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[–] 103 points 3 years ago (25 children)

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?

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  • [–] 88 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Phoenix is a monument to man’s arrogance

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The fact that there are so many tournament class golf courses there is what always perplexes me

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    It's 120f in Italy at the moment.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I’m seeing records of 104 (40c). Mentions of forecasts saying it might get higher, but I don’t see that having happened.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    What's the future plans for water management?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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

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