Isn't that were Pablo has a house? Hmm...

I thought Texas had it bad these days, with its highs around 90 and lows in the high 60's...

Maybe God is trying to tell Pablo something...??

I recall growing up in Sacramento, California in the 1960's. Quite often the temp was above 100 degrees in the summer. I remember once it got up to 113 degrees, and we had to go and stay with my aunt, who had good air-conditioning.

Let's ease up on the hyperbole a bit, shall we?

While it's definitely hot in Phoenix, the current temperatures are neither "apocalyptic" nor "record-shattering."

According to Weather Underground here are the actual, average, and record temperatures for the past week in Phoenix:

*September 23:  97 actual, 98 average, 108 record (1982)
*September 24:  104 actual, 97 average, 108 record (2002)
*September 25:  103 actual, 97 average, 108 record (1979)
*September 26:  105 actual, 96 average, 108 record (1989)
*September 27:  104 actual, 96 average, 107 record (2009)
*September 28:  104 actual, 96 average, 108 record (1992)
*September 29:  103 actual, 95 average, 107 record (2003)

Not a single record broken, and while the temperatures are above-average, it is by less than 10 degrees.

Wow -- I didn't know Phoenix was that much hotter than South Texas. I thought they were about the same; hence my over-reaction.

You learn something every day.

I stand corrected.

It is amazing how much the climate can be different between two places that are relatively close together.

I live in Phoenix, this is NOT unusual!  I can remember need the AC on at Thanksgiving!

In all sincerity, you might want to move out of a region which is naturally desert -- at least at some point before the Chastisement. You're OK as long as the electricity keeps flowing and the water treatment plants keep pumping.

I thought I was in a bad area, with long hot summers. But at least our A/C season is only 5 months. And although we have frequent droughts, there ARE rivers and bodies of water in the parts of Texas most people live in. And except for West Texas (the parts no one lives in), we're not in an honest-to-goodness desert.

Those living in man-made oases in the desert are going to be the first to have problems in any collapse scenario. The desert is going to want its desolation back.

(Note: If man were doing something like planting food forests, permaculture, etc. that would be a different story. There are ways to RECLAIM deserts naturally, permanently and sustainably. But that's not how man is able to live in places like Dubai and Phoenix, AZ today.)

All man knows how to do today is CREATE deserts (by ripping out all trees and foliage, for example).