How's the weather treating you today?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It's 10:30 PM here in Phoenix on 9 July and the temperature is down to 101F. That's 38C. At 10:30 at night. Better than the 117F (47C) it reached during the day. Thankfully, it's only forecast to reach 114F (45C) tomorrow so we'll be getting a little break.

Don't misunderstand; I'm not bitching about it. I made the decision to live here and I despise people complaining that water is wet and that shit stinks. It's so pointless. But I wonder what the people who worship the fucking economy think this will cost us. More to the point, what will such over-the-top temperatures cost cities who aren't prepared for this? Granted, New York, Boston and Seattle are not going to see temperatures like this - but they are going to see temperatures they are not prepared for. Every home in Phoenix is equipped with A/C and  if they aren't poor, it works. Not the case in northern cities. What is the cost when they are hit with temperatures they were not built to handle?

Welcome to global warming. I think the short-sighted idiots who didn't think it was economically practical to address it are in for a reality check.

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I'm not sure I could tell the difference between 117 and 114, mostly because I think I'd be dead. It once went up to 82 here, and I was sweating like Tommy Chong at a DUI checkpoint.

Boru