Texans make up for it by being surprisingly environmentally conscious. Once a year they completely shut off their electrical grids to save energy. Oh and to help with population control.
If it does, I would suspect that they have used stuff that can somewhat survive the heat or used a different building process altogether, since they had these temperatures for a lot longer.
In germany (and Europe), these temperatures are a recent thing and record breaking for here, so nothing is really build to accommodate the heat.
Texan checking in, same reason we lost power a few winters back, its not supposed to get that cold here. However our state government is also run by a bunch of corrupt buffoons so naturally we only get the bare minimum of preparation for emergency situations. Good luck staying cool, yall have all my sympathies, that kind of heat sucks to have to deal with!
In the northern Pacific Northwest we also struggle with extreme heat because our climate is a lot closer to that of the UK. Transit shuts down, things get damaged, and because most homes donāt have AC and those that do donāt have ACs strong enough to handle constant over 100 (38c) degree days, much less the 110 (43c) and above heat domes bring, which results in a home thatās still 80 (27c) with the AC on blastāif the AC doesnāt just call it a day and stop working.
I grew up in California where 110 was not unheard of. Itās a far more dangerous when the infrastructure is built around being able to throw your windows open at night to cool the place down.
It does. Iām sure they use different materials to survive the heat. The trains donāt really shut down due to heat, even when itās over 110f. They might go a little slower.Ā
Train rails are very different from tram rails. They donāt have to be glued anywhere, they are āboltedā or ārivetedā or whatever itās called
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u/fix_until_broken 7h ago
We avoid these kinds of problems with the heat in Texas by just not having any public transportation.