Summer 2021 in extreme weather

Brut America

Record-high temperatures, unprecedented flooding, devastating hurricanes.  Not an apocalyptic movie. This is how the world is experiencing the summer of 2021 ... and it's not even over.

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00:00Oh my god!

00:02The deadliest and most destructive flooding.

00:05A catastrophic fire season.

00:09Like it was straight out of a disaster movie.

00:13I'm 76 years old, lived a long time, I've never seen anything like this one.

00:31This is kind of what it looks like here.

00:34Just branches strewn across the road.

00:42Jesus Christ.

00:43I know.

00:44Way too steep.

00:46Way too steep.

00:47I bet you're not going to believe it.

01:01Wow.

01:09It's 106 today, it's supposed to be 113 tomorrow and the next day.

01:14And usually it's about 75 degrees this time of year.

01:18This is going to set records.

01:19This is going to be the hottest that's ever been experienced in human history in this region of the world.

01:24It's so hot they had to put the ACs under tents.

01:31Oh my god!

01:41This is our fifth named storm of the 2021 hurricane season.

01:46It is July 1st.

01:48Typically you wouldn't get the fifth named storm until sometime in August.

02:00Subway stations, roads and even some apartments are still drying out after the severe weather.

02:30Oh yeah, I'll put my lane out here.

02:56Last time we experienced such a flood or an extreme flood was 18 years ago.

03:02And there the water level was not even half as much.

03:18Wow.

03:19Oh my god!

03:21What is here?

03:23Oh no!

03:26Oh my god!

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