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From warped train tracks to exploding roads, global warming has invaded the many mechanized methods by which we come and go.

“I raise their sea levels and yet they deny my existence. I melt their glaciers and yet they call me a hoax. I systematically cripple their biodiversity and yet they fail to seriously and collectively impede my coup d’Earth. They’ve left me no other option. Now I’ma hit them where it hurts—in the mouth of their commute.”

                                                                                                                    —Climate Change,

 Beginning in June 2011, the United States saw the warmest 12-month period on record, with 40,000 heat records being broken.

As detailed by Climate Progress, this hate-yourself-for-venturing-outside-the-cool-confines-of-your-air-conditioned-apartment heatwave has given birth to some pretty hairy travel conditions:

At Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on Friday, as temperatures climbed well over 100 degrees, a U.S. Airways plane got stuck on the runway when its wheels sank into the softening asphalt. The flight was delayed for about three hours until a large tow could pull it out of its rut.

 At roughly the same time the U.S. Airways plane got stuck, a metro train traveling from Prince George’s County, Maryland to Washington, D.C. was derailed due to a warped track. The excessive heat caused a “heat kink” that forced the train off its tracks. Luckily, none of the 55 passengers were injured.

 Across the country, travelers driving in their vehicles also faced dangerous conditions as roads buckled due to pressure from intense heat. In Chippewa County, Wisconsin, five sections of Highway 29 blew up in one week—in one case causing two SUV s to flip on the highway at roughly the same moment.

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