Tarmac melts, causing flight cancellations at USA’s capital airport, Reagan National, Washington DC. The wheels are stuck in melted asphalt. This demonstrates the need for climate adaptation of America’s (rather embarrassing) infrastructure. Via NYC Aviation FB. HIGH RES

Tarmac melts, causing flight cancellations at USA’s capital airport, Reagan National, Washington DC. The wheels are stuck in melted asphalt. This demonstrates the need for climate adaptation of America’s (rather embarrassing) infrastructure.

Via NYC Aviation FB.

#climate change  #adaptation  #capital  #washington dc  #airports  #temperature  #heat wave  #2012  
∞  07/08/12 at 11:36am
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    All right, what really got me about this was that Tarmac is designed to work in all sorts of conditions. So again, the...
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    tar melts, even though it’s not going to flow very fast, a plane on it will sink into it, as the rock spreads away, slow...
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  35. zorro-royal said: it’s made of tar… thus the name and how it melts