Welcome To Phoenix - 2nd-Degree Burns From Pavement, Scalding Garden Hoses, 2 Wks At 110F & Counting
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Phoenix is in the middle of a record-breaking run of feverish days and suffocating nights, and human skin is a meager barrier against the scorching and scalding that comes at these temperatures. The city has already smashed records for the highest low temperatures for this time of year, when nights never dropped below the 90s, and it has already had 13 consecutive days — with Thursday expected to be the 14th — at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The record for that is 18, set in 1974, according to the National Weather Service. And the worst of the heat is coming this weekend.
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Cameron had just stepped into the laundry room to feed his dog and his wife was in the bathroom when their 18-month-old son, Mason, slipped through the pet door and stepped onto their concrete patio. He was screaming within seconds. “It was so fast,” recalled Cameron, who asked that he and his family only be identified by first names to avoid shaming from other parents. “It was immediately blistered on one foot. I knew it was bad.” Mason suffered second-degree burns on the soles of his feet that day in May, when Phoenix temperatures were only in the 90s, but the concrete had gotten hot enough to be dangerous. When the family reached the Arizona Burn Center at Valleywise Health Medical Center, they met another toddler with burned feet.
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But other cases involve freakish missteps — people burned by their seat belts or mailboxes. Swimmers attempting to walk across not-so-cool cool decks. The hospital has seen truckers who drive barefoot, step down onto a parking lot surface and end up badly blistered. On the hottest days, patients have been scalded by the water coming out of their garden hoses. “That first burst of water out of there, it’s practically boiling,” said Kevin Foster, a physician and the director of the burn center. One current patient was celebrating his day off with a cocktail, fell and burned 20 percent of his body, requiring surgery and skin grafting, Foster said.
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A rule of thumb, he said, is that a burn encompassing 40 percent of a person’s body can put a patient in the hospital for 40 days. The people who come in with these extreme burns and heatstroke, he said, “are some of the sickest patients I’ve ever encountered.” On Wednesday, firefighters encountered a man sprawled in the street in north Phoenix. The emergency responders found drug paraphernalia around the man, and witnesses said he had been acting erratically, slamming his head into the side of a truck. When firefighters arrived, the man was unconscious. There were burns all over his body. His skin was coming off and his internal temperature was 107 degrees, they said. They delivered him to the emergency room.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/13/phoenix-heat-wave-conditions/
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I remember years ago, posting on one of my garden forums and I had been looking up some garden climate info on AZ as I had some bougainvilleas (which thrive there) and wanted to get the soil/sun exposure conditions somewhat as close as I could (at least for here in Philly)... And that is when I found out about the "scorpion problem" and how they can get into the house.
I was like WTAF???????
And it's not like dealing with ants in the house with a bug spray or whatever because they are not insects but are in the same class as spiders, etc. It makes me wonder how they handle that kind of heat, although they are normally almost bullet-proof things and near impervious.
I know the already-desert climate there only gets exacerbated when there is a deficit of the hit or miss rain from the annual monsoon. But with an already way-hotter-than-normal ocean and GOM and a heat dome, we are seeing that it can be brutal in that whole area stretching across into southern CA too.
but thankfully the only snakes I have seen and are accustomed to are garter snakes. 
Phoenix area as a grad student in the late 1970s.
The US Southwest - not necessarily Phoenix - is a beautiful area. But I could never live there voluntarily.
With our earth getting hotter because we have not taken climate change seriously, almost no one will be able to exist there sooner rather than later. 
And I remember the floods that they brought to much of the area, which would have been unimaginable even a few weeks or months before.
But I don't remember experiencing a haboob. After looking it up, I'm glad not to have. 
I also experienced Valley Fever and only later realized how allergic I am to certain spores. I thought that my experience was mostly due to pesticides they were spraying on crops around the Glendale area.
There were some good times though. My sons loved being able to play sports outside in January without having to wear the winter clothes they were used to wearing in Montana - where we lived before and after my year in Phoenix.
But I am a person who - even in my current old age - prefers seasons that change, although not the way they have been doing lately.
Still waiting for our monsoon rains to arrive this year.
Valley Fever can be horrible to humans and other animals, particularly dogs.
Typically we have a cool winter and hot summer with not much in the way of spring or fall. My favorite season here is fall...it's my favorite day of the year.
in Phoenix in August 1978, to experience its stifling heat.
We were astounded when we visited the downtown part of the city and took advantage of the A/C in a Goldwater's Department Store, only to discover that they were selling FUR coats! In August; in Phoenix! 
I just discovered that Goldwater's department stores no longer exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater%27s
We mostly enjoyed our stay there and made friends that I still have to this day. But there certainly weren't as many crazies there then.
Please stay safe! 
The smaller, dingier, uglier city to the south. Even worse here (lower latitude). The corrupt goobers in local government (some if not many make money from development) are busy approving massive new developments. Apparently they will just keep going with paving over this armpit until the aquifer is exhausted, then force everyone onto expensive privatized water systems to ration water.
It's gotten noticeably hotter every year I've been here, although of course this year is the worst. I've just bought another house far, far away and in a much better climate.
The locals get mad when I ask them what they are going to do in 10 or 20 years when the heating trend continues to the point when they can't go outside for extended periods because the heat will kill them. Many if not most are religious fundies including many LDS, or otherwise science deniers who acknowledge the climate is warming but refuse to believe that it's caused by human activity. I'm tired of the STOOPID.
We hit 113 F yesterday right here locally in our neighborhood. I took some stuff outside last night about midnight and it felt like it was still 100+. We're staying indoors most of the time. No real relief in sight.
I saw a meme yesterday that said "It's summer in Phoenix. Please remember to stay indoors between 11:00 AM and November 1st." 