Current Events > 85 people have suffered severe burns from touching pavement in Arizona

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Well that's a new fear I never knew I had to worry about

Mankinds monument to arrogance. Arizona in its current form shouldve never existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYt0SDnrBE

Block_that_Kick posted...

Mankinds monument to arrogance. Arizona in its current form shouldve never existed.

This. Like what the absolute fuck.

Butterfiles posted...

Well that's a new fear I never knew I had to worry about

It's something that dawned on me recently when I was stuck on a hot Florida roof doing some shingle work. I had to lie down for long periods to get tricky spots that were tucked under another section of roof - pretty much every surface (even a cloth fabric cushion) starts to feel like a stovetop after it's been sitting in that kind of sunlight for a few minutes. Pavement would be so much worse.

Assuming a lot of these deaths are homeless related.

7 of them died.

Holy shit. Those floor is lava games werent really games.

It was training for what was coming.

emblem-man posted...

I've kinda grown to disagree on this idea.
Arizona, Nevada, etc. Have really good water usage laws when it comes to residential water usage. 75% of water usage is due to agriculture*, alfalfa and cotton, that are sold outside the US. So definitely blame the government and people on allowing that. But residents themselves, use very good water conservation

And they're going to run out of water regardless.

Just gonna leave this here...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/4/AAEhCpAAErYO.png

Summer always sucked here but it's definitely been more miserable than usual this year.

Though it said 85%. Was gonna call bullshit. 85 people is still pretty bad.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Just gonna leave this here...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/4/AAEhCpAAErYO.png

Dude... it seems to be rising more sharply than the population when you see that yours starts in the 1910s and his starts in the 70s. Yes, population increase plays a factor in a lot of this climate change stuff, but this just feels like branch in a talking tree. Why you gotta be like that?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Just gonna leave this here...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/4/AAEhCpAAErYO.png

Note how in the timeframe posted the number of people experiencing heat related death has risen near-exponentially while the population has increased linearly

Start stocking piling water and build those filtration systems cause the water wars are gonna come sooner rather than later

NinjaWarrior455 posted...

Start stocking piling water and build those filtration systems cause the water wars are gonna come sooner rather than later

Should have doubled down on desalination decades ago.

NinjaWarrior455 posted...

Start stocking piling water and build those filtration systems cause the water wars are gonna come sooner rather than later

Thank God I live near the Great Lakes and in an area that isnt desert.

Several states will be borderline uninhabitable by the time Im retired...okay by the time I am at what the retirement age was when retirement was still a concept that existed for those not ultra rich.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Should have doubled down on desalination decades ago.

Yep, that's true...
Stop trying to flip the script on us

pikachupwnage posted...

Several states will be borderline uninhabitable by the time Im retired...

Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming (and also maybe Alaska and Utah) are borderline uninhabitable now, and always were.

There is a reason why you don't walk outside barefoot in Arizona.

masterpug53 posted...

pretty much every surface (even a cloth fabric cushion) starts to feel like a stovetop after it's been sitting in that kind of sunlight for a few minutes.

damn. i don't think i could handle that at all.

prefer the colder temperature (non-raining of course).

Ah now instead of just cooking an egg on pavement, you can cook a steak!

I had cousins in Phoenix and I can recall cooking an egg on the sidewalk one time. AZ can get crazy hot.

This why we tell people to "touch grass" rather than "touch pavement"

We should never have tried to build civilization in the middle of desert.

They should have just touched Grass.

Compsognathus posted...

We should never have tried to build civilization in the middle of desert.

meanwhile, in Dubai...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/4/AAEhCpAAErY2.jpg

Compsognathus posted...

We should never have tried to build civilization in the middle of desert.

We should greenify the desert like what the Egyptians are doing.

LaLeyenda posted...

We should greenify the desert like what the Egyptians are doing.

You need water

LaLeyenda posted...

We should greenify the desert like what the Egyptians are doing.

China is going absolute ham on that.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/china-great-green-wall-gobi-tengger-desertification

So are people just sleeping in the road there or what >_>

I know maybe it was homeless people but I dont think theyd just lie down on pavement when there are other options

Its been pretty hot this past week. Got the dog these cute lil puppy shoes so his paws dont melt to said pavement

thronedfire2 posted...

So are people just sleeping in the road there or what >_>

I know maybe it was homeless people but I dont think theyd just lie down on pavement when there are other options

Its more like the median of the road

thronedfire2 posted...

So are people just sleeping in the road there or what >_>

I know maybe it was homeless people but I dont think theyd just lie down on pavement when there are other options

If the pavement's getting that hot (and I have no doubt it is), you can probably get burned just by falling down on the road in bare skin / thin clothing and not getting up fast enough.

Think about how much it stings when you touch a metal surface that's been sitting out in a normal amount of summer sunlight, and you'll have a better idea of how dangerous surfaces can be in the heatwave-addled South.

What pisses me off about this is people just don't care

I was on Twitter the other day and Climate Change being a Hoax was the #1 trend (at least in the UK) with people talking about how it's made up.

It's infuriating

masterpug53 posted...

If the pavement's getting that hot (and I have no doubt it is), you can probably get burned just by falling down on the road in bare skin / thin clothing and not getting up fast enough.

Think about how much it stings when you touch a metal surface that's been sitting out in a normal amount of summer sunlight, and you'll have a better idea of how dangerous surfaces can be in the heatwave-addled South.

yeah I was wondering more about the deaths than the burns. I lived in Arizona for a few months but that was almost 20 years ago now so the average temps were probably much lower

I've walked on pavement barefoot before when it was 100 degrees outside and sunny. I can tell you that pavement can get really hot. I found myself frequently walking fast on it and onto any grassy area nearby to give my feet a break before walking back onto the pavement. I definitely wouldn't walk on it if that pavement was any hotter.

UnfairRepresent posted...

What pisses me off about this is people just don't care

I was on Twitter the other day and Climate Change being a Hoax was the #1 trend (at least in the UK) with people talking about how it's made up.

It's infuriating

Agreed. The climate has changed so much in our lifetimes and people are still in denial.

thronedfire2 posted...

yeah I was wondering more about the deaths than the burns. I lived in Arizona for a few months but that was almost 20 years ago now so the average temps were probably much lower

If I had to guess, they stepped on the pavement, their feet gave out from being intensely burned, now they're lying down on the pavement, and... well, you can probably imagine the rest.

Antifar posted...

And they're going to run out of water regardless.

Nevada might not. We recycle most of our water here. We're close to net 0 on water usage.

I took the garbage out last week barefoot in 95 degree heat. I made it to the dumpster fine but literally ran back inside because my feet were starting to burn.

Where I live (Portland Oregon) hit a record 116 degrees 2 years ago. It was pretty miserable. Restaurants had to close because they didnt have ac in their kitchens.

buddhamonster posted...

If I had to guess, they stepped on the pavement, their feet gave out from being intensely burned, now they're lying down on the pavement, and... well, you can probably imagine the rest.

Alternately, they're already suffering from heat exhaustion, and the scalding pavement is the final nail in the coffin. My immediate thought was someone with car trouble stranded on the side of the road.

Yeah the deaths being from someone passing out or falling onto pavement makes sense

Questionmarktarius posted...

Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming (and also maybe Alaska and Utah) are borderline uninhabitable now, and always were.

It's a desert, its summer, it's hot. Heres a idea. Don't live in a desert.

Questionmarktarius posted...

meanwhile, in Dubai...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/4/AAEhCpAAErY2.jpg

Its by a body of water.

I was in Phoenix 2 years ago and it was 117 degrees at midnight. I was in the drive thru of a Whataburger and the pavement was radiating heat. Dunno how mfs live that way, and I live in Vegas lol

There needs to be a major breakthrough in desalination tech or a lot of people are about to be fucko'd.

LaLeyenda posted...

We should greenify the desert like what the Egyptians are doing.

The Sonoran desert by Phoenix and Tucson is already pretty green. The problem is the heat island created by all the concrete and pavement

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/1/AAL-MJAAErah.jpg