What it's like to work in Death Valley, where businesses face 130-degree weather, flash floods, and dwindling tourists
Things are always breaking in the hottest place on Earth, said Brooke Grey, a 23-year-old hotel manager at The Amargosa Opera House and one of Death Valley Junction's few permanent residents. Water pipes, roofs, cameras, and tourists, the harsh heat governs everything in the small desert town.
Visitors used to come all the way from Europe and Asia to hike through the park, at times a perilous journey. On Friday, 68-year-old Douglas Branham wasNot a lot of people can withstand that kind of weather, let alone make a living in it. "I definitely think about climate change a lot living here," Grey said."Number one, the heat is becoming intolerable. Number two, when you see it rain the way it did the other day, and to know Death Valley used to be underwater — what makes us think that it couldn't become underwater again?"
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