Originally published at: Phoenix records 100 days straight of temperatures over 100F - Boing Boing
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The city is named after a bird that spontaneously bursts into flame. If that’s not an ominous warning I don’t know what is.
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man-oh-man but we’ve arrived at the habitable states only via underground climate bunkers stage much faster than i was once promised that i’d not live long enough to see ((try parsing that sentence a.i.)) (“well there was always Death Valley weren’t there? It’s just branching out now”)
#@*&!
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The wine cellar?
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It’s becoming too hot and dry in wine growing regions worldwide to grow grapes. I guess the wine cellars will make good cooling bunkers now.
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I’m still confused why people are so eager to live in a city in the desert in the US, and then are wholly surprised when it’s too hot and there’s not enough water as well.
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We will see the return of the great British wine.
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It’s all about priorities. Yeah, common folks may not have enough water to bathe but that’s a small price to pay for the city’s many lush green golf courses.
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Yeah, I was going to ask, how’s the golfing? 
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Along similar lines, Disney is currently building a residential community in the California desert centered around a giant artificial lagoon.
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… well, it used to be too hot occasionally but was quite nice the rest of the time 
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Exactly. People are disinclined to believe it, but Britain has a history of viticulture that goes way back.
(Cue the “What have the Romans ever done for us?” rant.)
(There is a lovely cartoon by Ronald Searle about British wine. Which I can’t find right now.)
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Parses better with correct punctuation for adjectival phrase. 
(Sorry, not sorry)
Maybe Phoenix should have more underground golf courses?
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“Rancho Mirage”.
how appropriate.
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It’s like living in many other places that are undesirable for whatever reason (Texas, Florida, and others come to mind.) Someone living there now may not want to be there, but since one of their ancestors plopped down there, the contemporary person is stuck there because they can’t afford to leave. You’re now trapped because of the bad decisions of your family before you. Even better, often the current conditions are also the results of those very same decisions!
As long as they don’t spoil the view by installing lights or ventilation, I’m in favor of it.
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That may be part of it but Phoenix grew by about 200k people since 2020. That’s a 4% population growth at a time when the country overall grew by about 1%. So there really are a lot of new people moving out there.
https://www.axios.com/local/phoenix/2024/03/14/population-growth-census-2020-2023
My guess? The land there has historically been cheaper than places like California (with good reason, IMHO!) and it has relatively low taxes compared to a lot of other states. Some folks are willing to put up with a lot of unpleasantness in order to save a little bit of money on taxes.
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A friend of mine just moved to Las Vegas. It’s something he decided years ago and he never recalculated once he made his mind up. 
I guess he figures that it can’t get much worse in the 15 or so years that he’s got left.
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