Deep water in ponds/reservoirs/lakes etc. can be a lot colder than it may seem to be, especially on a hot day and it can literally take your breath away.

Its the length of time. A few days of those temps is not a big deal. They are usually built into the specs. But these are days and days of above average hot weather. One of the results is that temperatures also tend to stay above average even at night. Its a cumulative stress on the infrastructure, both the road…

I miss a good fresh road heave, nothing like being in the back of a Ranger as kids and bouncing around under the camper shell after launching off one. Did feel bad for the people that found new ones from the wrong side of the drop.

When I see people talking about adding charging networks under the road surface for electric cars always makes me shudder because of this.  Not that long ago, when they added the carpool lane going north into downtown Minneapolis on 35, they had strips of lights built into the road to act as temporary lane lines…

reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode where a girl was in a world where the earth was going closer to the sun everyday until everyone burnt up. Well she woke up and it was all a dream...only for the audience to realize the earth was moving away from the sun each day.

Agreed. Anytime you mention it getting hot here, Arizonans materialize to say “100 isn’t hot! you haven’t experienced REAL heat until you’ve seen it be 110 for a week straight” or whatever, despite the fact that it fluctuates by literally 130 degrees over the course of a few months here.

That looks like an expansion joint. That’s a good thing. The problem this article is touching upon is that expansion joints can’t handle how much material expansion is happening when the temperatures are hitting new highs.

A few weeks back a streetcar rail buckled out of the street at a highway overpass. High temperatures were likely the cause.

Pavement buckling has been a problem here for decades. Part of the problem is that our roads have to be able to withstand a roughly 150° temperature swing. That is a very difficult task for the pavement engineers to solve, and ends up with situations like this. 

Moorhead is not near the South Dakota border, it’s across the river from Fargo, North Dakota.  Might want to look at a map again.

Living in MN is something. We get air temps and heat indexes over 100F in this warming world in the summer, and air temps at -30F in the winter. I’d hate to be an engineer trying to build a highway to handle that range of temps.

Climate Change is accelerating, and nobody who can do anything about it seems to care.

Good god, never mind the fact that she’s 41 

So this pregnant woman shows up complaining about being in severe pain, and the doctors just say “YOU’RE FINE!” and send her home with some pills? I guess even European doctors can be just as stupid and thoughtless as American ones.

I hope she sues the doctor, the hospital, AND the police into oblivion.

Heard a tourism commercial today for how welcoming a place Poland is. My immediate thought was...mmm...No.

Ron DeSantis is probably going to try and have this report banned and the Moms for Liberty asking for any manatee watching to be made off limits...cause that’s how they roll down here in Florida.

Yeah, because a football field-length object hovered over hundreds of people for (re-checks notes) 45 seconds and not a single one of them.....none.....was able to take a photo. Not a single camera or videocam on hand available to anyone for almost a full minute.

I believe Scenarios 2 and 3 are probably intertwined. Some people are undoubtedly seeing things that aren’t aircraft piloted by humans, and we know defense contractors are hard at work on autonomous weaponized drone aircraft. But all the stuff I’ve seen from TPOD and FLIR has been explained away MANY times. I mean,…

An appropriate demonstration of their regard for Mr. Campbell, would be for Michelle and Barack to start and fund an ongoing, annual scholarship to culinary school, in Mr. Campbell’s name, earmarked for low-income, urban HS students.