Chapter 1533: People will definitely freeze to death this year
Xiao Peng was greeted by a middle-aged man named Jimmy Chalmers, a WWE employee responsible for Xiao Peng's services in Houston. He was essentially Vincent's "local guide" for Xiao Peng.
Vincent is not in Houston.
Although the WWE competition was held in Houston, Xiao Peng arrived early. Vincent McMahon did not expect Xiao Peng to come so early. He was not in Houston.
Although the venue preparations are in full swing, only a small number of WWE stars and related operations staff are here to handle venue matters. They are currently undergoing intensive rehearsals at the WWE headquarters.
WWE actually pays great attention to the performance ability of the players. After all, once they are on the ring, the whole process is broadcast live without any NGs. It is common for players to make mistakes or their movements are not in place. That is when the players' acting skills, adaptability and impromptu lines are tested.
So WWE stars are basically all good at acting. Many of them have experience in filming movies, such as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, "Stone Cold" Austin, "The Beast" Batista, John Cena, Triple H, Ted DiBiase, "God of War" Goldberg, "The Devil" Kane, "The Mysterious Man" Rey Mysterio, "The Giant" Khalifa... There are at least 80 of them on this list...
To minimize these unexpected incidents, they essentially relied on rehearsals, rehearsals, and more rehearsals. After watching Khedira and the two Japanese female wrestlers train on the Luna, Xiao Peng truly felt that faking things wasn't easy these days!
WWE's headquarters is in Stratford. Xiao Peng initially assumed it was in Texas, after all, there's a city there named Stratford. He even considered going to see Khedira rehearse, but he realized his naiveté: Stratford is a name so overused. There's Stratford in the UK, there's Stratford in Australia, and what about America? There are at least five cities called Stratford! Besides Texas, there are cities called "Stratford" in Virginia, New York, Kansas, and Connecticut. Stratford, WWE's headquarters, is in Connecticut, which is essentially Northeastern America. It's a long way from Houston, so Xiao Peng gave up on the idea of visiting the set.
Wait here!
It is said that Xiao Peng encountered a "warning" as soon as he arrived in Houston: Why is it so hot here!
Houston's climate is supposed to be subtropical, with a humid monsoon climate. In the summer, it's similar to cities like Dalian and Qingdao, with warm winters and cool summers, and even little snow. But upon arriving, Xiao Peng realized he was naive: the temperature was over 40 degrees Celsius! Standing outside, the sun would curl the hairs on his body.
When he complained that it was too hot here, Jimmy Chalmers quickly told him: In fact, Houston was not so hot before. It was only in the past two years that such extremely hot and cold weather occurred.
Well, the Americans are starting to reap what they sow.
When Trump was president, his favorite thing to do was to "withdraw from the group". In 2017, he directly announced his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and froze the regulations on automobile fuel consumption and carbon emissions formulated during Obama's administration.
His reason for quitting was rather ridiculous: he believed that winters were becoming too cold and that global warming was not occurring.
After all, he is the "King of Understanding" who suggested drinking disinfectant to treat the virus, so it is not surprising what he says.
Global warming isn't simply a rise in temperature; it involves a series of climate changes. First, the heat generated by rising temperatures generates enormous kinetic energy in the air and oceans, leading to natural disasters like typhoons and tsunamis. These disasters are becoming more frequent each year as temperatures rise! Furthermore, rising temperatures lead to droughts in the land, reducing freshwater resources. This increases carbon dioxide in the ocean, causing the death of microorganisms. This further increases ocean temperatures, further accelerating global warming and creating a vicious cycle.
The most important thing is that winter will become colder, and in the most extreme cases, there may even be a sudden ice age like in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow".
Something like this happened in Texas last winter: they experienced a sustained low temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius.
After all, Texas is the southernmost state in the United States. The temperature during the same period should have been 15 degrees Celsius, but last year it dropped to minus 18 degrees Celsius, which shocked the people of Texas.
So everyone turned to electric heaters, using all sorts of high-power appliances. And then… the Texas power grid collapsed. Approximately four million Texans experienced a blackout. Life in Texas during that period was essentially like something out of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow." Without water or electricity, they survived by melting snow with wood. Some died of carbon monoxide poisoning from sleeping in their cars, others burned to death while lighting fires to keep warm, some died from falling snow on their houses, and some froze to death… It was a horrific sight!
What's even more darkly humorous is that Texas is the largest energy state in the United States! Houston is even known as the "Energy Capital of the World." It's simply unbelievable that something like this could happen.
But after understanding Texas, it seems that such a thing is not surprising at all.
Texas is the famous "Lone Star State". You basically can't see the old American flag here. There is only a state flag with one star, which is also their original national flag. After all, Texas became an independent country after it separated from Mexico, and it also joined the United States as an independent country to become a state here. During the American Civil War, this place simply separated from the United States, and only joined the United States nine years later. Anyway, their history is basically a history of separation and reunion with the United States.
There is still a clamor for independence here every day, which is reflected in many aspects, for example, the power grid is a clear example of the problem.
The US has several power grids. Other regions are part of the Eastern Interconnection or Western Interconnection, but Texas's power grid is the only independent one in the country. For example, if California loses power, power can be dispatched from Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon. But if Texas loses power, other states are helpless.
Xiao Peng is not exaggerating. According to the current temperature in Texas, there is a high possibility that we will encounter extremely cold weather this year. What happened last year may happen again!
In any case, Xiao Peng will definitely not stay in America this winter. People will definitely freeze to death here!
But that was in winter. Now Xiao Peng is worried that he will die of heat!
It was not until Jimmy Chalmers arranged a house for Xiao Peng and his family that Xiao Peng stopped worrying about this problem.
"This is the house that Mr. McMahon prepared for Mr. Xiao. Are you satisfied with it?" asked Jimmy Chalmers.
Xiao Peng took a look and said, "Well, I'm quite satisfied. Did you just change the water in the pool?"
“That’s a must!”
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