 2011. I recall our first July back then. My shoes stuck to the heat softened pavement and I burned my fingers on a car door. Learn and live.
Attention: Fear brainwashing program in progress....
This is hype.