Phoenix Is Facing a Hurricane Katrina of Heat. It’s Not Alone.

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1. [[No paywall]](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-29/phoenix-is-facing-a-deadly-hurricane-katrina-of-heat-spurred-by-climate-change) from climate columnist Mark Gongloff: 

   In his must-read book [*The Heat Will Kill You First*](https://jeffgoodellwriter.com/), author Jeff Goodell talks to an Arizona State University infrastructure expert about the likelihood of a “Hurricane Katrina of extreme heat,” an event in which a power failure during a heat wave kills thousands of people, with government authorities dangerously unprepared.

   The expert calls such an event about as likely as another intense hurricane hitting New Orleans: “It’s more a question of when, not if.”

   As a matter of fact, a Heat Katrina may already be happening, just in slow motion. It stands as a cautionary tale for other cities. 

2. >with government authorities dangerously unprepared.

   They’re not dangerously unprepared, they’re criminally negligent after joining Florida in the vortex of stupidity with the passage of a senate bill that prohibits the use of public funds for climate change.

3. *A Phoenix Republican as they sink into melting asphalt* “At least my taxxxxxesssss were lowwwwwwwwwwww….”

4. Can anyone translate to me what is “Hurricane Katrina of Heat” supposed to mean?

5. Phoenix is going to become uninhabitable within the next few decades as they run out of water.