SUV takes flight from extreme heat
By Sam Kantrow on July 3, 2012, 11:12am
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Do you remember walking barefoot on blacktop during the summer and feeling the bottoms of your feet burn from extreme heat? Well blacktop/asphalt are dark colored, so they absorb a lot of the suns radiation and can heat up quickly, subsequently becoming significantly hotter than the surrounding air. Sometimes the result is expansion, and a bump in the road might form. This is the extreme case scenario, but it did make for some great video! One thing to note, no one was injured in this video, but I would certainly be scared to death if that was me! The video was taken in Wisconsin, where temperatures peaked around 90 degrees on Sunday. If you estimate that the car was moving at 65 mph, with a one second air time, the car moved 95 feet in the air!
Here's the raw video:
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