A true story.
It was so hot that the infrastructure of the city was failing. The rails buckled under the trains. The tarmac of the roads stuck to the feet of those who ventured on it, the very electrical lifeblood of the city simply stopped. A short 30 minute journey stretched to a four hour ordeal, and a bookshop that I used to frequent spontaneously combusted. Venturing out in the sun without protection would cause your skin to blister within moments, and in the long term would cause cancer. The morgue was full before the bushfires started the following weekend.