This is episode 6 of not built for this maximum temperature.

Last summer temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona got above 110 degrees for more than 30 days in a row.

A couple of times in July,

the thermometer nearly cracked 120.

It is always hot in Phoenix in the summertime, but this was a new and

unwelcome record. And as the city endured this string of unbearably hot days.

There was this one image that I became fixated on.

All right, check this out.

Even the Swaro's here in the valley

can't take the heat anymore.

It's become a summer trend that just won't seem to stop. Our beloved

soworro toppling to the ground and it's leaving many neighbors. All across the city,

sowaros were keeling over in the heat. These massive stately cacti can grow up to 60 feet tall

and weigh thousands of pounds and they were coming down left and right, crushing cars and denting roofs.

I just started hearing a loud crack,

so I looked up and I just saw the cactus falling over.

A good amount of the roof, like the drywall, fell off. Our next-door neighbors thought it was like a minor earthquake.

The Suwaro is a master of desert survival. There's literally nothing about its physical being from its waxy skin to its spongy

interiors that isn't adapted to Arizona's furnace blast temperatures and yet here

they were, dying.

Well, I thought it would outlive me by a hundred years.

It seemed like a pretty ominous sign.

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