WATCH: Car goes airborne as road buckles under extreme heat in Cape Girardeau
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – A video is circulating throughout social media as a road buckled under this weekend's intense heat in a second, causing a car to go airborne.
The video, taken by Albert Blackwell, shows several cars passing over what first was a small bump. It was marked by a construction sign and a cone in the middle of the road near the Honda dealership in Cape Girardeau.
Later in the video, that bump had visibly grown. As one car passes on the other side, the road suddenly shifted and buckled just a split second before another car reached it, forcing the vehicle to fly into the air.
WATCH: Car goes airborne as road buckles under extreme heat in Cape Girardeau
When we experience extreme heat, roads can crack, buckle, or warp, according to MoDOT.
They told FOX 2 in a former report that this happens when a crack in the roadway has moisture that's seeped in, forcing the crack to grow and expand. The pavement gets to be weaker from the crack, the heat then causes the road to buckle and warp.
MoDOT says it never truly knows when or where a pavement buckle may occur, but when it gets hot outside, there is potential everywhere.
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