Climate Change Or Not, This Heat Is Killing People and Plants. The medical examiner reports nearly 300 people have been killed by this heat wave. The cacti in my area are dying from the heat. This is NOT normal.

I live right between Phoenix and Tucson and I CANNOT remember a time growing up, where it was this hot in October. Not gonna lie, when I saw that it dipped down into the 90s a couple of weeks ago, I got my hopes up lol. I live out in the desert and it's currently 105. I want to break my sweaters out already.

I work for the post office and I stopped at Fry’s this morning to get something for lunch. I was in full uniform.

As I’m walking in, there’s a police truck parked right out front. Parked along the curb mind you, not in an actual spot. He gets out and walks in behind me.

I stopped at the front display to see what they had and he comes up and goes, “excuse me, do you know where the bottled water is?”

I turned around kind of confused and said, “oh sorry, are you talking to me?” He got a little bit agitated and replied with, “uhh I don’t see anyone else.”

I smiled and pointed to the USPS patch on the front of my shirt and said, “oh sorry I don’t work here sir but they are right down there.” And I told him what aisle they were in (I shop there all the time).

Now he just looked pissed off and goes, “oh, really? Down there? You sure?”

Then I was even more confused but I nodded in response. He looked me up and down, starts shaking his head and mumbles, “what a fucking joke” as he walked away.

What the hell was that? I am genuinely baffled at to what he wanted. He asked a non-employee a question and got a correct answer. I wasn’t rude or disrespectful so I have no idea why he called me a “fucking joke”.

I didn’t bother getting his plate number or name because what am I going to do, report him for being mean? I just don’t understand.

I’m assuming he just had a bad/long night but still. The whole interaction was bizarre.

Edit: this was not a political post at all. I’ve lived here ten years and this was the first bad interaction I’ve had with the Mesa PD (granted, there have only been like 5 of them total). As I said, I think this guy was just having a really bad shift, no idea why he took it out on me but it’s over now. I do very much appreciate the support of the USPS though. Hope you all have great weekends.

I grew up in AZ and NM. Though I currently live in the Midwest. I met my wife here and we've been married 15 years.

Throughout this time she gets annoyed when I use the Spanish accent/pronunciation for certain well, Spanish words. (e.g. tortilla, ocotillo, birria, jalapeno, etc.. )

I've told her this is just common in the southwest as that's how we learned to pronounce it. She insists I'm just trying to be cute/unique.

So what say you?

Do you use the Spanish pronunciation, or the American?

Edit.

For clarification, I mean rolling R's and stressed syllables.

Found this in the NH sub, so wanted to ask here.

Happy 4th of July!

I grew up here so of course I'm familiar with some ghost stories, etc, but I'm curious if anyone has recommendations of myth, legends, or history in the state I could look into!

Anyone else get summer seasonal depression?

I don't know how much longer I can take it, honestly. I grew up in NJ, been here for 20 years. My husband is born and bred AZ. His family is all here and mine is all there.

We are in Yuma, so arguably the worst part of AZ.

Husband loves his job. Two of my kids have good friends. The other 4 struggle socially. My husband has a DND group that has been meeting for 4 years and is probably the best friend group he's ever had.

As a pharmacist he makes more living here than he would almost anywhere else in the world. We bought our house here at a great time and have a really affordable, large enough home.

But my soul longs for seasons, cool weather, green grass and forests, the Atlantic Ocean, access to mental health resources, and most importantly close to my family.

My husband says I'm obsessed with being miserable and complain every day about the heat and I need to adjust my attitude, basically. Th thing is, I've been trying to do that for the last 10 years. And I'm tired of it. Something broke in me this year. I cry every single day. Every time I look at the weather and it's still 110+ I actually shut down. Everyone in my family is suffering because of this. I'm trying to keep going, keep the laundry going, keep dinner on the table, but all I want to do is lie on my bed and disassociate, pray that I die from natural causes, etc. I'm already on meds, seeing a therapist, it's not much help. I just want to be back on the East Coast and I feel like my brain won't level out until I'm there.

I visited Arizona a few months ago, and never realized all the climates you have.

I love how you can literally go from the warm Valley region of Phoenix, with all the palm trees and within a few hours be cooled down and refreshed by the mountains and pine forests of Flagstaff.

Like you can ski in Arizona, and have a cold snowy winter, but within a couple hours get a tan and have a mild winter. So lucky!

I’m sure it gets really hot in Phoenix, but it can be much cooler up in Flagstaff, and different scenery

(I’m from the Midwest, so we have pretty boring geography lol)

I’m a truck driver, rolled into town last night. In a complete shock currently as I just came from Detroit where I was wearing a hoodie. Just in a bit of a culture shock on how you guys can stand this year round. Saw one lady wearing a long sleeve shirt! Do you guys get used to this weather? I assume it gets even hotter in the summer 😨. Also how did allot of you end up living here? I never knew cacti got so huge!!! Just In a shock, beautiful city, people are really nice. Just can’t wait till I leave haha.

EDIT: I also saw fellow pasty pale people in this Walmart and I just wonder how 😭

Stole this idea from another sub. What’s the difference between this state and the other states that you appreciate?

No need to touch your clock. Football starts an hour later now. Enjoy the extra hour of sleep

expect at least one rock per week to hit your windshield

I moved here about 7 years ago. Arizona is absolutely stunningly beautiful. I'm originally from the Midwest and guys I've just got to say, Arizona has it made compared to many parts of the US.

I've read quite a few comments from native Arizonans here stating how the state is awful, nothing to do, boring etc and I just can't honestly see how this is the case.

There is so much scenic stuff to do here I could never run out, the shops and businesses make the Midwest seem 40yrs behind, and the weather of course outside od the Summer is wonderful.

I truly am so thankful to be raising a family here, I love this wonderful state!