I’m Hot, You’re Hot

Americans are feeling hot hot hot.

Over 160 million people are under excessive heat alerts as temperatures break records across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, southern New England, and the Northwest. Temps are up to 30 degrees above average, and heat is the suspected culprit in more than 30 deaths across six states. 

Las Vegas is smoking its own record for consecutive days above 115 degrees, and its hospitals have seen a massive spike in third-degree burns from contact with 170-degree pavement. In Houston, more than a million have been sweating without A/C since Hurricane Beryl knocked out power earlier this week.

A swing bridge in New York was stuck open due to heat-expanded steel and was closed for hours as firefighters hosed down the bridge’s hydraulics.

Stay hydrated—cooler temps aren’t in the forecast.

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CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Massive weather events and natural disasters remind us that all of the world has been broken by sin. But Christians can look forward to an eternity where there’s redemption not just for people, but for creation itself. 

“For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of him who subjected it—in the hope that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.” 
Romans 8:20-21 (CSB) (read full passage)