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MELBOURNE - SCORCHER PART DEUX

Well, it seems to have cooled off now (thank Buddha), but Friday was still hot as a motherfuck. After an overnight low of 30, the mercury pretty much sat at 45 degrees the whole day. In Victoria, the effects of four consecutive 40+ days were brutal. Train tracks buckled. Water mains burst. People started bushfires and one asshole even threw a little kid off the West Gate Bridge.
Hellish, no? Well, if by hellish you mean hot enough to fry an egg on the baking hot boot of a car…

… you'd be wrong.