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Washington DC’s Fourth of July parade canceled due to soaring temperature (www.theguardian.com)

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National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning as high temperatures have paralyzed the east coast

Organizers of Saturday’s Independence Day parade in Washington DC abruptly canceled the event late on the eve of the event, with sweltering temperatures in the nation’s capital and on the east coast wreaking havoc on celebrations of America’s semiquincentennial.

The event, hosted by the National Park Service (NPS), was scheduled to begin at 10.30am on Saturday. But organizers said they canceled the procession due to an extreme heart warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS).

Blistering temperatures, exacerbated by high humidity, have been crippling transport services and stressing the electricity grid for days as the 250th anniversary of the US’s Declaration of Independence on Saturday loomed. The cancellation of the parade is just the latest setback precipitated by those conditions.

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[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

It's a shame how obvious the crisis is while capitalism insists on us all fucking around. Maybe we don't all want to find out together. Too bad, we don't matter.

[-] homes@piefed.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How better to mark America’s semiquincentennial then for president to shit in the pool and call the whole thing off (while blaming literally everyone else)

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

LOL, you just reminded me of The Last Man on Earth.

What Donvict has done to our reflecting pool reminds me of that character using the pool for a toilet...

[-] 0ndead@infosec.pub 14 points 1 month ago

Nobody was gonna show up anyway.

[-] kibblebits@quokk.au 14 points 1 month ago

More like lack of attendance

[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 month ago

It's a GOOD THING then we're using Tax Dollars to ~~Invest in ALTERNATIVE Energies that WONT make it Unbearably Hot!~~ ~~Grid Additions that ALLOW people to use AC with no Problems!~~ ~~ALLOW people to Add cheap AC to their Dwellings!~~ ~~ALLOW people to HARNESS all this FREE sunshine into Energy!~~ BURN Oil!

[-] mikenurre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Burn oil and LOTS of fireworks! Many, many millions of taxpayer dollars spent so [somebody] can have the biggest (read 'most expensive on your dime') display of waste since .. i don't know, whatever the last thing these morons did was.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

While his supporters complain about Taylor Swift having a big wedding when she has done way more good with her money than Trump, Bezos, or Musk would ever think to do

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, nothing to do with the piss-poor turnout.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I wish they let Trump do his speech in the thunderstorm

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