A video going viral at the moment caught the moment a road buckles.
CAR CATCHES AIR: A car went airborne in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, after a road buckled due to a heatwave on Sunday.
City officials have asked drivers to remain alert in case more “street buckling” occurs due to the continuing high temperatures. pic.twitter.com/boPhgvULLD
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Best comment: “And that son, is how a speed bump is born”:
The backstory is at the Byte. Temperatures at Cape Girardeau, Missouri reached 91.9F or a not-so-scorching 33 C.
This is, I hear, a thing that happens in concrete roads designed to cope with the cold, rather than soft, flexible asphalt used in Arizona or Australia.
h/t David E